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> The way the user runs it means that they don't store any metrics locally

Ah, that's great! I was mistakenly assuming that Prometheus would still have to write the data to disk; I didn't realize you could disable local storage.

> The range of exporters is very extensive

Sure, but that doesn't solve the problem that your heroku dyno, or lambda function, etc cannot expose metrics for Prometheus to pull, but it could easily push metrics somewhere.

> it's designed as one component that someone running at large scale or a SaaS vendors needs. Your comparison isn't apples to apples.

That's fair; I was thinking of Cortex as something to adopt off the shelf, instead of something to integrate with. However, as a SaaS provider you can always build more custom functionality alongside Cortex instead of making it a direct part of the open-source project.
Predicting the real-time availability of 200M grocery items
Great. Windows updates will now be able to brick the hardware.
Wow, look at those jaw dropping incarceration stats. Isn't it systematic human rights violation?
What kind of tax level in percentage would you need to pay on that in the UK? Do you also get pension benefits on top of the salary?
No, while he does reference that (just quoting it directly, not “riffing”), it's not just a joke, it's a reinforcement of his earlier dismissal, in the thread, of syntax highlighting as a “juvenile” practice parallel to colored rods used to teach arithmetic to young children, which grown ups should not need or use.
yeah I'm fine with the whole packaging being gruesome images of lung cancer or whatever you need. all I ask is that you don't break the part that makes it actually work for me.
Yes significantly so. Compare buying bulk coffee and brewing a large carafe like Sylvan says, to K-Cups. First it's more expensive for you. Second you have unrecyclable plastic waste. Third what could once be composted now gets thrown into anaerobic landfill.

And people are up in arms about water bottles. This is just another ridiculous capitalist scheme that trades marginal convenience against our planet's future. It's no a significant source of pollution by itself but ingrains a culture of disposability that has created most of the pollution on earth.
If it ended up in someone's backlog, then MailChimp still screwed up because the "suspend account" button should automatically send a notification (even if it only said that more information will follow).

I'd also add one item to your list: Proper monitoring (which is extremely difficult and time-consuming to set up). A plan B is useful if you know that you need to enact it. Here, the third party provider had silently caused an outage, possibly because they consider shadow bans more effective without considering that the same thing that makes them effective makes them extremely damaging when they're handed out incorrectly.
Not sure how I feel about this; for one, the Kurzweilian singularity which largely could be fueled by the advent of AGI is both exciting and yet also scary. The upside could forever change humanity as we know it; far increased longevity, the potential to create anything via a universal assembler[0], bringing everything feasible within the laws of physics to reality. Knowledge is the only limiting factor stopping us from doing anything which is physically possible in this universe; and in that light AGI could be an enlightenment.

On the other hand, the ubiquity of knowledge once it's available could lead any maniac to use it for the wrong purpose and wipe out humanity from their basement.

My feelings on the potential of AGI is therefore mixed. I for one have just found my particular niche in the workforce and am finally reaping the dividends from decades of hard work. Having AGI displace me and millions (or billions) of individuals is frightening and definitely keeps me on my toes.

Technology changes the world; my parents both worked for newspapers and talk endlessly about how the demise of their industry after the advent of the internet is so unfortunate. Luckily for them they are both at retirement age so their livelihood was not upset by displacement.

If AGI does become a thing it will be interesting to see how millenials and gen Z react to becoming irrelevant in what would have been the peak of their careers.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_assembler
"As a service" in this context means the mental model / delivery pipeline is more like subscribing to a service than purchasing individual software. I'm sure this makes more sense to Microsoft folks; open-source folks are more likely to call it "continuous deployment" or "living at HEAD" or something. They compare it to Windows-as-a-service, the idea that you run the current version of Windows, not the version you paid for and future updates involve change control and procurement and other bureaucracy.

Firmware does change and often has security vulnerabilities, so you do need to be keeping it up to date the way you keep your OS up to date. Among other things, it includes processor microcode / errata fixes like some of the Spectre, Meltdown, etc. mitigations. It would be nice if we lived in a world where this doesn't need to change, but it does, and thankfully it is firmware and not hardware.
Careful there though. If a surgeon is operating on cancer and discovers that the tumor is much larger than expected the operation will take longer - be more expensive - or the surgeon does the operation as planned and then charges even more for the second surgery to remove the rest. Or maybe all operations are estimated as the worst case and so you end up with no more clue about what you will pay than today - in some imaginable worst case this could be a five million dollar operations, so even though 99% are only fifty thousand you get that high estimate.

Which is to say don't propose something until you understand the unintended side effects. You can get your desired result but while making everything worse. (this paragraph applies to everything in politics)
Charles Darwin vs. the creation story in Genesis?

