skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The EU is becoming increasingly insignificant in terms of global GDP share and will continue to do so.

I mean, it’s the second largest entity in terms of nominal GDP after the US, and second largest in terms of PPP GDP after China. As a share of global GDP, sure, it’s diminishing; after all, essentially all developed countries are. It is still very significant, however. Even if you assume that world GDP per capita is ever spread evenly, it’d be nearly 10% (currently, it’s 16% PPP).
most people here don't understand that google is a u.s. military operation when it comes to their highest level decisions.

they pulled out of china years ago and had a public relations gaff regarding google's direct relationship with the nsa. whatever you saw in the news was mere cover-up propoganda.

google is the nsa , on some level , where geo-strategic choices are made.

if google is going into china, the military not only approves, but is funding part of their effort.

also, there is a p.r. game where google has to pretend it is only there to make money.

at this level fo the game , these corporations are yes, indeed , trying to 'make money' but this is such high level competition it's about geo-strategic power and influence at the global level game of information dominance.

so, yea all of you making the astute observation that china is no third world sphere of influence and are perfectly capable of protecting their interests-----this is stating the obvious. the thing that is clear is google has much to gain even though this is true, and that they are pursuing a strategy despite obvious costs and risks. they may even LOSE money doing this but will do it anyways for the strategic gain in knowledge and information and influence, which will ultimately lead to a gain in power down the line.....for the google/military/information complex.
Good comeback, sad that it's relevant too. I've seen entirely too many sketchy books and articles attempting to link quantum physics and psychology.
> no data theft or any malware destroying data.

That would only be true if the mainframes never interfaced to any other systems or to any humans. Since the latter can't be the case, and the former hasn't been the case for a long time, this just doesn't hold.

> Why cloud is better ? Pay as you go, this works for all startups and small companies using latest front applications. With mainframes you will be paying from millions to billions to IBM so only large corporates can afford it.

There's an implied false dichotomy here, though, that ignores a decade or two of using commodity hardware, before cloud was viable/popular. It was also pay-as-you-go, just with much larger increments, so it didn't work as well for as small companies. That's still available and is actually cheaper (and carries less vendor lock-in).

Perhaps ironically, large enough companies routinely pay millions to AWS. In theory, they could switch providers, but not if they bought in to any of the vendor-specific services. As you say, cloud is, in many ways, a copy of mainframes.

> If you want to learn a technology that processes massive data. Mainframe is the place.

That may be a stretch, since "massive" isn't what it used to be. Something like all the world's financial transactions might have been massive, in computer terms, 20 years ago, but, today, processors have 1000x the transistor densities, spinning disks have 20x+ the I/O, and SSDs are even faster.

I'd argue that the scientific, physical lab, HPC/supercomputing world is the place for that. The quantities of data produced by the instruments at LLNL's NIF or CERN's LHC would easily overwhelm a mainframe, even after initial processing/filtering.
And what I'm trying to tell you is that living as a ward of the state is not something many people would consider to be dignified.
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, and the End of Silicon Valley’s “Wild West”
raise gas taxes, maybe that will help LA become a city, that or it will be abandoned.
> The first explosion was triggered by an overpressurized gas line, WBZ News reported

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/27/us/politics/russian-hacke...

I'm willing to bet money this was a cyber-terrorist attack. Unfortunately we'll never know. If a link were established, it would be the subject of a gag order on grounds of national security. But more likely, the true root cause will never be found because the authorities didn't do a deep enough forensic analysis. It's too easy to blame something this on mechanical failure, especially in America's aging infrastructure. They won't even think to look at the PLCs and control systems that control the gas pumps :/
I’ve heard Texas has no zoning laws. Thomas Sowell always brings that up about Texas having no bust during the housing crisis because they had no boom. The lack of zoning laws allowed the market to respond to demand quite naturally. Do you spot anything wrong with that assessment?
No-one eats money. Money is just how we notate that we owe each other stuff. The surgeon can operate on the patient but decides not to, because the patient is a stranger. Bezos says "Please help that patient". The surgeon says "I know you! You convinced a bunch of vendors to send physical products to me and my loved ones. Therefore, I'll help the patient if you insist."

