skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see this as a net positive (https://xkcd.com/927/ notwithstanding): Elastic.co, imo, has iron-grip (in terms of licensing and features that it builds) on XPack and Elasticsearch. This incredible technology that rode on OSS wave is increasingly controlled by a for-profit organization that also acts like one. This is very similar to how Google dealt with numerous forks of Android by essentially moving key pieces to GooglePlayServices and other closed-source apps in addition to responding with shutting out manufacturers and SoC providers that weren't OHA signatories [0][1]. Amazon felt the burnt of that [2].

Apart from including/forking other community plugin projects (elasticsearch-sql, SearchGuardSSL) in open-distro [3], AWS seems to be investing to make this more "cloud-native", as well: This observation comes from PerformanceAnalyzer (released) and IndexStateManagement (request-for-comment).

- IndexStateManagement [4] is simply "never send a human to do a machine's job" automation of common yet frequent tasks required to keep elasticsearch humming along. If used in conjunction with AWS's/GCP's/Azure's managed-cloud offering, this feature might be an amazing sell for a lot of enterprises that want to set up things and have them running with as few dev-ops/engs as they can.

- PerformanceAnalyzer [5] could track multiple signals from servers running open-distro and may perform reactionary actions to either shed load, throttle requests, shift workload and so on, something similar to what MeltWater did [6].

[0] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/googles-iron-grip-on...

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2009/12/22/google-open-when-convenien...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/16/amazon-se...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19361234

[4] https://github.com/opendistro-for-elasticsearch/index-manage...

[5] https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch-docs/docs/pa/...

[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18413862
So this costs the driver $1 per 6 miles? If gas is $3/gallon and my car gets 24 mpg, then I'm paying $1 per 6 miles. This is not on par with the Mirage's 36/43mpg.

Your service effectively makes electric cars equally or more expensive to drive than gas cars. Could work but seems to remove a solid benefit of EVs.
A very good article, but I think that there is a missing concept - which is organisational maturity. In a fully mature data driven organisation (like... errm Google I guess - reading Jeff Deans papers anyway) there is a well developed data fabric, polished processes for providing credentials and authority, right sized resourcing pools and also substantial diversity of specialisation coupled with experience and domain insight. Specialists can flourish and deliver value out of proportion to their costs. In other, less developed, organisations there's no chance this will happen and specialists will be left floundering looking for the setting in which they can do their thang.
The Giant Rats That Save Lives (2015)
You don't see that as a risk because it's not an outcome that you object to. Many people would see that as failure and thus anything that might end up with that outcome is risky.
A Model S, and most other 500HP+ all wheel drive cars with launch control don't burn rubber.

If one can afford a Model S, one can afford a lawyer to ask the judge for the court's accepted definition for "display of speed". My money says a Tesla with pedal mashed and launch control on would not fit the definition. All one is left with is pulling an illegal number of Gs, which I don't think cops have a measuring gun for yet.

In the real world, I've launched plenty hard on motorcycles on a regular basis to this day, and have occasionally blown past a sitting cop while doing it (getting around traffic from a light, or what have you). No smoke from the rear tire, front wheel stayed on the ground, speed not exceeded (or not by much), I've never been pulled over. Squeal tires, or have another car next to you accelerating at the same rate, or maybe even an overly loud exhaust, and now you've got problems.
EU directive to stop RF device tinkering will do more harm than good
> Not all hotel owner/operator can write code.

Yea, dont worry, I wasn't going for the "lol why doesn't everyone just learn Python and spin up a Docker container on ECS" trope. That's why I specified a lightweight piece of software, which is how everything used to work before the rise of the Web and mobile devices changed software distribution.

> Also, most of the people who send out fax have a hard time scanning and emailing documents.

Yes, this is the legacy third parties thing I was talking about. But this constraint doesn't have anything to do with the lack of a modern replacement for fax. On top of that, there are plenty of services (including free ones) that fake a fax number if necessary, with the standard caveat that inserting a service layer into your business workflow introduces risk.

