skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought a book on Amazon. I don't have Prime, so it took most of a week before the third party seller even shipped it. It never arrived, and the order status only said "left shipper facility". After staying in this limbo for several days past the arrival date, I was credited with a refund.

I bought the book again, this time fulfilling through Amazon. They quoted an arrival date of a week in the future. When that day arrived, the package had not arrived and it turned out that the date was changed to the shipping date. I still had to wait the better part of the week for the book to actually arrive.

I did a search and found that I could have bought the book directly from the author (self-published), and would have arrived in three or four days.

While waiting for the book to arrive the second time, I decided I had another book I wanted to read. I had it loaded up on Amazon... then checked B&N, who had the book in stock. I cancelled the Amazon order, and drove 10 minutes to buy the second book.

So much for the convenience of Amazon...
New FISC Docs Show Judges Have Difficulty Understanding and Limiting Govt Spying
I assume that only covers spring and fall semeseter and not the summer months and even maybe winter break. So it probably goes to 1600/mo
I started learning IPv6 before it was widely deployed and just used Hurricane Electric's tunnel broker: https://tunnelbroker.net/

I think you can just set one of those up and keep using IPv6 regardless of whether or not your ISP gives you an IPv6 prefix; when they do, just switch over to that.
I'm reminded of a scene in an admittedly crappy movie, The Day the Earth Stood Still. No, not the awesome original, but the recent one with Keanu Reeves. Super quick plot synopsis, an alien is sent to Earth to wipe out humanity because we as a species are doomed to destroy the planet due to our insufferable nature. There's a point in the film where a scientist is arguing for keeping humanity alive, and emphasizing that humanity can change for the better, but only when at the very precipice of calamity.

That quite succinctly sums up my view of our species. The only thing that will cause us to change is to have the utter ruin of our civilization right before our feet. Unfortunately, in regards to climate change, it will likely be too late once people realize that things have to change. Mind you, the earth will be fine. Humans on the other hand...
This is basically the left take.

https://jacobinmag.com/2018/08/mental-health-psychiatry-clas...

'The rise of psychiatry was funded by America’s Gilded Age industrialists. Their aim: to cast society’s ills as problems of individual "mental health."'
No. I was comparing to Walmart.com.
Sorry, we have been in a rush recently, with YC going on and so on. We are going to overhaul our Jobs section soon, but in the meantime we are starting to open jobs on https://www.workatastartup.com. Feel free to apply!
That's not a very useful article. They touch on some possibilities, but never peel the data enough to come to useful conclusions. They also jump between different kinds of costs - cost to the student, and cost to the country.

Which is a pity, because normally the Atlantic does better.
No, the issue they should care about is that I'm losing trust in them, for a number of reasons, and (anecdatally) I'm not the only one.

- Are they taking me for a ride on price? I don't optimize this enough and do overpay because I'm lazy, but there have been multiple times lately that they gave me a price that was just stupidly high.

- Is this the kind of product that will cause their screwed-up warehousing system to stiff me with counterfeit goods/seconds? No way in hell am I going to put up with that kind of shitty bait-and-switch, and this cuts out a huge swath of categories I'll consider from them.

- Did I find all the places on the page where they hide alternate (cheaper) sellers in their own store?

And this is also after I mostly stopped using their incredibly loosely-matching search and just use DDG, which works much better.

At a certain point, I find the friction of keeping them honest is not worth it. Last renewal time, Prime was still worth it. When it is up for renewal I'm cancelling to see if I miss it.
Amazon co-mingles different retailer's inventory when amazon handle fulfillment for them?!?!? Are you sure? That's insane.
They are using the US dollar. They can't devalue it.
> With all the demonizing of wall street in regards to the 2008 crisis, most fail to go back to the true cause of the crisis, i.e. the repeal of the Glass-Stegall Act[2] via the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act[3] signed by President Clinton in 1999. It took almost a decade but the entire "too big to fail" concept grew from that repeal.

