skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Biggest problem with multiplexing over TCP is mixing latency sensitive flows (like getting HTML to render) with high throughput flows (like downloading a YouTube video).

You can try and diddle with chunk size and message prioritization in your application to reduce HOL blocking of low latency messages behind chunks of high throughput data, but your OS will buffer everything in one big queue anyway (because TCP is a single stream and flow control applies to that entire stream as a whole).

How do you fix that? Well you can reduce socket buffer sizes on your TCP connection, and that will fix latency... but small buffer sizes mean your total throughput is limited by round trip time (because of the way the TCP receive windows and positive acknowledgment work). If you're working over a LAN, things will be fine, but over the Internet you're hosed.

Of course, the solution really is to have separate long-lived TCP connections for different kinds of flows, so you can set buffer sizes appropriately... but that's impossible for your browser (which is responsible for opening connections). It has no way to know whether a GET request triggered by an <img> tag is going to yield a 100 byte response or a 100MB response.
Hitlers followers didn't want to be captured by the Russians.
Farms used a system of cables. The tracker, because it was too heavy, would only stay on the side and a cable and pulley system employed. The plough would be suspended from the cable and driven back and forth across the field. The tracker, and anchoring vehicle on the other side, would be slowly driven in parallel.

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-a-balance-plough-being-pul...

https://c8.alamy.com/comp/CWDH37/fowler-ploughing-engine-153...

I think such a system would be easier to automate: cabling above a field, with an automated vehicle for spraying, harvesting, dealing with weeds.
Having worked previously at another SAP acquisition, this is pretty much the beginning of end for Qualtrics
You can also rely on humans to protect their own interests and stop criminals, but they must be allowed to do so. You have to have a system where the masses who are hurt by corruption have a chance to fight against it, if all power is held by the central party you will see the negative aspects of human nature while the positive aspects are suppressed.
> Google(tm) HTTP/2.0 was unasked for, tried to reinvent TCP, found buggy and fundamentally broken after less than a year.

How vile of them to force a purely optional protocol on us.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

Think of all those FAANG engineers and startup founders who aren’t going to go quietly from their upper middle class incomes and RSUs/ISOs, regardless of the cost to society.
I made exactly what you're asking for: https://rainpaper.com
As a technology practitioner, it is your failing if you believe them.
> When an entire region is down what I have noticed is that all things are fucked globally on aws.

Do you have an example on this?
Ask HN: What are some of the best tech analogies you've ever read/heard?
I recently saw a post on HN about the paint analogy for the Diffie Hellman cryptography solution [1] and it was one of the best explanations for something I've seen that was very easy to digest. I was hoping to find more of these analogies! (What specifically brought this question was, I was hoping to find a good one for the OSI model).

[1]https://youtu.be/YEBfamv-_do
The "unaskable questions" people coo over Quillette for tackling are anything but. Just look at the articles Politico calls out to show where Quillete is "willing to go":

- "Black American Culture and the Racial Wealth Gap"

- "Cultural Appropriation Isn't Real"

- "Is It Wrong To Blame Islam?"

- "Why Women Don't Code"

- "How an Anonymous Accusation Derailed My Life"

None of these are even remotely taboo to a center-to-right-leaning audience. Hell, even liberal publications are perfectly willing to take on these topics; here's a New York Times article literally called "Three Cheers for Cultural Appropriation"! https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/30/opinion/cultural-appropri...
> No fan of the technology per-se, but presumably they can't be lost or stolen.

Yep, just like fingerprints can't be stolen. Wait, what are you doing with that knife?!
Stop growing grass, plant bushes, and clover. Don't use gasoline lawnmowers. Lawns are very silly things.

If you don't care about energy costs, you could put a hotwater system under your driveway, I've seen a few of these now.

