skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you say opionated like it's a bad thing. Opinionated is exactly why I use Fedora.
And Arch Linux.
Does not work with my rails 5.2 schema
Of course I'm not thinking we should make a voter's ballot public. Through public key cryptography a voter should be able to secretly retrieve and confirm their votes. And like with any other system there would be a small handful of people who will "claim" their ballot was counted incorrectly. But as long as the system has integrity only a small handful of people will do this. If large swaths of people start blaming the system of counting their vote incorrectly then there are real problems we should all know about.
Why millennials are ditching religion for witchcraft and astrology
Makes sense to me. Unpunished crimes could be seen as an existing liability, and something the parent company acquires when they buy the violating company.
Canonical will likely be acquired by Microsoft.
The energy is available on the free market. Or acquired for the express purpose of blockchain mining (I.e. new geothermal energy created specifically for this industry and impractical to transmit other places).

If you want to ban bitcoin mining because it “wastes” energy, there is an argument to be made for banning any industry not absolutely necessary for society because it destroys the planet. Why do we have sports stadiums? Rock concerts? Car racing?

The other argument is that what bitcoin achieves through mining is only possible with financial institutions, the court system, and so on. What power does that system use?

And finally, new innovations will likely end PoW mining for some major block chains like Ethereum, but it is extremely doubtful bitcoin will ever switch.

Also, your first link is a white paper on scaling unrelated to the statement that bitcoin is a “useless commodity”, so I’m not sure why you are using it to back up your assertion.
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I do understand your point, but I wouldn't spin it that way or bring it up with them, just start committing using a "new" identity, assuming they have no knowledge of your "main" identity.

Easier said then done.
This is really nice!

To those trying it out: if the diagram seems inaccurate, try dragging tables around.

I uploaded a very simple schema, but seemingly unrelated tables looked connected. Turns out it's 100% accurate, but relationships can run behind other tables and make it look like things are connected that aren't. Detangling is easy with a few drags/drops and you get a really nice diagram out of it.
Regarding "rerunning the election". As long as the process has integrity there will be a statistically insignificant number of people blaming the system for incorrectly tallying their votes. We have that today even though we can't see the results.
Holding myself to an objective standard is far more motivational for me than measuring myself against others.
> I would attribute the weird FPGA dev attitudes to Stockholm syndrome. I always get the most mind boggling replies in defense of the evil vendors when I criticize FPGA’s embarrassingly small amount of freedom.

I'm not sure you understand FPGA development. Until FPGA manufacturers do something like software vendors where they bundle actual malware with the closed-source hardware they sell, it doesn't really bother me.

Personally, I kind of prefer having detailed documentation of a black box rather than trying to read source code. The latter is all too common in software development.
well then ignore fisa courts because the US just does whatever the hell it wants with non-US citizens. that makes the point even more prescient
> If the startup didn't want to be part of the IBM way of doing things they shouldn't have agreed to be acquired by IBM.

In this situation, I don't think it makes sense to think of an organization as a single, monolithic entity. In this context, the only sane way to think about Red Hat is as over 12,000 employees, plus I-don't-know-how-many shareholders.

Only a very small number of those "agreed to be acquired by IBM". Probably less than 0.1% of them. They are probably also going to be the ones who are going to be the least affected by how IBM operates internally. They've now got FU money, so, as soon as whatever retention agreements they may or may not have signed expire, they'll be prancing out the door.

Everyone else probably knows very little about it - the linked press release indicates that this is probably a surprise for about 12,000 Red Hat employees, most of whom won't be getting any additional details until tomorrow's all hands meeting.
It’s probably worth dabbling in. I have only used them to understand how to do threaded programming better and how core CS concepts work in practice as it helps to have different perspectives on how to tackle a task.

For material career help it depends. Having some experience with it will give you more flexibility, though it might be hard to get resume worthy experience with it.
But only if you ate it.
Shameless plug here, but this is exactly why we built Carrot ( OSS / SaaS https://carrot.io/ )

We've been remote founders and employees in numerous distributed startups, and have always found the same issue, the noisy nature of chat/Slack and lossy nature of email necessitates a 3rd place to keep the important decisions, announcements and history of the company.

Lots of companies use wikis and forum software for this, and those can work, but we're betting that a dedicated solution can work better.
UTF-8 is just an encoding of Unicode. The Unicode terminology is "code point". Terminology may have been more varied 30 years ago, but "code point" won long ago, and using other words to mean the same thing is just confusing.
RH has been full of corporate drones for a while. You'll fit right in after the acquisition.
actually, the normal advice for startups these days is to not file patents. They're expensive and pretty much useless. They used to be worthwhile because investors liked them, but investors aren't so hot on them any more (because expensive and usually indefensible).
It kind of felt like to me that the government had a backdoor agreement in place for them to purchase WM well before they declined to offer WM a bailout and declared them insolvent. It was a matter of hours between those two events and there is no way any due diligence was done and negotiations couldn't happen that quick.