Note that I'm not suggesting that you switch: when the road meets the rubber, it's often the rational choice for businesses to stick with old technologies for a variety of reasons. I was just puzzled by your more-general wish for a modern equivalent of fax, when there have existed "modern equivalents of fax" for decades that are superior on pretty much every axis.
The AoA sensor stopped being non-safety critical when it's output was allowed to drive a system capable of endangering the aircraft.

I don't believe Lion Air is directly responsible; they didn't test flight it, but they didn't know they should either due to Boeing's poor communication of the functionality and justification for MCAS.

It's a grievous failure all around, and yet another reason I stand by the belief that if there is doubt, there is no doubt.
> What have you done to market it?
Nothing, because...
> Who is your primary user? What pain does it solve?
I don't know :D

I guess it helps them with the pain of sounding shitty on video calls, by telling them how to improve.
I don't see a market for it at the moment because the problem it solves is so incremental.
OpenAI's mission statement is to ensure that AGI "benefits all of humanity", and its charter rephrases this as "used for the benefit of all".

But without a more concrete and specific definition, "benefit of all" is meaningless. For most projects, one can construct a claim that it has the potential to benefit most or all of a large group of people at some point.

So, what does that commitment mean?

If an application benefits some people and harms others, is it unacceptable?
What if it harms some people now in exchange for the promise of a larger benefit at some point in the future?

Must it benefit everyone it touches and harm no one? What if it harms no one but the vast majority of its benefits accrue to only the top 1% of humanity?

What is the line?
The NYPD is using a new pattern recognition system to help solve crimes
EV growth is much higher than charging infrastructure growth. The current network of public chargers are predominantly level 2 chargers. There are many things that limit public charging installations like architectural changes and grid upgrade involved that need approvals from different entities. Some apartment management refuse installations because the architectural changes would violate rights of some tenants. I have heard a year's time was taken from the moment HOA approved EVSE installation to the actual EVSE being installed. The most optimistic projection for EV adoption world wide by 2025 is 14%, and I strongly doubt charging infra will be sufficient or have caught up by then. This problem will get worse before it gets better. If we change the time frame to 10 years, many many things could happen and I hope ampUp can continue to adopt.
I'm not talking merely about platforms for discovering information, I'm talking about platforms for thinking. Have you ever seen https://www.bayesialab.com? I went to one of their workshops in NYC and they produced quite a convincing example of this.

The economy/society is not a zero sum game as you are suggesting. It's a cooperative game. In some local scenarios it is a zero sum game, but to look at the whole economy/society like that is misleading. But yes, if people are looking to destroy each other, then yes, technology will just facilitate that. It is in most people's best interest to cooperate though.

So you're saying even if we do have platforms for thinking that help people navigate complex issues, it wouldn't have any economic or political benefit?
Maybe I'm weird, but I like servers that I can touch. Maybe if you're only a couple person company, it makes sense to use the cloud. But just paying for some space at a data-center and having your own servers seems ideal for any company medium and above sized start-up.

My last job was at a financial start-up worth about 200M at the time. And our server setup was dead simple: 8 servers and a load balancer. No containers, no bullshit, just servers running JVMs.
The way filesystem locking works on Windows is an intentional decision and not an NTFS thing. It's there for a good reason even if it's inconvenient. The alternative has some real downsides. "Two CMD windows have the same CWD but are showing different folders" is not a user-friendly experience.
These systems all feel like the worst parts of failed industrial automation projects. They take something that is extremely simple (growing lettuce) and claim to make it “easy” by attaching robotic watering systems and lighting systems that “work automatically” which then ends up being a very timeconsuming hobby project to keep alive.

