skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has taken 20 years to get IPv6 adoption to where it is now. This takes amazing dedication and is a much more fundamental change. Why can't SCTP adoption be a similar long term project? A home router probably has a life span of less than a decade. So it would be realistic to get a majority adoption of SCTP within approximately 15 years if there were a bit of a push in that direction. QUIC has been in the making for 6 years now? SCTP was standardized in 2000. So we could be 6 years into this 15 year project by now instead. And that is not comsidering the time it will take to finish QUIC, build compatible implementations and deploy them.
And that also only helps if your DNS provider and the client's DNS servers also pass along that information correctly.
Doesn't every world leader portray their struggle as a fight between their supporters and their enemies? It almost goes without saying that a politician whose supporters just so happened to be the masses and whose opponents just so happened to be the elites would say that there was a struggle between the masses and the elites...
Why do people keep bringing this up. Here is how you encapsulate any network protocol in UDP.

void encaps_udp(void *out_buf, void *old_pkt, size_t old_pkt_sz) {

struct udphdr udp;
udp.dport = UDP_DEST_PORT;
udp.sport = UDP_SRC_PORT;
memcpy(out_buf, &udp, sizeof(udp));
memcpy(out_buf + sizeof(udp), old_pkt, old_pkt_sz);

}

(Accounting for memory overflow in the real world of course).

Of course, this encapsulation for SCTP is even standardized in case it wasn't obvious that this is how you encapsulate protocols.
Evidently you dont know how to do this well
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Around ww2 analog electric computers were pretty common however electricity suffers from something called rift, basically they get inaccurate over time.

We developed digital computers as they fix the problem with rift.

Photonics don’t suffer for rift so at some point we should revisit analog computing.
Many of the tier 1 GCP support reps work for external vendors nowadays, which is probably part of the problem.

During my time on the GCE team (note I don't work at Google now) I knew multiple full-time Google employee support reps, including some still at the company. They have the good attitude and deep knowledge you'd hope for.

The problem is simply about how Google scales their GCP support org. To be completely clear, AWS support is by and large not great either.

If you're a big or strategically important customer, of course, you can get a good response from either company.
Believe Netscape added that, while Mosaic added <img …>.
I have long considered buying high end tvs just to use as slide show viewers in my house. I could probably justify it at this point with the number of available high quality images and the quality of screens. But I would really like a 250 ppi+ screen that is 40+ inches to pull the trigger.
Correct. However written properly you get 90% of the way there.

Disaster recovery by switching to another provider is simple when minimal centos/rhel images are used.
Timezone coverage, vacations, training, sick days, etc.
Something like that is possible. A quantum gate is a linear operation, therefore it can be represented as a matrix (it happens to be a unitary matrix).

A gate acting on N qubits would be a square matrix of 2^N rows.
Downloaded an image, it was only 3.6MB.

Is this what I should expect? Seems rather small...
I am old enough to remember it. I guess I would have been 13. It was a very big deal at the time. Not like 911, but like the Oklahoma city bombing. I think the comparison at the time was really to like Manson. Same kind of crazy person, but able to convince more people. There was a huge story about it in time magazine I remember reading. My general sense is nowadays while it's possible, it's harder to isolate people like that (i.e. cell phones, email), but there are still crazy things like the NXIVM thing. Of course its hard to tell if what's change is not world, because I'm 53 now and not 13. So my sense is now that it's probably easier for someone to get word out that they want out and are afraid. Really the part of article that was interesting to me was the part about the congressman, and the things he did before. That's the kind of thing I can't imagine happening now. I had completely forgotten that there was a congressman that had died.
Google Maps has never been subjected to that policy, unlike GCP services. These org chart divisions are real but only clear to Googlers, Xooglers (I'm in this category), and people who pay extremely close attention.

The fact that they're all Google makes reputation damage bleed across meaningfully different parts of what's in truth now a conglomerate under the umbrella name Google.
Would love to hear more about this
I'm really happy to see someone else emphasize the difference between the effect AGPL has had, and what it actually says.

If you haven't already, take a look at MongoDB's Server Side Public License. In particular, here's their submission statement to OSI:

http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.o...

I've written about the license, and what I think it means politically, here:

https://writing.kemitchell.com/2018/11/04/Copyleft-Bust-Up.h...
For the record both the Met & the Art Institute have enough great pieces to last your whole life if you are into contemplation.

For that matter I spent an hour with the Art Institutes paper weight collection one time and felt I learned something.
No, my $10 is divided across all plays. So big name artists with lots of streams get my money. Particularly badly in the months when I only listen to a few songs because I listen to podcasts.
https://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-4570.71.2/bsd/ke...

https://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-4570.71.2/bsd/ne...

https://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-4570.71.2/bsd/ne...

https://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-4570.71.2/bsd/ne...

