skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought that all we had to do was develop non-combustion energy sources cheaper than fossil fuels, and everything else would fall into place. I think that's still mostly correct. But I underestimated how long people who are economically dependent on fossil fuel industries, and their political allies, could delay the transition. I think that those sorts of delay-and-obstruct tactics are going to ensure we far overshoot CO2 targets before (hopefully) beginning to correct them. That's even while the technologies of low-carbon energy continue to advance at a rapid clip.
> Cross-region networking. To this day, I'm flabbergasted this isn't something that AWS has. All the other networking bits seem more sensible to me as well.

AWS tries to avoid letting customers create multi-region or global failure modes, like:

* https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/compute/18005 22-hour incident with GLOBAL impact resulting in many VMs getting duplicate IPs (this no network connectivity) on 2018-06-15

* https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-networking/18... 3-hour (seemingly GLOBAL) impact to load-balancers (no updates or creations) on 2018-01-03

* https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/compute/16007 - 18-minute GLOBAL outage on 2016-04-11

* https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/compute/15055 - 5-minute GLOBAL outage on 2015-08-04

* https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/gce-operations/fynnX... 43-minute multi-region packet loss due to multi-region configuration deployment on 2015-03-07

* https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/gce-operations/1uw-q... unscheduled reboot of 28% of instances in multiple regions in ~1.5h on 2014-09-17

There have been recent changes in many AWS services (e.g. DynamoDB, S3, Aurora) to allow cross-region replication without introducing any multi-region dependency, precisely to make it easier to implement multi-region infrastrucure to tolerate a single-region failure (however rare that is on AWS compared to global outages on GCP).

> Another, is 2Gbps per core up to 8 cores which is way more throughput than I've seen on any AWS or Azure instance.

Which instance types did use on AWS? Many recent instance types (r4, i3, c5, r5, z1) support up to 10Gbps with once core (2 vCPU instances). However, you may need to use placement groups ( https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/placemen... ) in large regions in order to get the full throughput on low TCP connection numbers. The only reason I can think of that would explain why GCP doesn't have this problem is they don't have any regions anywhere near as large as large AWS regions ...

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That's all well and good. But none of it explains why the author says the current changes taking place in the Linux project reinforce her decision not to participate in Linux.

How does a code of conduct and a hiatus for the guy who was cursing at people reinforce the decision to stay away? The only way that makes sense is if she weren't previously aware of any of the documented cases of Linus' abusive behavior, and that seems quite unlikely given she was already using her own "shadow ecosystem" years ago.
'My parents had to fix appliances too.'

True, TVs would break down regularly and other appliances had basic design flaws which required constant attention. It was uncommon to see stuff like washing machines and fridges being disposed of though.
I'm not a big gamer, but aren't they often cheaper if you pre-order?
Depends, these conspiracies can and do actively cause harm in the interim though (climate change, anti-vaxxing, pizzagate, and arguably others).

Is liars being about to lie worth a body count?
You can see the same effects of anonymity in masses. Say, you are in a concert and the crowd starts to throw tomatoes to the artist for being bad (not that I have ever witnessed such act) - would those that threw a tomato do the same thing if they were alone and had to put a "face" for their own doings (because one can easily identify them)?

This is quite philosophical comparison, but I think its on the point.
I disagree. People know how awful their lives are by their well being. The internet offered people the ability to organize and topple their corrupt government, but that doesn't mean that the new people in charge are going to be better.
Everything else was rather unsurprising, pretty much what I expected. But that was the part that I had to read again. Hoping they just copied that from a 2013 pamphlet. If they consider Libya's slave markets ( https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/14/africa/libya-migrant-auctions... ) and Sirya the high point of positivity, I'd wonder what they consider the low point.
> suicide is an an increasingly pragmatic and attractive option.

Don't think that way. Climate despair is real. People get seriously depressed about it and a lot of people probably consider suicide. Messages like this are irresponsible and can push people over the edge. If you feel that urge, talk to someone. Reach out. Get better. If you're this worried about climate change then THE WORLD NEEDS YOU.
To have any meaningful impact on global warming there would need to be a massive rapid global economic shift, we would also would need to reduce world population otherwise anything we do will just be nullified by increases in population. I think to even suggest that the people in power (politicians and capitalist corporations) will actually be willing and able to solve this problem is incredibly naive and I have no idea where anyone gets this optimism from?

