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Spaceship, Zsh prompt for Astronauts
> So while times are looking good, and there will inevitably be a certain momentum to that fact, there is no better time to contemplate what has always come next: not good times.

I’d argue that the good times are not good to begin with. Americans don’t save. Everyone is heavily indebted and creditors keep lending without restriction. How can economy be healthy if people don’t buy capital goods and are indebted in order to buy consumer goods? It’s quite the opposite.
Ask HN: Do you really need a  $1000 phone?
I am trying to come up with reasons why anyone will spend such an amount for a mobile phone when you can probably get good performance and use same apps with devices < $500.

Why would you spend > $1000 on a mobile phone?
I live in Seattle now and I dearly miss LA. I still love the Seattle area for the mountains, but as a city, LA is my favorite in the world (yes I've visited plenty of others and my sister lives in NYC).
> America could build up municipal rail and bus infrastructure to where they were in the 1940s/1950s.

c'mon, who is gonna dream about that ? </cynism>
Exactly. Driverless trains are a solved problem, so why don't we just build some of those?
> driverless cars represent the "have your cake and eat it too" solution

<Insert obligatory Portal reference.>
Who hasn't???
There's not really other ways to do politics other than to project soft power (cold war) or hard power (armed conflict)
Did they attempt to open source the software?
Ah sorry, mis-remembered the stats. Here's the number I was thinking of:

25% have a mental illness
35% have a substance issue

https://sunrisehouse.com/addiction-demographics/homeless-pop...
Can anyone go to these free colleges in Europe? One of the problems in the US is that we assume that anyone should be able to go to college, so you have a bunch of non-selective schools that allow 50-90% of applicants to matriculate as long as they're able to pay.

As I understand the European systems, there are high-stakes tests that determine who gets to go to these colleges. Is that incorrect?
As long as the U.S. personal-injury legal system remains in place (with strong support from media coverage of fatal crashes), it won't be enough for self-driving systems to have lower death rates/mile in aggregate. They will need to be better or equal to human performance in every subcategory of driving. That's really hard.

To wit: It's not enough to say "Our self-driving cars avoid 14,000 drunk-driving, texting and asleep-at-the-wheel fatalities," if it's also true that: "Our self-driving cars hit and kill 30 errant pedestrians a year that a human driver would have noticed."

I know that 14,000 > 30. But the specter of roadway martyrs being murdered by killing machines needs only a few examples to sustain itself.

Tough problem to solve.
You'll note that NOTAMs and also METARs (weather reports) are written in a very terse, heavily abbreviated syntax that seems to originate from teletype/telegraph days.
IBM has an emulator as part of zPDT, and there is also Hercules emulator for free. It's a problem for certain things (like sysplex programming or HMC), but mostly easy to deal with.
I love the idea because it would remove the need for me personally to own a car. Also it was supposed to happen in the scale of a few years, instead of the decades needed to build the heavy infrastructure projects you mentioned, but remains to be seen. Also, it could quicken the move to electric vehicles if uber/waymo etc fleet was all electric.
First art followed by first art critic: "That doesn't look like horse. My kid could do that!"
There's always activity and something interesting and new everywhere, but you can still get privacy and quiet. Very open culture, easy to make friends (though can be hard to find good ones). Easy to find an enclave you like (if you can afford it).
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That's kind of how I feel about Rick and Morty. I watched a few eps and liked it, but there's an unpleasant contingent of R&M fandom that use the fact that they like tge show as proof of their intellectual superiority.
It has every type of food known to man, and often truly authentic restauarants if not neighborhoods devoted to specific regions/groups. People are generally much nicer than the bay area, and the weather is great most of the time. Proximity to the Ocean, not too far from mountains, LAX goes everywhere basically. I agree that it is not a place to visit, but the 2 years I lived there were great.
this might be the worst take ive ever read in my life

The fact you can't understand how people could be shocked by one of the most unexpected, deadly terrorist attacks in history is scary.