You will find RCS tags for OpenBSD/NetBSD/FreeBSD littered throughout the kernel source tree, some files even retaining original SCCS ids from 1980's CSRG days.

$ grep -R "\$OpenBSD:" | wc -l
24
$ grep -R "\$NetBSD:" | wc -l
138
$ grep -R "\$FreeBSD:" | wc -l
162
$ grep -R "\$KAME:" | wc -l
73
$ grep -R "WIDE Project" | wc -l
87
$ grep -R "The Regents" | wc -l
427
$ grep -R "Berkeley" | wc -l
919

This isn't "userland (POSIX) API layer + the odd device compatibility layer", far from it.

Don't presume to know who you're talking smack to, when it's clear you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
Their approach to things like GCP is very different than their approach to those other areas of Google. But they don't separate their branding or unify their deprecation attitudes enough to avoid cross-org-chart reputation damage like this.
Why is it a contradiction if startup culture has always been far-right (through the lens of Europe and South America et al)? It's a notch away from enforcing entrenched privilege with an army, unrest providing any such nudge. Didn't the homeless situation in SF ever tip these people off?

Besides, fascism grows by the day everywhere around the world, in rich and intelectualized societies no less (or moreso.) The 60's have called and want their ideals back. The saddest part? People who lived through that are getting beyond old any day now. And when their first-hand reminiscence has gone? It'll fall upon the 80's children and oh! how soon we forget. There are those who'll stand by Stallman, Wozniak and those who'll stand by Jobs, Gates, Bezos or Graham but I'm just being mean-spirited now. Well really, the first three off the latter group look starkly more like your run-of-the-mill fascist if creatively visualized not in the private but in the public sphere, being granted whimsical wishes by an unprincipled society.

It all boils down to MIT vs. GPL for us, doesn't it? Hacker, know thyself.
The maps price gouge is yet another reason I will not use google services for anything but ancillary services.
Have you looked at OpenTorque actuator?

https://hackaday.io/project/159404-opentorque-actuator

Not sure how appropriate the form factor is for you, but maybe you can at least find some useful ideas for your own gearbox design.
I normally don't complain about downvotes, because honestly who cares. But I am curious why I do get consistently downvoted for simply stating that the GDPR is not relevant for a significant portion of the internet. EU users might not like it. But it's true. Most websites do not need a banner. They can absolutely flaunt compliance without worries.
There’s more tax flexibility as a 1099 freelancer and if you have previous work expenses for the year it can offset any income. For example, if you bought a $2k laptop to work with $2k of 1099 income can be offset by the purchase so you pay no state, federal, or payroll taxes. If you are w2 then you can only deduct the amount that exceeds 2% of annual gross income.

Typically w2 is better for the employee. But if you are planning to do a lot of work then getting a 1099 under your LLC or S or C Corp can work out better for a sole owner.
I'm having a hard time reconciling the Anandtech definition of Tau:

> Tau is a timing variable. It dictates how long a processor should stay in PL2 mode before hitting a PL1 mode.

with the Intel one:

> Turbo Time Parameter (Tau): An averaging constant used for PL1 exponentional weighted moving average (EWMA) power calculation.

I'm assuming that this power calculation is calculated this way, in a similar way to how Unix load averages are. But the thing is that they are an exponentially weighted moving average. I understand why: moving averages need the storage of all the values over that time period and the EWMA only needs the last value of the moving average.

It's not exactly clear how tau relates to the constant used for the exponentially weighted moving average. Assuming I want to minimize the difference between the EWMA and the moving average over a time interval, there appear to be many valid ways to do so -- and this appears to depend on the statistical properties of the variable being averaged. But the Anandtech article shows it as if it's a constant time, which is subtly different.

Is this defined in more detail anywhere?
Become self-employed - focus or starve
is there a way to debug promises in any of these debuggers? i.e. get a promise to resolve when stopped at a breakpoint?
I think a lot of people give a fuck here; I do, at least. Thanks for outlining it, these things are fascinating (to me anyway, who has never worked in IT/ops).
You asked how it was destroying the world, and then said you didn't ask that. I am actually trying to understand you, but cannot see what you mean when these statements can't both be true
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Here's a piece of mine outlining how incomplete the Open Source Definition remains for discussing how far open source copyleft can go:

https://writing.kemitchell.com/2018/11/05/OSD-Copyleft-Regul...

Summary:

> [The fact that OSD doesn't set out complete rules for copyleft] is altogether understandable, considering the way it was written, and why. The Definition wasn’t meant to answer current questions about the limits of open source copyleft design. Those questions hadn’t even been practically posed yet. But we’re asking them now. In order to establish meaningful regulation for open source copyleft, we’ll have to look beyond the Definition. That will be far easier to do without pretending that we’re still debating the Definition.
> I do not have to block SAP too...

