skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Venture capitalists & NBCUniversal / Comcast have vaporized half a billion dollars on a low-quality click-bait service that is inevitably going bankrupt (or sold for pennies on the dollar of its former valuation). The small group within BuzzFeed that actually produces high quality journalism is the only serious value left in the entire company. That's why they kept it attached to the core brand. If they had separated it off, there's nothing left of the $500 million of VC and no future to the company. The high quality separated off unit would be worth a small fraction of the former BuzzFeed valuation. It'll probably be sold to Comcast for $50m a minute before it goes under.
I really dig the line protocol. Pretty simple.

Any HA features? Sharding to look out in 2.0? Or is the general idea to set streaming relays of influxdb tsm's and treat HA as an L7 proxy routing problem (shadow metric traffic using envoy for example). How do people handle this in their production setups. Curious to know.

It would be cool if the query engine could talk to multiple shards spanning multiple machines for dealing with high cardinality series.
You can't have been following it very closely then, so ¯\(°_o)/¯
It is when the number of lines (cashiers) changes.
Also there's lots more to do at home than screw around with the spouse now.
Canada.ca is a recipe website now and it's what HN always wanted: a recipe with no weird preface personal stories about grandmother's or something drinking tea.
Crates that don't exist, but should
Planetary collision that formed the moon made life possible on Earth
It's not even called Third World anymore. That's a pretty old term.
It's an English idiom, see https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/if+his+life+depended+on...
I bought a System76 with a stuck pixel. It never went away, and they wouldn't do anything about it.

I've never bought anything from them since.
This is why we need competing browsers and Microsoft should have continued Edge browser development. Thank goodness we still have Firefox.
Free Market! Free market anyone!?
I think you underestimate how long impressions last. I think of BuzzFeed as that crappy lists site. Because that's what they were. I have no idea when they got a competent news division or if that's bs being spread in this thread
Thanks for the suggestions. Just finished trying antiX, and it's a no-go. It doesn't see the internal drive. Trying Q4OS now...
I was worried my comment would make it appear that I had not read the article - I did, I just didn't think that the author gave regulatory capture sufficient weight and/or made it appear that Schumpeter had written about or accounted for its importance.

As for its general inefficiency: the examples of Bell Labs & the Hollywood studios are good counterexamples, both were unstoppable and required direct government intervention.

One of Wu's points is of the different nature of telecommunications (and common carriers in general).

I am in 100% agreement with you on the last two points.
Back when I worked at Chevron in the early 90s, I noticed that new SGI workstations were way faster NFS servers than anything else, even the Suns. It took me a bit in those days (Ethernet network analyzers were over $50K then, so hard to borrow even in a big, rich company) to figure out why:

It took 6 Ethernet frames to send a single 8K NFS block, and regaining the carrier could be pretty time-consuming if there was other traffic. So SGI implemented a really elegant cheat that technically violated the Ethernet standards, but dramatically improved performance for the entire network, and especially their NFS servers: They simply never let anyone else get a chance to talk until they'd sent the entire block, "hogging" the carrier by going straight from the last bit of the previous frame to the preamble of the next one. It was a very clever way of more-or-less getting jumbo frames years before they became part of the standard!
U.S. ramping up probe against Julian Assange, WikiLeaks says
Well, I don't know how good of a focus group the 20-odd people you've told about Buzzfeed News are. I do know that every HN thread on the topic of journalism attracts a lot of HN users who have very strong, highly unsubstantiated views about it.
For what it's worth, the T-Series Lenovo laptops can take 32GB and have matte screen options. I'm using a W-series at the moment that has a matte screen, and it can take 64GB, with the latest one taking up to 128.

The W-series isn't nearly as sleek as the XPS, although the T-series ones are looking pretty good these days!
Don't expect everyone to feel sorry for media outlets who inflame our current divisions, destroy teenagers lives and publish gossip masquerading as journalism. And thats just this week alone!
> They said Trump told Cohen to lie to congress when even Muller himself has declared that false.