As pointed out elsewhere, the repeal of Glass-Stegall was not the problem. Not only do most other countries not even have an equivalent law, but the crisis was triggered when a standalone investment bank failed.
The data is encrypted, but as long as the encryption keys are in memory, they could be retrieved via either an attack against peripheral ports that can read memory (thunderbolt has proven vulnerable and USB too, iirc) or via a cold boot attack, possibly using freeze sprays. Such attacks against FDE have been demonstrated. A good password manager purges the keys after a bit or on lock. pass ties into the gpg ecosystem and thus allows having the keys on a smartcard, a capability I’d like to see in other PW-managers.

MacOS has the option to purge decryption keys from memory on lock, but that effectively puts the computer to sleep on lock. It’s more secure, but annoying as hell since all network connections die (VPN, ssh, ...)
The same goes for medical care. The article tries to say that university and medical care are somehow competitive or part of a free market. There's no coincidence that both "industries" are the most heavily regulated and subsidized industries in the economy, and they're the most expensive.

Consumers of both products are completely divorced from the costs. People just don't think 20-30 years ahead. Student loans will weigh you down for a large part of your adult life, but when you're 18 you have no concept of that. Same with health care. Many many people don't care if their eating and health habits are detrimental... the consequences are years off and, frankly, someone else will pay for them.

So government steps in and breaks the market mechanisms. Student loans are non-dischargeable and subsidized to an unlimited amount. Your health habits cannot be taken into account with health insurance; government mandates the same coverage for everyone, whether or not you eat 10,000 calories of potato chips a day, or you run three miles a day.

The entirely predictable result is that prices go up unsustainably.
As Peter Schiff put it (skip to 11:57):

https://youtu.be/UGL-Ex1CD1c?t=11m57s
How are government guaranteed loans not mentioned?... that alone kills this articles credibility...
How Industrial IoT sensors monitor water levels and flood warning systems
Inspecting off-shore wind turbine was actually the first application we wanted to address. It was a bit difficult as a first step, so we came back to on-shore inspections. But we are now able to perform off shore wind turbine inspections
Safari by default has a stricter storage access policy by default for all third-party domains, which requires you to visit the domain as a first party first. So it's probably that rather than ITP.
My answer:

I use my infinite resources to become benevolent dictator of Earth.

With my endless wealth I prevent climate change, provide the basic needs of every person on the planet, educate the world, and set up a global system of sustainable reproduction. I have infinite resources so I assume it's not eugenics or something dystopian, but more a collective human understanding of responsibility. Finally, with our future ensured, I dedicate as many of the world's top minds as possible to preserving my own life at any cost.

Once I have achieved immortality, likely by transplanting my mind into a robot body that can be updated over time so I remain the most advanced being on the planet, I steer the course of human history far into the future. All human suffering is ended. We all work as one to better ourselves. We spend decades, centuries, millennia improving not only our society, but our technology for inserting ping pong balls into 747s.

Under my kind leadership as an immortal god-king of increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence, humanity becomes the dominant species in a surprisingly crowded universe. With each new species we meet, we find new allies in our advancement. Entire galaxies unite under my rule and never-ending resources, each furthering my transcendence of life and the speed at which we can put small plastic balls into extremely archaic public transportation.

Finally, at the far end of time, when there is nothing left to learn, no secret of the universe left unknown to me—I am now a single bio-mechanical entity composed of all intelligent life in existence—my setup is complete. Using technology so advanced that it cannot be described by words we have so far invented, technology so unimaginable it exceeds the power we ascribe to magic, I fill the plane. It is instantaneous. There is no time during which the plane is being filled. There is only before and after it was filled.

The creator of the universe descends on its final moments. The being sees the plane. It weeps for the beauty its children have created.
> oil and coal are far more energy dense than wood

In addition, a block of wood is a lot more dense than an acre of forest, which is a lot more dense than the difference in carbon content between an acre of forest and an acre of charred burned forest.