Just FYI, nothing of value will be lost if you do.
For me personally there are a number of areas that affect my ability to do deep work:

- General internet/news consumption patterns

- Availability of social/news apps on my phone + computer

- Sleeping at least 8.5 hours a night

- Exercising at least every few days

- Meditating for a few minutes in the morning

- Level of burnout eg. have I been overworked or working on unrewarding things for long periods of time

If I do all of these consistently my ability to do deep work increases notably. If I slack in any area it reduces my capacity by some degree. Sleep and burnout are probably the largest contributing factors here. I've found that I just can't cheat on sleep long term without negative consequences, and that if I'm burnt out the only fix is to basically stop working/pushing myself for at least a week until I feel recovered.

I find also that having intention to my day rather than starting out in a reactive mode is key to getting deep work done. If I spend most of my day reacting to things I have trouble doing deep work later in the day, but if I start out with deep work it comes naturally throughout the day.
I think this comes down to the two outages being not at all similar. An s3 outage affects practically every Amazon customer. This affects a relatively small number of go customers.

And I'm confused about what was good about that response. That article is about how the s3 outage caused so many issues that Amazon couldn't update their status dashboard to inform users at all.
It's not about the contract. AWS doesn't even have a deprecation policy in the contract - seriously, GCP provides more legally binding guarantees than AWS. It's about trust.

People look at AWS's track record, and trust that. People look at Google's track record, overlook what to an inside-the-company Googler perspective are dramatically significant organizational boundaries or product lifecycle definitions that are very poorly communicated outside the company, mentally apply reputational damage from one part of Google (or from a preview-stage GCP product) to a different part of the company (or to a generally available GCP product), and don't trust that.

Google has always been worse at externally facing PR than at the internal reality, even when I worked there (2011-2015). Major company weakness.

But the internal reality inside GCP, perceptions aside, is pretty good even now.
Do not use GCP without paying for support.
We have had resource allocation errors for weeks, as have a lot of other people.
Check out the posts in their forum where folk on basic support get zero love.
https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source...
What’s some good reading for a basic and well-explained entry into GL and shaders. I feel like so many tuts gloss over really important stuff. I’ve never written a shader.

As an aside, I’m sorry someone stole this from you and used it unattributed.
There is almost no real competition among the FAANG companies. Google and Amazon have token hardware efforts. Only Facebook has more than a token social media effort. Apple has been careful to circumscribe its retail presence to its own hardware.

The network effects Facebook and Google enjoy are every bit as powerful as carrier barriers to entry. I have way more options for Internet access (two wired, four different cellular providers), than I do connecting with my family over social media. (My family lives all over the world, and I don’t even have phone numbers or email addresses for most of them). I have no choice not to have Google scan my emails, because my family all had gmail addresses. Etc.
I don't understand why someone would choose to deploy anything mission critical without having an support contract with the ISP, the manufacturer of the the software etc.
The BBC is wrong: university censorship is definitely not a myth
Agreed, you could have been talking about Brisbane/SE Qld as well. Just swap farming for mining.

Real estate prices relative to wages have been in the extremely unaffordable range for a decade and construction continues to be propped up to protect years of misguided investment in what is a ponzi scheme in all but name.
The funny part is that mechanically is how it used to be done. A significant change from the shift towards chemicals was the enabling of processes like no-till and cover crops that help with soil erosion and other ecological factors.
So the server now sends a TCP ACK to SYN that is never followed up on? That is, the actual server software will wake up from a listen(), go through the motions of setting up a session for nothing for 50% of the time with this hack? Nice waste of other people's resources right there!
Populist, nationalist thinking, by definition seems pretty decent on its face. But most often it's defined by who is not part of the "many" or "common" that make up the populist base. And those that fall outside are villainized and dehumanized, and held up as scapegoats for all of society's ills. Take right now, where illegal imigrants, the media, and liberals as a whole are all painted with the "evil" brush by the populist sentiments. Not to say they're perfect or there aren't issues to be solved, but raising it above the level of disagreement to that of "they're evil and they want to destroy you" is damaging to the fabric of society.
Limiting the exercise of power is the goal. The police by design are supposed to meet a high standard of evidence for the use of their power to be justified. The reason for this should be obvious: unrestrained power leads to very bad effects.

Before any technology or policy is used, it first needs to be considered as a weapon, because the historical record shows that this is how powerful tools end up being used regardless of how they were intended to be used. Denying law enforcement any evidence that doesn't meet specific standards isn't the way it "should be", it's the least worst way we know of having functional law enforcement without letting it devolve into various types of oppressive police states.

> what's the basis?

"Innocent until proven guilty."
This is an incredibly strong statement that virtually nobody in the field agrees with.

1. Continuous variable (in the context of quantum computing) is frequently different from "analog". See bosonic codes for instance.