Copernicus vs. the Ptolemaic system of astronomy?

Most recent scientific paradigm shifts, like Einstein vs. Newtonian physics, aren't really "brutal" since the previous system survives as a limiting case for moderate energies.

Wegener's refutation of the theory that the continents were fixed wasn't forceful enough. He proposed plate tectonics in 1915, but it wasn't widely accepted until the 1960s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_tectonics#Development_of....
I'm not American, so I don't have any experience of Medicare etc. I don't particularly share your concern about sufficient profit motives. I think the free market breaks down when both parties know that for one party, it is literally a matter of life and death.
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No, CuteApp allows you to read FB messages and email from their app. They cut a deal with FB and even if you don't use the service, CuteApp can still access your messages. You don't actually know about the service - it isn't in the permissions and you didn't give explicit consent for it. Doesn't matter.
Those are red herrings. Many (if not most) countries somehow figured it out without having to deal with absolutes and black/white decisions. You can (and should) draw a line somewhere, and this can be done reasonably.

As a European living in the US I find it mind-boggling that the richest country in the world does not consider universal healthcare to be a fundamental right of its citizens.
Those things are all dumb, too. Coffee pods are just so easy to replace. Just make coffee like normal.
brew does the same but you can opt-out [1]

1 - https://docs.brew.sh/Analytics
False only for very small values of code.

ie if your code itself is split into modules, they won't work (as they are imported by their full path, not relatively), and anything in your vendor dir is also ignored when used outside of a GOPATH entry.
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When it's far too late.

Specifically, when comparatively wealthy people start feeling the effects. So far, most don't. It's just beginning to happen, as property owners in Miami beach realize they own a stranded asset, but for most wealthy people it's still a non-event.
I am not a physicist and I don't know if that's possible, but seems unlikely, if I understand this statement correctly: "After collapse to the neutron star stage, stars with masses less than 2-3 solar masses should remain neutron stars, gradually radiating away their energy, because there is no known mechanism for further combination, and forces between neutrons prevent further collapse."[0]

Assuming Jupiter turning into a black hole, the radius of it's event horizon would be just 2.2 meters (and that's 8.7 millimeters for Earth and 3 kilometers for the Sun). [1]

That would take forever to pinpoint an object with a radius of a few meters (apart from its existence as a black hole).

[0]http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Astro/blkhol.html

[1]http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/S/Schwarzschild+Radius
I hope they pay greater attention to the low and high end of their compression ratio spectrum. On the low end, it'd be great if it could exceed lz4 in terms of speed and memory savings. On the high end it'd be great to exceed XZ/LZMA.

Right now it's impressive "in the middle", but I find myself in a lot of situations where I care about the extremes. I.e. for something that will be transferred a lot, or cold-stored, I want maximum compression, CPU/RAM usage be damned, within reason. So I tend to use LZMA there if files aren't too large. For realtime/network RPC scenarios I want minimum RAM/CPU usage and Pareto-optimality on multi-GbE networks. This is where I use LZ4 (and used to use Snappy/Zippy).

At their scale, though, FB is surely saving many millions of dollars thanks to deploying this, both in human/machine time savings and storage savings.
Apple is also serious about that; the policy under jobs was “we don’t ship junk” and AFAIK that continues today. I know plenty of people still rocking the iPhone 5s, their software support is ahead of other manufacturers I know off and they offer programs to replace worn batteries of all their models in stores, as well as trade in programs for almost all models.
I am not aware of any android manufacturers with such long resale value.
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That is absolutely a dark pattern if that dialog box was intended to speak to read/write access of messages.

"Access my data at any time" is truly deceptive. The icon is one specifying "time" - a moon in the dark; night time. And the operative context seems to be "at any time". However, the grant is actually for, "data". Which is itself seemingly already being granted by the above "Posts", and "Public Information". If Facebook presumed that "data" included everything, then why did they ask for access to posts and public information above?

It is clearly deceptive. If they thought what they did was in the right, then why deceive? And if they felt like they made a mistake, why not make the new dialog boxes not deceptive?

That they do not feel that they can sustain their business model without being deceptive makes NYT articles like this all the more necessary; if people really don't care about their privacy, then go ahead and ask for their privacy - don't dance around and say you're providing a service (and omit that you're also taking their private data). If they asked clearly and they were granted the ability to farm out to third parties whole read/write access to all data, then I'd be more inclined to believe that their users were actually acquiescing.
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Document stores might be great for the C but not so much for the MS.
Hacker news is for hackers, not for freaking journalists.
If you read the article you'll find that the problem is that while the hospital may accept your insurance, a particular doctor won't. Also for some reason some doctors don't even know what insurance programs they'll bill.
Is NZ healthcare decent? Asking because i am trying to decide between NZ and Canada as my future destination for immigration after living in US for 10 years.
You're mistaken on that. Electrolysis is going to be far too slow to actually amount to any substantial amount of hydrogen and even if that wasn't the case burning all of that hydrogen would release only as much energy as it already took away from the reaction. Burning 100% of the hydrogen produced would still put you at a net 0 change in energy. For every joule worth of hydrogen that escaped without burning that's a joule of energy that you no longer have to deal with. Also it's a shorted out battery pack we're talking about. The voltage potential isn't going to be anywhere near as high as it would normally and if it was they you wouldn't have a flaming battery pack in the first place.

