skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Refusal to work as a federal employee, especially if you're in a national security position, might be risky. PATCO comes to mind. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Air_Traffic_Con...
Quick, write it up and get it published!
You mean this police force will do nothing wrong and treat suspects fairly ? No they won't. ESPECIALLY if the suspect is an immigrant, but it's not like they haven't gone WAY overboard with German suspects as well.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/hanover-police-o...

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/world/kidnapping-has-germ...

https://abcnews.go.com/International/video-showing-german-po...

https://www.dw.com/en/child-murderer-wins-damages-over-polic...

https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2018-10/jva-k...

Think LONG and HARD before you ever either ask these people for help or point these people to someone. There are many incidents with unprovoked violence and even some incidents involving police torture and lethal force used against immigrants with little or even no provocation at all.

I would say it is very much NOT moral to help here. I know, this won't be a popular statement, but it just isn't.
It's plausible that the beacon need not be directly co-located with the drop, but be near enough. It should also be possible to re-use them for some time. I would imagine that the actual cost overhead would really only be $20 - $30 per active dead-drop location + some percentage for lost or damaged beacons.
I m talking about the camera features, the radio, and any other hardware features etc.
>If you make every subject as rigorous as math or physics, the resulting workload will be crushing. And not everybody who gets a degree needs to be such a rigorous thinker, to make a valuable contribution to society.

You could have a course that was neither rigorous nor ideologically biased, in fact every department could have them. I dream of an alternate universe (which one day could be ours) where instead of "You get an A but you have to pretend to agree with the professor 101," we could have, "the X department runs through their favorite material, but skips all of the really tedious parts that you would have to learn if you wanted to contribute, but as a spectator could go without."
It would help if you stated your age. The internet was probably most exciting before and around the 2000s, when there was an actual ton of information and facebook hadn't come around. A major thing is people did not use their real identity / names anywhere. It just wasn't a thing before facebook, and you could really be a dog or talk to a dog. That made everything exciting , mysterious and people found it a lot more easy to experiment , i.e. freedom. After facebook and real identity, the audience and the behaviors changed. There is distinctive lack of 'free spirits' in the internet that we see today. There was not an overabundance of information , and the audience was more technical / academic, so most of the information was OK.

OTOH, the main applications were mostly the same: search, forums, groups, chat, packaged in different forms and in many small gardens instead of behind huge walled gardens.
The biggest flaw here is the dead drop system. It doesn't scale well and involves many more complex steps and people in the system.

For example, a drone on surveillance duty that continuously watches the area will be able to identify patterns and pick out possible outliers. Combined that video feed with machine learning and it may be possible actively identify dead drop participants.
Gavin Newsom goes big on housing. Will California NIMBYs play along?
he said 'subsystem' not 'disk'-

what was the latency to the controller with ram cache?

using seek time as a measure is also somewhat worst case - controllers/filesystems also queue(d) according to drive geometry.
I took a geology class once, which I quite enjoyed, and a certain point we were discussing radiometric dating. I understood the idea of a half-life and how you could use a known half-life and the current ratio of isotopes to measure the age of something, but there was a piece of the equation I didn't understand, so I asked:

How do we know the starting ratio?

The professor didn't really answer my question, just a sort of "scientists have measured it" type answer... which didn't make sense to me because scientists didn't exist 4.5 billion years ago or whatever, so how could they measure the starting conditions.

I think the poor guy was so accustomed to hostile questions on the topic that he interpreted it that way. I imagine many of his students came from a young-earth creationist background and didn't always take that section of the course well. Or maybe I was just reading into it and the guy was having an off day. (as an evangelical christian, old-earth vs new-earth was often a topic of discussion)

But it was actually an honest question. And this article finally gave me the answer I was looking for. Plotting an isochron of different radioactive elements solves for both the age and the original composition of the sample.
It's pretty modular. Urs Gaudenz removed the fluidic pump and fridge on his to reduce the size.
I would suggest going with .io as I've seen it used used online more often
It does not make sense that this person is attempting to run a reasonably priced restaurant and has FOH staff.