The SCO's statement was _much_ narrower in scope than that.
There is no efficient negotiation technique that works consistently for men either, you need to understand that people need to look at their situation and figure out the optimal solutions for themselves rather than expect others to give them everything w/o effort, like a forced salary bump based on gender (that's one way to ruin anything remotely close to pay based on merit - hypocrisy much?) would.

Now I realize it's part of human nature to try and get as much as possible for as little as possible, but this takes it way too far.

You must be really daft if can you look at a bunch of stats like "women are paid 30% less than men" and then tell yourself "YES! this is a problem that I completely understand, I understand everything about this and what these people say is exactly what happens in the real world, we have to fix this".

What the hell does "as assertive as men" even mean. Is it some caricature of a man stomping his boss' desk to establish dominance? You're either assertive naturally or you're not, this applies to men or women. Fakes are easily spotted and ignored. Socially withdrawn/inept people or autistic people constantly draw the short straws when negotiating because there's no chance for them to be even close to remotely assertive even though in a STUDYYYYY the "scientists" could claim that "they were as assertive as others" just because they tried (unsuccessfully — a detail so easy to omit/ignore). You don't just go "ok now I'm going to be ASSERTIVE" and suddenly have everyone go your way, if you haven't developed that ability since childhood (or at least for a damn while), at which point you're using it by default.

Jfc, we live too relaxed lives, we have no problems so we invent some.
Everyone is underpayed. The work you are doing are mostly going to the pockets who do nothing. Bitter truth.
You can get pretty reasonable numbers, especially in the software industry, just using the freely available H1B visa salary data. All employers using these visas have to disclose the title, salary and location for an employee hired on one. In my experience for companies I'm familiar with these numbers are usually pretty accurate.

> https://h1bdata.info
Then you're misinformed. BuzzFeed does plenty of clickbaity quiz things, but it doesn't traffic in outrage last time I checked. And the news division is Pulitzer nominated.
Right now we’re prioritizing work on the single open source server and our cloud service, which has a very different design. Flux will be able to query multiple servers and combine their results (in OSS), but that would be a building block for some HA or clustering.

So you could certainly layer in your own HA solution. We’re still working out what if any clustered for federated features will exist in open source.
Their build pipeline has been down all morning as well, for both hosted and self-hosted. Just sits pending. No deploys this morning, woot!
Buzzfeed will cut its staff by 15% in major round of layoffs
It is not possible for a human being to work 20 hours a day. No exceptions.
Of course not. It merely started with Fox News.

And Murdoch have been quite upfront in interviews over the last 2 decades that this is what they intended. They firmly established themselves as a right-wing station and pushed everyone else to the left.
Current systems programming in unsafe languages has already resulted in many disasters. Rust is too complex to be the language of script kiddies, and neither does the article infer it's direction towards it. Perhaps if devs of old changes with the times we would already had rust 10 years ago.
> Does anyone actually use any OSI protocols anymore?

OK, here's my conspiracy theory:

At a certain point, the OSI people knew they were losing. However, they were the people in charge of the big institutions, so they made a push to ensure that history books would be re-written such that, well, of course we all use the OSI Model, of course the Internet people implemented OSI, there was never a debate, don't be silly! Eastasia and Oceania have always been at peace, and that's why, here in Airstrip One, you need seven layers to describe how anything which moves over a network works!

... and the fact the OSI Model was attached to actual protocols is silently forgotten, as is the fact the ARPANet/Internet people were mildly opposed to "layers" as a conceptual model and never took the OSI Seven-Layer Model as a design document!
> According to the NPR article, there was separation under the Obama administration, but the policy was changed to allow families to stay together.

I don't know where you got that from, but it's not in the article I linked. The article specifically states:

> The Obama administration established family detention centers that kept families together while their cases were processed.

Other sources tell me that the Obama administration did separate some families in extreme cases such as a parent carrying drugs.

