skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny you cite that (excellent) Intercept article. It's author, Glenn Greenwald, is another one constantly being accused of shilling for Russia.

You can find a few examples on algolia if you poke around: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=glenn%20greenwald%20russia&sor...
He says most setups are network or memory bound, so I don't understand this reasoning:

"Well, that’s the plan: I/O threading is not going to happen in Redis AFAIK, because after much consideration I think it’s a lot of complexity without a good reason. Many Redis setups are network or memory bound actually. Additionally I really believe in a share-nothing setup, so the way I want to scale Redis is by improving the support for multiple Redis instances to be executed in the same host, especially via Redis Cluster."

The RAM would have to be a multiple of the dataset, because its shared-nothing, running right into one of the two common limits, right?
Smoking "funny" cigars with Elon Musk and the Easter bunny.
Better or worse than Paul Krugman?
All three. It also has to do with pilot training.

The general idea is that there is an auto-trim system meant to stop the plane from stalling. But when it gets bad data from a faulty sensor it tries to crash the aircraft (short version). Pilots, all pilots, are trained to recognize this and override the system, but this aircraft requires them to do some things slightly differently. Specifically, they have to shut down the system rather than manually work against it. Difficulties arise where there is a disconnect between what the pilots think is happening, what the systems think and tell them is happening, and what the aircraft is actually experiencing. So this is an interaction between an automated system (software) a potentially faulty sensor (hardware) and pilot training. It is a complex problem that will take a while to fully understand and solve.
ZeroHedge isn't supposed to be the Wall Street Journal. It's a blog with lots of hottakes.

It's more like BoingBoing or Jezebel than it is the Wall Street Journal.
> Sadly, like the author, I can't really think of a good solution.

But that IS the solution. Preserving archaic inefficient institutions and forcing society to pay for it solely due to nostalgia is a terrible idea.

But there are solutions: entertainment & agroturismo. Sure, it won't preserve every single farm, or even 1 in 1000, but it will preserve some of then, just as tourism helps maintain a lot of historical sites around the world.
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I say we should give them an award for this wise decision. We could call it a Darwin award.
Could it be argued that Google is engaging price dumping by financing the development of its search engine from unrelated revenue? Namely, ads placed on websites other than its search result pages?

Just thinking out loud, really.
I'd bet dollars to donuts that insurance companies in the U.S. are tracking similar data.
predatory pricing is undercutting a competitor to purposely drive them out of business. i dont think hackernews is trying to put other sites out of business, far from it, as a link aggregator its business model is to push eyeball views elsewhere, similar to drudge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing

http://signalvnoise.com/posts/1407-why-the-drudge-report-is-...
Not conspiracy-theory-esque at all. Great insights. You sound like a more sane and balanced version of michaelochurch. Maybe you are extrapolating too much from a limited set of experiences, but your basic logic seems sound.

I've spent most of the first few years of my career working for small startups, or teams where I was the only dev, so I've seen lots of engineering projects "managed" by people who don't understand engineering. I was quite capable of self-managing, so it was often frustrating being straightjacketed by someone who didn't really know what they were doing.

I wasted a lot of time and probably would have been better off in a larger start-up or company with proper engineering management and a defined career track.
I wasn't getting 2fa notifications either, haven't tried lately but switched to google authenticator as a precaution against this happening in the future.
> If you're a Basic user and you linked more than three devices prior to March 2019, all of your previously linked devices will remain linked, but you can’t link additional devices.

For how long will the previously linked devices remain linked...in other words, when will Dropbox force basic plan users to reduce the count to three? I foresee that happening in the future.

And what does this mean for people who change devices (like get a new phone to replace the old one)? Do they have to use the same device name or can they unlink the older device and link the new device in its place? This page does not talk about this scenario.

Seems like it's time to move out of Dropbox.
> Unlike most databases the core data structure is the fastest part of the system. Most of the query time comes from parsing the REPL protocol and copying data to/from the network.

That's the TL;DR; of "What tradeoffs are required?"

From what I can tell, they extracted an embedded redis DB and wrapped it in a multi-threaded protocol layer. So execution and behavior of Redis is identical, but all the "not actually a DB" parts are faster and more concurrent.
Exactly, I should have explained like you did to prevent the downvotes! Thanks for "reading my mind" on this one
I'm from Canada[1] and supply management protects more than just a market. It protects the landscape too.

Factory farms pollute the surface and groundwater.