Gardening isn’t all that hard in the first place. Put seeds in the ground, water occasionally. If you buy a sprinkler you’ll have a more reliable system than 90% of these arduino based 3d printers hacked into “growing systems”. Of cause for all the startups the focus is on the “IOT crowdsourced disruption” not about actual end user value.
I see a flaw with that prng scheme. Since AES is reversible, the 128-bit blocks that make up the output cannot repeat. The output is a permutation of distinct 128-bit blocks. Early in the sequence that only matters a tiny bit, but the longer it goes, the more that tells you about possible upcoming values.
On Ethereum Performance Evaluation Using PoA
HomeIdea3D.com is a real app with complex state and stuff so an SPA makes sense here.
exactly, that's one of the advantages or the modern way of web development - decoupling business logic and UI (HTML)
I thought It was about the evolution of intermodal containers ;)
You're welcome!!!
How did an article about works turn into a rant about Google?

2 factor authentication is probably the best way to mitigate against automated attacks like this worm. Its unrealistic for root os access, but if more people required an email or text to verify a login, there would be a lot less hacks in the world
Yes, there's a lot of media noise, tiresome or otherwise. BUT:

1) TESLA, not the media, were the ones they said they were closing ALL their retail stores, _a week ago_ - is this not newsworthy?

and

2) TESLA, not the media, were the ones who said they're now NOT closing retail stores open, _a week later_ - is this also not newsworthy?

If so, what makes them so trivial?
Apple's culture is such that everything is in Radar. EVERYTHING. It doesn't get done if it's not in Radar.

Positive: Everything is searchable. It is organizational history going back decades. The company is built around this tool.
Negative: The importance of such a tool goes unrecognized compared to the criticality of the system to Apple as a whole. So when it's slow or breaks, everyone is having a bad day.
One of the largest challenges with high performance EVs is cooling and weight. Both of these affect performance.

A Lotus Exige 380 Cup, with the 2GR-FE 3.5 supercharged V6 from the Toyota Camry weights just 1105KG, of which 163KG is the engine, excluding the supercharger. The 85KWh cells in the Model S weighs 540KG in comparison and is almost 50% of the Exige's total weight.

I'm not sure how far off we are from solving this but I'm quite looking forward to improved cooling and lightweight cells that will make electric viable for ultra high performance sports cars.
Yep. There's a proliferation of reductive posts that essentially repeat the same truisms we've all heard: You don't need a SPA; NPM is a ghetto; Front end web development has too much churn.

Who cares? If you don't like the state of web dev, leave or learn to make it better. If someone were to write yet another NPM sucks article, BUT include in it a description of a PR they opened to improve the process, I'd happily upvote them. But instead people seem to be satisfied with complaining with little action.
I tried to switch from i3 a few months ago and spent several hours trying to get it to work with my Nvidia card before finding out that the project doesn't support Nvidia for ideological reasons.

I'm not well versed in the details of the conflict, and of course any open source project is not compelled to support anything they don't want to. That being said it would have been nice to know that they have no plans to support a large percentage (majority?) of the consumer, dedicated GPU market.

If/when I am able to get a new AMD card I will certainly try it then.
Nixon vs McGovern is analogous to Trump vs dem in 2020.

The left is overreaching after the midterms.
oh and without access to the source it's utterly impossible for you to fix this... hey wait a minute.
This is very cool but would get stolen and chopped for copper in US cities. I'd seriously give this 15 minutes before being stolen in SF.
To "ensure it is used for the benefit of all" requires limiting how AGI is used.

How will OpenAI do that?
> Whether you're talking about a new Twitter or Reddit

You're imagining the inconsequential downtime of Twitter or Reddit instead of a small B2B company trying to hook its first customers.
Netanyahu is an extreme politician? I don't buy that. Ok, channel one got renamed, what else changed throughout his last term?
Absolutely, yes. You can go visit the heartland or the rust belt or whatever and people are friendly and polite and welcoming in person, but they voted for Trump so they're jerks. They support xenophobia, homophobia, torture, corruption. There's a difference between being nice and being good.
Ways to Get a Free PVS-Studio License
Ideas:

Sell it to github or gitlab.