But all that is besides the point. I've made no claims about Obama. The point here is that ICE has done things that were worth protesting against: systematically and needlessly separating children from their families.
Stay awake long enough though and human image processing gets really messy. I personally mis-identify things as people or spiders when scanning a scene. My brain jumps to a conclusion before I have time to double check and refine what I see.

I wonder what the mental model for that is - I've always assumed the brain iterates and refines but short-circuits when we're tired since processing is slower/limited.
I experienced a new thing at the QFC at U Village in Seattle the other day. You grab a little handheld scanner on your way in, enter your customer number, and just scan stuff as you put it in your bag which is in your basket. Then you go to the self-checkout machine at the end, weigh the few things that need weighing, and pay. It's pretty fun!
Isn't that what Azure is for? Use the software as a loss leader to get them using your services, which is where you make the real ongoing money.
Ada/SPARK tutorial
Number 33 really shocked me
Practice of Unit Tests
Theft and lies: why Uber doesn't deserve your business
That doesn't really solve the problem of the opposite situation, nor of the one that was originally under consideration: when a worker with greater impact is paid less, or when workers of similar impact are compensated differently. For that, you do need an accurate understanding of how your peers are compensated. I make less than peers I objectively outperform, and I would not have known unless they had told me personally. If that information had been accessible during my last review, I would have pressed for higher pay, but now that that's passed, both I and my employer have to worry about what my next step is. This could have been avoided if they'd been more transparent up-front.
how is the trackpad on the xps w/ ubuntu? Is the dell + linux combo equivalent to Apple's trackpad in performance?
Beautiful! Actually very realistic except the end.
Snake bug
That pesky windows 10 won’t run on an msp430 unfortunately...
IPTables Tutorial 1.2.2 [pdf]
> More decentralized sites (like the one you proposed with hand curated content) will crop up. I'm personally investigating the Linus Tech Tips forum as an HN alternative since it seems to have the maker and hacker vibes that I used to see here (and on Reddit and JCXP before I found HN).

What if gasp mailing lists made a come back? The longer I exist, the longer I realize I don't want the next iteration of Facebook, Reddit, Hacker News, or whatever comes after and uses IPFS and Filecoin for the foundation. I just want high signal and civil discussion in my inbox with a firm but benevolent dictator moderating. So, HN, but through my email client.
Back in the runup to the election of 2000, George Bush proposed investing Social Security funds in the stock market. Al Gore took the other side of the argument, correctly stating that the market carries risk.

Of course the long arc is always up. Today's market is far above where it was, even after the crashes of 2000 and 2008.

It's an idea that probably should be revisited.
Is the net.js file the MPS solution?
The saddest thing about the news industry dying is how, as it has struggled to stay relevant, it has given up any pretense of being a serious source of information (as opposed to a cheap source of outrage entertainment). Journalism is dead.
Emulator project aims to resurrect classic Mac apps and games without the OS
There's already a lot of howling about it. This thread is full of it!

And in any case, it's an unfinished story. BuzzFeed stand by their reporting and have asked the special counsel to clarify exactly what parts they are disputing (they did not say the entire story was false). So a little early to say it's a "false story".
Rust isn't just for Firefox. I'm unsure if Safe Rust works with JIT compilation. Unless some new method comes around jit is King when it comes to JavaScript.
Interesting - I read the parent comment as saying that the XPS was inferior to the X1, not the other way around.

I completely agree that the lenovo is a better laptop, for similar reasons to the ones you've mentioned.

I think the 'Macbooks stand on their own' comment is more along the lines of "you either operate in the macOS space, or the 'everything else' space. There isn't much crossover due to the large shift in workflow between macOS and windows". This rings true for me - I have the option of using a mac for work, but I prefer to run windows on a lenovo because the hardware is just better. I can deal with windows 10's quirks, and I just run a VM for all my linux needs - no half-assing it with the BSD terminal in macOS.
In San Francisco the Impossible Burger is being sold at places that did not sell veggie burgers (e.g. Gott's at the Ferry Building).

