skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People get worked up and over-react over dumb shit. It happens. Making a big deal out of it does not do anything to improve the situation. I'm not wasting everyone's time by calling the cops unless the threat is at least remotely credible. I know that in this day and age of shunning responsibility being the person willing to define "remotely credible" is not going to be popular but whatever. Calling the cops when some stressed out person goes a little too far isn't smart and doesn't improve safety. It's just ass covering that lets you pat yourself on the back for "doing something". If you really want to address the situation your best bet is probably to chew out whoever did it later after they have cooled off.

As ethbro pointed out[1], criminal statutes have been interpreted such that a non-credible thread does not usually fall within them. Cops generally don't like it when you call them for non-criminal things. Honestly you're probably best off asking whoever got threatened what they want to do rather than optimizing for corporate ass covering.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19359233
The Ping Pong Ball Accelerator referenced at the bottom of the article is a really neat project. Wonder if elem school would let the high voltage source be used during science fair demo day...
Apparently freelancing and contracting mean different things depending on both industry and where you live. Could you clarify what you mean please, rather than relying on definitions of rather loose terms?
The implications of that to accessibility are atrocious. I had a blind friend who lived outside US and had to deal with english faxes once. That was a nightmare, both in the financial and accessibility sense. If everyone just used email...
Plus, a problem was found anyway in NASA data (somewhere around 2006, I think) that was caused by Y2K; it just took a long time for someone to find it.
OpenAI explicitly says somewhere that Elon's money won't be in the LP, directly or indirectly?
> I’ve seen the idea that every minute spent on infrastructure is a minute less spent shipping features

This is why working in infra is so awful, people follow this principle for years and then invest a million a year in an infra team whose hands they tie.

Resilience is a feature, though I agree at early stage folks often need less than they think, a single auto-scaling group and load balancer in AWS or something similar isn't much heavier than a single linode VPS, except that it has substantially improved resilience.
NIH would imply they had a real choice.

Sadly due to licensing, they don’t.

Edit: I stand corrected. GPL should be fine.
You might like the minimal tiling present in CWM (and likely other window managers, too). Basically, it is a regular old overlapping window manager but with keyboard commands as the primary control. If you have two or more windows you want to see on the screen at the same time tiling style, simply press the hotkey for either vertical or horizontal (Super+v for me). When I want to open a terminal window on top of a browser, pressing Super+enter puts it at the mouse cursor, scaled to the application’s default size.

For many terminal windows or one Emacs and one terminal, I might use tiling, but I can still overlap whenever it makes more sense. Plus, the consistent keyboard controls (I use a config pretty similar to https://www.c0ffee.net/blog/openbsd-on-a-laptop/#cwm) make me more efficient than a mouse interface.
There is also Flix language inspired by Datalog that adds the features of monotone functions and lattice models. This post is such a coincidence for me since I have just started to work on Flix and souffle for my thesis.
They already did their MongoDB-compatible NoSQL document database. Not sure what's under the hood but I assume an altered MongoDB engine adapted to their scalable cloud storage architecture.

https://aws.amazon.com/documentdb/
You can scale applications independently when they are floating. But that will affect the layout of other tiled windows on the same screen, as they will tile behind the floating window. So you would need to float everything. In that case it is not being a tiling WM
DTrace has switched to GPL for the kernel part (see https://oss.oracle.com/projects/DTrace/).
If you lay down with dogs...
Is this purely in chronological order of publication or is there some algorithm selecting relevant stories and shuffling them to the top?
Are you qualified to assess threats for credibility? It’s actually a fairly involved skillset, and unless you’re used to working with MOSAIC you might want to leave it to people who are qualified.
And when to align to cache line size
I wouldn't say it was a death sentence. Maybe it depends on strong word-of-mouth reputation, but I'd prefer to buy one online without ever stepping onto a sales floor.

From their original announcement: "You can now return a car within 7 days or 1,000 miles for a full refund. Quite literally, you could buy a Tesla, drive several hundred miles for a weekend road trip with friends and then return it for free."

This is how buying a car should be, if it was up to me.
Wait for it to land in your distro and then just run updates normally. Feel free to file an out-of-date notice for the package if appropriate. Have fun!
> Well I'll give them credit for being able to recognize and reverse a mistake. That's a good sign for the future.

It's very concerning that they made that call in the first place. It should never have been reversed because they shouldn't have done it. I'm a huge fan of Tesla, but I can't help but say it feels completely chaotic atm.
As someone who is involved in the ecosystem and maintains some open-source projects based on ElasticSearch, I am similarly curious about the move to not build upon existing projects (there could be a good reason, but haven't heard it yet).