No in reality we will see a slow increase in extreme natural disasters, island states and all coastlines becoming uninhabitable, permanent drought in most parts of the world, drinking water crisis, famine, massive unprepared forced migration, global economic collapse, permanent wars about remaining resources. I actually don't think humanity has any realistic chance to survive beyond 2080 and that number is actually quite conservative given the research.
Didn't he say he runs the async queue consumer in another process? Doesn't it make it practically another "micro service"?
Because everything but the executive task flow is being handled via processes known as automaticity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automaticity
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Never make classes final
Thanks. I don't think getting a boring job would be helpful, because in both dismissals "being bored" was a factor. I'm a bookworm and need intellectual stimulation.
How can it be your largest expense but running your own db would save only a couple of bucks?
It's too bad we're not in a bar. I could talk about this all night, and I've been thinking about it a lot.
That is a position.

This document is showing the hole in that position -- an outright attack (elsagate) aimed at children. A cursory inspection by the parent sees the child watching a harmless Peppa the Pig video, while in fact she's watching snuff.

This is a problem that Google has to address somehow (because that is what is demanded of them), while not censoring things aimed to adults. That's why the conclusion is a call for consistency and openness.
> I tried Azure lately – it felt like I booted into Windows 98. I couldn't stand it.

Care to elaborate?
That person has a long list of prior arrests for disturbances [that shows a pattern] The case was also dropped.

That said, though I don’t like Dick Cheney, when thd Katrina protester told him to eff off, he took it on the chin like a proper guy.
Excellent idea. Then it would actually read like language! But uh, how to choose sentence length and which grammars you want?
Slightly off topic but does that syntax highlighting theme in the video have a name? It's rather nice.
Directory trees and files have a security context (etc_t, user_home_t, and so on), and there are rules governing which application contexts are allowed to access or modify which security contexts. It doesn't cover every edge case, and it can be frustrating to deal with things like local docker development. But the added safety is absolutely worth it to me.
With the CoC in most projects, that's changing.
See also: the Python Mailing list, where threads are locked and people are being banned for CoC violations.
Because this is not site about programming, this is site about culture around programming.
It might (particularly subsections (d) and (e))[1], but only because the wording is so broad. Whether such an application would be legal is another matter. I suspect it would not absent specific intent (i.e. you're deliberately seeking out secrets to share) or a duty (security clearance).

I suppose intent could be there if you share information about a device that says, "Warning: national defense injured if you disclose". But absent a duty I don't think a court would impute intent, especially considering the Free Speech issues (somewhat peculiar to the U.S.).

Notice that nobody has seriously suggested (AFAIK) that the journalists who assisted Snowden should be charged under the Espionage Act, even though their acts would seem to fit multiple provisions. I think that's because unlike Snowden they had no duty, which means the bar for the requisite intent and knowledge (i.e. whether something is really going to harm national defense) is incredibly high.

But who knows? It's a good point and it poses a ton of questions. Still, personally if I found a spying device on something I wouldn't hesitate to disclose it if it seemed noteworthy. I wouldn't feel chilled by the Espionage Act. The same law in some other country? Probably would think twice.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/793
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Streaming in my mind is more like asking your friend to come over to watch a movie, than lending them the movie to watch themselves.

Exhibition rights are significantly different than private viewing rights.

At the end of the day, the results are roughly the same, one more person has seen the film. But there's a lot of subtlety in how that happens.
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At university one of the assignment was to create hybrid ic, I made white noise generator using zenner diode, it worked fine but when it was touched inappropriately it started playing music.
There are PCs that also have similar aesthetics, while costing 500-1000 euros less.

As for the sales, not when you compare Mac against all other vendors worldwide.

Naturally it is nicer to just compare Apple against single OEMs.
Because change is hard, and most people have set their default search to google and won't take the action needed to change it.

I changed to DDG a few weeks ago, and though it isn't as good as Google for geo-search and a few other things, but for the most part it suits my needs.

But as YC always says, you need to be 10x better in order to get people to switch, and privacy isn't a big enough pain point at the moment for the general population to switch.

It may happen in the future, remember, we made the switch from AltaVista to Google because Google search results were so much better. It is VERY difficult to get better at search than google, but that is what it's going to take, or a VERY painful reason for people to switch.
The contrarian in me says now is probably a great time to work at Google. They are basically printing money at this point. Disillusioned kool-aid drinkers are making their way for the exits, which means there are probably ample opportunities for personal growth. Their mission to "organize the world's information" is still relevant. And there's no way it can be as bad as recent media coverage makes it seem... just don't get caught up in any culture wars and you should be golden.
Perhaps the right word was "unlawful." Alas, IANAL.
Yes, filesystem calls are going to block -- but putting that into a limited threadpool shouldn't deadlock your system -- you can't do a blocking read on a file, waiting for it to be filled by another thread (unless/until you start playing with FUSE, I guess.
Basic support is free. You pay more for better response times and more users being able to open cases. Having said that it is expensive at business level. 10% of your spend if you want the sort of response times you need in production.
I'm sure that works. I wasn't suggesting that it wouldn't happen, only that you can fix it if you really want to put in the work. It's an uphill battle, but not unsolvable. Like I said, if you want the least effort per dating success, go to the market where the women are the most desperate and pick the top of the pack, it's just economics.
Curious why you don't think redacted.ch is the successor to what.cd? I certainly wouldn't describe it as a "ghost town" or "not alive and kicking".