I think one major issue is getting people from the city to the farms during harvest time. It's a problem of coordination and transport.
The risk with the housing stock on Wellington's hills isn't that they'll fall over, timber houses on piles are quite safe in earthquakes as they are very flexible. The main risk is landslides.
Wellington has enough hills that tsunamis never had me particularly worried.
What, specifically, did you think was incorrect?
That's so naive that it makes me angry.

Companies like upwork provide a place for independents to find clients. I spent the last 10 years earning most of of my income from consulting. The hard problem is not getting health insurance (you can buy it, it's just expensive and paid with after-tax dollars). THE hard part about being a consultant is finding people to pay you.

These marketplaces might not be perfect, but they're a step in the right direction. I want exactly one thing from them - the ability to find work and get paid.
The Soviets pioneered space travel.

The Soviets dominated mathematical research; the West only caught up when the government collapsed and the Soviet mathematicians emigrated to the West.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w17800
Can't speak for Google, but Facebook and Salesforce chose Cells for HA.

http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/5/9/cell-architectures....
It seems like he's come up with a very dubious dumbing down of why Germany went to war and appropriated it for his own reasons.

As an aside, it's interesting to watch how people on both sides of the aisle are jumping to find the rise of fascism in every nook and cranny of society. Sometimes, like here, it doesn't even seem to be an attempt at a political cudgel, which is the usual case. While I think most can agree FAANG is out of control, I'm not sure the fascism alarmism is a great approach.
>Do drug cartels even care if the DEA has installed cameras everywhere?

Back of the envelope math shows that they can't be installed everywhere; not on that kind of budget. The only thing that one could do with 10-1000 cameras is install them at specific, targeted places where the DEA already has some reason to suspect that they'll find something.

>IMO What’s so dystopian about all this is not so much that the tech exists but that our tax dollars pay for these projects and we really don’t have much say.

I don't agree. Spending is controlled by Congress. If you and enough people who agreed with you combined your efforts, you could alter the law so that the purchase of this sort of technology was illegal. Perhaps you hold an opinion that only a minority of America agrees with.
website is horribly slow.
Douglas Rain, voice of HAL, has died
> Anabolic steroid abuse requires committing any number of crimes and direct association with other criminals — including those who deal other illegal drugs.

Is that actually true? I was under the impression that you could find a doctor that would prescribe them to you. Not the case with, say, cocaine.
Why?

In a police state, it’s good to be the police.
Care to share more details than that?
Gopher still had Veronica and WAIS, though. No matter what you build, you're eventually going to need some kind of search engine for it.
Things Rust doesn't let you do
True, but if there's anything today on the scale and invasiveness of COINTELPRO, it's not public knowledge.
Yes, money isn't everything, it's a means to an end. A lot of Kiwis move over to Australia for 5 years or so to make a pile of savings, then move back to NZ and settle down. If you get a decent job and don't blow all your money living the big city lifestyle you can save $15-20k per year. The trades pay a lot better in Australia than New Zealand, and if you live outside central Melbourne or Sydney cost of living is fairly low.
See my comment above, the original steam trackers were too heavy to put on a field, so they used a system of wires to pull machinery around. Two trackers drive in tandem down the sides of a field, with a wire between them. The machinery suspended from the wire.
newest gx6605s dev feeds:

https://gitlab.com/c-sky/buildroot/-/jobs/113874636/artifact...

make from buildroot:
git clone https://gitlab.com/c-sky/buildroot.git
cd buildroot
make csky_gx6605s_br_defconfig
make

USB host controller is OHCI+EHCI in kernel drivers.

HDMI is a very simple framebuffer driver in https://github.com/c-sky/addons-linux/tree/master/addons/dri...
I can truthfully say that downloading Mosaic changed my entire life. It was 1994 and after I finished installing Trumpet Winsock on my Windows 3.1 machine I finally got it running.