Why wasn't ElastAlert used / built upon for alerting? https://github.com/yelp/elastalert

Or why wasn't ElasticSearch SQL used / built upon for SQL? https://github.com/NLPchina/elasticsearch-sql

Or why wasn't SearchGuard used / built upon for Security? https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard

All of them have Apache 2.0 license.
Microsoft has already developt ReFS for this, however I don't know the adaption rate of ReFS on Windows servers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReFS
Google's wildly popular goal-setting tool
Many Google cloud platform services are currently down
Sway runs fine on most distros, so it's going to come down to other things. Debian experimental has a package for it.
>> work on whatever is most important or most interesting,

how often are these two the same thing? Which are you supposed to do when you've got all this open-ended, distraction free time?

And the whole "no schedule" thing comes off as cherry-picking data and situations. Even when Arnold was making blockbuster movies do you think they just filmed whenever he showed up, keeping an entire crew on standby?

Did you notice how all of his examples are individual activities? that's great, but it's tough to accomplish meaningful, revolutionary work without collaboration. Schedules are super-useful (and I'd argue required) for short/mid-term planning and prioritization across teams where everyone is important.

The approach here is for when there is huge asymmetry between parties - like an emergency room and patients. You show up with everyone else, then they triage (hopefully by importance, not interest) and process. Guess what? even the specialist still have schedules so they can work within a broader system.

The approach here sounds like the "schedule" of a lot of affluent retired people.
I run Wayland on my hypervisor OS and pass through my NVIDIA GPU to a VM with proprietary drivers in order to take full advantage of my card.
Async objects instead of async calls in Node.js
Thanks. Wikipedia confirms: Of all the crocodilians, the saltwater crocodile and Nile crocodile have the strongest tendencies to treat humans as prey. The saltwater crocodile has a long history of attacking humans who unknowingly venture into its territory. As a result of its power, intimidating size and speed, survival of a direct predatory attack is unlikely if the crocodile is able to make direct contact. By contrast to the American policy of encouraging a certain degree of habitat coexistence with alligators, the only recommended policy for dealing with saltwater crocodiles is to completely avoid their habitat whenever possible, as they are exceedingly aggressive when encroached upon.

Note to self: avoid crocodiles.
Electrostatically Accelerated Ping-Pong Ball Travels the Circuit
sorry, I should have moved the end of my comment ("are backed by _real_ technology") to the end of my first statement.
This article should be renamed "A Pedants Take on a Statistical Model, an Exploration into Why I'm No Fun at Parties."
At Lob we just finished migrating all of our AWS resources to Terraform. We have a strict policy where everything (creating, updating or deleting) should be done through Terraform and the AWS console should be used as a read-only dashboard (some actions on the console such as invoking Lambdas, deleting an SQS messages, etc. are fine). We have alerting setup for any action that is performed in our AWS accounts that was done through the console.

Right now, changes are applied manually by the terraform changes author (every engineer has access to provision infrastructure they need, some teams have access to more AWS accounts than others) but we're looking to move to an automated environment such as Atlantis or Terraform Enterprise later this year.
If 40% of the Boeing 737 Max planes went down would you call that engineering for the long haul? This has absolutely nothing to do with flat earth nonsense, your comment is the literal definition of the strawman argument.
video https://twitter.com/JanHenrikH/status/1094664006059593729
The submission title is editorialized.

The original article title is "Footage Contradicts U.S. Claim That Nicolás Maduro Burned Aid Convoy" but has been editorialized to "Footage contradicts actions justifying war mongering efforts against Venezuela."
Are phone systems more resilient than internet and email protocols? A phone number relies on a single vendor, whereas internet and email can be accessed through a variety of vendors, and MX records can be changed by the user. If the power goes out, I can still use email via wireless providers, or I can go to a different location and use it.
Managing Big Data: OLTP vs. OLAP
How did you quit? I just can't seem to do it for long :(
Average price of a cart on Amazon must be around ~15$.
Minimum cart price on Tesla website is 35k$, not really comparable.
Most big companies don't really care. And that's because they don't have a single person with the power to say 'stop'.

In a long chain of managers the manager above will only hear "there was an issue and it's fixed". The upper manager doesn't really have the time and the will to dig into the details.
Again, follow the SilverCar model and let consumers rent a Tesla.

Apply a one day rental fee toward the purchase price if they buy within 365 days of renting the car.

Use this to get more people in Tesla’s experiencing them.
Wow, $1 for 100 emails is very very very very expensive. So expensive that I'd opt to build this in house rather and take on the costs associated with it and still come out saving money.

