skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you replying to the right sub-thread? I was asking about cost.

That said..

> Problem with IaaS clouds is that it is strictly less reliable than having your own infrastructure.

Although I'm a fan of running ones own hardware, I'm not sure I could make this claim. However, since I'd like to, do you have public data to back it up?

> orchestration automation, which in the self-hosted case either isn't there or is under your control.

I'm not sure how that would be different. Although a provider like AWS has portions of the automation toolchain not under your control, it's not obvious they're any more likely to fail (even due to some bizarre interoperability bug) than, say, BMC firmware, which is also not under your (full) control.

> One fact of running your own infrastructure is that you should plan for hardware failures, but not stress about it too much, because even entry-level enterprise-grade hardware just does not break (and if it does you will get signs that it is going to break well in advance).

This is something that I routinely have to point out to cloud proponents when they complain about having to "worry" about hardware failing: modern, commodity server hardware just doesn't fail often enough for it to be a significant consideration. Usually, it's just selection bias in that they remember every "nightmare" scenario from their past where hardware failed (possibly even as long as 20 years ago) but don't account for the overwhelming majority of times when it didn't.

Of course, there are notable exceptions, such as high-density "blade" or half-U servers, which often suffer from thermal design failures, but I argue that those are a departure from commodity, even if they appear identical if one squints.

Most importantly, though, it's not as if an IaaS cloud provider can somehow magically shield you from the consequences of such a failure: your VM will still go down. Sure, they have an arbitrarily large supply of spares to replace it, but you only ever need exactly 1 of those spares, and N+1 redundancy when self-hosted is very easy, if implemented merely as warm spares.
No, it's probably controlled by good-old-fashioned mechanical regulators...

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

...and the cause may be as simple as the regulator valve sticking open for some reason.
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We forgot how insane it is to pump explosive gas into our houses beacause we’ve gotten so good at it. I was remembering a similar accident near me, and it turned out to be 1982. That’s a lot of unremarkable years in between.

(1982) A state of emergency was in effect today after 28 homes and businesses burst into flames within seconds when the pressure in a natural gas line was kicked up accidentally, causing water heaters and furnaces to spit fire like "blowtorches."

http://www.gendisasters.com/missouri/18442/centralia-mo-natu...
> the only people who did it were highly trained, had balls of pure cast iron

Astronauts are highly-trained, but I haven't seen any evidence they were necessary - they don't do the orbital calculations, and if there was an emergency, Ground Control would solve the problem.
This answer is pretty telling... Thirty years of mainframe experience and at the end of it, all you're qualified for is an internship.
In Indonesia, this kind of business is well known but in toll roads.

Having your car broken down is the least of your problem. They will come, drag your car to their affiliated workshop, charge you high fees, and then the workshop charges you high fees as well. You can refuse, but it involves lots of persistence.
Scarcity is an important factor. Today, primitive societies (mostly) safe from Western conquest because they simply don't have anything we want.
I must've spent a lifetime listening to and reading McKenna. Time to go back and have another listen.
I don't think that T-Mobile turns over any less data though:

https://www.cnet.com/news/t-mobiles-transparency-report-reve...

At any rate the bar seems pretty low in that group.
> It shouldn't be up to the billionaires to choose where to spend money that should be in the hands of national governments and workers.

Yeah I couldn’t disagree any harder with this statement. The property rights are an essential element of a free society. The notion that government or “workers” are somehow entitled to prescribe or direct another’s property is at odds with the principals the United States was founded on.

If you don’t like how someone else makes their money, you are free to take your patronage elsewhere and convince me to as well. Don’t try to convince me government or “workers” have a right to his property.
Andover resident here. The local response has been super impressive. I've never seen so many emergency response vehicles and personnel mobilized so quickly from so many different places.

We drove north to New Hampshire on instinct as soon as we had a sense of what was happening (about an hour before the formal evacuation), and saw police and firetrucks heading south the entire way. After dinner, on our way back south (not home, but to another place to stay tonight), all the highway exits in the affected areas were closed, with police at each exit offering guidance to drivers who weren't sure what to do or where to go.

The affected communities are suburban -- not in the boonies, but not urban either, and definitely not used to having to respond so urgently to a widespread problem like this. They appear to have been very well trained and ready for it.
By close of business Friday the plumbing lobby will be saying this is because people did their own gas lines and requesting laws to drive them even more business. They'll probably get it too. By Monday everyone will have forgotten. Maybe there's be some hand wringing and an investigation. Not an extra cent will be allocated to fixing the infrastructure or processes that failed and led to this. That's how things work in this state, but hey, at least there's a few high paying jobs in Boston and we have progressive politics so we'll just keep patting ourselves on the back about how great it is to live here.
Elon just does not give a fuck! Gotta love him!!