I had bet money on the bailout so I was bitter for a while. First real market lesson for me.
FWIW, my understanding is that black holes are the physics equivalent of a cryptographic mixing function as used in eg chacha20; reversible in the strict sense, but missing any single bit of output completely 'random'ises the recovered input.

Assuming Hawking radiation exists (which seems very likely based on what we know about relativistic and quantum physics), it must carry quantum information in the form of position/momentum, photon polarization, etc, and it's not clear where else that information could possibly come from. (Orthogonal-basis measurements can sort of generate classical information out of nothing, but not in a sense that's useful here.)
https://github.com/OpenPOWERFoundation
and
https://github.com/open-power

This is not the entire source, but if you join the foundation you get the chip blueprints, etc.

But the entire BIOS is open. that's huge.
Red Hat employees traditionally use Macs and Windows PCs.
https://github.com/OpenPOWERFoundation
and https://github.com/open-power

It's a lot more open than Intel's. You can get the hardware chip blueprints if you join the foundation.

But the firmware is all Apache 2 licensed.
Edit: d'oh - I misread, the addendum is doing exactly this...

I don't understand the need for the macro-fu to generate the case values. The use of switch_step++ in each previous case seems to drive that, but couldn't the same be accomplished by setting switch_step to a constant?

static int switch_step = 0;
switch(switch_step) { // Falls through between cases
default:

#if METHOD_0_AVAILABLE
switch_step = 0;
case 0:
if (method_0_works(...))
break;
#endif METHOD_0_AVAILABLE

#if METHOD_1_AVAILABLE
switch_step = 1;
case 1:
...
}
> But yeah, 40F-60F's is completely okay for a shorter scooter rides I guess

It’s not for a majority of people
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If You Ignore the News, America Actually Seems Pretty Nice
That's why we have Debian!
That dishonesty is exactly what makes it fraudulent.

They're asking you to sign some legal documentation. If you forge a signature rather than getting it signed by your employer, that's fraud. If you create a false identity in order to hide the fact that you have an employer, that's also fraud.

You have exactly two legal (and, just as importantly, honest) options in this situation: Get permission from your employer before contributing, or don't contribute. If you like the project and don't want to create trouble for its maintainers, you will pick one of those two options.
> The innovation is that assets can be tracked and traded without any third party saying it’s OK.

That is exactly the opposite of what most software vendors and similar want. They want more control over the assets they release, not less.

If the asset is financial in nature, this is basically illegal. KYC and AML laws still apply, even to crypto, as do other related securities law.

If the asset is physical, you have to solve the issue of making the blockchain match reality. I know you said there's a ton of work being done in that space, but I have yet to see a lot of solutions.

> Essentially we now have programmable money with no middlemen.

Given the rate of bugs in "smart" contracts, that is not an appealing pitch.

I also find that the people angriest at the middlemen often know the least about why the middlemen exist. Hint: they often provide a service to match their fees.

> What comes from this innovation is anyone’s guess, but if you are an entrepreneur, this is a very intriguing technology in which to start new ventures.

It's also a fantastic way to lose your shirt.

> It may remain niche, or it may fundamentally alter the financial industry (currencies, securities, payments...) and perhaps many others.

You basically said "anything could happen". If your prediction is basically "anything", why bother prognosticating?
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Except corporate users usually want support.

It does make me wonder though if it would ever be possible for a bunch of business savy open source developers could ever get around to creating an open source co-op. Something like the commercial version of the FSF. Build open source products with solid support contracts, and build/contribute to open source that way.

The organization would be owned by the very people building and contributing the code.

RedHat is the only company that I can see that really did everything in the open.

I'm not sure which one I feel worse about, Oracle buying Sun, or IBM buying RedHat? I feel that Oracle did some major missteps in their acquisition (for this I look squarely at OpenOffice, and their misshandling of it, although, the OOo community hated the Oracle acquisition from day one, which I guess might have made it a little like poison berries - no one would want to go near it).

Oracle completely ruined MySQL during the acquisition too.
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Microsoft likely. I think Google is too smart to actually buy Canonical, considering that it is an antiquated distro overall.
The article doesn’t offer any suggestions, of course. It just lists categories of those individuals bringing in $1 million or more per year.

But the list did strike me as notable, in that the numbers are so small. Less than 10,000 people total in the whole US bring in at least a million in revenue. And their profits are likely to be a fraction of that (though informational trades may have a much larger margin).

