skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree the load will fluctuate - but will mostly follow predictable patterns daily and weekly. However, that's what the cloud's elasticity is for - and AWS makes it easy (and inexpensive) to expand and contract when implemented correctly. Man, I would love an opportunity to optimize something like that!
The anglosphere at very least but there is a long history of "practical" and mathematical being the proverbial red-headed stepchild of social classes in spite of wealth. And that isn't limited to the anglosphere.

Millers were commonly demonized and scalegoated for neither doing honest work with the rest of the peasants and instead maintaining "strange" machinery that did the work for them and they worked with knowledge but neither as a part of clergy nor nobility. Worse yet knowledge outside of known and respected sources.

Merchants, owing to astoundingly bad economic theories were considered to have to be engaging in fraud because the idea of the value of a fur coat being higher in the mountains than the desert never occured to those not dealing with the bleeding obvious of the profession. They were also widely considered "non-productive" - without irony given nobility.

Impetus theory is another sign of the disdain for the practical - how long upperclass and "learned" men would use a theory of projectiles in triangular motions that any artilleryman or archer would burst out laughing at from how obviously wrong it is.

One common factor in even more modern times is ignorance and its self-perpetuation. People fear what they don't understand and avoid it leading to not understanding and more fear.

It probably isn't just from this feudal history and the causal link may be tenuous but the tendencies have been around for a long time.
> In context, the first case is no different from "Good lucking making changes to a 100kloc Rust spaghetti-coded codebase", and one can't meaningfully judge a something based on a poor use of it.

It's not the same. Type system provides certain guarantees. Also it's much harder to write spaghetti code in Rust.
I can see the argument that they want sources people can check and evaluate for themselves. You're a legitimate expert, but anyone with a bit of sense can claim to be an expert and appear just as credible to a layman. Faking a credible secondary source is not impossible, but it is difficult--a "news" site that opened three months ago and only has articles on subjects linked to Wikipedia sources is pretty obviously fake.

I wonder if there's some sort of happy medium. Maybe a thing where legit experts can submit credentials to be cleared by the moderators, the way Reddit verifies identities for AMAs. You'd still be expected to source everything you can, but eyewitness details could be sourced to your verified credentials. (Which could then be re-reviewed en masse if you start posting bullshit later on.)
Unfortunately, he doesn't appear to have any actual policy platform related to the presidential run; at least, the other day when I visited the site I saw only merchandising.
That doesn't sound like him writing off a demographic but criticizing the path the nation is treading on. Unfortunately, he's using fear to do that.
> All that industrial control stuff with MODBUS and SCADA and other brain damage: it has even less security than the IoT junk, i.e. none!

Right... because industrial automation networks should never be connected to publicly accessible networks without security in between. PLC's and sensors don't need internet or intranet access so why would you connect them?

The problem is Industrial engineers aren't IT or security experts and that's why we have security issues. Plus they're under constant pressure to get production running and meeting deadlines. Next you'll say "but what about stuxnet! that proved that even air gapping isn't secure enough!" Yup. It also proves that using insecure general purpose operating systems (hint, windows) is stupid as well. But it's cheap and familiar so here we are. The problem isn't with the protocols or hardware, it's ignorance with a side of laziness topped with corner cutting.

Also many industrial protocols don't run over tcp but instead use raw ethernet packets and have dedicated protocol processors running to keep latencies down to microsecond levels for flipping IO bits. An example is Beckhoff's EtherCAT. So security does not apply to those networks and would be difficult to implement.

> Bad as home automation is, it is, incredibly, better than your run of the mill industrial automation!

Apples to oranges.

We recently bought a machine which has an internal automation network between a Siemens 840d, a Siemens safety PLC and a DSP controller from Adwin. Real time communications is over Profibus and CANopen. between that machine and the rest of the world sits a humble PC Engines box running a custom FreeBSD image that gives them secure remote access to the machine. I'd trust that more than any home automation built on webshit.
It's OK they downvoted Bitcoin in 2012 too
Yes, It's hard to deny the intuitive appeal, but what's notably missing from that blog post, and seemingly any other article about it, is a consideration of the cost/downsides of universal imposition of the "exclusivity of mutable references" restriction. Rust provides the RefCell wrapper to essentially circumvent the restriction on demand, but i) that also essentially circumvents the "invariant protection" benefits of the policy, and ii) you can just as easily use an equivalent wrapper[1] in C++ to impose the same restriction. At which point the difference between Rust and C++ just kind of becomes which policy do you want to be the zero-overhead default.