SF needs to adopt more Japanese style ordering machines. You choose and pay up front. When you are done you just leave. It's beautiful.
Russian darkmarkets started using dead drops years ago if I recall correctly
It's not so much a technology prediction, but Back to the Future predicted the "Biff future" pretty well.
Am I the only one who is appalled that a person with a wife and for children(one under 6 months) is working in a minimum wage job?

1. They should have either not had four kids or 2. should train to pick a higher paying job. 3. Or move to a cheaper part of the country.

The question is: how do we train people for better jobs or when jobs aren’t available, how do we make sure they ..well..live?

These are the questions we should be asking and not talking about SF restaurants and housing unavailability.

Where is the ‘Linkedin’ and retraining resources for people like this cook?

This author with a MBA just didn’t make compelling reading.
Robots randomly falling in some aspects of their work?.

Thousands of neurons are dying constantly each day, even in healthy animals. Would be like having a hard disk with thousands of new badblocks each day.
But collectivism is widely popular in the west, no?
Tawla is not a cheap restaurant. Dinner was $40/person + tax & tip, wine and dessert were extra. The food was good, don't get me wrong, but it's a fancy place.
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it's a very common feeling; something pure when small evaporates when public. At least it didn't become a new layer for life like internet is.. it's a weird money making machine now.. it spoils almost everything.

And to an extent, I wish the world was not trying to give everything to everyone. I think it's more beautiful for things to be small and wild and only those who really connect to it live there.
> k8s from GCE and it seems like k8s makes storage very easy.

or, using storage in an environment where the real storage is completely managed for you makes storage seem easy..
I read Liu Cixin's trilogy cover to cover about a year ago. Many references to Western thought including the Bible, social topics, and a surprising (for me) amount of diversity injected into the plot line. Grand and sweeping, it's great Sci Fi literature. It's hard to imagine that it is the result of any significant censorship. I found it a fascinating glimpse into the modern Chinese way of thinking.
> local storage beats SAN storage massively

Only if your (storage) network is slow (eg 1/10/25 GbE).

With a decent network (eg modern infiniband, 40+GbE, etc) for the storage, the latency and throughput to the storage shouldn't make a difference.

For example (years ago), I used to set up SSD arrays - SATA at the time, as M.2 wasn't a thing - and have them served over a 20Gbs Infiniband network to hosts in the same data centre.

The access times from an OS perspective to hit that storage over the network were the same as for hitting local disk. But the networked storage was higher bandwidth (multiple SSD's, instead of a single per host).

Worked really well. :)
The irony of this whole thing is that had the researchers reached a different conclusion, there would be no investigation in the first place.

The entire Sokal Squared hoax was designed to prove motivated reasoning within the social sciences, and the backlash and subsequent investigation is just further evidence of that.
In theory yes, but for larger apps, especially those that use addons, definitely not.
I was on in the early 90s via my university's 56k frame relay rig. Maybe the most exciting thing I can ever remember doing was that, because this was way before dialup TCP/IP, I'd use my 2400 baud modem to dial the university's modem pool, which was attached to a DECnet terminal server. Since this was a state university, if you knew the name of any other terminal server on that DECnet network, you could attach to it and issue commands. We had a few local BBSs, but the city where the larger state university was located had many more (I couldn't dial them direct because it was long distance and $$$), but once I found the name of a terminal server in the other city, I could connect to it, and if any of the attached modems were not in use, you could send AT commands to dial out.