The above dialog is unfamiliar because it gets abstracted away by money, but if money works correctly, then that's what it really means for Bezos to pay the surgeon $100k to treat the patient.

Imagine I know how to fish. I go and teach one million people how to fish. I charge them $1 each, which they gladly pay because they consider the skill worth more than $1. Now I have $1M. I hoard it. Am I greedy? By no means! It's a paradox: you think I'm greedy because I'm hoarding that $1M, but actually I have the $1M because I provided so much value!
As I posted below, there is a difference between observing how different people react to a particular comment (O(n)) and observing how different people react to a particular comment based on who it's from (O(n^2)). I'm mostly trying to question the idea that there's anything quadratic in the number of participants going on here. Are you sure you're saying that the work you do is quadratic?
What is the difference between three pages filled with ads and three pages removed from censorship? I would argue the second one is worse, although I imagine Baidu is just a combination of both.
Why is there no mention of India?
From my point of view for typical modern bussiness workloads that necessiate large machines (ie. SQL RDBMS or something similar) only thing that you really care about is memory size. On the other hand many "legacy" mainframe workloads are significantly more CPU-bound because the software culture is simply different and brute force is often the way to go.
medium doesn't allow you to bring your own domain, and that's fairly crucial. Both for longevity (can always point a domain at a new host, even if it's just a bunch of static files somewhere, if the old host goes away or becomes bad in some way) and identity: proper name instead of "yet another medium blog", which isn't exactly a signal of quality.

Still, there's tons of hosting options where that's not an issue. Running a VPS can be interesting and fun, but if you just want to host a simple site there's easier options that work just as well.
DO requests that you don't use swap as it degrades their SSDs.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-add-...
My machine learning professor used to say that people tend to sensationalize self-driving car fatalities, without realizing that if every car on the road was self-driving, deaths would go close to zero.

I think the hard part of the problem is the infrastructure. Everyone wants to fix the cars, but they'll leave the hard part to the government- which is the development of autonomous-ready infrastructure.
I think you need to read his argument again.

He wants to replacing zoning with 'sanitary codes' which is an interesting argument to encourage high density development. I would also add noise pollution codes, sound dampening, and other things to make apartment living much better.
Could solar cells for wings provide enough power?
This is a bit older but good background presentation by Richard Duncan:
https://vimeo.com/101487179

PS: Ignore the title
The urge for a collaborative, citizen fact-checking platform
Peter Thiel on Silicon Valley, conformity and politics
>Regarding Poulson’s departure, a spokesperson for Google said, “It is our policy to not comment on individual employees."

I'm a little surprised to hear this is Google's policy. Honest question: didn't they comment about James Damore?

Did they change the policy since then? Or, was that different in some way from this? Not sure.
I haven't read that one, but I read is Pre-suasion last year, and it was definitely an eyeopener. Have quite a lot of bookmarks in that one still. Need to get around to Influence too.
seems like its in china's longterm strategic interest to derive as much infrastructure and domestic development as possible from the international economy and then eventually crater it to defeat their international political enemies
Here’s the data behind the new Apple Watch EKG app
Maybe they are also contributing to the budget for:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/13/uks-mass-surveillance-regi...

So it is a political trade-off, but it looks horrible and unacceptable to us.
> The high degree of rotation of the nearly 100 percent polarized radio bursts is unusual, and has only been seen in radio emissions from the extreme magnetic environments around massive black holes, such as those at the centers of galaxies. The Dutch and Breakthrough Listen teams suggest that the fast radio bursts may come from a highly magnetized rotating neutron star – a magnetar – in the vicinity of a massive black hole that is still growing as gas and dust fall into it.