Started browsing and all of a sudden realized that it was 5 am and I was due at work in 3 hours! Four years later I'd quit my job as an ag agronomist for a fertilizer company and betting on my hobbyist programming skills started building web businesses. It hasn't been at all a smooth ride, tell people at times I felt like I took an oath of poverty ;<). But it's a journey than I am quite glad I started.
They got a big ol limb on their nose called their trunk that I assume they use
Thanks! I'm running Skylake 96 core instances but I haven't given up to try the 64 core instances for comparison yet. If I get another restart, I'll do a 96 vs 64 to try to narrow down the cause. Most likely, of course, this is a software issue on my end, not Google's.
Just grabbed first article. Example: In this case capitalone went down. I don’t work at capitalone - but I imagine they had their data copied across every region 30 times.

https://www.geekwire.com/2018/widespread-outage-amazon-web-s...
It's true. They should be profiling Ron Unz instead. There's a guy who will publish truly heterodox content.
Taking the challenge to work the polls
Show HN: Straightforward implementation from a paper to Python code by PyTorch
Didn't read the article, but wow, if someone would build an asparagus harvester that could bring back fresh Sacramento Delta asparagus. The sh*t served in Bay Area restaurants and pathetically displayed in markets now is pathetic.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

This kernel also could work with gx6605s, you can ref:
https://gitlab.com/c-sky/buildroot/-/jobs/113874636/artifact...

dts and kernel-config
I use this effect in my Android live wallpaper app, Rainpaper. It supports weather synchronization, reddit integration, custom backgrounds (including video), and muzei extensions.

You can see the app at https://rainpaper.com
What about fish farming and aquaculture. People pay a premium for sustainable fish, a good pound of sustainable fish can set me back $20-$30. Maybe there is enough of a profit margin in such fields, and they don't have to be big.
My father in law was the fire chief in a city where a locally famous government building was notorious for sick building syndrome in the 90s.

The building was and is a soulless cube farm with floors alternating in color from institutional green/gray/orange/blue.

It was 90% psychology, usually kicked off by a smell, anything from wet hair to popcorn to paint. They were medically evacuating a dozen people a day at the peak hysteria.

His solution was to park the fire truck and ambulance behind well out of site and respond in a UHaul truck. The fireman/paramedic left turnout gear behind and wore a hoodie over their uniform, and turned off radios. Once they did that, the calls went down to 1-2 a day and went away about a week after that.
Small and progressive milestones can help a lot in that sense.
There is a distinction between the talking head Conservative, Inc. shills and the actual desire to conserve one's patrimony. Opposing factory farming is, by definition, a position held by small family farmers and they certainly count as conservatives.
I'm not sure what "softer" means. You could mean a lower color temperature (less blue, more yellow), lower output, or a diffuser over the emitters. All of those are commonly used in real LED-based lighting installations.
Zebras All the Way Down – Bryan Cantrill  Uptime 2017
> Unlike JavaScript in the browser, or Java with a powerful IDE like IntelliJ, you can’t just set breakpoints everywhere

I'm using IntelliJ to set breakpoints everywhere in a Node application at this very moment. It's super easy to set up, you just create a Node.js run configuration and hit the debug button.
Oh my goodness there are so many! I like to think I grok the scale of the world, and it's easy to trick yourself into thinking it is all pretty uniform. But it really is unfathomable at the human scale of granularity. Awesome project!
As has been said about other enterprises:

> If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

> - J Paul Getty

The government wants the data that they provide and the tax revenue their employees provide.
Enterprises. Although at Qualtrics, University usage is often cherished since that's where they started to get popular
> Artificially controlled selective breeding doesn't mean evolution

Selective breeding is still evolution, it's just directed evolution. It's all evolution.
Multi-Cloud-Service-as-a-Service application redundancy wrappers.

I wish I was only being tongue-in-cheek.
There's more to it than that. Populists normally portray a situation as a struggle between the people and the elites who control society.
My mum told me she remembered seeing this in wiltshire in the 1930s, and it was used for drainage pipe laying a lot too. The "mole" which is pulled through the ground laying the pipes has a huge amount of static resistance to overcome, the fowler engine had bloody huge anchors to stop it being pulled towards the mole.