He also really likes publicity and acts a lot like a rock star. What a lot of people just refuse to understand is that his goals are not about making more money for himself...he is literally trying to save the world and he is going to do what he can. This is just another part of that agenda.
No more than insect eyes scale to bird eyes.
The problem for wings is physics doesn't scale.

e.g. 1 Consider animating falling, scaled at 1 pixel per km vs 1 pixel per meter. The former is much slower.

e.g. 2 An ant can carry several times its own weight, but you can't.
Really nice, good find ! Thanks for sharing.
It's not just Houston. Austin, San Antonio and DFW are also affordable. Texas has grown remarkably economically and demographically over the past 20 years.

Have a look at the demographia report on housing affordability (p27):

http://www.demographia.com/dhi.pdf

Texas also has fairly high land taxes that help to reduce prices.

Less zoning really does work. Another possibility is setting up a body like the Reserve Bank for a state or city that releases more land for housing and increases height restrictions when housing affordability becomes an issue.
Why does college education need such a rapid pace? With self learning, you would be able to view lectures on your own schedule.

Why wait tables or clerk when you can live at home with your parent and spend your time doing class activities? The education is free, so what's the extra income needed for?

You don't need essays to assess understanding of material. My education was evaluated with 99% standardized testing.

You don't need interaction with professors if your questions were answered by a FAQ.
Using 150k tonnes of above ground gold, if all of it was minted into currency, would equal +- 100M dollars. Probably not more than 10% is minted currency coins - .999 isn't for currency use. So there is about 10M dollars in existence.
A dollar is 24 3/4 grains of gold.
This is nonsense. By what criteria, besides "I like it" is "An individual sells a product at a one-off price to a entrepreneur who then is able to make a living off of it." the ideal form of business?

Adobe went from this model to SaaS, and their user growth has taken off, because it turns out paying the full cost of the software in a front-loaded fashion is really expensive.

I remember pirating visual studio when I was a child, because it cost thousands of dollars that I could not afford, but these days it is free because platform providers have realised that increasing developer share is more important, and now finance their platform via the 30% take.
The transit already getting built in LA. It’s just slow (Purple Line won’t be finished till 2028). Measure R is effective over 30 years.

These things take time. It’s fine for a city to take a more measured approach to growth, and make sure that the infrastructure is capable of supporting it, before going full laissez-faire “build! build! build!”.
The problem with communicating across even a few hundred light years is that everybody's bored and gone to do something else before the response arrives.

You'd need a spectacularly static civilisation to engage in any meaningful communication over the timespans involved.
Do a google search for "columbia gas" before today. There's page after page of people being killed and injured in small scale explosions, and reporting severe leaks.

https://www.google.com/search?biw=1920&bih=953&tbs=cdr%3A1%2...

Is this normal for other gas utilities?
> 3 Billion miles

That is ridiculously close. For reference, the distance between sun and earth is about 150 Million miles.
your bloodflow can sync with the weather and you need no clothes :) In high energy states I meditate in the park, the wind becomes you, in the sense that your body does not discriminate against the wind but with the wind. Then it relaxes and syncs with it into a tune of bliss. One feels not the wind one becomes the wind.
I'm just finishing up the last tutorial, and I highly recommend this as well. I made one traditional C compiler back in college with flex and bison, which I consider an invaluable experience, but I've always wanted to tap in to the power of Scheme for developing new languages. I had some false starts on my own and with mediocre tutorials, but in the end Beautiful Racket was exactly the kind of pedagogy I needed.
Technical solutions to this seem to be hindered by issues that affect other secure systems, such as: how do you know who first published something (trusted/reliable time stamping servers?), and how do you know it’s the same content?

As such, I suspect the best system is “hire a bunch of humans to check”. And that’s expensive, which is fine because it should be. These companies try to completely decimate online publications just because it might infringe on their precious properties, and that needs to be a massive cost to deter frivolous takedown notices.

It’s kind of amazing that sites so rapidly reached the point of just insta-killing potentially infringing content with no evidence. That has surely crushed some up-and-coming artists who probably said “screw it” after having their platform taken out from under them by mistake.
Randomness inserted like that can be filtered out statistically with a decent sample set - it's a gaussian distribution, so you'll still see the saying timing differences.
This is why things have to be constant time, rather than random return time.
Okay down voters, I guess I was being to clever by half.

My point was idiomatic translation is hard. “I could care less” means it’s literal opposite.
I had an emergency response training with a firefighter today and he said they call regular firefighters "pavement divas". He said he would never trade with forest firefighters. Their work is just too hard.
I had such a cloud on my residential street for years that was strong enough to burn your eyes.

That is the odourant, which fortunately alerts you of its presence and concentration. Pure methane is odourless.

National Grid would come by every few months, stick a probe in the ground, and declare it not worth fixing despite our repeated calls.