Of course people will be shocked, they saw themselves in the victims, they saw their family, they saw their neighbors. Not only that but it was completely unexpected which makes the pain even worse - something clearly mentioned in the article.

Humble bragging that your 'emotions don't affect your judgement' and that it has 'helped you greatly' in life is just incredible.

Have some empathy one time for me
Maybe, but if you want to change the world, is stock price the only metric?

How profitable is Twitter?
on Ubuntu it was through fortune-mod

Also there are some pretty funny jokes in here.
I think it's pretty clear that Waymo & maybe Cruise are the leaders in this space. If you take a look at the quota from Waymo "it will be “longer than you think” for self-driving vehicles to be everywhere." - the key part is "everywhere".

Maybe it will take 15 years for it to be everywhere, but I'm still fully expecting a deployment in Phoenix this year or next.

I'm not really clear what tax break you're complaining about, AFAIK there is no extra tax break for Waymo.
As someone also says the experiences in the troubles in NI and the UK fed into this.

Also the UK does has done civil contingency planning /gaming since ww2.
Adobe in talks to buy Marketo
I think the coolest part of this was looking at the shell script for /usr/bin/calendar. It's personally gratifying to know that even the UNIX guys wrote scripts that shellcheck.net would crap all over:

https://imgur.com/o4gCthk
Odious nonsense.

Google are having zero influence on China's totalitarian government, and there is zero hope that they could have any such influence. It is either do what the CCP wants, when they want it, or Google gets booted anyway in favor of the locals.

Most likely, China is simply using them to build and steal the best surveillance technology faster. The better result from a human rights POV would be to have less-competent locals build it.

The sole exception would be if Google is working very tightly with NSA, CIA, etc. and actually installing a massive US spy network within China. While this is a possibility we wouldn't know about, it's unlikely given Google's culture.

So, no, this is not even close to being in the interests of the US or it's citizens (a few major Alphabet shareholders excepted).
I would be all over any search engine subscription that guaranteed that none of my information would ever be stored in any way. Just give me the option to pay!
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> I pretty much hear: "realistically, 15 years out at the earliest."

And honestly any number is simply just 'pulled out of the ass' anyway. It's not as if they can see daylight on all the problems that need to be solved or predict various soft issues (the government only one example). So this is not that someone is building the atomic bomb and can realistically judge more or less the scope of the problems that need to be solved and then build in a bit of leeway.
We don't, we are happy with out distributed and networked computing. Most of us can't afford a mainframe, mainframe is owned by big corps, to play with one you have to go through a big corp. If you worked for a big corp, you still have to appease the priests or be one of them to play with one. It goes against the dream of "everyone should have a computer and be free to do with it as much as they wish". The biggest computing power that have been demonstrated in our history has been via distributed systems not mainframes.
Sounds to me like driverless cars are easier than redesigning existing cities.
0.00125% of the company that will never return.
Sweden did not ban Amazon. Amazon just doesn't operate in Sweden (yet). People in Sweden can already buy things from the other EU Amazon stores.
This assessment of the state of play is very uneven. For example, the assertion made by Meredith Broussard quoted in the article "It’s also not true that we must transition to self-driving cars because human-piloted ones are so lethal" is a truism. The article goes on to say "Countless innovations have made cars radically safer since the 1950s and continue to do so."

Yet vehicles remain as lethal as dread diseases, mostly down to the humans piloting them. Just cutting that number of deaths and injuries significantly would be a boon similar to eradicating malaria.

