skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This... doesn't sound like you've been following him for a very long time.

Compare the prior incident -- I'll use a summary from Matt Levine again:

> Remember when Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk committed securities fraud by falsely claiming on Twitter that he had secured financing to take Tesla private? Remember how Musk and Tesla settled with the Securities and Exchange Commission by agreeing to pay fines and have Tesla lawyers review Musk’s tweets before he sent them out? Remember how Tesla hired a high-powered Washington litigator as its general counsel and Musk’s Twitter babysitter? Remember how Musk then said in a 60 Minutes interview that he and Tesla were absolutely not ever going to comply with the terms of the settlement that they had signed, that he does not respect the SEC, and that no lawyer would ever pre-clear his tweets?

But heck, let's see what CBS said about it. Most of this is just quotes from the interview:

> His warzone tweeting drew fire when out of the blue in August he tweeted, quote: "Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured." The SEC disputed that claim and charged him with securities fraud. The case was settled with Musk agreeing that his "communications relating to the company… including… Twitter" would be overseen by his board.

> Lesley Stahl: Have you had any of your tweets censored since the settlement?

> Elon Musk: No.

> Lesley Stahl: None? Does someone have to read them before they go out?

> Elon Musk: No.

> Lesley Stahl: So your tweets are not supervised?

> Elon Musk: The only tweets that would have to be say reviewed would be if a tweet had a probability of causing a movement in the stock.

> Lesley Stahl: But how do they know if it's going to move the market if they're not reading all of them before you send them?

> Elon Musk: Well, I guess we might make some mistakes. Who knows?

> Lesley Stahl: Are you serious?

> Elon Musk: Nobody's perfect.

> Lesley Stahl: Look at you.

> Elon Musk: I want to be clear. I do not respect the SEC. I do not respect them.

( https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-the-2018-60... )

So, he signed a binding legal agreement committing to have his tweets reviewed pre-publication, and immediately did a television interview in which the main messages were (1) that he wasn't complying with the settlement, (2) that he planned never to comply with the settlement, and (3) that he did not respect the SEC.

Truly, a man of his word.
And easily lost.
thank you...your comment is just awesome!!! i thought i was alone in understanding the real meaning of being a "minimalist" ;)
Did you want me to give you the 4 horsemen speech? Anyway there are other things people believe that aren't true beside the nuclear winter story. Like we'll all be dead anyway from a nuke war so why bother to prepare. We seem to have taken this view but a lot of the rest of the world didn't.

India Pakistan have a couple hundred smaller nukes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter#Criticism_and_d...

Seems to be a lot of forest fires over a very large area recently

https://www.popsci.com/california-five-year-wildfire#page-2

And there have been bigger fires in the past which is what a lot of people say nuclear winter is mainly about.

Perhaps a nuclear winter scenario could happen in a total global thermonuclear war but even that has been in debate for a while. I don't want a war to be proven wrong.
Errr, I think that over states things just a tad. I really love Singapore, but:

1. Public transit: it’s good if you go where public transit goes. Try to get out to East Coast park, and you have a 45 minute transit ride vs a 15 minute Uber.

2. It’s clean for an Asian city and depends where you go. Try Little India on a Friday night (and then Saturday morning) but it does clean up amazingly well.

The food centers are amazing. I haven’t visited in a few years and miss it. Maybe you’re right, for a year it would be super fun.
>Are plastics not recycled in the U.S.?

You may want to look into what specifically is recycled wherever you are. I'm in Australia and recently discovered that much of the plastic that I have been putting in the recycling bins are not actually recycled. Lots of kinds of plastic are theoretically recyclable however in practice only a few specific types of plastic are actually recycled.
By that argument, it's judges that we ought to be worrying about.
So you also think that these short-sellers also made Elon respond to people on twitter, confirming the SEC action?
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1100215984713957376?s=08
We need to use an Intel Arria or Stratix FPGA due to the 'config bypass' feature we use to allow QEMU to implement its own PCIe config registers. Xilinx, Lattice and Cyclone FPGAs don't support this as far as I can tell.
There's an xkcd about this:

https://xkcd.com/1285/
Radarr/Sonaar/Jacket/Plex/ and so on and so forth.
I am using pfsense with pfblockerng for ad/tracking protection. My wife spents a good amount of time on a mobile fashion game. In addition to the forced in app purchases once a month, it makes her watch plenty of video ads every day. She has to watch those ads to get virtual currency that can be used to purchase things that is a must for playing the game. With the protection enabled, the ads won't show and she can't play. So I had to whiteliste her mobile in pfblockerng. She still complains that it doesn't work. So she uses mobile data to play the game. I am not sure what else in pfsense is breaking it for her, I haven't looked further into it. One good thing is it helps me save bandwidth. My home internet has 500gb limit after which it drops to 1/10th of the speed. She seems to be using up close to her 1.5gb daily limit almost always, just from this game and facebook. So I get more bandwidth to download stuff!
Redis is incredible. I built a matchmaker with it as the sole data store and it has been a breeze to use. It's so simple to visualize data structures with it and I just can't see myself using any other in-memory data store. Also Redis Sentinel is fantastic.
If someone could figure out a way to bring more "real world" into people's lives.. it would probably do better than more digital.. people are already full of digital and want more real life.
Why Do We Yawn?
Bert Language Model Explained
Once the problem has been identified, the solution becomes obvious: make sure the work we push to thread pools describes the resources to acquire before running the code in a dedicated thread.