Also wondering what you think of the idea that what.cd may have been too big for a private tracker to exist sustainably?
Many countries go with pre-paid handsets.
Really nice. One idea.
If I click `MM` I can't just select a month. Same with `YY`

If I enter a date and then a month and then realize I made a mistake, why make me start again? Why can't I select them individually?
I wrote a comment about it on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12656045

And then I spontaneously created a little website, which failed to go viral or save the world with potty humor. And I took it offline. I recently put it back online in hopes of repurposing it and removed all pages.

Just for you, I have restored the main landing page:

https://peeonatree.blogspot.com/2018/09/pee-on-tree.html

Our next wars could be fought over water. You can fight that while helping grow bigger, healthier trees.

It's a silly theory by someone who likely has delusions of grandeur.
> Scientists are pretty much universally convinced, the only ones who aren't are paid by big oil and the Koch brothers - that means they are lying for money.

Thats actually just wrong and shows how closed minded people are to how science works. Even if they were paid by big oil, shouldn't their evidence stand on it's own merits? Just like the claims made by scientists?

And no, I don't buy your false equivalence because the earth being round or gravity existing is empirically proved. Climate science has not and probably will not be ever proved on that level. If we could, then weather forecasts would also be perfect because we would be able to perfectly model exactly how the climate works but we don't, we strive every day to try and model the future better.

Just to give you a recent example: https://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/30277-c...

Can you show me how much hes being paid by big oil to do this? Or how all of the issues he found are just BS? Or maybe it's not exactly true that all researchers are all on the exact same page the media is typically on?
> It is a very American view that unrestricted freedom of speech is a requirement for a well-functioning democracy

It is similarly a very American view that unrestricted freedom of speech is a requirement for a well-functioning internet (well, not completely "unrestricted", but we're not here to argue nuance). Avoiding the obvious debate on which is better, the problem of choice exists in a global medium. Lest it become balkanized, you will have to choose an approach both as a company and as a set of laws. Wrt laws, restrictions are added much more often than they are removed so we should probably err on the side of fewer/limited-scope restrictions. I think most would prefer the greatest common factor of freedoms vs the lowest common denominator of restrictions.
Detailed steps: Firefox on windows.

1. Click to get to jeff's tweet from hacker news.

2. Click Gregs tweet.

3. Click back (works and we get to jeffs tweet)

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Off topic, but hot dang. That was some excellent story telling. Didn't feel the urge to skim a single word.
It would be interesting to correlate if they were new or 2nd hand, alongside the owner's income.
Definitely. The awfulness that I implied was meant to be mass surveillance. That people could organize and resist was great, needs to be way more of that, not less.

Still, that moment has passed so people aren’t positive about our connectedness in the same way cause it doesn’t seem to be causing any progressive/democratic changes.
There is no reason to believe that foreigners or women contribute negatively.

The thesis that parties who have negligible expertise in a given area given charge of people with substantial expertise in that area contribute minimal or negative value seems at least arguable.

Maybe we as a society value the idea of teaching people to lead people irrespective of what those people actually do instead of elevating skilled individuals in that area because it allows us to reward all the rich peoples kids that aren't smart enough to do.

This needn't mean you automatically are unintelligent or bad at what you do. You could personally be awesome and contribute greatly to the efforts you work with/lead.
The Arab Spring was about standing up to the oppressive regimes. This might be why they referred to as "the high point in positivity". But as you noted, this in turn created a massive power vacuum followed by seemingly endless chaos and instability in the region. However, most people are ignorant of it because it's seldom discussed in the media. Why it's not discussed in the media then becomes a political debate.
Isn’t the “we” whoever developed and hosts the service?

The idea that you can only limit a community if it’s dedicated to a specific topic is non-sensical.
Ah, so you're saying as long as we deem someone socially unfit that therefore it's OK for the government to censor them.
I've never owned a new machine. For me it's always used machines that use mechanical timers and relays and dumb electronics. If there's a circuit board, it's usually beige and the traces are likely to be hand-drawn.

These things are stupid easy to maintain. But I'm afraid of the coming shortage of replacement parts. (How long can Sears go on?)

