skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The clock rates, number of CUDA cores, memory size/type etc in the new cards aren't really "imaginary marketing numbers". NVidia could have changed their hardware so they could put bigger numbers on paper without corresponding real world performance gains, but that's a big assumption for you to seemingly take as fact.
I love both Vim and Emacs, but I think they have different use cases.

For example, I find it much more productive to use Emacs for writing heavy tasks, where you'll spend a lot of time in the editor. Such as coding, writing notes, a book, an article, a paper, etc.

To me, these tasks suffer from having to switch back and forth between modes, and emacs just provides more features for them and can be customized endlessly to your specifics.

Vim on the other hand shines for quick edits, touch ups, or reading, viewing and analysing use cases.

Its best feature is performance. It starts fast, runs fast, can handle big files, consumes little memory and is small in size. This is ideal on a server, or as a default editor. I wouldn't want to have Emacs for these, it's too heavy.

For editing small parts of an existing file, the modal editing is also best. It makes navigation front and center, which is what you want, quickly find the part to edit, and quickly edit it, done.

I personally like it this way. I don't actually want Vim to grow to approach Emacs in customization. I also don't think anything can, the fundamental design of Emacs as a Lisp REPL with an editor loaded into it just can't be beat for that.
been keeping track of how far I can make it each day. Today, I made it to 4:30pm before hearing something something tesla/spaceX/musk. Everyday there something about this guy spammed all over the internet obviously a PR campaign, and I'm sick of it. I've got musk-fatigue. Can we have a musk-free day for once?
'Unlimited' to telcos in the US is a word that means nothing, in any sense of the word.
This is a terrible story for Politico or any professional news website to have published. By the author's very description, this was a mock exercise involving a specially-configured MySQL server, not one that uses the same settings as the Florida state website. The article is basically a teenager bragging about how he learned some basic SQL syntax.

This story is as silly and irrelevant as a 17-year-old bragging about how he fooled the mainstream media by running wget on www.nytimes.com, using find-and-replace to change all instances of "Democrats" to "poop-heads", and loading his local copy of nytimes.com on his laptop browser. Yet it will be used to stoke FUD in the many technically illiterate readers out there.
An MVP has just enough features to satisfy early customers. If all you've built is a landing page to gauge interest, that's useful for validating the idea, but that's not a product.
The function of the unit is to meet your needs.

This function is identical for all units.

The collective of units provides an equitable living solution for all humans.
> I don't even understand how the fire department was able to get such a plan in the first place.

Exactly! It almost sounds like someone designed and built the vehicle and forgot that it needs internet connection. So when the department got it, they popped down to the local tech store and purchased a USB 4G module and just slapped it on.
Update from Manufacturer.

I emailed them earlier. Here’s their response:

“Thank you for contacting APEC Water Systems and I am happy to help!

We aren't for sure if it does remove plastic fibers as the presence have not yet been studied, but since the plastic in water is larger then atomical size the RO membrane should remove it due its 0.0001 micron filter.”
Thats a plot point played for gags in the original Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8UGAbAPPkk
Retool (YC W17) is hiring a first engineer in SF
Hi! We're Retool - a fast way to build internal tools. We recently launched on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17725966).

We're profitable, growing quickly, and have raised money from great technical founders, including Paul Graham, Daniel Gross, John + Patrick Collison, Nat Friedman, Greg Brockman, etc.

The market for custom enterprise apps is huge. And we think that we have a promising shot at capturing much of it: we have a product that works, that customers love (go talk to any customer), and whose usage is growing rapidly.

We've significantly de-risked the business (good signals of early pmf, completed 10+ unaffiliated sales via cold email, are profitable, etc.). But there's plenty of uncertainty left as well. For example: how do we convert early pmf into actual pmf? How do we scale sales? Should we be doing sales or marketing? Should we be selling to technical or non-technical people?