That makes me think these are outliers. Not sure one can learn much from such a small sample size, as their successes are more likely to be due to highly specific individual circumstances, rather than any coherent general perspective.

I’d be happy to be shown otherwise though.
Yup. If you have an engineer who's paid $100 000 a year with three weeks vacation, that's 407.05 a day. It starts to make sense that you'd buy $4000 IP for an Ethernet core, unless by some ungodly powers they can write that in less than 10 days.
Big Blue Dons a $34B Red Hat
I left IBM a few months ago, but I led a bunch of developer advocacy efforts for a couple years.

There are several internal programs at IBM that enable employees to make contributions to open source with very little bureaucracy. Go to the intranet site w3.developer.ibm.com for details.
I don't know if there is a known trick. I simply waited it out and I slowly got better. There is a specific EBV test that tests for recent infection, as opposed to the other test that tests for any infection ever.
So thread unsafe?
> The moral of the story is: if you’re against witch-hunts, and you promise to found your own little utopian community where witch-hunts will never happen, your new society will end up consisting of approximately three principled civil libertarians and seven zillion witches. It will be a terrible place to live even if witch-hunts are genuinely wrong.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/01/neutral-vs-conservative...
Both the Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual purchases were during the Bush administration.
Massive eye roll at the linked tweet. Acting like a company severing their service is an attack on their freedom of speech is completely crying wolf. I'm sure there are many domain registrars who will take their money. This is not a case where any speech is being chilled. Gab is making money off a platform where people are saying horrible things. Godaddy is distancing themselves because they don't want to be associated with those things. That's the cost of doing horrible business.
Yep, that makes sense, thanks.
Agreed. I was curious what this was above, then as I started reading it, I was saying to myself "wait, I thought this was actually well-known that these TBTF banks were being curtailed out of punishment for their behavior." I don't see how this was secret, nor do I think it was even a problem since they appear to have been doing extremely well since then even with their growth "halted".
It's definitely still going in Toronto. I'm seeing condos that are selling for 50-100k more then they did a year ago, and anything in the downtown core or near a subway line seems to gain value like clockwork.
There always are outliers but we were taking about replacing cars here, you have to have more people like that to replace cars
Here is another one for you. [3]

3. https://www.academia.edu/37178295/The_Cost_and_Sustainabilit...
On the interwebs? No idea. Mine would be:

GPFS is excellent as a clustered filesystem backing a number of servers that need high-throughput, low latency, coherent storage. It's block-oriented.

Ceph is a SAN replacement: can saturate 100 GBps switches with massive parallel throughput. Object based, can also serve up block and (recently, with limits) cooked filesystem.

Gluster is a distributed filesystem - easy to set up and configure, some performance limitations, file rather than object or block oriented.
That's not clever, that's language abuse and horrific -- You could do this in so many other ways there is absolutely no point in abusing #includes mid-source-code (without mentioning the code smell around statics.)

Now, as a working curiosity, this is pretty damn cool.
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Selling out is not necessarily the “duty” of the board of directors. It could definitely be in the interest of shareholders to stay independent.
> That's the cost of doing horrible business.

But doesn't Twitter have many people saying horrible things? If gab is letting people talk about murdering people and not taking action, I'm fine with it - but is that the case?
ProPublica did an incredible investigation into this:

https://features.propublica.org/ibm/ibm-age-discrimination-a...

https://www.propublica.org/article/investigating-ibm-digital...

The second link, which details how the reporting for the story happened, explains how older workers were often given 90 days to move thousands of miles to "an office" or else lose their jobs.

--
The results are stunning and should shock and scare all of us, whether we're in our 20s, 30s, or beyond. Because we all age -- this is a fact. And if the IBMs of the world can get off scott free, other companies may do this too.
I'm not familiar with the specifics of how the negotiations actually went down, but I can't imagine negotiations work like this when regulators are telling you "You must buy Company X" and you weren't interested in acquiring Company X to begin with.

Purchase prices only reflect a acquirer's view of the value of Company X under market conditions, which seems to have clearly not have been the case when the acquisition occurred.
Who do people dislike more : Oracle or IBM?
> Wells Fargo’s business tactic of forcing their sales staff to commit fraud and identity theft

That’s just a dishonest characterization. Wells Fargo didn’t “force” their staff to do any such thing. Staff gamed an incentive structure and WF didn’t catch it. “Lapse” is the most accurate characterization.
> that Obama had pushed them to buy

This is just anti-Democrat bias. How could Obama have forced this sale when the election hadn’t even taken place?

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/business/16cnd-bear.html
Gab loses web host
PayPal and GoDaddy terminating business with them? I must be living under a rock because I don't think I've heard of gab.com before these tweets started appearing on HN.