It's a pretty solid idea otherwise.
Adopting ZFS would take away from Storage Spaces, So sadly I don’t see it happening.
I got lost on the line "If the final answer is odd, the flip is TAILS." For example: Alice flips 1 for tails. Barb/Charlie/Danika flip 0. Why is the answer tails when most of the people flipped 0 for heads? Why use XOR instead of just taking the most common answer?
Beam Week #10
My understanding of wargames is that its like a recreational tabletop game to determine the results of combat.

But the movement of troops, and their positioning, is determined by the soldiers in the exercise. So its like playing Axis and Allies (the generals roll dice to see who "lives and dies" in the game), except that the soldiers move in real-time (the soldiers on the board move to Hex-location X only when the REAL soldiers in the exercise get to that location).

Practicing the issuance of commands itself is important: not only for the generals, but for all the soldiers down the line. Communication is a skill that is only built up with practice. Even if combat itself is fake, there's a lot of benefit to the exercise.
People just don't use their own brains. Someone like GeoHot comes up with a fantastical notion and they're all over it, no matter how ridiculous it might be.

Success in one field does not convey expertise in another. We overvalue achievement in capitalism because it is the fairy tale we grew up on, and we think people like Bill Gates or Elon have special insights. More likely they were just lucky.

Back Elizabeth Holmes as Chief Science Officer? Are you completely nuts? She barely has BIO101.

Gates thinks we should do nuclear. Are you people fucking crazy? He's a dropout. He probably can't even list the decay modes in the transuranic series.

GeoHot and Elon think we're in a simulation? They're either profoundly ignorant of physics or they're trolling you... and you sucked it right up!

Here's the shiz, you little sycophants, since you apparently can't think it through for yourselves.

We don't need fucking nuclear. Changing the goddamned building codes to mandate green technologies like ICF could save 80% of our power. The only reason you little shits won't do it is because it might cost a bit more to build and more government regulations might "hurt the free market" that you're all so mindlessly fucking devoted to as you starve because the pollinators are all dying and drown as the sea levels rise and choke on and get cancer from the bad air.

And we're not in a simulation, you idiots. The universe is a complex dynamic system. It's chaotic. You can't simulate it because you can't reduce a complex dynamic system to a simulation for the same reason you can't compress a random series. The only reason that stupid people might think we're in a simulation is because they have a magical idea that the universe is deterministic.

Newton approximated motion, and when we were sure he was wrong, Einstein approximated space-time. No math, and certainly no geometry, can precisely describe a chaotic system, because Planck and Heisenberg. This stuff is approaching it's centenary, get with the program.

And don't even think about putting a scientifically-illiterate wish-fullfilment guru like Elizabeth Holmes in charge of science at a startup. Have you learned nothing?
| This attitude seems to me to be rather obtuse, and a straw-man, at that.

I mean, not really. My argument is simple and not particularly nuanced, but checkout what it's a response to:

| Infest is not the right word to use for animals in their natural habitat. In wilderness, it is humans who can be considered to be infesting...

AND

| is disturbing in its human-centricity

It's unreasonable to ask everyone else to change how they speak because one person finds something disturbing.

I'm not going to write a book saying why that person is wrong when they can't be bothered to write a reasonable proposal as to why everyone else needs to change their language patterns.

The onus is on the one asking for a wide scale change to provide a reasonable argument.

Your statement is much better than the original one as it actually starts to make headway as to why language changes might be desirable.

However, I can still just respond with "I care more about people than I do about crocodiles, so my language pattern is staying the same."

So you kind of need studies on ecology (how do crocodile populations help people), studies on psychology (how will changing language help the crocodiles), and studies on language efficiency (will the cost of the language change be worth the benefit to crocodiles and indirectly people).

Meanwhile, a person with a box of free t-shirts with pictures of cute crocodiles on them with the back saying "save Katie the Krock" will do mountains more to actually help crocodile populations than random people arguing about language on the internet ... which kind of proves my point about information theory compressing things down.
Modern HPC is being done with the Nvidia toolkits.

Sure, the Nvidia driver is closed-source and a pain to work with for OS developers, but for the use-cases it's designed for (CUDA etc), it's far and away the best-in-class on Linux.

To my knowledge, there are no systems in the TOP500 running AMD chips or GPUs. Intel has some competition in the CPU space (POWER series, some ARM, etc) but if GPUs are in those systems, they're Nvidia.
Ratings and reviews are coming. Right now hosts on ampUp are nearly all hand picked.
A lot of home chargers in the Bay Area are installed outdoor, and for the ones installed in door the current hosts are all very nice people. I've been to a bunch of them myself. For term of use and liability, we currently roughly follow the same used by Airbnb, but we definitely plan to update.
I'm not too concerned about hosts asking for high prices, because public charging will always be an option, so public charging prices will act as a reference.
And the beat cop who was to take your statement is going to be more qualified? They know even less of the details of the situation.