The first time I was able to log in to one of the BBSs in the other city by dialing my local terminal server, hopping over decnet to Morgantown and then dialing out to a BBS with no long distance charges, I thought I would die of joy. Closest thing to magic I ever experienced I think, despite how low tech it sees now.
Linkedin is largely built on Ember. There's ample gnashing of teeth internally about that but that's what it is now.
Option value of civilization
Illicit drug and alcohol distribution has traditionally large nominal margins and large expected loss at every layer, commensurate with the efficacy of law enforcement.
Certainly! You may note the absence of "and these journals are very high quality and acted perfectly" in my post.
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> SF needs to adopt more Japanese style ordering machines. You choose and pay up front. When you are done you just leave. It's beautiful.

I feel like North American restaurants are only willing to implement these with awful touchscreen UX, like the McDonald's touchscreen displays.
https://medium.com/@bitcoinprivate/official-statement-on-coi...
It wasn't the last time that centralized decision-making saved the day. Another incident that is worth reading about if Bitcoin failures interest you is the 2013 Bitcoin fork: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2015/07/28/analyzing-the-2013-...

Basically, a new version of Bitcoin Core software was released (v0.8) and only part of the network was running it. Then a block caused a divergence, where folks running v0.8 started mining on top of a different chain than the one mined by folks on v0.7. Amidst the chaos, 2 developers (Luke DashJr and Pieter Wuille), decided that miners should rollback to v0.7 and mine on top of the "v0.7" chain. Miners and other devs quickly fell in line.

One lesson gleaned from these two incidents (featured article and this one) is that centralized problem-solving clearly made these events less catastrophic than they would otherwise have been. If in 2013 there had been no leader to advise the crowd which chain Bitcoin should be, the divergence may have been permanent. And then people wonder why nowadays Bitcoin keeps forking, when history shows that strong leadership prevents persistent forks. A persistent chain fork is not a technical failure, it is a leadership failure.
To continue that thought, in an interactive setting, shipping music in source form seems like it would offer some creative possibilities (thinking of things like iMUSE here).
> Has anyone tried sending information into black holes using lasers yet?

Getting information back about the success of the effort is... challenging.
One thing I really appreciated about the three body problem (Liu Cixin), was the “completely different perspective” brought to bear. I feel to often with (American) science fiction, you have well known and “expected” themes. What will be interesting is how much further they can go. I personally prefer a “wealth” of perspectives, and you can only get that if people are coming from different cultures.
Kaspersky-NSA yarn aims to reinforce Russian link to Shadow Brokers
totally agree!

however, we plow fields mostly to feed the animals we eat...
Presumption of innocence is a foundation of law, at least in the United States.

So yes, waiting until there is a victim to start a trial is a reasonable approach to scientific ethics. It may not be the best one, but it’s surely justifiable.
>My complaint is not the use of CDN

Then why the complaint about "phoning home"? Analogies are imprecise and brittle.

>This is a direct form of punishment from Google

If you show me some proof I'll be glad to believe you. Occam's razor says it's a simple fallback for unexpected results.

>Disabling the phone-home feature...

Blocking a required library? Who is straw-manning now?
if the darkweb resolves the drug on war issue .. that will be something
I live in SF and am charging $15/hr for Clojure exclusively. No bites yet. My budget is $1,500/mo total, $600 being food. Awe yea. I charge what the market will bear, starting at minimum wage. China is about $45 fyi, last I paid—good talking point.
> No Harry Potter local as no magic, no god, no fiary after 1948.

I read that as “after 1948, no references to magic, religion, fairies (in other words, the supernatural) is allowed”.
I really don't find the evidence agreeing with such a broad statement.

Here you go: https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing/

All the numbers and data have gotten worse in 2014.

Oh yeah, and SF's onerous rules are making it even harder to expand the housing supply: https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2018/12/19/hou...
Wow, the charitable impulses here are overwhelming. You'll pay him more, as long as it doesn't lift him out of poverty. Wow. Wow.

If a salary increase makes him ineligible for the services that he's using to stay in the city, the higher salary could be an effective cut in pay.