The short bursts, which range from 30 microseconds to 9 milliseconds in duration, indicate that the source could be as small as 10 kilometers across – the typical size of a neutron star.

Other possible sources are a magnetar interacting with the nebula of material shed when the original star exploded to produce the magnetar; or interactions with the highly magnetized wind from a rotating neutron star, or pulsar. [0]

Do any terrestrial sources create polarized radio waves? Would polarization help beamforming or other range-extending techniques?

[0]http://news.berkeley.edu/2018/01/10/seti-project-homes-in-on...
I'd rather live in a tent than in a car. Fortunately tents are relatively cheap, so if you have a car you can probably also afford a tent to sleep in.
No, there are entire countries that don't have snow.
Life is too short to RTFM: how users relate to documentation and excess features [pdf]
That experience is purposeful, it creates a break between the narrative and meta-narrative voices. I didn't think it was too awful with 2 bookmarks - kinda reminded me of doing math hw, some of the one word ones like Sic., etc. did get tiresome though.
my Dad'd bible
I have loved reading all his comments and notes in the margins over the years
Premature optimization something something...and honestly this isn't even optimization, just some extra complexity.

Dockers cool for doing dev stuff on your laptop, or for scaling out with something like kubernetes. This is just silly!
Zend has a php product for the IBM i that isn’t too bad - and it runs like you said on a Unix-ish file layout and everything.
That’s deep man…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_a_tree_falls_in_a_forest
"Ammunition, cigarettes, and booze" that was the advice given to my great grandfather when he worried about losing everything in the depression.

The more pragmatic advice however is to hedge in real transactional things, food production, logistics, real estate, and manufacturing, Etc. That part of the economy that operates on barter if it has to because people need these things to live.
Dimensional analysis is an oft-forgotten but highly valuable part of financial understanding.
Facebook’s new ‘SapFix’ AI automatically debugs your code
This was already proposed and shot down for various reasons:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17983366
> Because of that, the fretting about the Fed’s current balance-sheet runoff plan is almost comical. There’s simply too much debt in the system and no clear path to truly paying it off. Not even central bank officials are pretending they’ll shed all their holdings — estimates fluctuate around ending at $2.5 trillion.

I thought that the plan was to eventually inflate the debt away. But maybe that's just cynical conspiracy theory.
This was first presented at PyconAU 2018 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9USGh4Uy-xQ
Ah. The comment you replied to was about tax cuts. I misunderstood your point.
> They're still cheaper

Are they, though? Commodity hardware certainly is, but it's not as if cloud providers are charging a small margin on top of that. They're charging a multiple, potentially as large as 10x.

Combined with the parent's proposed need of multi-cloud, that could turn what might otherwise be a few hundred $k of commodity servers into a few $M of cloud costs, which I understand is the OOM the cost of a mainframe.
Yeah it truly is crazy.

I think it also speaks to how relatively solvable some of the urban problems are in the sense that we could be intentionally building new cities (not just attached suburbs) if we wanted to, and that would - if it worked - take some of the pressure off the places that are struggling right now.

For whatever reason America just stopped doing that after WW2. Maybe it’s time to start again?
The reason I brought this up was to wonder how insane (just a little? or totally impossible?!) it would be if 100% of public transportation was serviced by "TNCs" in the city.

> "On an average weekday, more than 5,700 TNC vehicles operate on San Francisco streets during the peak period"[sfcta.org/tncstoday]

So if TNCs provide ~30 trips a day, and all 1,165,000 MUNI+BART passengers switched to TNCs, there would have to be an additional ~40k TNC vehicles in the city :).

Maybe it would work if they were really, really small.
Assess, manage AWS costs with third-party tools
DDD – Aggregate Roots and Domain Events Publication
GIT Hack: Prevent pushing to master
Got it, so the state is random for all particles until it is measured by your or your partner, afterwhich the other particle state is known. But the act of measuring or the decaying doesn't tell you when (or if) they measured it because the state never changes, it just becomes known.
Anything where you can convert one property you purchase to a use which makes surrounding properties unattractive for their current use works, particularly if you are willing to overbid the market when they go up for sale and then convert them, rinse and repeat.