As to the notion that there's lithium metal in the batteries that could react with the water, you're thinking of non-rechargeable lithium batteries. Lithium ion cells use a lithium compound, not just pure elemental lithium. The formulation might be something like LiFePO4 but the point here is that it's not just lithium metal sitting around inside of it.

Also Tesla has an emergency response guide that includes instructions on fighting a battery fire. It's on page 22 (23 of the PDF) and it makes it clear that you want to douse the thing in as much water as possible and keep dousing it until it's totally gone. Tons of water is exactly what's called for when fighting these kind of fires.

https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/downloads/2016_Mod...
Find the number of pounds or kg of coffee that Keurig buys and sells each year. Divide that into Keurig's total revenues to find out what price to weight ratio (including the cost of the machines and coffee) their customers pay. As they sell to resellers, add another 50 percent or more for subsequent markups, and you will get an idea of what Keurig costs in comparison to just buying a can of coffee off your grocer's shelves and brewing it yourself (add a little for the cost of a new electric coffee pot each year to the non-Keurig cost, it costs around a month's Keurig's coffee for 1 or 2 persons). I have not been through this calculation for a few years, but the result I got suggests that coffee drinkers have been paying a large penalty for their preferences already, equivalent to a tax rate that would be very unlikely to survive if imposed by any non-totalitarian regime.
In my country, yes: Cero. Because we have Universal Health care.
> "I am not important enough to be spied on"

“Then surely you wouldn’t mind sharing your fb password with me, with your spouse and your manager at work. Moreso, we would like to have access to all your messaging activity in real time.”
around 40% tax and pension depends on your contributions.
It's something we're actively working on!
When you request an archive of your data, we send the download link to your primary email address (the required token is not available via the web UI). Once you click that link, you'll be asked to re-enter your password. So for this particular feature, an attacker would need both your GitHub password (and your 2FA seed or an active session if 2FA is enabled) and access to your email.
An artistic take can be found at https://dark-mountain.net/ . I find their books quite engaging.
Also they're not usually looking for a specific planet around a particular star. The sky is full of stars and planets to find but there's only one planet nine.
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I dunno that SQL is exactly easy, though. It's one thing to say "select statements are essentially identical to Python list comprehensions", but in practice I still have to look up the Venn diagram chart every time I need to join anything, and performance optimization is still a dark art. I'd say SQL is easy in the same way that Git is easy: you can get away with using just 5% of it, but you'll still need to consult an expert to sort things out when things go sideways.
I don't see the situation changing in the US anytime soon. In order for us to have single-payer healthcare, doctors would need to accept drastic pay cuts, pharma companies would get far less for drugs, and insurance companies would go out of business. None of that will happen. Instead we'll have more and more and more regulation until it just stops working.
I think what happens (and I have this attitude too) is that "learning" SQL takes a weekend...but then you know you'll wind up having to spend a lot longer learning the patterns of the language, and the nuances of the specific dialect, and which of the integration tools will work well with your workflow and pipeline. So while "sure I'll just learn SQL" is great for a personal or school project, when you've got to get something done next week, it's better to take maximal advantage of the tools/skills/workflow that you already have.

IOW, it's not just laziness, it's a kind of professional conservatism. which is partly what gets older engineers stuck in a particular mindset, but it's also a very effective learned skill. The opposite is being a magpie developer, which results in things like MongoDB taking off :)
If there is a way to exploit a system for personal gain people will do it. You can be an optimist but don't take this statement as fatalist or excusing, the tax levied on these goods should match or exceed the damage society thinks they are causing. This allows people who want to do the right thing to not suffer financially for doing it.
The Obahn is pretty good. It's capacity is lacking though, because it's so popular. When they were first testing it they pushed the buses up to 120km/h but they shook so horrifically that they lowered the operating speed to something like 80.

A lot of people criticised the tunnel extension into the city. After all, it only saved ~5 minutes of travel time. I don't think most people in Adelaide fully appreciate public transport yet.

Adelaide is often called the 20 minute city because you can just drive anywhere in under that. But that's changing as our population grows. I really hope there are more projects like this that get funded.