While it's possible to pay him a large enough salary to make up for those services, it's likely more than the business can afford.
So long as there's sufficient profit margin to allow for an acceptable "shrinkage", it just becomes a cost of doing business. The benefits in terms of privacy/security for the typical darknet vendor probably make it well worth low double digit percentage losses, given the assumed margins from source to end user...
> but I'll be damned if I know what it is

probably biology, or brain-machine stuff
If this becomes big business then every retail store will start providing airport locker type storage.
I don't believe either.
If you’re ever planing on running at scale (and I assume most startups/projects strive for it), then there’s no point (other than maybe a rough poc) at which sharding is “premature” because later on it most likely will be prohibitively expensive.
astonishingly tone deaf. you need to get out more...
"Up all night and you only saw eight women."
> ...and it doesn't seem like restaurants are disappearing from SF...

Once they do start to disappear en masse the city will be a less desirable place to live in, rents will drop and restaurants will be able to move back in -- AKA the flip side of the law of supply and demand.

Right now there's a major imbalance with all the Silicon Valley folks wanting to live in the city causing the pricing structure to get all out of wack but eventually it will stabilize as these things tend to do. Just sucks if you're the one trying to keep a service oriented business running in the current market.
It was a hack and bumbling story-changing coverup.
Er...what?

I have no doubt that this may be the reason that you personally have abandoned mainstream media in favor of more niche sources, but to attribute that motivation to an entire generation is a huge amount of projection. It has everything to do with convenience and shifting habits, not a rebellion against political correctness.

Not everything is about right vs left culture wars.
It's completely intentional. a16z is fantastic at marketing, PR, and brand building. In less than a decade, while generating very unimpressive returns for LPs, they've built one of the strong VC brands in the world. They're phenomenal at it. They do it so well that they make it look easy, but it's not at all.
They should also make the decisive step and call it Grave instead of kilogram. It's unfair
In scientific endeavors we should be equally pleased whether the hypothesis or the null is confirmed. Both add to the body of knowledge and this should be celebrated.

Of course this is often not true, but it is the ideal.
Harley Potler is indeed popular in China.
When my Chinese friend asked me if I liked Harley Potler, it took me a few moments to figure out what she was saying.
My first professional job was doing a little bit of work for the Human Genome Project. I've never done anything else nearly as worthwhile.
Shouldn't HN be grabbing the canonical URL from submissions anyway?
The publication date is January 2012. It was likely released in December.
Renaissance use of Latin? It's a moderately common modern English word. Did people think Quantum of Solace was about physics?

As it happens I agree the title is very confusing, but I think you're overstating the point.
> Presumably other restaurants are thriving?

Maybe some are, but a lot are not. From my experience the vast majority in SF only last a few years. I talked with a friend who lived in SF for 30 years and he said it's pretty normal to see restaurants regularly go out of business. Supposedly because renting the space is so insanely expensive. But there's always another sucker who thinks they can win this game.
I read it as:

No Harry Potter local as no magic, no god, no fiary after 1948.

After 1948 anything seen as promoting magic, god, fairies (more broadly fantasy) is banned.

Too violent no ...

If something is too violent it’s banned.

It is not just the rule. It is the arbitrary rule suddenly comes up.

Ultimately these rules are the whim of whoever is in power, and there isn’t necessarily any logic to it.

Any funny bear like honey

Flukes is definitely correct, Winnie is a big no-go.
How do you defend against the eye in the sky, video surveillance or location tracking ?
There seems to be conflicting objectives.
When hiding an object you don't want too many people around to see where you hide it. Yet if you record only two person going to exactly the same non standard spot it's pretty much a red flag, then you follow the person in the recording to identify them.
Most buildings are probably not valid because they can't be entered easily by both parties.
Where is he going to build housing? Tough times ahead for CA. Govt got too big.
>So how could aliens organize so much of the universe to engage in broadcasting the same sort of signal?

My uneducated guess: Their version of an atomic clock?