I generally don't like veggies pretending to be meat, and I definitely don't want my veggies to bleed, but I did like the texture of the thing. Unfortunately it really only works with a ton of seasoning to mask the catfood taste.
DO not create sock puppet cadres.

refrain from voting; flagging; and publishing bolstering comments from sock puppet accounts to support a marketing agenda. This does no good for HN or the container.

review the HN guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Dont spam HN with ads or comments that have no intellectual interest and no substantiative content
I don't know... having been on openshift, Jenkins and bitbucket for the last year I'd give a large sum of money to go back to azure devops.
It also has no imagination, unless I've missed something (I admit I really need to catch up in this area).

Humans are experts at imagining 'what if' scenarios and learning from things that never even happened. "If this was bright red, is it still a cat? Or do all cats have a limited range of colours on a fixed cat-colour-spectrum?" I'm not sure if any DL systems do that?
T-series are great machines. Even the old T520 can do 16gb, which is pretty good for a unit you can get under $200
I don't see why not. I mean, I can't imagine many if any people woild be able to do this every day. But some days it seems very possible.
As a related aside - I got lasik surgery a couple years ago for $3000 on the dot and it was easily in the top best life decisions I’ve ever made. Most lasik practices I know of have low-no interest financing options that are going to be cheaper long term than glasses.
>There has never been consistency at a population level when it comes to how men and women receive advances from the other.

True, but there are norms and averages.

>What, exactly, are women supposed to explain to men? And why is it their job? (Honest question as I'm having difficulty seeing how this is supposed to work on an interpersonal level and no woman can speak for all women.)

I explained this in my original comment. Women should have a reasonably standard way of behaving when they are sexually attracted and a perceivably different way of behaving when they are just feeling friendly. And they ought to explain to men what the two sorts of behavior are, so men can spot the difference. I don't see why that is unreasonable.
DestroyAllSoftware Compendium
Creditors Say Eddie Lampert Killed Sears in a 'Shakespearean Tragedy'
I was at a severely overloaded grocery store pre-storm this past weekend, which had implemented two global queues (one for 20 items or less, one for everyone else) in order to attempt to increase throughput and block the store less.

The manager was actually going around asking people at the front of the line the time they got in line, in order to be able to measure time in queue. Didn't really matter, as they had every lane open already, but seemed like a way for the manager to know if more lanes were needed.
> he/she

BTW "they" has been used as a third-person singular gender-neutral pronoun for over a century, and it's superior to "he/she" not only in ergonomics but also because "he/she" doesn't work for nonbinary people whereas "they" works for everyone.
F1000 offers tools to transfer an account to another email address. Why this makes you think it is "the worst thing you can do"?
Can anyone comment on the relationship between this and the differential equations used by the connectionist neuroscientists back in the 1980's?
they tried to be cheeky. is ignoring that a problem sufficiently inconveniencing you that it requires a post on a forum?
they do? i've never heard of that, i waded into the clickbait but i can't even find their politics section
I use a Lenovo T480 for work and disabled the trackpad so I just use the nipple + hardware buttons when I'm not using a mouse. When I need a new personal laptop I'll probably buy the same model.

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-t-ser...
To offer a counter-anecdote, my street is a veritable spawning pool. Four or five houses have kids, there are probably 10 kids primary-school-aged and younger and another 4-5 high school aged kids. It's very location-dependent (obviously).
A "why aren't you doing it this other way?" comment is appropriate when:

- You understand both options.

- You understand the tradeoffs between them.

- You have a reasoned argument for favoring one approach.

- You suspect that the other person is missing some of this information.

I love getting comments that teach me about a language, API, design patterns, or potential bug, and make my code better. Even if I'm going to stay the course in this particular case, I'm happy to have received the comment, and always try to let the commenter know that. An okay code review gets my code landed fast, a good code review is one I learn from.