Troll through github looking for repositories that are actually commercial products and contact the owners to use bugBucket?
Appalachia Is Dying. Pikeville Is Not. (2016)
I have mixed feelings about a phone that might lull me into thinking it's not a computer controlled by a hostile entity. Carrying a cheap android, I know I have an attacker in my pocket. On the other hand, I like the idea of being able to mitigate the danger further than I can already.
I went through the same cycle: smoke > vape > quit. But I suspect I likely would have quit as I got older anyway. I've read that the greatest reason people quit an addiction is age.
It didn't used to be available under GPLv2, it was originally under the CDDL until late 2017 when Oracle relicensed it. This was years after the Linux kernel community had been working on other solutions that didn't have that restriction.
Agreed. I couldn't help but groan while reading through this post. I enjoy the company of my co-workers but would not appreciate having to spend 5 days with them in a rental house away from my family and comforts of home.

I get the idea of having a team vacation or group outing, but mixing in workshops, forced cross team "collaboration" exercises, "role playing", and lectures on "thinking big" would absolutely just kill my morale.

Sure, company culture is important, but if it's built like this you can count me out.
I'm interested in the root cause.

Console operations and architecture for HA is one of my current responsibilities. It's important to me that customers can depend on a functional, responsive, and stable console.

I think the console experience heavily influences the trust and overall customer experience of any service.
> the average web developer thinks it's okay to offload their performance problems on everyone else as long as they reach their personal or company goals.

Why is it not okay? He solved his problems under his requirement, if it doesn't solve your problem under your requirement, it's not his fault and he isn't forced to follow your requirement.

> Pumping out many unsupported,

Why you consider that bad? He is learning, he is building, he is solving issues. The fact that he keep doing this is bad? I only see positive in that...

I'm pretty sure it's supported as much as he need them to be. He is his only client. I'm pretty sure too that if anyone wanted theses projects to be supported, he would gladly accept to be hired by them with a compensation worth his time.

I just saw that he was even generous enough to give his source code, with a MIT license on top of that!

> mediocre projects

That's just means and uncalled for. You should really think more over this issue you seems to have.
Sorry for being a buzzkill, but if you create something with an intellect on par with human beings and then force it to "create value" for shareholders, you just created a slave.
Improve awareness and adoption of new features in apps
It's worth adding, too, that the airport and building take much larger capital expenditures to build and are far less reproducible as a result... and will probably have decades or centuries of future revenue. For a given game, that's probably a few years of peak popularity and comparatively easy to replicate by competitors.

To the point of this article, it's kind of surprising to me at least that licensing companies like ARM and Qualcomm have been so much more successful than Mellanox.
They are, indeed, real. And they make appearances in Stephenson's Baroque cycle as well, IIRC.
But if money is only useful to buy luxury things like beachfront land is it really going to be useful as a currency of exchange?
Tesla's ‘Amateur Hour’ Backpedaling Prompts Analyst Head-Shaking
Yep. NASA has such high standards that it's hard to imagine a private company ever matching its engineering quality, after all why would they need to?
Go to Ikea and but a system, no need for robotics or PID controllers, complex webbased control console or any of that. Just plastic planter and a light, you’ll have fresh lettuce with little trouble in no time.
Instapoetry
Yeah that is bullshit that should have been stopped 50 years ago.
My apologies if you read my message as a dismissal; I wasn't trying to communicate that message. My point was that all social networks are targeted for abuse (if you don't see it on your favorite network, it's because that network probably puts a lot of time and effort and money into fighting it, not because they aren't being targeted)
Mary Queen of Scots documents found at Museum of Edinburgh
Congrats to Microsoft, I look forward to running my old DTrace scripts on Windows!

This also means they have done a lot of the platform work needed to support eBPF one day, to really catch up to Linux.
Facebook detox – my one year long experiment
Even when modelling corporations as amoral entities, they still exist within a morally aware system. They are to some extent beholden to their customers, employees, and courts of law, which all make decisions of morality about their actions.