The big corporate players will fight hard protect their right to dump their 'externalities' (read manure) in the cheapest way possible.

Sadly, because uncontaminated land and water is not accounted for in the 'market', they will likely succeed.

[1] AND I grew up in a dairy farming area.
You are confusing two different ontological domains. The key word is "objective" not "reality". The experiment, regardless of the interpretation, does not deny the existence of reality.
Yeah, I think your opinion that Red Hat leads the way in the technical foundations of Linux is quite controversial.

From my experience, Ubuntu is significantly more developer friendly and better documented than Red Hat products. Linux is used in a huge variety of ways, and in my experience Ubuntu is better at accommodating a plurality of contributors from different affiliations. Canonical also funds lots of critical Linux infrastructure work - perhaps not as much as Red Hat, I haven't compared. But my point is that I think they fund more useful things, and are better at building what feels more like a community - which yields massive dividends down the line.

This is not to say that Ubuntu is without flaws. Even with PPAs, packaging for Ubuntu/Debian is a massive pain, the recent APT vulnerability showcases shortcomings in their infrastructure, and Canonical thrashes on a lot of technologies that they really shouldn't thrash on. But in the long run their strategy is better at attracting developers, and I don't think you need to worry about them finding relevance.
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The engines are larger than previous models and had to be moved forward, which causes it to (potentially) stall, so they implemented an anti-stalling mechanism called MCAS which relies on a particular sensor, which can malfunction potentially. They also didn't inform pilots that this system even existed which means they have trouble diagnosing the problem and will potentially only make it worse by trying other things.

Of course that's all speculation since we don't know much about this particular crash, but that's the main issue with them.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfQW0upkVus
>Yes they did. Alex Jones initially called Sandy Hook a hoax and the families crisis actors. He is being (so far successfully) sued for such acts[0]. He did walk back some of those claims, but here's his words:

Could you provide a source for this? Both your links do not source anything from alex jones.

>They're tricky to find because they are not written but made live on a radio show, but yeah Infowars absolutely claimed that sandy hook parents and children were actors.

When we have a censorship and false accusation problem ongoing. You need to provide the source.

Dont get me wrong, alex jones is tabloid quality at best... but when you have the left-wing calling the right-wing nazis without any evidence of these people being nazis is insane.
Humans don't need to eat meat.
Clearly China has been communicating with Korea.
I've known women who were often the smartest person in the room. My experience is that people accept that and defer to them. I've not commonly encountered situations where intelligence isn't deferred to, though.
Boeing is issuing a software update in April.

https://boeing.mediaroom.com/news-releases-statements?item=1...
I think she's saying that Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo shouldn't be game developers or publishers and that Amazon shouldn't be a book publisher.
no it isn't. and if it was, how are they supposed to enforce it?
List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft
Makes sense to me!

Even requiring a deterministic reveal order (without a central, independent server) would reduce the chance an individual could force a reroll after knowing the outcome from 1/1 to 1/n, which would be significant. The 'central server' solution is probably more relevant for Keybase though.
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It is censorship.
It is contrary to the principle of free speech.

However, it is not a violation of US law.

If that is good enough for you, then so be it.
I'm very skeptical about this as well but an argument I saw on here that I found kinda convincing was a comparison to the usual job of a "secretary". Most interactions are verbal and there's a wide variety of tasks that can be solved that way. The real problem is trust in an automated system handling those correctly, which is solvable.

Think, for example, sorting your email inbox by "importance", not based on some flags or fixed heuristics but an actual, intelligent scan of the contents. Think of having reasonable phone conversations that result in scheduling appointments and answering concrete questions.
I support your ability to choose but so much of the commentary here is to the effect of “nobody should live in CA, living in CA is impossible, nobody wants to live in CA in fact everybody is leaving!” I’ve even seen a post say it’s negligent to consider raising kids in CA or the Bay Area. We’ve lived in the Bay Area 18 years, we have a kid and a house and save money, it took us 15 years to get to this point, if you want to just show up and have it all then maybe choose slewhere but crapping in living in CA or the Bay Area is getting tired
The speculation I've seen is around a change to the autopilot system which pilots ave been struggling with:

> Following the Lion Air crash, US aviation authorities issued an emergency directive to carriers to update flight manuals with information on what to do when the aircraft’s anti-stall system is triggered by erroneous data from what’s called an “angle-of-attack” sensor. The flight system can react to that data by pointing the plane’s nose sharply downward. Boeing, meanwhile, directed airlines to a checklist in manuals for stabilizing the aircraft. Pilots said the crash and the directives that followed were the first time that they were made aware of these changes to the flight system.
The government always had this power. One member of congress is simply making an argument about exercising said power.
Relatively new, are additional expiration options:

1 to 100 downloads, 1 is the default; or 5 minutes to 7 days, 1 day is the default. And an option to protect with a password.