My favourite approach assigns one global thread pool (queue) to each function or processing step. The arguments to the functions will change, but the code is always the same, so the resource requirements are also well understood.

I think I get what he's saying. To avoid one stage in the multi-step computation acquiring too many resources and starving other stages:

- Cap the resources used by each stage.

- Create one threadpool per stage.

- Include sufficient information in pending jobs that the threadpool can calculate the resources needed to process each job.

- Only start a job running when it can be run without exceeding resource cap for the stage.

Conceptually, you can think of it as pre-allocating a bundle of resources to each processing stage: threads, memory, etc. Each processing stage then runs as many jobs concurrently as it can with the allocated bundle of resources. That's the idea, but in reality each job allocates its own resources from a common pool that is shared among all the processing stages, so the processing stage has to calculate how much memory, etc. each job will allocate before giving it a thread to run on.
NYC streets are worse because of 250,000+ (obviously, not all at the same time) Uber/Lyft/Via/etc. vehicles being on the streets. I don’t care if there is demand, they have made congestion worse, period. I think all municipalities should treat all “private”, “shared”, whatever you want to call them, car services just like taxis, and require them to be painted a special color. You know not to travel too closely behind a taxi because they could stop or swerve at any moment. Unless you look at the very fine print on the license plate (and this is only in cities that require these cars to register), you do you know it is a car for hire, and to not follow too closely, unless you want to be blocked while they pick up a fare. How is it that these upstarts can “disrupt” an entire industry, and have a significantly lower barrier to entry than the incumbent? I say, require them all to be painted pink!
Scratching My Own Itch – iPrompted
Does the dest unreach solution work on the original Chromecast?
This sounds an awful lot like SEDA, but my memory of it is too fuzzy to see whether the differences might be.
Blockchain needs a flywheel, just like AWS
“Flywheel effect” means that a product has a feature that attracts some users to use it. As more people use it, the user experience of the product will be better, which will attract more users to use, thus forming a positive business cycle logic to accelerate business growth.

Let's take a look at AWS's "flywheel effect". AWS started at a lower price; because of the lower price, it brought in more customers, thus bringing more AWS usage. More usage, in turn, led to greater scale. Because of economies of scale, AWS easily negotiated prices with partners (including IDCs, service manufacturers, hard drive manufacturers, and even electricity bills) resulting in lower costs. In this way, the price of AWS became cheaper, thus starting the flywheel.

What is the engine of the AWS Commercial Flywheel? It is the scale effect. When the scale is larger, the price is lower.

Similarly, the blockchain project PPIO also has such a flywheel. Let me explain it below.

The number of users increases, which brings more revenue to the platform; when the platform revenue increases, the storage node's revenue also increases. When the storage node revenue increases, more storage nodes are attracted to join, thus the number of storage nodes increases, which also makes competition more intense. Furthermore, high-quality storage nodes with lower quotations will survive. The surviving quality storage nodes will also enable the platform to have lower prices and better services. Because prices and services are better, more users are attracted to the platform, and with more users, more revenue is brought to the platform, thus starting the flywheel.

This is why PPIO can achieve a lower price than cloud services. Do you think there are other reasons? If you have better ideas and suggestions, we welcome you to join our official PPIO community to discuss them with us.

Find us on our official Discord: https://discord.gg/WX43bEb.
Some of the tests blew up large craters. If you haven't seen the movie Trinity and Beyond, its a good one. They started running out of atoll islands to blow up so they ferried the bombs in barges. The bravo test was done from a tower, it was the largest test we did.
It’s going to have to work though. For example, corporate users absolutely require the ability to access private internal domains that are not served by public DNS servers. The browser vendors aren’t going to be able to enable DoH directly from the browser by default and break that.