We're now looking for our first engineer. If you enjoy, and are good at the following:

- building things,

- deciding what to work on, independently,

- and getting things done + managing yourself

We think you might be a good fit at Retool!

If you're interested, please email jobs@tryretool.com. Please include whatever you think could help us understand you, your background, and your accomplishments. For example, a GitHub link to a project you're proud of, plus a short explanation, would be very helpful.

Thanks!
I like the idea of sploooshing around in a sublunarrean swimming pool at 1/6th g.
No to the first part. At the risk of sounding flippant, this is one of those cases where the aviation industry really does better than you’d think. Humans do make errors, but, for you to apply ML to fix it, you need to make a lot more errors of all possible types to build robust training data. Sure, it may happen one day, but until then we are dependent on pilots and pilot aids. People are just much faster and more capable at coping with novel, or rare situations.

Regarding drones, I suspect that you are at least partly right. There is a lot of interest already in drones as inspection platforms. Perhaps they will go farther as drones get more commercial aviation clearance.
A fair point, but you wouldn't get electrocuted in this case. You'd die when the helicopter crashed. (Not that that makes a lot of difference.)

More to the point, helicopters and power lines have both been around a lot longer than helicopter autohover technology, and aviation is an inherently conservative enterprise. Even if these sorts of repairs are being done using autohover today (I don't know) they were surely flown manually in the past.

UPDATE: I asked this question on /r/flying and got this response from an actual helicopter pilot:

https://www.reddit.com/r/flying/comments/998c8b/helicopter_p...

"In a low energy state like an OGE hover, and especially when doing dangerous work like utility (as in the video), live hoists, etc we are almost always handflying. You would be surprised at how few helicopters out there are even capable of auto-hovering. We have an IAHAAS system on the Pave Hawk which in theory can do things like auto hover, auto land, maintain radalt and baro altitudes, even fly zero vis approaches etc. but we don't trust it. I have personally seen it do some sketchy things like virtually departing us from controlled flight during a steady hover for literally no reason."
I don't believe I have access to the forum - I think you had to apply to startup school... which is why I'm asking YC if they have a plan here for this!
Wikipedia: Fascism (/ˈfæʃɪzəm/) is a form of radical authoritarian ultranationalism,[1][2] characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition and strong regimentation of society and of the economy,[3] which came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe.

Putin? Dictatorial power: yes, suppression of opposition: yes, forcible regimentation of society and of the economy: yes, radical ultranationalism: yes.
Can you explain how you interpreted the license to say that's fine? Isn't the value of the service "substantially" its ability to run redis? And isn't the package manager a form of distributing redis? (Referring to the shared source modules, not the BSD licensed part)
How We Do Data at Trello
Yep - the comment would have made a lot more sense if it'd left RMS out and used ERS instead.
What I mean to say is:

Consider that the world's first commercial nuclear power station, Calder Hall at Windscale, England, was opened in 1956¹, has there ever been a nuclear material used as a weapon other than the obvious two and conventional depleted uranium armour piercing projectiles?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power#Early_years
"Unlimited" doesn't mean "unlimited in one aspect if you squint." There's a limit, and then you get throttled.

It's perfectly sensible to design the plan that way. I'm not complaining about the technical aspects, I'm complaining about the naming.

I don't really see the relevance of your second paragraph. Yes, people will complain regardless. That doesn't make false advertising OK. The real issue is that companies want to sell something they cannot provide.
> automatic transmission doesn't fail

Um, what kind of car do you drive?

And all those transmission repair shops are doing... what, exactly?
Looks like it was flagged a bunch.
Well, it seems if a MSR will be built, it will be in China

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602051/fail-safe-nuclear-...
Don't you deserve to be free of Symptom X? Try drug Y! *warning results vary, and may result in sudden death.
>"There was then no one single way to build one: it was much like the automobile industry at the end of the century, inventors and keen-eyed engineers advancing their own ideas, often their own patents, consensus following only later."