To me that just sounds like a huge WTF!?!? If it was lit, would they just come and extinguish it and then leave?

Regardless, I'd consider it a massive hazard to have clouds of flammable gas just lingering everywhere.
Some good answers here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15171238
The reporter probably assumed light years are a measure of time and "fixed" it.
On Windows with a 8700k and GTX 980ti and it runs at about 10fps in Firefox. Runs slightly better in Edge, but not by much.
This also used to be very common on the GRA, the motorway that runs around Rome (Italy). I was a victim of such a scheme once. If I remember well, the problem was finally solved due to the fact that at some point tow trucks were banned from the GRA altogether.
The use of "Night Lunch" as opposed to "Dinner" reminds me of the Randall Munroe's "Thing Explainer."
Isn't that $35K for every man, woman and child alive? How can that be?
They are subsidiary of NiSource Inc. (NYSE:NI) a huge publicly traded utility. First time I've ever heard of something of this scale that I can remember. Gas explosions aren't unheard of but so many in a small area is perhaps unprecedented.
>> The goal is to be as good as humans.

Which particular humans?

>> An autonomous vehicle driving through snow [..] is better than someone from the tropics driving through snow for the first time

Better than the worst human we can imagine?
Better than the average human?
Better than the average human who drives on that road at that time of year?
The Weekly Standard’s ThinkProgress Facebook fact check was correct
1200 USD per ounce x 16 oz per lb x 2000 lb per ton x 150,000 =5.76E12 USD

5,760,000,000,000 USD, except for the fact that Troy ounces are slightly different than normal ounces. Too lazy to look up.
I'm not sure (not a lawyer). In theory, both request should be squashed, and I think there's a serious penalty for knowingly issuing a bullshit request, but i've never heard of the big guys being sanctioned, perhaps they lean on the excuse that their automated tools generate false positives. So you need to put up the content, and then point crappy automated tools at the big boys, maybe. I'm not gonna do it, but if someone who knew what they were doing managed to generate a ton of takedowns at the large providers, in a legally safe manner, it might at least prove a point and generate some press.
All I can find is lockouts of National Grid workers and replacing them with scabs. They news is reporting that these are Columbia Gas lines.
Thanks for pointing this out. We have corrected this.
I saw it mentioned elsewhere in this thread, but it may be worth noting that there has been a lockout of National Grid workers since June 25th. These workers serviced "700,000 gas customers in 85 communities in eastern Massachusetts", NGrid has replaced them with contract workers to continue service[0].

A site representing the union states that those locked out "do the critical work of maintaining natural gas lines for homes, schools, and businesses across Massachusetts"[1]

Unsure if this is related to the current incident & Columbia Gas

edit: Press conferences seem to indicate that Columbia Gas is responsible for this region and not National Grid. Seems Unrelated

[0]: http://www.wbur.org/bostonomix/2018/08/13/national-grid-lock...

[1]: https://www.usw.org/act/campaigns/lockout-at-national-grid/r...
My sole interaction with them was a flagrant bribe solicitation. I paid.

Good riddance.
Your comment reminds me of the Startrek TBG episode The Loss https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Loss

The two dimensional lifeforms were unable to perceive three dimensions. Yet at the same time, the crew of the TNG struggled to understand them.
I'll just leave this here... https://i.imgur.com/Pc6gFvN.jpg
TV crew doing story on car breakins in SF has their van broken into as they film
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There's no way a company like this can piss off so many people for 50+yr without some serious political connections.

In a corrupt city if you piss of people with connections you get run out of business unless you also have connections.
What do you mean by nice network?
That it happened is the outlier, not the possibility that it could happen.
As someone who has hiked and canoed extensively in far flung places with and without maps - I can unequivically say that maps can be amazingly useful representations of the world or they can downright kill you with misleading info depending upon when they were updated and how often the landscape changes, as well as the just general quality of the map.
It’s striking how much fighting wars is “just” extreme construction, and fighting wildfires is “just” extreme landscaping.
I wouldn't say it changed my life. But "Deep Work" resonated very deeply with me.
Demon Haunted World (Sagan). The art of baloney detection and scientific thinking.

Letters from a Stoic (Seneca). The pursuit of happiness is meaningless, focus on the pursuit of wisdom.

Poor Charlie's Almanac (Charles T. Munger). A library of mental/thinking models can take you a long way.

Of Human Bondage (Maugham). What is the meaning of life?
The way I understand it is that you still need a CLK signal, entanglement is the DATA pin. The primary purpose of entanglement is privacy. A sufficiently advanced species may choose to use entanglement to hide from the rest of the galaxy, and the CLK radio burst could be made to look suspiciously like natural phenomena (FRBs).