While reading the article, I mentally substituted "a forest the area of Africa" with "an oil tank the size of Africa and as deep as a forest is tall", which is clearly unreasonable. And they mention "4.81 tons" in passing - a ton is a lot, and surely 4.81 tons is a huge volume of gas, but how much?

We need to run the numbers. Crude petroleum has a density of about 0.8 g/cc = 0.8 ton/m^3 and a carbon composition of 85%.

4.81 tons of carbon x (1 kg crude / 0.85 kg carbon) x (1 m^3 / 0.8 ton crude)

= 7 m^3 of crude. Looking it up, a typical tractor-trailer tanker truck might carry 40 m^3 of crude...so this can be stated as mankind burning a yearly volume of one truckload of fuel for every 6 acres in Africa, which is a lot more believable.

Going back to the oil-per-acre analogy, an acre is a little more than 4000 square meters, so (assuming it's all oil - ignoring coal, natural gas, and other CO2 producers like, I don't know, human-initiated forest fires) this is a film of oil over the continent of Africa 1.7mm deep. That's a lot more believable than imagining a towering petroleum forest.
9front “Run from the zone” released
I managed to get through college (WGU) without any debt.

Looking at the amount of debt that my peers have taken on, however, has made me reconsider the wisdom of my decision. It's likely that political campaigns in the next few years will promise some form of student debt relief. Whether delivery of those promises is possible or not remains to be seen.
I haven't ordered anything off of Amazon in a while, and before I do I check other places. I used to not do that, when Amazon was a younger company I bought things from there without much shopping around. I've had problems with counterfeits from Amazon in the past. The problem is that Amazon makes it so seamless to buy something. It's a bit of a hassle to use someone else. I end up always using my PayPal account so I don't have to sign in to all these other outlets.
The examples in these articles are constrained ("toys") for demonstration purposes, but too often are taken as a recipe by people who should know better but want to build their resume.

LinkedIn didn't develop Kafka just for real-time processing: dozens of solutions for that existed for years before LinkedIn existed. They developed Kafka for a problem at huge scale.

A little 100MB/day of traffic doesn't need Kafka for real time processing, and neither does a 100GB monthly data dump/ETL batch job.
My advice, unasked for, is threefold. First, accept that st first it’s going to be a little messy. Your sleep might get wonky, you might feel a bit depressed or “blank” and you might even have hot flashes. It will pass, and little tokes here and there don’t so much help as reset the clock. Second, your appetite might take a hit, but it’s important to eat well. Finally, keep yourself occupied with something low-effort that you enjoy, preferably something that makes you smile. If you find yourself ruminating don’t dive deep into it, just quietly say “no” and move on. When you slide back into rumination, same thing, no big production, just “no” and think about something else.

Accept that this will take time, and you won’t feel really normal for a while, but you will feel OK again.
Which country ? Meanwhile in Germany i can get a 200Mbps (up to) 4G/LTE Connection with 50GB included for 35Eur/month. Just makes no sense...
I’m not very familiar with the subject, but isn’t that exactly what the author did, except that the conclusion was that 2/3 can be plausibly reached? (And that it uses the less constraint standard deviation instead of “decimal places”.)
The real answer is "because America". People in high places want to get rich, so they will make sure to lobby for laws and regulations so they can profit incredibly well from normal people.

I don't think there is any other country where capitalism has taken over so completely, and the people are not rebelling - but cheering - for America to continue.
Yes it does. It is the very definition.

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/anarchy

Absolute freedom.

You do understand I'm talking about two strangers. Of course, you can build trust between people over time. But no one comes into a situation with trust. And if we can't start on a basis of trust, then we can't start. Knowing there are repercussions for breaking that trust allows us to treat.