Kind of like how we're now standardizing on Javascript as the one true programming language, as all others fall into disuse. (ducks)
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> There is no evidence of who lost money, and it very well could have been taxpayers through the various bailouts.

The taxpayers did not lose money in the bailouts . . . they didn't get acceptable risk-adjusted returns, but they didn't lose money.
Aren't poles always illuminated?
Honestly, this is not a good book for beginner.

Here are some FREE Functional Programming (Haskell,Purescript)learning resources from 101 to building product:
https://github.com/functionalflow/brains/projects/9

More, over 20 FREE FP books:
https://github.com/allenleein/brains/tree/master/Zen-of-Func...
> What does it mean for an autopilot to fail, in this case? We're not talking about an automatic guidance system, like in fixed-wing aircraft.

Actually, that is exactly what we're talking about. Why would you doubt it? You not only need to keep the helicopter oriented, you need to keep it in the same place, i.e. you need it to follow a zero-velocity trajectory. Why would you think that this is any different from a regular autopilot?
Very cool. We (Sourcegraph) could never get VS Code fast enough to be the right fit for code browsing and search, which is what we're targeting. So we built our own components (open-source at https://github.com/sourcegraph/codeintellify). For browsing and search, you need fast loading, low resource consumption, a native system feel for text, etc.

For editing in the browser, where you're likely to keep one tab open for a long time, it is an absolutely obvious choice. A huge undertaking for sure, and it's awesome that he was able to accomplish it!
Eh. I type about 150wpm for a sentence or two already composed in my head. 100 when having to think ahead while writing an email. Probably about 30 while programming because that many more cycles are spent in the brain and fewer in the fingers. Not just on logic, but also hesitating to make decisions like “what should I name this variable?”
Ask HN: Virtual phone provider?
Hi!

I'm a Brazilian national living outside of Brazil and I'd like to have a cell phone number there to register with local business and services that require phone validation.

I know I can use Twillio for that, but is there any other reliable and trustworthy services out there?

This is very important since once you establish a phone number tied to a business account of some sort and you lose that number it becomes a huge problem.
Haskell was the first programming language taught at our college when I was a student, where some of the students hadn't even used a computer before. It went fine. (I think it was actually better than other languages would have been, as many of the students had a background in mathematics and might have been confused by things like "x = x + 1", while they were comfortable with the idea of a function, at least as used in mathematics.)

If you'd like to see for yourself what that course was like, here are lecture notes (and assignments, and mid-term exam): https://www.cmi.ac.in/~madhavan/courses/programming08/index....
I don't think Morgan Stanley is about to sell Redis hosting, but what do I know.
It is uncanny how close to my own experience the process you just described is.
This is actually an argument against net neutrality.

If critical services are to use the internet for comms, then shouldn't these services get higher quality of service?

And shouldn't this higher quality cost more?
Is incarceration rate not somewhat deceptive though? A more interesting statistic would be how many of each 100,000 had ever spent time in prison.

From here on is only speculation and I'll do a deeper dive when I'm not on a phone. I'd like to see the rest of the statistics broken down by offense. Additionally I suspect that drug offenses would lead to repeated incarceration and perhaps eventually worse offenses.

Most violent offenses are committed in the context of existing relationships though, so there are certainly non-policy and certainly non-drug-policy ways to address crime in the United States.
Do you mean "Figure 3: Normalized performance/cost numbers"?

Its performance/cost and not cost/performance.

Or maybe the author fixed a typo?
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What's the meaning of that battery number 100 kWh?
Perhaps it would do well to reflect on the kind of society that treats people and handles poverty in such a way that they would rather be locked up and almost every aspect of their life controller, because at least they get some food.
This is the problem (at least for me) - the wording is vague and open to interpretation, which means if it ever needs to be clarified, it'll need expensive lawyers to get that done.

A reasonable man would say "Of course the value of, say, Digital Ocean's service is not "substantially its ability to run redis" - even though any linux vm customer can run their OS choice's version of 'apt-get install redis'".