I think the main reason the browsers have added support is so they can get the data they need to make encrypted SNI work. They’re going to have to get operating system APIs to be able to do this from the OS’s resolver or else it will screw all sorts of things up.
C++, it’s not you. It’s me
Are you saying that buggy software is good because it’s widespread, and then trying to ad hominem me? Because that’s adorable both ways.
CDN providers cross over into analytics and tracking.
Your last advice is critical, but I've seen people fall into voids and make twitch decisions and statements about important things in their lives with consequences spanning years, because they have a philosopher's aura around their fledgling heads. Besides, we can still be plenty arrogant at 25, 30 and 40 but with a bit more consistency.
China Scale: The New Sandbox to Battle-Test Innovative Technology
This is epic. A must watch for the day. Please, can we have more congress members who use their brains and connect the dots like this and hold companies accountable?
You could set up Pi-hole on the second one and have another DNS server in case the first one craps out.
What are those “free market countries”? Or do you use this term to refer to countries which are not dictatorships?
On IOS apple only allows (some) dns based blocking afaik
Ask HN: Are tools like Discord/Gitter indicators of a more collaborative web?
I recently started seeing many Subreddits adopt Discord. Some Github repos adopt Gitter. To me it seems like in some sense comments sections are getting replaced by these platforms (I'll admit I don't know the metrics behind this statement, but maybe? At least to some degree?). Seems like the web was inherently lacking a "real-time" feel that is being filled by these platforms. Any strong opinions on this?
especially for bitcoin miners and unsecured redis instances!
Who paid for that "study"?

Qualcomm...

Yeah, no.
What about the podcasts comedians are doing on youtube these days?
I tried to design one of those for my company. We've typically just hired someone through my HN post about it recently, so I think it's working, but I'd still really like to get some feedbacks on it. I am very concerned about getting it right, having been through the shitty side of many interview processes.

omnistream-dot-co/job-opportunities/
Hmm, it's hard, I kind of agree. I wonder if some social media tech will lose impact and fade away, while others (perhaps, unprecedented, not made yet) will gain impact?
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HDMI over USB sound like hardware abuse to me. All systems I've only ever owned had write_mostly interfaces for video display.

Really, USB speed limits are mostly bound by flash memory limits so manufacturers struggle to justify a replacement. I guess faster charging is nice?
Sure, we can distinguish the difference between computation and electricity, or computation and atoms etc.

However somehow we conflate computation with consciousness.

I think this is primarily because the human brain
1) performs computations
2) is also somehow related to consciousness in a way we don't quite understand.

However we have lots of examples of computation without consciousness (mechanical compuaters, electronic computers, cellular replication, slime molds, Cellular automata etc).

So why would it follow that consciousness emerges from computation? There is really no good reason to think this other than the fact that our brains are both computational and conscious.

Consciousness is the reason that there is some experience of reality rather than no experience of reality. It is not computational in nature one way or the other.

So overall I think the emergence theory is hubris, not sound thinking. The reality is we don't currently have a good solution to the hard problem of consciousness.
These are not the same things. The major difference is that hardware for instructions can do only one thing so it can be thought of more like a physical process.

For a software pipeline, you don't need to hand data off to a different thread, you just need to make sure the data is run with the right execution. That could be on any thread, and the execution/function can be run on any number of threads at the same time as long as the data is separate.
Agreed. I feel that he should engage with the actor model in this article or a subsequent one because it seems to me like the type of abstraction he’s searching for. E.g. where each actor generally performs one type of work, each has a mailbox with a variety of parallelism strategies, message passing semantics discourage deadlock scenarios... Not a perfect solution but one to discuss when talking about the problems he’s trying to solve.
> Please cite an example of a teacher convicted of child abuse where that conviction was "hidden from the public." If anything, those cases are splashed across news websites even when there's nothing more than an accusation.

How could they?
Good point. Hmm, I still wonder if there will be breakthroughs in the TV-YouTube style.
I disagree. You seem to prefer a strong docker-centric idea of package management. I think that by drawing the line where they did they made it possible for anyone to use whatever package management scheme made sense for a given application. There are already so many alternatives for driving the file system to a particular state that I really fail to see how docker taking an opinionated position would have helped.
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So you'd want a low speed connector, a high speed connector, a high wattage connector and also a high speed + high wattage connector? So 4 plugs, or more if you want to add even faster speeds in the future. And then you need cables which have one of each of those connectors on each end, so we're talking about dozens of variants.

No thank you. The drama around USB-C is insanely overblown; the vast majority of use cases are fine with the 60 watt + 480 mbps required minimum configuration for USB-C cables. In the few rare exceptions where you need >60 watts or higher speed, you're generally going to have purpose-built hardware anyway, so just devoting a special cable to that isn't such a big deal.
I've been using Redis many years. It's served me well. It's simplicity and vision is a testament to antirez's hard work. Thank you sir.
Those taxes should be proportional to the wear, otherwise it remains unbalanced.
His behavior is not unusual for someone who is burned out and/or a pothead. Ignoring consequences is typical stoner behavior. We'll have to see how this plays out.
Before PI-hole I would download Privoxy to my router. One of the features I really like was that you set it up to default to blocking everything network-wide and have a local proxy you could set up to remove blocking.

https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/proxy/privoxy
http://www.privoxy.org
Taming the Front-End Monolith
This.