If you see a steam-engine at a fairground or history society and it has a giant wheel under the boiler mounted horizontally, thats what its for: this kind of static engine work.

There were mobile threshers which used it too as a form of PTO using belts. The whole business was a convoy of about three trucks and associated labour. Steam trucks. Awesome!

I was hitchhiking in Yorkshire once back in the 1980s, on an "A" road (not a motorway) and a steam engine passed me by the other way. I was so tempted to cross the road and hitch a ride the wrong way...
With this terms of service, none. Which is why people don't trust them.

If I pay you for a service that would take time to migrate off of, and you are making money off me now, I am going to be ripshit if you decide to just turn it off because it's suddenly not making money for you in the short term. Google's done this a lot, and the fact that don't provide concrete time lines in their contract gives even less reason to trust them
Yeah. Perhaps feature rich was an overstatement. I meant that when GCP does do a product it works like I’d expect it to work and has the features I need. Not always the case with a AWS, particularly around ELBs and VPCs.
Azure and AWS.
Current FAA rules require the drone pilot to be within visible range of their drones. So why not just have rotating volunteers of pedestrians?
Almost everyone I’ve met in opposition to rent control is a landlord themselves. Purely anecdotal, but it’s been bulletproof so far. It’s true, rent control is terrible for landlords, but it doesn’t stop housing development. If anything, it encourages it — there’s no other way someone can make a sizable amount of money off of a new property.
And people can always boycott companies who voluntarily participate which causes companies to prefer not to get involved even if they supported the idea.
Microsoft acquires RPG developers Obsidian Entertainment and InXile
There are many other possible causes for global outages, that specific one is not high on my list of likely culprits.
List of hacker and infosec conferences in Australia 2019
Two people per 6-hour timezone chunk, with one overlapping person splitting each chunk?

2 at UTC 0-8

1 at UTC 4-12

2 at UTC 8-16

1 at UTC 12-20

2 at UTC 16-24

1 at UTC 20-04

(Repeat)
As a salaried employee, I hated the benefits my company provided, but it was worse to go without because I'm ineligible if I turn it down. Since leaving my company and consulting full-time instead, I:

- pay less for insurance - after my subsidy, I pay less than my portion as a W-2 employee for nearly equivalent coverage
- pay less for funds in my solo-401k without any other fees
- don't get a FICA deduction for my HSA contribution (not sure why you have to be a W-2 employee for that deduction)
- make more, even after additional FICA taxes

I was already an "at-will" employee, so I didn't get much more protection anyway, so leaving my company and working as a 1099 was a net win with pretty much zero downsides.

I really don't understand why the IRS is so adamant about making people W-2 employees, it's quite often a worse situation.
>If not, why mention it?

Because it makes more people feel comfortable enough to use your services and pay you, without actually binding you towards any sort of behavior that would cost you money.
There's a direct financial incentive here to use legalese to give the semblance of reliability without having to deliver on it
Yes, because when trying to give en url to an elderly or a non-technical, I find that, they often gets confused if it doesn't start with www.
It seems to me that only a fraction of the signees have biological backgrounds. I don't see a single geneticist if you don't count two signees that are in the fields of "Genetics and Society." This letter talks about "trajectory of modern genetics" but the authors don't look qualified to talk about it.

As a layman (I read Reich's book), their argument seems poor.

"It must also be understood that all genetic contributions to physical traits, including disease, are always influenced by environmental factors"

Isn't that falsified by Tay-Sachs disease etc?

"Instead, we need to recognize that meaningful patterns of genetic and biological variation exist in our species that are not racial."

Is anybody arguing that this is untrue?

"In short, there is a difference between finding genetic differences between individuals and constructing genetic differences across groups by making conscious choices about which types of group matter for your purposes. These sorts of groups do not exist “in nature.” They are made by human choice. This is not to say that such groups have no biological attributes in common. Rather, it is to say that the meaning and significance of the groups is produced through social interventions."