Upon expiration, entering the URL behaves the same as if you enter a bogus URL, it's basically denied to have ever existed, i.e. it doesn't say this URL has expired.
Classic framing problem:

Immediately assume it is wrong, then work backwards proving it, using minute details.

Would be more interesting to assume we're doing it, then think through the consequences. Or, define the stated end goal (fairer marketplace) and then see if the break up helps.

Super irony:
In the NGINX gets bought by F5 thread, people complain about AWS being killer competition, ruining the market for open source.

The emotions here are also nationalistic, as it hits US companies. Breaking up Ali or TenCent would get a different reaction.
I don't know where the accompanying picture is from, but definitely not Tonki.

Tonki is really really good (it's the only one from that list I've been to), it's also a bit pricey at around 2300yen for a portion, but in my opinion, easily worth it.
I'd be way too concerned that results of genetic tests could turn out as self-fulfilling prophecies that I'd take one and have the results reported back to me. Might be nice if it were decoupled from you, e.g. by sending the results to a close relative or your doctor who then knows what to look out for.
Parent checked the box that's default unchecked to get that email. If you're paying attention, you can avoid it completely.
If I don’t pay my mortgage - a contract that I freely entered into knowing the consequences - why shouldn’t the bank take away my house? If the credit score accurately reflected that I didn’t pay the mortgage, why shouldn’t that be recorded?
If Mozilla cares so much about privacy, why don't they disable 3rd party cookies by default like Apple does?
That would make a huge difference and while it may break a few sites (i use this setting since a decade or so and have encountered very few), if Apple is OK with that, why shouldn't Mozilla be ok?

I'll tell you why: Because they depend on Google's money.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=GOMAD
The Atlantic Council is a private think tank, so that's a weird assertion.
Quite a few Kremlin talking points you've got for yourself there (white helmets etc). What do you make on ZH coverage on Skripal?
I doubt they'll just let you run your personal OS on your byod laptop. Big companies frequently get attacked, at least according to the infosec guy at the place I work. That includes employees stealing info or people including partners with privileged access or former employees trying to get into the office to get information from other people. You can bet you'll end up with a slow craptop bogged down by DLP software once they're done making it "secure" but now it's your laptop on the line.
How is the car tied to the LLC?
MR never claimed to be great for all problems. It main selling points was big-data and easy-of-use.

Sure, MPI might blow MR out of the water in term of number-crunching, but it is also way harder to use.
This reminds me a bit of the K/kdb approach of just starting another process for almost certainly the same reasons.
You mean the opposite of networking computers?

Like taking the Internet away?

At any rate, being connected to the cloud will allow for faster iteration. Once it becomes a solved problem, then you can more easily remove the network.
You don't need supply management to do that. Not only that, supply management is a terrible way to do that.
And it’s amazing that software developers are okay with the government telling companies how software should be sold and produced.
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This definitely can't be a database from any Chinese government organization.

Look at the screenshot from tweet carefully and you can find it store "photo" on fbcdn.net. Which totally blocked by firewall of China.
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The more I read about flight systems and protocols (and I am absolutely a layman when it comes to this), the more it seems like it's very rarely solely isolated to one component.

The hardware, software, and human systems are so intertwined that it likely involves all 3, even if the route cause can be isolated to one.

That being said, there hasn't been much specific information about the cause released yet, that I've heard.
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FWIW, Mozilla is one of the orgs where you probably can write their privacy people an e-mail and they'll actually look into it.

(Just signed up for a new account, will do that with a GDPR template if I receive unwanted e-mails)
> I need a perma-bear to balance out the perma-bull.

With two stopped clocks you can tell the right time!
OK, so somewhat similar to the State Quarter program in the US.

Thanks for the comment. I haven't been to the UK for 20 years (sadly).. I do remember from back then the differing pound coins.
Robert Mercer's SCL Group, owners of Cambridge Analytica who worked on the Trump campaign, and campaigns for Cruz and Romney before that, is supposed to be very rightwing. Which made me wonder if the FB/CA deal wasn't the first case but the first one called out, and could Murdoch's myspace have ever been played with comparably, earlier?
> What kind of mad man uses SD cards with their phone?