Ideally, you want something where the adverse impact on use value is transitory, so once you've monopolized the area, you can convert it back to a high-value use and either sell it all off or (if the market is skeptical because of the threat someone else pulls your trick), retain ownership, including of a buffer zone, and rent out units for the high-value use.
GitHub pages with HTTPS support is easier :P
How would characterize their software and services? Cutting edge modern stuff with engaged knowledgeable support?
> no drivers or passengers killed inside it

To be fair, nobody has been killed inside any driverless car either.
It might be a good simple project for those not familiar with Docker and web server/nginx configuration. But other than that, I agree with you. Seems like a lot of overhead.
Texan cities have zoning laws. Texas just has a lot of flat, hot land that people really don't fight over so development happens quickly.

Houston was a famous example of a city that didn't have zoning laws (you just had to provide parking) and was praised for it, but then was discovered to allowed development in an area the US govt declared for flooding.

To be fair, Houston really didn't need zoning laws to prevent development in a designated flood area, but still someone would have mentioned it if I didn't.
> yet to even come close to being workable in adverse conditions, to my knowledge, please correct me if I am wrong.

There's some video here for:

>“The Yandex.Taxi autonomous car safely navigated the streets of Moscow after a recent snowstorm managing interactions with traffic, pedestrians, parked vehicles and other road hazards on snowy and icy streets,” https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/16/17020096/self-driving-car...

Presumably it's not perfect but it seems to be coming along. Snow and ice covered Moscow is more adverse than what I usually drive.
If at any point you find yourself looking for parser generators, Nearley JS is a fun tool for experimenting with lightweight grammars. (Emphasis on lightweight - it's a javascript library.) It has good docs as well. If you're interested in the Earley algorithm, you can run it in a nodejs shell and look under the hood at the data structure, step-by-step as it scans the string.

https://nearley.js.org/
> ... break BC in the stdlib ...

(please don't abbreviate when it's unclear. You saving some typing means lots of people have to pause to parse your TLAs...)
Why I use Docker for everything? saves me from dependency hell, chasing down the required libraries. Plus, some more complex stacks, which normally would take like half day to install now take just one "docker run" command (or "docker-compose up"). That's how I installed Nextcloud, Gitlab, etc.

I think that Docker is a great time saver for those who want just to play with a new piece of software, and don't have the time to learn all the details of some arcane install procedure.
Using an SDSSD¹ they wouldn't need to tune to any specific oscillation. Just collect the data and start Fourier-ing it to find the signal.

1: Software-Defined Smoke Signal Detector
As they were almost certainly legally obligated too, the problem is individuals still vote in officials who bend to the whim of businesses instead of individuals.
> Why use...

This is usually the most important question to ask about a tool for a project.

However, it is reasonable for the answer to be "because I"ve heard that this tool is useful, and I want to better understand how it is shaped and what things are hard/easy to do with it"
Uh, theres no reason for IE to use less battery because it's 'part of the OS'. In the end, IE still has to do all the tasks to render a webpage which Firefox or Chrome have to do. It might be able to leverage some fancy hidden OS features to be slightly more efficient/use the hardware better in some way, but fundamentally it doesn't have much of an advantage.
Humans aren't broadcasting into space with any pre-EM technologies. It's not so much that we don't care about less-advanced civilizations, but that broadcasting in a way that life forms could see/hear without electronic sensors would be many orders of magnitude less efficient for us. It's simply impractical.

Maybe there's another form of communication we haven't discovered yet that's so much faster and more efficient (like Star Trek's "subspace") that everybody else in the galaxy uses that instead. For them to send radio waves to Earth might be like us pointing Morse lamps at Alpha Centauri.