But I can't fucking stand defending and explaining perfectly normal and reasonable choices to engineers who just don't know and are curious, or have weird taste, or are otherwise putting me through the exhausting exercise of fighting for every little choice without providing value in return.
There is no such problem. Each eye stares at itself in the mirror. (Not necessarily at the same time, if the procedure is done as described.) Those two lines of sight are parallel if the mirror is true, regardless of distance to the mirror.

There may be a different problem: though parallel, those two lines of sight may not be exactly perpendicular to the ruler/mirror. This is not going to make a huge difference.

Suppose the mirror/ruler is rotated five degrees off relative to the plane of your pupils, which is quite a lot. For an pupillary distance of 65 mm, this introduces only a 0.25 mm error on the low side: basically the measurement shrinks by the cosine of 5 degrees which is 0.996.

Pupillary distances are typically given to the millimeter.

> If you are closer then 1 meter to the mirror you should compensate.

If you're 1 meter away from the mirror, you won't be able to read the ruler, at least if you're doing all this because of near-sightedness. :) This technique is best if your face is right up to the mirror. If you press your forehead to the mirror so your head doesn't move, that's probably best. If you're far sighted and can't read the ruler from that close, then you have to back off. If you can't read the ruler at any distance, you may have to do this with contact lenses on.
BuzzFeed News staff were finalists for the Pulitzer in both 2017 and 2018. What makes you think they "make shit up and repost other, more legitimate news sources"?
It’s so weird that out of a group of black men calling children homophobic F word, n words, a bunch of racist stuff. A Native American telling kids without provocation to go back to Europe, this is our land we don’t want you, and a bunch of kids doing a school chant, the entire left and center media went after a kid smirking.

They didn’t even cover the racist stuff said against the kids. Just some fluff about white supremacy, and MAGA hat being akin to KKK. All the headlines were inflamatory racial tensions inciting and all the corrections were STILL misleading and headlines seeming the kids were wrong. I’m talking about NYtimes, cnn, msnbc, not just the buzzfeed rags.

And then they pull up a picture from 4 years ago that’s misleading and not at all related to the kids. Get called out for fake news, and then they push another fake narrative from an out of context video and that turns out that the kid isn’t even from the school. Then finally another fake narrative about some kid not allowed to speak because he’s gay, turned out fake.

The journalists on twitter wishing for death to the kid based off a smirking clip and no rebuke for the actual racists are terrible human beings who themselves are racist. I unsubscribed from the NYTimes over this. Fox News during peak birther conspiracy wasn’t a 1/10th of this ridiculousness. Legit racists run these companies and legit racist are employed.

Oh and get this, just saw on Facebook my High School History teacher posted a bunch of basketball players holding up the “3 point shot” sign arguing how the school is racist because apparently an “ok” sign is code for white supremacy when literally every nba player makes it after a shot. That post has 35 likes. It’s like our collective IQ dropped 30 points in 2016. There’s a certain rationality you expect when you have a discussion with someone that seems to have completely dissipated into emotional tribalism.
You're absolutely right, and I kind of quietly slipped it in under "extracting qualitative information about functions" in calculus.
levels.fyi

Median(?avg?) senior comp at Google is apparently 350k, 370k at Facebook.

That is reasonable for large top tech company, which was the original statement.
Problem is, no one wants to buy a car with $10,000 build quality for $20,000.
Well, the news was about "BuzzFeed" in general, but fair enough.

Buzzfeed News current top articles:

Why Bryan Singer’s Latest Scandal May Not Affect Rami Malek’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” Oscar Campaign

This Photographer Captures The Emotional Final Moments Between Pets And Their Owners

Climate Change Is A Top Priority For The New Crop Of Governors — Even One Republican

A Man Allegedly Harassed Parkland Victims' Families On Instagram By Posing As The Shooter

A Woman Mistakenly Showed Up For Her Interview With Microsoft A Month Early. Her Hilarious Exchange With The Company Has Gone Viral.