I do. It's extremely handy to use them to transfer for very large files, amongst a million other things. Soldered-in storage does not eliminate the need for removable storage.

> Modern Androids don’t have audio plugs anymore either by the way.

Yes, they do. Not the super-high-end phones (which is one of the several reasons why those aren't of interest to me), but tons of mid-range and lower phones do.
On the frontpage with almost 300 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19367850
OK, so Facebook's fine here. They're preventing you from adding links to Zero Hedge.
> "Russian talking points"

Anti-Maduro rioters being responsible for the aid-truck fire was a "Russian talking point" until a few days ago when the New York Times, America's most venerable newspaper of record, finally admitted it was true.

Credit to arcseco for drawing my attention to this: https://theintercept.com/2019/03/10/nyts-expose-on-the-lies-...

At least this time it didn't take the New York Times the better part of 60 years to admit they were wrong, as it did when they were publishing Russian talking points: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty
Beyond that we often track / talk about people who are in their "prime working years".

That doesn't mean the government is planning to round them up and put them to work.
I wouldn't be too worried. Keep in mind that the pilots have much more risk exposure than you do and as such aren't going to sit back and watch. The US licenced pilots are very aware of the issue and know what to do in the event of a trim runaway. Even the solution itself is very simple. Yes, it's a risk but statistically it's very low and at this point, well mitigated.
It's interesting that the HN collective results seems to be complaining about the letter from either party.

When Amazon wrote their letter, the [HN response](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19363961) seemed to tip towards not liking what Amazon had to say or was doing.

When ES writes effectively a response, the initial comments don't like ES's response or what they're doing either.

It may be that the collective HN vibe is critical no matter what. But also maybe "we" in aggregate legitimately don't like either option given.

I know open source devs need to make money somehow. I also wish there was a way to do it that was open source. I'm not sure there is. I'm not sure what it means for the continued viability of open source.

In the original period of open source, people generally worked on open source on the clock at their existing jobs, a building tools they needed for that job, a job not dedicated to that particular product but to getting something done that product helped with. People were getting paid to write open source, but it wasn't by "productizing" it. The results were still shared freely.

(this is how/where apache httpd, for one, came from; people with jobs who needed an http server writing one on the clock, even though their job was not "writing an http server." They needed an http server to accomplish what was needed for their employers, but their employers had no desire or capacity to be in the business of selling an http server. Why not collaborate on one we can all use?)

But those days are gone, software has just gotten _so much more complex_ and time-consuming to develop. The open source software we have and need can't be developed in someone's "spare" (even on-the-clock spare) time. Some open source is still written by people working for a large employer, who pay them to be dedicated to that product. But we see the perils of that when an employer decides "wait, why aren't we making money selling this? Why are we contributing our employee's time to it?" (thanks Oracle).

So that leaves people trying to productize it one way or another. It is not clear to me how to have a healthy open source ecosystem in that market environment. I don't think "proprietary layer on top" is actually good for open source, especially if it's gonna lead (naturally) to rejecting contributions from outside to add those same features as open source (why would we want to spend time working with a contributor to make the feature solid, when we _already wrote it_, and when accepting the contribution would _harm our business model_ because that feature is what we want to charge for?), and then resistance to the "right to fork" which I consider the fundamental basis of open source freedom.
There's speculation that the crash was caused or contributed to by the MCAS system, which is new on the MAX 8. At this point it is just speculation.

Here's a good answer from Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/azzp0r/ethiopian_...
I think it could be incredibly useful if it wasn’t like talking to someone who is hard of hearing, comically misinterprets similarly sounding words and can’t understand basic logic in sentences (what’s the weather _and_ traffic, then find my phone and turn off the lights).

I’d like to ask it the meaning of Latin phrases or other words, but it just hears the words used 99% of the time despite being clearly pronounced differently.

Ask it what bus and at which time I should leave to go somewhere. It doesn’t have any transportation info and can’t do basic logic.

Duolingo would be a great integration for conversations while learning another language, but it can bearly understand English.
Yeah, the US Mint does that as well with the circulating coins.
Another neat feature actually built into Firefox is Take a Screenshot. To the right of the URL field, in the three dots menu. Option to save it locally, or save in the cloud with a URL with some expiration options. Sorta like a pastebin for screenshots.

It only takes screenshots within the confines of a Firefox window.