But we do not live in a world were a "reasonable man's interpretation" is an acceptable risk-mitigation for a business.

I'm pretty sure there'll be other people who, like me, are considering how best to risk manage the use of redis going forward...
If you're not paying, you're the prod... test subject.
ReactOS is (not) Windows (2009) [pdf]
The industry as a whole tries to avoid rework as much as possible, but you are saying that a 20% FPY is fine, and it only costs $30/ vehicle anyway. I am not saying that I know much about the specifics of Tesla's finances, but I can say that you are missing the big picture here.
> (though absolute US household debt continues to climb)

Absolute debt means total value of debts outstanding. The title is, like a lot of ones that get complained about here, making something out of a statistic that doesn't matter. If you aren't going to adjust for inflation, then simply waiting ten years (or about the time since the housing bubble) will give you a new record due to inflation.
> It’s not a zero sum game.

The very definition of inequality, unfortunately.
I think the inhabitants of the white collar prisons should be put to work fighting the fires and get paid nothing in return. Most of them are serving hard time for fraud anyway.
Upstream it.
As someone from Australia who doesn't understand the prison thing in the US. Is it essentially modern slavery? They choose non-white demographics, send them to prison for minor offences, and use the for cheap/free labour. Is this right?
>child rapists are usually let out of jail before murderers.

And for damn good reason. If murder carries a shorter sentence than raping a child, well guess how a rapist might make sure their victim never testifies.
> How did guard's prisoner abuse in the U.S. South turn into broader atrocities like Abu Graib?

One extremely subtle connection that we could make here is the fact that some of the key perpetrators and leaders of the abuse were FORMER SOUTHERN PRISON GUARDS.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/05/10/torture-at-abu...

"Questioned further, the Army investigator said that Frederick and his colleagues had not been given any “training guidelines” that he was aware of. The M.P.s in the 372nd had been assigned to routine traffic and police duties upon their arrival in Iraq, in the spring of 2003. In October of 2003, the 372nd was ordered to prison-guard duty at Abu Ghraib. Frederick, at thirty-seven, was far older than his colleagues, and was a natural leader; he had also worked for six years as a guard for the Virginia Department of Corrections. Bobeck explained:

'What I got is that SSG Frederick and CPL Graner were road M.P.s and were put in charge because they were civilian prison guards and had knowledge of how things were supposed to be run.'"

The guy that pulled the longest sentence for the abuse was a prison guard between stints in Iraq 1 and Iraq 2:

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

Not really subtle, here. This stuff was all over the reportage of Abu Gharaib at the time and an 'educated American citizen' might well have actually noticed if they were inclined to notice things. I would suggest that being inclined to notice this sort of thing isn't that psychologically pleasant; making Abu Gharaib into a bizarre exception ("war is hell") is way more comforting than paying attention to all that investigative journalism about what prisons are like in the US.

Just because the journalism exists certainly doesn't imply that people we 'paying attention'; your overly confident skepticism and lack of grasp on basic facts on Abu Gharaib is a fine illustrative example.

I'm not going to drag out the links to stuff like this in US prisons but reading through stories about abuses in prisons in the US south is pretty gruesome reading and not hard to find. If you're actually interested, https://www.hrw.org/legacy/advocacy/prisons/u-s.htm is a decent (if old) starting point. I will just simply assert that upon seeing the Abu Gharaib stuff, I was struck not by shock but by familiarity having read a fair bit of stuff about that in the 90s.
OSX is supported in Proton[1]. Might not be in current beta but looks like it is being worked on.

[1] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/
I agree. Prison is supposed to suck.
A reasonable person is not a random (or more sensibly, the average) person though. I think a reasonable person would agree with my explanation. I'm not sure the average person would.