A lot of those arguing your parent comment's point in other threads here and elsewhere seem to magically forget background data. Out of sight, out of mind.

Use a simple app to track background connections on your phone (e.g. NetGuard or the like) and you'd be amazed at how much gets sent back to the mothership.
This has to be just a money grab right? How can they possibly contend that people using ride sharing services exacerbates road congestion? Neither of their arguments makes any sense.
Unless you use four digits for the year all the time, it will remain ambiguous.
The point makes sense when you think about the examples given: workplace fashion and unspoken rules. A company dominated by people wearing "rich casual" would benefit by explicitly embracing other casual fashions, such as various "poor casual" styles like track suits. This would let the non-rich-background people stop spending energy learning "rich casual" fashion. They could then spend that energy on things that actually help the company.
I’m curious. Elaborate?
Well, in my experience I was speaking to engineering firms which explained that metrics on their machinery would be visible from hundreds of metres just by looking at the structure. This vastly improves safety as it allows workers to see if there is hazards/dangers.
For me, Redis is the most software valuable tool I use.
I was hooked from the day I started using it about 8 years ago. It somehow has a place in almost every software project
I work on. And it just keeps getting better.
Now with RESP3 on the horizon, it will enable me to even
further benefit from the many clients available in almost
every programming language.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=494649

Here is the link from Feb 25, 2009

Note this number = 494649

Today = 19 247493

Nineteen (19) Million Posts etc later (mas o menos)
In classic Hacker News fashion, the top comment is just suggesting you use something else instead.
Or we could use the proper unit of energy, joules. (1 watt second = 1 joule)
That's really a good point. The whole reason city living became popular again is that the supposed "utopia" of suburbia was really boring.
Guide for Using an eGPU for Gaming on a 2018 Macbook Pro
The original HN post only has 23 votes and 11 comments! Good reminder that HN doesn't have to be crazy about your project for it to become successful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=494649
A heroku like service which uses autoscaling aurora serverless master master replicated across many regions with cloudfront running containers instead of just lambda functions. Basically a cdn with a container runtime and an autoscaling sql db. Hopefully amazon releases something like lambda @ edge but for fargate which would make this possible.
TLS it seems it actually uses port 853 (which I didn't know). https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7858

So I guess in theory you can block that port outbound to all hosts to handle TLS's use case.

HTTPS is tougher, but just block all traffic to those hostnames with a DNS blacklist.
I mean that in the sense of being able to contact a specialist at your office if there is something you are unfamiliar with. For example, if I am an astronaut and a part fails, I can have someone direct me who designed it. In a more simple capacity, a mechanic can have support from an expert on a specific car.
Stupid article. Basically a copy-paste job with exclamation points. No real info other than "these companies exist, and this is what they purport to do." Good work. BTW, the whole site looks like clickbait. I have better things to destroy.
What does Redis Sentinel do in a nutshell?
I have a friend working at Canonical, and whenever he introduces himself he always includes a brief mention that Canonical makes Ubuntu. I felt it’s very strange (and certainly felt it a little offensive when I first knew him), but came to understand it after a while. It is not common for people to make connection between Canonical and Ubuntu (even IT people!). He needs to establish himself, otherwise many people won’t take him seriously when he talks about Linux stuff. It’s quite unfortunate.
For those wondering about the source of the "4th power of weight per axle", I found this after some short, but intense, Googling:

http://co-asphalt.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/TrashTruckD...

Reference 1 lead me to this: (Page I-11)
https://habib00ugm.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/aashto1993.pd...

From that:
"The load equivalency factor increases approximately as a function of the ratio of any given axle load to
the standard 18 kip single axle load raised to the fourth power."

That is also cited here, on page 14:
https://wisconsindot.gov/Documents/dmv/agri-eq-veh/ag-study/...
I wish there was a true ios firewall.

and a way to turn off deep linking

and a way to turn off ble beacons

and the possibility of local location services only such as photo tags, without all the rest.

sigh.
You're acting as if market manipulation is some far-out conspiracy theory rather than something relatively common. I don't think it takes a "kabal of evil geniuses" to dupe a few credulous journalists who are incentivized and looking for a scoop by forging some documents. There are far more complex market manipulation conspiracies that are well-documented (see: LIBOR scandal)

Furthermore, why haven't we heard anything from the SEC? They are an increasingly transparent organization. Why haven't they issued a press release or published their court filings on their website? Are we supposed to just trust a journalist's word and ability to verify that an anonymous "source familiar with the matter" isn't just bamboozling them?