A dividend (or similar payment) generally improves the legitimacy of an action, whereas being fined for it does not.
> Personally, I agree that SPAs are way more complicated and heavyweight than you need for most sites.

This hasn't been my experience at all. SPAs are so simple for me to spin up these days with all the tooling to cover the boilerplate for you, e.g. create-react-app or Vue CLI. With the advent of cloud providers, hosting is insanely simple too. You can get a working SPA out in a day complete with a frontend, backend API, and a database.
I don't really understand why they use HMAC-SHA256. Why do many schemes decide to do this needlessly when they can use SHA3 or Blake2b?
I’m not sure this is entirely true. The author is arguing for full stack scientists, and I prefer those people, but they’re hard to find, and even then you don’t necessarily want them doing everything. Worse yet, if you put someone in a full stack position, and they’re not already full stack, you need to budget a lot of mentoring, because if you don’t, you’re going to get a big pile of unmaintainable code.

The author kind of builds a strawman of super specialized data scientists that constantly throw code over the wall to someone else. That doesn’t work, and you simply can’t do that unless your headcount is in the thousands. You have to have people that can productionize their work. At the same time, he’s arguing that scientists should should be maintaining their own data infrastructure, but that’s not good either.

The best advice I was given was to hire people either to make you smarter, or to make you stronger/faster. You hire data scientists and ML experts to make you smarter. They should be working on problems that you can’t solve today. Infrastructure on the other hand, isn’t your product. It’s overhead. It’s a tool. Comparatively, it’s easier to hire people to build and maintain your infrastructure. Hire people to do that. All the time your scientists are dealing with infrastructure, is time they could be doing useful work.

All that said, know when you should just shove the infrapeople aside and do it yourself.
The Fault in Our Tolerance: Accounting for Failures in React
Had some quite exceptional experiences with them as well. Good support for a decent product.
It merits re-empathising that it's Nvidia that does not support sway - not the other way around.
Russian roulette with the sun: An interview with John Kappenman
I'd try it but only if it had good macros like some meal replacement drinks, my diet is like 80% Huel currently, with the rest being free lunch / snacks at work and snacks on the weekend. Originally started on these type of drinks because I was so depressed at one point I could barely motivate myself to eat any more. Ended up staying on them because not only do you save a ton of time but they are good source of protein and calories (I lift) and I've never been one to eat a lot so its helped tremendously. Pill form would be even better just from a time saving perspective.
The tail end of most of these programs usually involves practising under the supervision of an already-licensed therapist for 1000-2000 hours. If he's finishing in 2019-2020, he may already be in that phase, which is pretty close to "doing" it.
Humans Explore Farther┃ Go Forward [video]
Some pretty contradictory data... sun exposure = lower all cause mortality, with most skin cancers being 100% curable.
Personal experience, I've seen SPAs created with a one developer project, I've seen server-rendered forms created with a 30 person team. Both satisfied the needs of the business which was "to take data from text boxes and save them to the database".
Yea, but what about AV1.1 [0] ? Isn't it better to wait for that?

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/AV1/comments/a1038a/av11_is_launchi...
The Library of Congress wants to attract more visitors
OpenAI's nonprofit board, who are largely responsible for deciding whether or not OpenAI achieves the mission of "benefits all of humanity," is compromised in majority by white millionaire men. There are two women, one of which is a person of color.

There are no black or latinx voices on OpenAI's board.
Show HN: Kastfy – Extend Spotify / iTunes with Music Videos (Chromecast Enabled)
> Sure, a Porsche will have a very high max speed. But even it can't beat an eletric motor in acceleration.

Unless, of course, it's a Porsche Taycan:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/hybrid-electric/a21239...

https://www.engadget.com/2019/03/09/porche-taycan-ev-20-000-...

https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/products/porsche-taycan-miss...
Also seems BitQuery having issues too.

Wondering if this end up being related with Summer Time change? Happened many times in the past in companies where I worked.