However, a major point of contention is that humanity occurs far too soon in the life of the universe. It has taken life on Earth 3.5 billion years to evolve to us, that means that there have been just under 4 epochs of human evolutions in the age of the universe (and just over 1 epochs of human evolutions in the age of Earth). Chances are, using sci-fi nomenclature, that we are the "ancients." We have quite a lot to get done for those that follow.
From context, I 'm pretty sure its light-years, not miles, and this was a typo. The curvature of the pulses in the frequency domain implies that there's lots of ionized gas between the us and the source. Lower frequencies are delayed relative to higher frequencies.

Also, "mysteriously noisy galaxy 3 billion miles away" (emphasis mine).
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How do humans handle edge cases anyways?

I think it comes down to being able to model the world around us, having a model for human behavior, animal behavior, etc. If we see a baby deer, we look for the mother deer.

It feels like we're also really good at creating multiple open-ended stimulations in the back of our mind about how things might play out, where they can easily be paused or fleshed out depending on which became more probable or if we want to learn something. It's kind of a running background process.
I'll second deep work by Cal Newport. I didn't realize just how distracted I was until attempting his methods.
This is how it works on the Jersey turnpike but the IIRC right to tow people from a particular stretch of road on a particular day of the week is bid on like any other state contract (my details may be a little off but point is you can't call whatever company you want).
Thank you for this. I needed this
Is this cisco by chance?
> I just haven't seen actual up to date reasons

Nobody owes you data. If you need that data, get out your checkbook and pay for it - $50,000 will fund most studies.
a dollar is 24 3/4 grains of gold.

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> Which must increase overall as life past retirement does.

I thought age expectancy is starting to drop now.
And the fines keep piling up. And the people who do the appeals know the tow company because they deal with them all the time whereas you're just a random person off the street so the appeal by default is skewed toward their favor.
Saved the free world. That one always makes me shiver.

Operation Paperclip?
Currently I use npm for angular projects. Before writing even hello world , I have to perform npm install on the project and install so many module to serve up small web app. This seems like we are going in the right direction, cant wait to try yarn as package manager.
Having been a motorcyclist when I was younger and ostensibly more reckless (not that motorcyclists are more reckless) I can tell you from experiance that you have very little getting in your way visually. However in a car you have two pillars holding your roof up to your immediate left and right, and door frames and boot pillars over either shoulders.

As a motorcyclist you have way more situational awareness than other vehicles on the road.

You also quickly learn that other road users are blissfully unaware of you and you drive accordingly.
Shockingly not all people in a company are about the bottom line. Perceived power is worth more to many.
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If I'm into BDSM, can I claim offense with this ticket and resulting PR?
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keep kidding yourself (oh, and so glad you can downvote instead of have honest discussion)
I really enjoy Planet Money too. As an economics noob, what type of reading/books do you recommend for one's foray into real world economics?
> I believe that everyone at SETI must believe FTL is possible because otherwise it truly is a waste of resources.

Isn't this like saying every historian must believe in time travel? Just because you can't visit someone doesn't mean you can't learn from them.
EEG to machine interface has a long history.

Here's a brief article about a 1975 DARPA/SRI program that used EMG and EEG to identify words human subjects were thinking. [1] Computers were a CDC6400 and a LINC-8. The article has a link at the end to the original report (.doc download warning).

[1] https://sigint.wordpress.com/2008/01/09/lawrence-pinneo-and-...
I think things like this show that very light weight solar panels will enable a huge variety of drone applications that aren't feasible now due to limitations of recharging.
Please let it not be aliens.
Pretty reasonable list.
If a human drives sufficiently poorly they will eventually lose their right to drive on public roads for a time.

Could this/should this also apply for autonomous vehicles? If so, how?
For some reason I can understand how people come do terrible things out of fear or whatever (bigots, or whatever).... but I find the casual jerkiness of these enforcers extra mind boggling.

Why would people want to treat their coworkers this way? It seems so unnecessary and negative...
Waymo can of course cherry pick the scenarios which they present about. Meanwhile a human driver still has to intervene every few thousands miles.
I do not understand how anyone thinks this will work in any scenario that includes a malicious actor.
> Go far enough and you won't hit the galaxy you wanted to

This can be solved, in the limit of large distances (i.e. many galaxies away), by the aforementioned method of refueling/rebuilding/re-guiding along the way. But between each galaxy there's a vast, barren chasm to cross with little resources, I concur.
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My experience in Seattle matches yours, but I think its because other types of homeless people are generally less proud/open about their situation. I think also, for better or worse, most people in Seattle are referring to this most obvious segment of the homeless population when they talk about the crisis.
Despite this, its still hard for me to overlook that almost all of the homeless people I've spoken with/met are either- struggling with serious mental health issues/drug problems, or 'urban survivalist' types who say they are on street by choice (It could also be that once your homeless its better to decide that its a choice).
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