Trying to detect alien life by scanning the EM spectrum sure is inefficient. Maybe it's the best we can do, but if there were something better, I could totally see why we'd abandon plain old radio waves.
Here we go again: the latest in a long line of sites that I can't figure out, while lots of others comment "cool".

I click "Sort it". Nothing happens. <sigh>

For all those silent folks who are just like me: know that you are not alone.
Besides emissions security, perhaps there's the equivalent of "never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of mag tapes" (with, say, a lattice of atoms of different types instead).
Monorepos are excellent if you have a group of related projects, especially if they depend on each other. Instead of opening a series of PRs for each project in a specific dependent order, you can open a single PR and move everything forward in lock-step, ensuring that every commit / tag has all projects in the monorepo working together.

The biggest downsides are really around tooling: we've had tons of issues with our continuous integration environment (Travis CI) and build times trying to build only specific sub-projects using Lerna. The Github Pull Reviews and Issues pages can get pretty messy too, though we have a process to automatically add Github tags based on changes via Lerna.

I suspect this is why bigger companies seem to be more successful with monorepos than smaller ones, because they have the resources to invest in building their own tooling.
Was this inspired by a custom map on Warcraft 3? Name is escaping me right now.. Been such a long time since I played it!

Would love to know about some of the tech you used to build it
Silver is just as valuable as that piece of paper. It really has very little inherit value. Just because it's shiny doesn't make it truly valuable. gold is the same thing. Both have some limited manufacturering usages but at the end of the day they are shiny, similar to that very pretty piece of paper.
Unprecedented demand for software engineers will redefine hiring forever
I'll link this next time somebody says to "RTFM". I'm pretty sure nobody means Read The "Field" Manual.
‘Googley’ does not mean ‘young,’ Google claims in age-bias lawsuit
Information is defined in such a way as it may never travel FTL.

When entangled particles reveal their states, they do not at that point in time transmit any new information. The information was actually encoded into the entangled pair which travelled at less than light speed to that destination.

I imagine this answer is probably unsatisfying and counterintuitive to you, as it is to me.
Except when the train isn’t running at all. Or the rail catches on fire. Both of which are shockingly common.
shots fired lol
Oh, for upstream/base? If a Docker Hub image was set up with automated builds, it would automatically rebuild the image once its base was rebuilt. It looks like nginx was set up this way, but nginx-proxy was not. So you have to rebuild nginx-proxy manually.

~$ git clone https://github.com/jwilder/nginx-proxy
~$ cd nginx-proxy
~$ docker build -f Dockerfile.alpine -t my-own-tag-name/nginx-proxy:alpine .
~$ cd ..
~$ sed -i -e 's/image: jwilder\/nginx-proxy.*/image: my-own-tag-name\/nginx-proxy:alpine/' docker-compose.yaml

Alternately, you could fork the nginx-proxy repo, build it, push it to your own Docker Hub account, and add the Repository Links[1] back to nginx. Then you could use TravisCI to automatically pull in and rebuild changes from the parent nginx-proxy. This way you get automated builds when base is updated, and when nginx-proxy is updated.

[1] https://docs.docker.com/docker-hub/builds/#repository-links
CPI is up 2.9% as well.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy/u-s-inflation...
People are only capable of so much, mentally. As the world is increasingly well understood, it gets increasingly complicated, and individuals require ways to interact with the parts that they don't have time to truly understand.
> Is it measured in terms of that country's own currency?

No. The obvious makes that a useless measure. GDP is used, modified to ignore what government factions like to conveniently manipulate or modify. Lumping in tech stocks and pharma was the latest trick in the USA.
Personally, I see those as software hacks for an ergonomic failure. I understand why people want big phones and I'm glad they have those options. But I don't want a software band-aid to be required to make a phone usable for me. I just want it to be the right size.
"This was a problem because what I really wanted was control over my environment, and that was the exact thing they didn’t want to give me." This is simply about power. At best case its paternalism and at worst case its calculated oppression. If you want to know where you stand in an org just observe how preferred your environment is to others.