Adelaide used to have _the most extensive tram network in Australia_. It was pulled up around the same time as Sydney pulled theirs but Melbourne didn't (because they're the original hipster). Sydney had the money to reinstall theirs but not Adelaide. There's a lot of politics around fixing our trams - we almost dropped 40 million on a building a right hand turn.

https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-01/why-was-adelaides-...
In my office, we make a large thermos (maybe it's a gallon or a bit more) of drip. It tastes great I think. Strong, black coffee. I guess those cups make flavored coffee. So if you like something other than straight coffee they're good. But I can't imagine why you'd ruin a perfectly good coffee like that :)
Yes, but the same logic applies: you either negotiate prices out with a network in advance, or insure against the major complications. None of that is different for a health care operation.
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There are a few reasons we haven't used the wrapper.

* The larger services require tuning to get the best performance out of zstd, and we use some advanced options.

* We have a "Managed Compression" library which does zstd dictionary compression, which doesn't work with the wrapper.

* We have our own automatic decompression framework that handles many algorithms [0].

* A lot of use cases switched over from other algorithms than zlib.

* A lot of use cases switched over to zstd organically, without our involvement, since it was such a clear win.

[0] https://github.com/facebook/folly/blob/master/folly/compress...
With our level of inequality, this is coming back. In the last Southern California wildfire, there were reports again of private firefighting groups operating in the Malibu area.
>America’s supposedly meritocratic system of elite higher education revolves around an intensive search for the most capable students.

That is an incorrect assumption. The elite institutions want people who will be part of the elite. The big draw for these is networking opportunities. If one of your dorm mates is a Justice, the other a Senator, and the third a CEO of a Fortune 500, when you say found a startup, you are going to be able to pitch your idea to some very powerful and wealthy individuals. Now how do these elite institutions make sure they get future elites. Well, throughout human history and even now, the most likely way to become elite is having parents who are elite. So students who have elite parents are disproportionately represented. The other way to be elite is to have extraordinary talent combined with extraordinary determination combined with some luck. The colleges therefore use test scores/ extracurricular activity etc to select for these people. It is no coincidence that the founders of Google, Microsoft, and Facebook all came from elite institutions as have a majority of Presidents and Supreme Court Justices. The benefit of an elite institution is not the curriculum but who your classmates are.
I’ve used it for years on both Windows and OS X.
Yeah, there's a bunch of dimensions involving grade separation and such.
Could a NN going over all collected data, in search for a slow moving "missing" observed objects shadow find it?
Maybe I should write "I do not consent to any out of network services" across my forehead in sharpie before any operations.
Something very interesting to me about the work Deep Mind has been doing is the way they've been combining neural network intuitions with tree search reasoning in Go, Chess, protein folding, etc.
Jack didn't get where he was by mouthing off to the Chinese government.
The non-dispoable cups are the only reason I went with a Keurig. I wanted to have the option of using the k-cups and the option of using my own coffee.

So far, I haven't found any issues with using it. They look the same as your second link. It is some off-brand one.
As others say, you can get the comments and submissions via the API.

To start with you can try this for the public information: http://hnuser.herokuapp.com/user/conroy/json

I wrote hnuser (http://hnuser.herokuapp.com) a long time ago to show karma over time and haven't looked at in awhile but at first glance it seems to still work. It also exists as an npm package if you want to run it from the commandline.
> Neptune was predicted from observed perturbations in the orbit of Neptune.

How was Neptune predicted from observations of its own orbit? Am I not parsing this correctly?
I recited the planet names to my kids as toddlers using the tune of Brahms' Lullaby. I think it helped them.
Look, if you traced the money paid to defense contractors vs to the poor you may find that its velocity is the same after a month. Show me that it’s definitely not true. It seems quite plausible.
> It is amazing that it took them this long to realize they were entirely wrong about how dependencies should be distributed.

It didn't take "this long"; the Go team openly admitted the need for a better approach at the very first GopherCon back in 2014, nearly five years ago. (That was not the first time, either).

It takes time to do all that work.
Like the one requiring pregnant prisoners NOT to be shackled? You know, the entire First Step reform bill.

Problem isn't white men, but the team we placed in charge of federal prisons in terms of administrators and wardens. There have been literally hundreds of them while this treatment was going on. Male and female. Black, white, asian, and hispanic.

And not a one of them took on this issue.

Think about that.

That's a disgrace.
who then took over Congress

Two years later, and only the House at that. Obama had Democrat control of both houses until 2011, part of that with filibuster-proof control of the Senate.

Would you care to itemize specifics of those "shovel-ready" projects?
Yeah I don't think we have had any truly autonomous land vehicles released into the wild yet. Any company that claims to do it had better provide proof.