You're the one peddling a libertarian fiction novel as the-one-true-way and not even taking half a second to consider the actual ramifications. Or if "anarchy" is what you actually want. (Hint: it isn't)
How America lost its love for the stick shift
No. The Chinese state firewall can't easily measure the true level of IPv6 and we don't completely know why our measures have fallen. There is no strong evidence it's in decline there is only evidence our measurements are unable to reliably track things.

Most measurements are over https. If they intrude a fake TLS certificate in the flow (for instance) which is common in strategic DPI inside secure channels the web blot won't fetch properly.

We've started looking at tshark captures to see if we can see partial connects.
Upgrading section does mention:

The best solution, whenever possible, is to backup your
data and reinstall from scratch

I've done remote upgrades of OpenBSD for almost every release over the past 18 years. The exceptions were the handful of times I migrated hardware or co-location facilities, taking the opportunity to install from scratch. Though more recently I've been running several machines so I've probably remotely upgraded at least one installation of every OpenBSD release since circa 2012.

I've never had a problem. The risky part is aging hardware that may not survive the power spikes or internal initialization on reboot.

Full disclosure: except for a few years in the 2000s where I ran Alpha and Sparc64, those were all i386 or amd64 architectures.
I do this when I consult. I call it a roadmapping session. It's massively successful. The customer pays a little bit of $$ relative to the total spend to get what they want built.

In exchange they get:

1. A doc outlining what they want built and how it'll be built. This is the key deliverable.

2. To work with me and see if it's a good fit

3. To pay a fraction of the price to de-risk a larger engagement

4. To see if I can deliver on what I said I'd build for them

And I get:

1. To get paid to discover the bounds of their project (vs. writing a proposal for free)

2. To see if they're a good client (pays on time, works well together, etc)

It's a huge win for everybody.
Yes, universities are subject to the usual market incentives like everything else. If the market will bear $2000/semester and they can sustainably offer their service at that rate, they will. If students have guaranteed access to $20,000/semester in loans, then they know the market will bear $22,000/semester and that’s what they’ll charge.
Simple: the existence of government subsidies and colleges taking advantage of the existence of those subsidies.
I think a lot of university staff cry wolf over funding and always have, even in the good times. Yeah, they're really feeling the effects of it, what with admin staff sizes increasingly exponentially, constantly building new buildings and renovating existing ones, etc. My humble state school is like a luxury resort these days. There's puh-lenty of fat for colleges to trim if they're really feeling the pinch, but they seem to do anything but that. Honestly, I think we haven't done enough to force schools to get a handle on their spending habits.
If you have a fancy "USB" port which allows connexion of graphics cards (so basically a PCIe port, although it also accepts USB), chances are that you can do whatever you want with unrestricted DMA through this port. It seems that letting Windows use the IOMMU is only allowed on the Enterprise edition, which is basically unavailable for the general public. So facing determined and/or well financed actors, it is as if the Windows login do not exist anymore for tons of Windows users.
> Scientists consider that dry water will prove useful in the future to help fight global warming as it was found that it could store as much as three times more carbon dioxide than ordinary water over a similar length of time.

But which is more expensive? 3x regular water, or 1x dry water?
The phrase is: "Ἐξ εὐγενῶν γέννα"

Which roughly means "seek to become relatives with noble people"

or alternatively

"seek to create with noble ingredients"
This has a touching backstory on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8050106

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4038113

I didn't realize that he had switched fields and moved. That info is here:

https://www.uab.edu/medicine/news/latest/item/1411-white-hou...

and http://www.pl-enthusiast.net/2016/03/24/interview-matt-might..., via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11366150
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My previous comment got flagged. Maybe the /s was a mistake on my part. Lots of unenlightened Americans(?) ITT trying to justify the numbers. Baffling how accepted it is and how that money could've instead been spent in other ways. Yes, that money might have helped out the American economy as a whole, but so would buying back scratchers and RPi's (instead of RPG's) for the rest of the world as well. Or just not getting deeper in the the trillion dollar deficit trench. Fucking maniacs. Now go ahead and downvote this into oblivion.
> Especially I'd like to point out the one proposed by Paul Krugman. Instead of injecting money into the banks, the government invests the money in the banks, diluting the previous shares. After the crisis, the government starts selling their shares, getting at least part of the money back.