2. We stopped using classical analog computers because they suffer from noise (which is a fundamental problem, not just a technical issue). Noise is even worse in the case of quantum computing (the claim you make in a sibling comment that some analog systems do not have that problem is wrong/unsupported by any evidence).

3. The main point of disconnect is that noise is a fundamental issue stemming from the laws of physics and computational complexity. There is a large body of evidence that shows that the existence of a scalable analog computer (classical or quantum) will break many structures in computational complexity. A hunch is not enough of an argument to counter those. Presenting a hunch like that is extremely misleading to the people who are trying to get into the field.

4. A hunch is certainly a good thing to research, but do not present it as something of equivalent value to established facts or empirically supported conjectures.
Communism and capitalism will hopefully be made irrelevant by advanced robotics. A post-scarcity economics does not care much about structure of ownership of the means of production.
This is exactly our experience. Using the default settings, RocksDB massively outperform LMDB on single-key write workload, because it writes asynchronously.
Most likely it’s not NFC but a lower-frequency RFID (which as a side-effect gives it better range). You could use something like Proxmark3 (it’s an SDR and can speak many RFID standards in addition to NFC).
More on SAP's push toward monopoly power:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18426808
This has always bothered me especially given their plans to send a rover to the moon. Launching from Tokelau, Niue or the Cook Islands would make more longterm sense.
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Hey all, Mike here! I'll be more than happy to answer any questions about the project, the AGC we're restoring, or anything else!
Say I were a CTO (I’m nowhere near it), why would I choose GCP over AWS or Azure? Even if after doing a technical assessment and I thought that GCP was technically slightly better, if something happened, the first question I would be asked is “why did you choose GCP over AWS?”

No one would ever ask why you chose AWS. The old “no one ever got fired for buying IBM”.

Even if you chose Azure because you’re a Microsoft shop, no one would question your choice of MS. Besides, MS is known for thier enterprise support.

From a developer/architect standpoint, I’ve been focused the last year on learning everything I could about AWS and chose a company that fully embraced it. AWS experience is much more marketable than GCP. It’s more popular than Azure too, but there are plenty of MS shops around that are using Azure.
I think it's more an issue that many of are laws are predicated on the fact that there cannot be 100% enforcement. Look at speeding laws. If those were enforced through complete surveillance practically everyone who drives would be receiving multiple tickets whenever they drove. This would be an undue burden on everyone that the laws didn't intend for.
A lot of the permaculture/edible forest movements are dependent on cheap labor, usually of students coming to learn the techniques or volunteers into a more sustainable lifestyle.

I live close to both a rural hackerspace and a permaculture community. I am currently working on a suspended wirebot to help them automate the most tedious tasks. Pest removal, weeding, monitoring seem to be the low hanging fruits there.
Not every world leader raises it to the level of "they're not just my enemies, they're evil and inhuman"
You can probably get the model to a place where the actual orientation / position of each component is completely resolved into the final world coordinate sit will have, then do the slicing after that but before any intersections / unions.
This is an awesome resource, exactly what I needed.

Thanks for posting it
Simple, the cost of an outage is less than the cost of a support contract. Very few things are really mission critical as in they can never go down. Rather they simply have a cost to going down and you can choose to pay that one way or another.
Powdered salt ? You can powderize almost any granular material using a coffee seed grinder. After creating powder you will have to store the powder in an extremely dry environment, such as with freshly baked silica gel packets inside tightly closed bottles.
> For three whole days, it was questionable whether or not a user would be able to launch a node pool (according to the official blog statement)

What blog statement are you referring to? I don't see any such statement. Can you provide a link?

The OP incident status issue says "We are investigating an issue with Google Kubernetes Engine node pool creation through Cloud Console UI". It also says "Affected customers can use gcloud command in order to create new Node Pools."

So it sounds like a web interface problem, not a severely limiting, backend systems problem with global scope.

Also, the report says "The issue with Google Kubernetes Engine Node Pool creation through the Cloud Console UI had been resolved as of Friday, 2018-11-09 14:30 US/Pacific". So the whole issue lasted about 10 hours, not three whole days.

> Some users here are reporting that other GCP services not mentioned by Google's blog are experiencing problems

I don't see much of that.
Ask HN: Books to cover MBA topics?
What are some good books for those who want to familiarize themselves with the topics covered by MBA programs without doing MBA?
Hi! Do you have any idea if Marc or Carl for that matter is going to be posting any video of this work?
If it isn't it doesn't matter. If it is, it has the same effect as if it isn't.
I was wondering if this article would make it to HN.

First off, this has to be some sort of stir the pot article. They spent ~50k... Think about that.

Beyond that I live in Houston. We have had cameras at intersections forever now. I am not sure they would need to conceal them when they already have them in plain sight in many cities.
Yeah, definitely. We took a ton of pictures and video. I'm not sure when they will be posted, since I'm sure there's a lot of editing to do.