(I warned you it was an uneducated guess...)
> When I set out to open a restaurant in San Francisco’s vibrant restaurant market, I thought I’d employ all I’ve learned from an MBA from a top school, the rigor of an engineering education and a decade and a half launching and managing some of the most successful businesses for Google and other tech companies. Furthermore, I wasn’t naive to think that I knew better than all those who’ve been tenured in the industry. I actively sought out the mentorship of many titans who’ve been generous with their time and knowledge of the industry. So I opened Tawla, a restaurant in San Francisco’s Mission district.

I'm curious what the author is actually adding to the restaurant's value? In the current economic climate in the US, there's more capital than places to put it. Everyone wants to open a restaurant. Not everyone knows how to run one. If she's not cooking, managing the front of house, etc..., what is she doing?

> culinary cultures of Turkey, Greece and the Levant area

There's shawarma shops everywhere in the western world. They all offer Mediterranean/Levantine cuisine, what does this restaurant offer beyond that?

> Over the past two years, it was quickly and often apparent that there’s nothing that a small and young business in SF could do to make the city a living option for its employees.

Yes there is, pay more. And to pay them more, raise prices. If people can afford to pay rent and they still want to go out to eat, they'll pay more. That being said, you need to have a compelling product. Not sure someone with no restaurant background selling a commoditized product is going to be able to produce a compelling product.

> As alluded to earlier, the mass exodus of individuals from this workforce leaves fewer people and less reason for those people to excel.

Yes, people leave because they're not paid enough. Pay more and maybe they'll stay.

> The impact is seen when we tried the aspirational ‘Service Charge Inclusive’ model. Diners were so dismayed by it.

Of course they were. No one likes add-ons that they weren't told about. Instead of adding a 'service charge', just raise the menu prices. You know, the same as in Europe and other places where service is included.

All I see when I read this article is someone who knows nothing about restaurants, adds no value to her own restaurant, claims she's innovative and knows better but then reverts to the restaurant status quo and claims it doesn't work.

This is what I don't get about restaurants. Some of us work in them for 10-40 years. Do our apprenticeships in restaurants that win awards, have Michelin stars, are top 50 in the world, and work 80 hour weeks for decades on end. And then someone who got a little money from Google thinks they can just open something, hire people and be successful. Just imagine if Sergei Brin and Larry page were restaurant managers who thought they could hire a few programmers, rent an office and create Google?
Yes, "no punishment" <> "no training re moral principals and values". And when you do that with love, without punishment, you get people who actually have moral principals and values, rather than just pretending, in order to avoid loss of love or punishment.
CMU Principles of Imperative Computing, Lecture 1 [pdf]
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Well, yes. And so you need better weapons than they have.

Funny story. So I'm a little wiry guy. And back in the day, I used to carry a buck knife in my back pocket. As Logen says, you can never have enough knives ;) But anyway, a bunch of us were sitting around a fire, BSing, and I start cleaning my fingernails with the knife. And this big jolly dude says "It's always you little guys who pull a knife, when we're just having a friendly brawl!"

Funny, no?

Edit: But global nuclear war? Not so funny :(
The interesting thing about dead drops is that they are asymmetric, because whoever chooses the dead drop location has first-mover advantage. So, they are harder to surveil for an outsider, but easier for an insider - who can also involve third parties in a distributed way, similar to how the exchanges themselves happen. The article gets into this when it discusses how sellers might adapt to the possibility of a middle-man stealing from the dead-drop, or a supplier surveiling them.
Does anyone know how much cost would that reduce? You still need to bus tables, and now you need to manage a ticketing system + machinery, which inevitably breaks. Unless it's bar seating area, or you have a sushi-style conveyor belt, you'll still need staff to bring food to tables.

Personally, I prefer the ticketing/ordering machine. Katz's Deli in NYC famously uses a ticketing system.
sweet! I was hoping it could be disconnected down the middle. I'll have to reach out and see how involved that was.