Bonus: No mold problems with traditional top loaders. And I can throw a last-minute item into the mix if I forgot it.
I feel like you potentially have a point but the moderation the slides talk about are also posterior to the speech. For example, tell someone to kill themselves, get reported, get shadowbanned. Deciding what is "wrong" or "uncivil" or "out of bounds" is the value judgement, like deciding defamation is or threats are.
This isn't a site about programming, nor about programming culture. It is a site for discussing things that are intellectually engaging and it is open to anyone who wishes to join.
Downvoted without replies... Does anybody find statement that most users don’t spend too much time to ensure security of their machine offensive or incorrect? I know only myself and few other fairly geeky people doing that...
However, there is no restriction on accessing regular youtube if you are child or a parent.
Who decides where the line is crossed though? People believe that children deserve fewer rights as well. We all accept that. What about fewer rights for prisoners? What about fewer rights for non-citizens?

These people literally have fewer rights and we don't consider banning discussion about giving them more/taking more away.

>At what point do we no longer tolerate their opinions? For example, would you believe it's bad for someone to be censored on HN because they talked about how much they hated black coders?

False dichotomy. Nobody has suggested that free speech means that every community has to tolerate these opinions. It just means that people can't be persecuted by the government for expressing them. It's fine to ban racist comments on whatever site you run.
On a technical level her skills/knowledge are world-class and her most successful posts[1] have been tech-focused.

[1]:https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&date...
Articles that don't care to clearly mention what language they're about are annoying.
I've found anything marketed as "water saving" is pretty much inferior crap to be avoided. From dishwashers to laundry machines, to shower heads, to toilets. I probably end up using more water with the "water saving" models due to having to use them twice as much/long. Combined with the designed-to-fail nature wnevets points out in his/her comment, I would steer clear of any appliance built in the last 30 years or so, particularly anything marked as "energy saving" or "water saving", which are both synonymous for junk.
No, I don’t agree with her arrest, but i can see why they might.
But what if YOU were paid by Google to make that comment?
Who is this 'they' you're referring to, exactly?

And what opinions do you hold that would warrant this 'they' calling you fascist?
Yes, talking about it is. Restricting it at the government level isn't. Freedom of speech is a right protecting you from the government, not companies.
That's a good strategy. What if the answer is no to both questions?
We're all tired of hearing "eat less meat" etc. But honestly these things would make a difference. We need to switch everyone who drives a fossil fuel car to electric, or no car at all. So make the switch. Buy an EV. Nissan leaf is affordable. Work remote if you can. Switch your home heating from oil or gas to solar or a heat pump. It's not just about people making little changes anymore. Every household needs to get rid of their oil burning machines, be they the home heating or vehicle kind. We can't do anything directly about trucking companies etc but they will follow. Recharging costs pittance next to refuelling and range goes up every year. The EV you buy now will save you money. The next one you buy will run rings around your old gas guzzler.

The best, least depressing and least defeatist way to think about it is that the world is changing in the next 12 years and we're the early adopters. And if you don't offload that gas car now it'll be unsellable in 6 years
Then Android security is even more critical... But that's another tangent.
Wow, yeah then i don't see how it could work out
The documentation says it supports NodeJS, Ruby and Python for static site generation. Any other languages/tools supported?
Thanks, that sounds interesting.
What they definitely don't do well is corporate marketing and sales. I've been involved in two RFP's in which Google were invited, and in both instances Google lost out to other vendors. Two significant factors in their losing out were:

1) the naked arrogance and almost-disinterest of their people when in the room with the client's business people i.e. the people signing off on the vendor selection.

2) non-trivial examples of products that were terminated at short notice, in some cases with no clear migration path.

While 2 can be mitigated, it was 1 that stuck with me. I've been in the room with quite a few big vendors and Google were BY FAR the most arrogant. Quite appallingly so actually. SAP, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM - however crap some of their products and services may be (as are some of Google's), they at least have the common sales sense to make the prospective client feel listened to. In my experience, SAP were masters at this.
This is ridiculous. I have projects where I don't want feedback, and I have no intention of fixing bugs.

I put them on GitHub and turn off the issue tracker and PR notifications. If others want to fork, fine. If others want to discuss on PRs, fine. I don't care. I'm not fixing it. I avoid the toxicity by not partaking, not hurting my own career.
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The recent heavy push for greater ideological censorship will end up driving centrists to places that cator to extreme content. This is one aspect of the problem which has led to further increased polarization in modern American politics.

Facebook, YouTube, and Reddit are too censorious and do not fill the role of a modern free speech platform which must exist. The biggest problem is gaining traction while a large portion of early adopters are extremists banned from other platforms.

My only hope is that the censors will piss so many people off that real free speech platforms like https://d.tube/ can reach critical mass.