This seems untrue. As far as I know, these groups are simply found through unsupervised clustering. The only choice would be how many groups you want to get.
Is your attention span terrible for everything, or is there some activity or hobby where you can become immersed? If the former, you may have a physical problem, perhaps a vitamin or mineral deficiency, sleep deficiency, or ADD, if the latter, it's probably more of a motivational problem.
One hidden layer. Commonly known as the "Universal approximation theorem"
Customers won't pay money in the first place to use a service if it may vanish out from under them? I expect a cloud service provider not to offer a service unless they think it is going to be profitable, and I expect them to continue to offer it even if it turns out not to be profitable, because otherwise I will take my business to a cloud service provider that will give me that guarantee.
Oh I know. I have a food forest, and aquaponics system, and some fence gardens. But I can't get rid of the grass (yet) because of the HOA (I did plant clover in it).

I'm just saying this would be a good space to start, if the robotics dev economics made sense: the market is there.
I was under the impression that you buy them from your friend at the gym. In the US, the whole class of anabolic steroids are Schedule III controlled substances. There are many compounds that went through clinical and animal trials, steroid chemistry was big in the 1950s and 1960s, the story of Syntex is one of treachery and villainy, but not many are available at market these days. The only use case is cachexia in the very elderly or in cancer patients. A physician who prescribes them too frequently would attract attention, unless of course he has a special relationship with law enforcement.
Cloudfront 504 error to https://www.artic.edu/collection?is_public_domain=1 ?
Thanks for the insightful comment. If you ever want to hop on a call and talk about micro-farming and robotics, I'm all for it.
You're doing me a scare. I'm in the evaluation phase with them.
Maybe I'm missing something here, but this is not at all what the linked post says.

"We are investigating an issue with Google Kubernetes Engine node pool creation through Cloud Console UI."

So, it's a UI console issue, it appears you can still manage

"Affected customers can use gcloud command [1] in order to create new Node Pools. [1]"

Similarly, it actually was resolved in Friday, but they forgot to mark it as so.

"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."
Don't worry about it too much, in 4000 A.D., 1A will train Magnus, into a Robot Fighter and he'll be there to save Humanity from the Evil Robots.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus%2C_Robot_Fighter
The stuff you use for etching your own boards tend to be pretty nasty. Enough to burn holes in clothes and give you a rash if you're careless. Like other said, it's more economical to order boards through services like OSHPark and Seeed. If you want to make your own board for educational purposes or super quick turnaround (<24 hours) I think you're better off milling it. More of a hassle but much safer. Get a cheap CNC like a 3020 or something.
Linux apps running on iOS via userspace x86 emulation and syscall translation
Just Google Geoff Fox, it's not like he's trying to be secretive.
Same here, but with Python. The IntelliJ debugger is one of the absolute best features and I haven't found anything comparable yet.
Are your interruptions actually valuable inspirations for other projects or are they perhaps revolts against "excessive" focus, which is to say you need a break? If so, then perhaps they are beneficial.
Inoreader's stats say it posts 14 articles a week to 306 subscribers, just on Inoreader. Their Twitter has close to 100k followers.

I might persuade one person in the time they convince or reinforce 10 beliefs in 1000 people. What hope does good information have against that kind of persuasion engine? There's a reason religion's decline started with the rise of mass media. It had competition.
Look how frequent and detailed Amazon's update logs are in that first Register article. Multiple updates throughout the day going into some detail.
Running one gevent hub per core seems viable. Does it support forking? Also I don't think that gevent does preemptive switching.

I can already do multi server just fine, but not everything is in the server domain. Also I don't seek multi-core usage for performance, specifically. Versatility is what I'm going for here.

An Erlang like system can be both performant and scalable to thousands of clients.

The current scope of python really only allows for either one. You can go either multiprocessing, which will give great processing power, but you can only launch so many of them. You can go asyncio route and launch millions of coroutines, but they suffer from performance issues.