I expect the flourishing of autonomous vehicles to be sudden and unanticipated. Just as you can't tell unless you are looking for the decals or attuned to why back seats are suddenly more populated you might miss the fact there are two million ride share drivers in the US now. One day we will realize the wait for a bus is much shorter because busses are right-sized and more frequent and can surge where they are needed because drivers aren't a bottleneck and routes are dynamic.
> At that time, Google co-founder Sergey Brin made clear that he was strongly opposed to the censorship. Brin had spent part of his childhood in the Soviet Union, and said that he was “particularly sensitive to the stifling of individual liberties” due to his family’s experiences there. In 2010, after the company pulled its search engine out of China, Brin told the Wall Street Journal that “with respect to censorship, with respect to surveillance of dissidents” he saw “earmarks of totalitarianism [in China], and I find that personally quite troubling.”

Poulson's view seems to align with Brin's view from 2010. I wonder what Brin would have to say about the issue today, because the facts in China have not changed much since 2010, certainly not to the better.
All my stuff goes in a homegrown directory hierarchy under $HOME/workspace/

The reason I avoid making use of the OS's default subdirectories of $HOME is that I don't like "my" files becoming intermixed with stuff that applications decide to silently poop out to well-known locations on disk.
Do you mind if someone else undermines the filtering of "hate" content from US sites?
"A classic is something everybody wants to have read, but no one wants to read." --Mark Twain
OKLog has been abandoned by the author (the project is now read only on GitHub).

Humio is not self-hosted or open source, so not really a fair comparison. It also seems targeted towards operational logs, i.e. system logging, traffic logging, auditing. Not things like data pipelines. Kafka and friends can be used for that kind of log, but they are more like databases; they use the term "log" in the sense of sequential and append-only.

Same goes for Splunk, which does have a self-hosted version, but is extremely expensive, last I checked. The SaaS version is also extremely expensive.
Because the higher-end Apple devices have crossed the line into a luxury good. Go read this link from HN yesterday:

https://stratechery.com/2018/the-iphone-franchise/

The answer turned out to be pretty simple:

"Apple wouldn’t go down-market, nor did its customers want it to."

The final conclusion seals the deal further:

"Some people buy an iPhone every year; some are on a two-year cycle; others wait for screens to crack, batteries to die, or apps to slow. Nearly all, though, buy another iPhone, making the purpose of yesterday’s keynote less an exercise in selling a device and more a matter of informing self-selected segments which device they will ultimately buy, and for what price."
A lot of people who consider others as "thinking to be smarter than they are" are simply anti-intellectual in general, and tend to see any effort towards the arts, reading, philosophy, etc that's not marketable or job-related as pretension.

There is some judgement inherent in this observation.
At best a crackpot one with no serious support from contemporary leaders such as Churchill, or historians since then AFAIK. Putting the war in the Pacific aside, I think you can place much of the blame for WWII on the election of an extremist in Germany, and that had little to do with any alleged "boredom" in the electorate. A fairly decent case may be made for "anger", "disillusion", "jealousy" and "resentment" though, and I suppose you could make a case for those also being important factors in the 2016 US election.
I donate more than 1.2% of my income each year to charity, and that amounts to a lot more than 1.2% of my net worth (it should be noted that people in my generation tend to have a negative net wealth due to student loans and being locked out of the housing market, which means most of them can meet this requirement by giving five dollars to a homeless person on the street if you want to use a more liberal definition for charity).

Specifically, I donate money to (and this is not in any particular order)-

* ACLU
* EFF
* NAMI
* NAACP
* BLM
* NPR (local affiliate)
* Between $40 and $100 a week directly to homeless people.

I also try to volunteer time as well.

What charities do you donate to, and more importantly why is that even relevant to a conversation about what responsibilities people with obscene amounts of wealth should have?
LogDevice is payload-agnostic and doesn't inspect the value of the binary blobs it stores. If your writer is allowed to write according to ACLs, LogDevice will happily take writes from it regardless of their content (upto the max payload size). Verification of payload content should be done on a layer above LogDevice - either before taking the write or when reading.
> but only after offering it for sale to the Air Force at a commercially reasonable price.