You are basically describing TARP, which is what happened (and netted over $11 billion in returns).
IME, it happens more at 'pop-tech' companies where engineers are lining up for jobs. At normal tech companies where they're just trying to solve problems and make money, it seems to happen a lot less. The latter companies generally just want to see if you're not an idiot, that your resume is correct, and that you're not an asshole.
What happens if you add liquid water?
Our ML pipeline is deployed on AWS, using a mix of AWS Lambdas and Kubernetes containers on the brand new EKS.

We also did some amount of training on our own GPU machines on premises.

But we recently started to work with our YC batchmates of https://snark.ai , which enables us to speed up training by A LOT
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6th largest 'defence' budget in the world.

SIXTH...
> I have a pet theory that when people interview they bring this buried frustration into the room with them and use the interviewing process to play the part of the people they feel humiliated them.

I think it has more to do with impostor syndrome and a fear that a new person will expose them as the frauds they perceive themselves as.

In my experience, sometimes that fear is justified. The people whom I've run across who are the most condescending to engineers who "haven't proved themselves" often have the most lax coding standards on the team. They're often the ones who build Rube Goldberg programs and who never document their work - you can't be replaced if nobody knows how your core programs work.
I guess it depends on what's in the pen. That being said, I have tried an indica pen in WA after being assured I was being silly and two weeks of sensations of impending death followed.

I don't understand why "potsplaining" is so prevalent: whenever I indicate that I can't have marijuana, I'm told I'm being stupid, that it's all in my head and it's due to a wide sample of armchair diagnoses of a psychological state on my behalf.

Telling people that they have to, or should, smoke marijuana is on exactly the same intellectual footing as telling people that they can't - sans medical reasons on both ends of that spectrum.
I've started just buying my LEDs at Home Depot or Lowes. At least I know they're not counterfeit.
> However, in my experience, most students live off-campus these days.

Can you source this statement? I know at UCB there were some students that lived off-campus but the vast majority lived in campus dorms IIRC.
I use GPW strings for this use-case. GPW has weaknesses that make them somewhat poor for use as first-line passwords, but they're still really good for passwords that you need to read to someone over the phone.

In my most recent experience with them, the company allowed to be set both the question AND the answer. So, they had to read a random string to me, and I had to read one back. It went quite well, actually.

https://multicians.org/thvv/gpw-js.html
Where are you from? Here in the EU every cellular provider offers home internet plans & LTE-routers and ISPs have LTE plans (mostly to "accelerate" otherwise slow rural ADSL lines)
To a degree, it's a parable.

But we can also say they weren't exactly anarchists. They've developed a system of government, leaders, factions, etc.
>Addendum... I've had the critical-systems discussion with many developers. The overwhelming interpretation of "critical" is "I can see a way in which the software can directly kill people". Think drones, airplanes, and so on.

>Conversely, almost nobody considers the indirect consequences that might lead to that same outcome (no access to money, no access to healthcare, murderous stalkers, etc.). Let alone serious consequences that don't result in death.

That's how things work in every other industry that doesn't specifically build things to operate in hazardous environments. Things are designed to not kill and/or harm in normal use, not to not kill and/or harm people in exceptional circumstances or if grossly misused.
I wouldn't say so. SV has always had quite specific points that, for a lot of people, made it more appealing than the alternatives. There are a number of technology "interested" areas in the US including Dallas, Chicago, Boston, Seattle, New York and a lot more "lesser" ones that aren't SV.
Or the kids don't fully understand the decisions since they're usually 17-19, have very little real world experience, and college has been described to them as the main path to go down from a young age.
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