Edit: Apparently multiple people are misreading and assuming I'm trying to flatter myself here. "A reasonable person" is a pre-defined legal term that I have little choice but to use verbatim here. It's essentially a proper noun, but without capitalization. Specifically, I'm _not_ describing my own rationality when I say "a reasonable person" would agree with me. What I'm saying is that I think the legal "a reasonable person" would reason the same way I just reasoned. If you still don't get what I'm saying: had the legal term instead been "a stupid monkey", then my sentence would have read "a stupid monkey would agree with me".
> It's ironic considering that syslog is not standardized.

I don't find any irony there, at all, since it's reflective of the history of Unix, and consistent with the OC's "like a zillion ways to get telemetry out". More to the point, it's fairer to say that different syslogd implementations were parallel evolution, rather than re-invention.

Now, it seems you're talking about the network protocol, whereas "syslog" the system call seems not to be too different across platforms, certainly not to the point of incompatibility. I call this out, not for pedantry, but to illustrate that, from the app's perspective, it's all the same.

> Plug any two syslog implementations and they won't work together.

Unless, perhaps, one of them understands (or can understand, with plugins) more than one protocol?

Regardless, the solution requiring the least engineering effort is to make sure one has compatible wheels everywhere, not re-inventing the wheel.

> The two main competing protocols are defined in RFC 3164 and 5424

I'm not sure that it's fair to call them competing when 5424 explicitly obsoletes 3164 (and the earlier one is "informational", while the later one is a "proposed standard").

Of course, that says nothing about the reality of the competing implementations, but if there are only two, and the older one is the most popular (which I believe it is), then perhaps there's no real competition.

> Logstash, the L in ELK, only parses a subset of RFC3164 messages with very specific formatting.

That would be an example of a (partial) syslogd re-invention. I have no idea if that input plugin is worth using (e.g. for performance reasons) rather than using something like a pipe plugin for plain text from a local syslogd. I suspect for the vast majority of use cases, it's totally irrelevant.
Using an alt account and that ridiculous-sounding language does the opposite of helping your case.
> Until we reach that pinnacle of human existence, we should all work towards preventing the majority of the world's population living in poverty.

Are talking about absolute or relative poverty? I absolutely agree that no human should go without food, clean water, shelter, and sanitation. But I absolutely disagree that a 50" flatscreen TV should be considered a human right just because Bill Gates has a 200" flatscreen TV.

> A good start would be redistributing the ill-gotten wealth of that lucky minority who lord it over everyone else in a perpetual state of power-hungry me-too selfishness.

So if you work hard, and are resourceful and inventive, at what point does your wealth become ill-gotten and subject to redistribution?
I don't think arguments from etymology are of much relevance in modern economics, to put it mildly.
How about all three? Wealth can be created, destroyed, and distributed. Wealth is redistributed all the time. Sometimes it’s called taxes, dividends, wages, etc. When it goes from the poor to the rich, we call it the free market. There are even make-believe concepts like “Trickle Down Economics” that describe wealth going from the rich to the poor.
I've googled tons of things that only get one single search result.

Obviously I can't link them here, since then there would be two results...
I’ve memorized landline and cell numbers for two family members and one family friend. Phone numbers aren’t all that difficult to memorize, though some repetition helps. (This was easier to do naturally back in the landline days.)

Try printing out a list of your most frequent contacts and posting it on the fridge. When you call one of them from your home, dial the number into your phone instead of selecting them from contacts/recents/favorites.

Bonus: you can call them in situations where you get cell reception but no data, or where the only phone made available to you is a land line (pay phone, hospital, police station.)

I also recommend having your kids memorize the numbers for you and your spouse, their grandparents, and at least one trusted family friend - in case they ever get separated from the adults who are supposed to be responsible for them.
Even the Vanguard retirement funds though have expense rations that are multiples of the underlying funds, assuming you have enough cash to qualify for admiral shares of the underlying funds. But you get automatic rebalancing and lower minimums. 0.15% is low enough though that I don't personally worry about the difference that I'm not saving by switching to manually investing in the underlying funds.
Yeah, that seems consistent with what I've seen/heard.