That sounds like a business model - what is a commercially reasonable price, and where do I sign up?
I found Los Angeles pretty unpleasant in that it combined all the least pleasant parts of suburban living with the least pleasant parts of urban living; I guess this is part of why.
Author misses an essential point: A UI is only "too busy" if the user can't quickly find the information they are looking for. By that measure, this is a non-issue, and people will love it, specifically because they can quickly get the info they are looking for without having to open an app.
In-Q-Tel / Alphabet / CIA / Google

https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-goo...
> what is a mainframe and why would I want one?

Very roughly speaking, a mainframe is to a CPU what a supercomputer is to a GPU.
To be honest, I hadnt expected a speed problem here.

However,

* gzipping 7680×2160x3 bytes from /dev/urandom on my thinkpad x220t takes 1.6 seconds (not mutch difference between -1 and -9)

* gzipping /dev/zero takes 0.4 seconds

So it turns out this might be a problem after all!
Depends on which group you hang out with.

Being an assistant professor, or any part of academia, holds little appeal for many people who just want to make money in industry. For that matter, I didn't think working for Google was all that prestigious when I joined - I wanted to be a startup founder, like the guys who founded Flickr or Del.icio.us or ViaWeb, and Google was my consolation prize when that didn't work out. It was a bit of a mindfuck to see all the kids coming out of college and asking "How do I get a job at Google? It's been my dream since like forever!", and a further mindfuck when I met my wife, was like "Yeah, I was in line behind Larry Page at the cafeteria today", and she was like "Who's Larry Page?"

Ultimately convinced me that chasing prestige was pointless, because it turns out everyone has a different definition of it. You would be surprised how much peoples' values differ, or how some people can be completely indifferent to other peoples' heroes. I mean, this person clearly preferred living a life true to his values than whatever prestige comes from working for Google.

Anyway, I mentioned it because in my experience, former assistant profs at top universities were usually slotted into L5 (Senior SWE/Research Scientist/Data Scientist/etc.) at Google, while full profs were usually slotted into L7 (Senior Staff whatever). So there is a rough correspondence in that those are the corresponding levels that the same person who happens to have done both jobs ends up occupying. You could argue about which is more prestigious and you'd be right, by definition, because prestige is in the eye of the beholder.
If you're willing to go cloud, then Google's BigQuery is a very good fit for sequential data. It's fully queryable, unlike most log-oriented databases, and it's extremely cheap compared to competing offerings (e.g. AWS RedShift).
Wouldn't that also obscure the camera? I don't actually know what spy sattelites would be used for besides visual imaging aimed at Earth.
I never use the word certainty, you threw that in there. I said they need to be better than current speech recognition.

Speech recognition can be good, but sometimes it seems to go haywire. It did nail this post though.
In level of stupidity, the concept of self driving car in my opinion is second only to a flying car.

The second disregard, that well... there are airplanes.

The first, that driverless busses that creep at 30km/h and do emergency brake every every 10 minutes thanks to overattentive collision avoidance system also been around for decades.
Driving in Boston is a nightmare... but you don't have to do it! Even if you're out in the suburbs you can park your car and ride the train in. LA doesn't afford you that option, really.
You can absolutely make seismically safe tall buildings. Even so, building vertically doesn’t mean 50-story skyscrapers. It could be as modest as a three to six-story apartment building, which can nicely coexist in neighborhoods (like they do in Chicago). You could also get away with fourplexes. The point is that it doesn’t have to be JUST single-family homes. And don’t forget that the less densely you build, the less of a tax base you have. Suburbs are absolutely subsidized by cities because there aren’t nearly enough taxpayers to support all of the (aging) infrastructure required to support everyone and their grandma having their own mini estate.
I'm the other developer. There is actually some pretty cool math behind this:

The underlying algorithm has not been published. At its core is a color median filter, a block-L1-minimizing generalization of the well-known scalar median filter. Applying such a filter to an image rounds out corners and destroys fine features, so a separate recovery step is needed. Filtered pixels that differ significantly from their original values are iteratively replaced with the distance-minimizing convex combination of neighboring filtered pixels, digging out corners and other destroyed features without re-introducing noise.
There are plenty of examples of governments with mass surveillance (UK, China, Singapore, many others). Mass censorship has been active in China for quite a long time. If you believe that the only way to prevent mass surveillance "here" (where do you live?) is to eradicate it everywhere, then I'm afraid that you've already lost. Hopefully your government is still functioning with regards to regulations and oversight of surveillance and freedom of the press.
Can you give an example of one of those unfavorable policies and how China does it more favorably? The post speaks in general terms.
Whether Google works with the Chinese government or not will have absolutely no impact on human rights.

The only question is whether Google and American interests want to be in the room or left outside in the cold.

It's always better to be involved and informed.
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The ECA has recently made an assesment of high speed rail and they found out things are not as rosy as they seem:

https://www.eca.europa.eu/en/Pages/DocItem.aspx?did=46398
It is controversial by definition, because you just disagreed.
"Need" is too of a strong word. People doesn't need a $80,000 car that can go from 0-60 miles per hour in 1.9 seconds in a country whose max highway speed is around 75mph but they buy it anyway when they can afford it.
And regardless no tax break could be comparable or relevant compared to the cost of nation wide improvements to mass transit.

Plus driverless car tech is global. The US infrastructure problems are irrelevant to me as a Canadian or the billions of people in Asia.
You can grow pomegranates in your backyard and go on breathtaking group night bike rides: http://www.thepassageride.com/Photos

You can afford a place with a yard even if you don't work in tech, though it'll still take a few decades to save up.
When I was working at GE, we received a suspicious white powder substance in the mail that was treated as Anthrax. The HAZMAT team quarantined the workers in the room with the substance and the whole event was over in a few hours. Mind you, the substance turned out to not be Anthrax, so that could explain the timeline. My only question is why there was no mention from the USPS about that? The only thing we hear from the USPS is that they don't know why they have to evacuate, and were relocated to a city 30 mins out to work the mail there. It's not like the idea of sending a substance like that is new, so why all the secrecy a week later?
Some strengths of LogDevice include:

- It's designed to work with a large number of logs (roughly equivalent to partitions in Kafka), hundreds of thousands per cluster is common.

- Sequencer failover is very quick, typical failover time when a sequencer node fails is less than a second.

- It supports location awareness and can place data according to replication constraints specified (e.g. replicate it in 3 copies across 2 different regions and 3 racks).

- Because of non-deterministic data placement, it is very resilient to failures in terms of write availability.

- If a node/shard fails, it detects the failure and rebuilds the data that was replicated to failed nodes/shards automatically
"Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it." -
Publilius Syrus, ~100 BC

Nor is there any accounting for taste. Looked at purely logically, it is absurd to spend 1K on a phone. Humans aren't always logical. We don't need a 1K phone, some people just want one.
Do I need it? No.

Do I want to have a nice phone that is a bit of a luxury good from an ecosystem that I'm a fan of? Yes.

No one is making anyone buy a $1000 phone, but why not if you want to?
Comment on the gizmodo post on this states there's been hazmat suits and possible mercury leakage:

https://gizmodo.com/this-is-how-it-starts-fbi-suspiciously-l...
Of course not. You also don't need a $600 pair of Chanel sunglasses or a $6,000 Gibson guitar. It's kinda like a luxury moniker at this point.
Broken arrow?[1] ... or similar?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_nuclear...
I don't even spend $1k on my cars. While I'd love to have a new, secure, iPhone I can't justify that level of expense.

Regardless, what other people do with their money isn't your problem.
I would if:

* I needed the performance of a $1000 device. For example, if I did a significant portion of my work from my phone, I'd consider it a worthwhile investment.

* I had enough disposable income and wanted a particular ~$1000 device

* I wanted it, had a credit card, and no financial or common sense.