What exactly did they do to piss everyone off?
Yup and so does facebook, youtube, reddit and so on.
Well there are the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments and the voting rights act of 1965 that do establish the right to vote. But, yes those have all been significantly weakened by the judiciary, including to allow permanent disenfranchisement of convicted felons, which seems explicitly against the text of the fifteenth amendment.
An interesting trick, but it seems like there would be a simpler way, like having set_the_mtime be a function pointer. Initially it would point to an implementation that figures out which method works and sets the function pointer to point to a particular implementation.
> What is an actual phenomenon that is well modeled by a poisson process?

Geiger counter clicks.

Arrivals between, say, 2-3 PM at a busy Web site.

Equipment failures for equipment with a constant hazard curve -- if can find such equipment.

Time between road kills on a highway.
Sales people typically do exactly what they're paid to do - no more, no less. You can shout at them 'til you're blue in the face about overpromising, but, if you've got their pay structure set up such that they can earn more commission by making wild promises, then they're going to keep on making wild promises.
In the UK beam-er is how we pronounce our nickname for BMW cars.
10,000 people is a small number on the context of the entire US labour force but it is very far from being a small sample size.
Basically they created a platform for freedom of speech. The problem is that every crack pot on the internet basically flocked to the site to say very mean thing about other people. I think we all agree that hate speech is not good but outright silencing people is not the correct solution. If you want to eliminate hate speech then you need to confront the people doing the hate speech and argue with them about why they're wrong.

Many other social media sites also suffer from massive amounts of hate speech as well.
OK, that isn't encoded into the voting system though.
"We expect OpenShift to become the dominant brand for Kubernetes."

That seems like a strong statement that I didn't see any backing for in the blog post. Care to expand? I haven't seen much settling in the k8s space. In fact it looks like things are still heating up with many companies pivoting in that direction.
That sounds a lot like some kind of episodic serial.
I think VLA becomes a compiler feature. We can disable VLA using a GCC option flag: -Werror=vla.
So it should be quite easy to detect if VLA is used in the source.
Gab was specifically founded because Reddit didn’t let them say the things they like saying.
I find it funny how the partisans blame the bailouts on one party or the other but in reality it was one of the few perfectly bipartisan efforts during the last decades.
I can't find the reference, but Red Hat recently hugged CentOS after sort of passively ignoring it for a while. Now, as I understand it, Red Hat has committed to actively supporting CentOS.

They're different products for different customers. Folks who want to work cheap and hack their own stuff together will use CentOS and would never have bought a RHEL license anyway.

Meanwhile, folks who need a "we've got support" answer for every question will use RHEL and wouldn't be tempted by CentOS anyway; the cost savings is not worth the risk.
Gab was founded by people who think that “freedom of speech” means they’re allowed to say what they want without consequence. They view being ushered out of the theatre for talking during a movie as censorship.
The reason this permission exists is that contributions will not be owned by your employer, but will be part of the project. It depends on your employer if they allow you to work on personal software that they do not claim ownership for or not. I think you are right to not use a pseudonym. I once did, and regret having done so.
Is "Cognitive Solutions" mainly their AI efforts? [1]
If that's the case, and given the terrible feedback they've received from many of their Watson customers (and anecdotes from people working on it)... I am tempted to say that the future is bleak for IBM, and that people will ultimately discover that they were paying a fortune for something that does not match what's advertised (they've put millions into advertising Watson with nonsensical ads)...

...but then again, many enterprise solutions that are incredibly over-engineered, slow and costly are still alive and kicking, so who knows.

[1] https://www.ibm.com/watson/advantage-reports/getting-started...
Yup but it still persists. The users just spread out into other subs and do it there as well.
I think these articles are related. I hadn’t heard of gab until now either, but after the synagogue shooting these articles brought attention to the fact that gab was one of the social media sites that the shooter frequented.

https://www.npr.org/2018/10/28/661532688/a-look-at-gab-the-f...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/28/us/gab-robert-bowers-pitt...
gab.com was founded as a safe space for the alt-right, going so far as to choose a frog as their mascot (a reference to "Pepe"). gab.com just got a heavy dose of bad publicity from the fact that the terrorist who murdered 11 people at a synagogue in Pittsburgh spent a great deal of time on gab.
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Twitter started banning alt-righters. Alt-righters made a Twitter clone and called it "Gab".

This weekend a dude shot up a synagogue in Pittsburgh. Guess what social network he'd been hanging out on making lots of posts about killing Jews?
I think they mean it’s removed for most of the modules in the kernel and therefore the ones that may be lurking about still aren’t being compiled on most configurations.

According to the article, “there may be a couple more VLAs hiding in hard-to-find randconfigs.”