The only thing calling the cops does is make the prosecution's job easier in the highly unlikely event that the threat does turn out to be credible. Calling the cops doesn't actually protect you from anything in a situation like this. I don't understand why people don't understand that. They take statements and leave. On the off chance the prosecutor is feeling bored and wants to pursue charges then yet more people's time is wasted and nothing happens, maybe someone gets a fine.
For SearchGuard, only the basic auth is Apache 2.0. Anything practical you need to pay to use it.
Another car maybe?

I’m not having any problems with credit, do I detect a tinge of jealousy in your overtly rude comment?
You're comparing apples and oranges. Mellanox has Ethernet switches with 300ns L3 latencies -- far lower than their broadcom counterparts. So it's not an Ethernet limitation, but a broadcom limitation.
... Except there are a number of cases where it is used in practice with success, including assigning medical students to to hospitals for their studies.

I mean, I agree that any time you use an algorithm, you want to know under what conditions it holds... but that doesn't mean that it's suddenly a bad idea to use it.

>The secretary problem does effectively demonstrate the general principle that in life we should spend some time exploring

I have no idea what the author is talking about here... There is no "exploring" in the stable marriage problem.
They’re also heavily used in paintball and airsoft, and some other quasi-combat games. The best ones I’ve used are sold by a company called Enola Gay, and they advertise simultaneously to photographers (as you said) and paintball/airsoft users. They’re really fun, ring-pull devices and produce a truly impressive amount of smoke for minutes at a time. The first time I used one I giggled like a kid.
When you say you could not program - can you expand on How that manifested for you personally?
I was very much behind the mission; now I’m not so sure. If it was this easy for OpenAI to start down this path, think of what Amazon or Facebook will do - people with no moral compass whatsoever. It’s probably not too early to start thinking about government regulation.
This captures the root cause of the problem.

> how the programming industry is getting flooded with low-skill juniors and how it's bad for the industry.

>(1) The ubiquity and availability of the browser meant there was going to be a continued need, so the problem isn't just going to go away;

> (2) This problem is one of software engineering pedagogy being woefully underprepared, which it is.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager#Microsof...:

> The first version (Windows 1.0) featured a tiling window manager, partly because of litigation by Apple claiming ownership of the overlapping window desktop metaphor. But due to complaints, the next version (Windows 2.0) followed the desktop metaphor. All later versions of the operating system stuck to this approach as the default behaviour.
> If the partner gets a vote/profit then a "charter" or "mission" won't change anything

(I work at OpenAI.)

The board of OpenAI Nonprofit retains full control. Investors don't get a vote. Some investors may be on the board, but: (a) only a minority of the board are allowed to have a stake in OpenAI LP, and (b) anyone with a stake can't vote in decisions that may conflict with the mission: https://openai.com/blog/openai-lp/#themissioncomesfirst
Once you go EV you won't go back. Teslas are the best EVs of the bunch. This would be an awesome move.
The definition of 'exploit' has very little to do with force. If someone drops $5 and doesn't notice, and I keep it, I exploited their inattention. If there's a forest, and I have a chainsaw/crane/truck, and no one cares if I chop it down, I can exploit their indifference and exploit that resource. If you click on a phishing link, the hacker exploits your carelessness. If the developers of your OS left a security hole, hackers can exploit that (and when they do, it's called an exploit). If you love puppies, the ASPCA can exploit that to get donations. And if you have only a high school education and live in an area with plenty such people, I can exploit that by building my warehouse there, and you'll be eager to work there for minimum wage, and I can exploit that. No guns were drawn in any of these examples.
I'm a little disappointed they're reversing but it feels to me like they're still playing with it. They're making almost all sales go online still so most of the benefits of their previous approach are still there. They're also not going to be carrying much inventory in store so it will presumably it will be cheaper than most dealerships. However, with the stores now serving such a small purpose, I do wonder if there's not a better model. Ah well.
Given the age of the offering, it might actually be the CloudSearch [0] product that is used by the Amazon.com search team.

FWIW, I've always found the Amazon store search to be pretty decent; normally I don't use a website's built in search system, opting for Google instead.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch/
So you only have to trust one person to play fair. If you used most common vote, then if 10 people play, 6 could conspire to always achieve tails.

But when using XOR even if 9 people conspire they can not know if the 10th votes 1 or 0.