I mean you could imagine a hypothetical future scenario where it is demonstrated that the optimizers are good enough to essentially eliminate the run-time cost of RefCell wrappers, and a lot of Rust programmers just start wrapping everything with RefCells by default.

[1] shameless plug: https://github.com/duneroadrunner/SaferCPlusPlus#exclusive-w...
Any online resources you could recommend to someone looking to learn some higher level math? The highest I ever got in school was the beginnings of Calculus and I'd like to dig a little deeper. However, I keep running into the issue of not really understanding all of the Greek symbology.
The issue is that code that the borrow checker flags is not code that is unsafe, but code that the borrow checker cannot prove safe. There is a difference.

Until, you natively start thinking and writing code with idioms that the borrow checker is tuned for, there will be friction.
In theory, yes, but you might be underestimating how much technical debt can be left behind in a scale-up. For all we know, there's a bunch of stuff that just hasn't been cleaned up. As other comments note, I can totally imagine someone saying "yeah, not worth the risk of breaking something as long as it only comes out to 14 cents a ride".

Edit: And, for that matter, they may be using AWS for things other than serving rides, e.g. dev tools and internal service that scale with the number of office employees, not rides.
You probably mean S&P index, which is what most index funds index against.

Dave Ramsey recommends mutual funds with higher fees but that consistently beat the S&P 500. I have some money in some that I found like that, but still probably half in index funds.
That's in the UK. Such a law would run afoul of the First Amendment in the US.
My respect for Beto just moved up a notch!
Can you post the content here? I don't want to subsidize these fucks.
This is incredibly stupid.

First, the title should be "Why should blackmail be illegal?"

Second, the answer is: because you have the right to keep secrets, and you should not have to pay someone who happens to learn one of your secrets in order to continue to exercise that right.

[EDIT] You have the right to keep certain secrets, like your bank account number or your sexual preferences, but not your criminal activity. So blackmailing someone by threatening to out them as gay or exposing an extramarital affair should be illegal on the grounds that you have the right to keep those things secret, but blackmailing someone by threatening to expose criminal activity should be illegal on the grounds that helping to keep that secret makes the blackmailer an accomplice to the crime.
Isnt 2600 older than CDC?
Ah, good point!

As an independent I don't participate in primaries typically.
Not entirely sure why I am getting downvoted here. It's factually correct and relevant to the discussion. I'm starting to think someone is actively trying to downvote my comments.
I find this the most convincing argument. While I feel there is a moral journalistic right to accurately report crime, I feel there is also a moral right to not have footage of undignified acts committed against you published, whether this be your murder, or even a practical joke.
While that place is vile, I don't see how it's relevant here, unless you specifically go hunting every morning to find whatever bad exists on the other side and gloat that you're better? (in which case you aren't)
Ask HN: Should I Make This?
would you use a site where you can get feedback on your ideas/MVPs and grow your prelaunch mailing list? wireframe link below.

why would or wouldn't you use it.

wireframes: https://xd.adobe.com/view/13acdc2f-4c9c-4c80-72d5-c776ef8b3832-659d/
sign up list: http://www.shouldimakethis.com
I have a recurring nightmare that the semester is almost over and I haven't been to a single one of the math classes that I need to graduate because I keep forgetting about it and I know I'm too far behind to ever catch up. I've been out of college for _years_.

I think my math anxiety started in high school as a result of teachers moving through material too quickly in a learning style that didn't match up with how I learn. Once you get a little bit behind it can be really hard to find your way back in.
> We will not buy or consume our way out of climate change or negative externalities that affect the environment.

That is silly. You have something that causes climate change (coal, oil). It can be replaced by something that doesn't (electric cars, solar panels, nuclear power). Unless your plan is to stop having transportation and electricity, that means the solution requires us to buy things like electric vehicles, solar panels, nuclear reactors, etc.

> if we want to see a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, we need to move away from the idea of ubiquitous transportation via personal vehicles.

Mass transit requires density. You can't reduce emissions by running huge empty buses through low density areas.

The transit problem is a real estate problem. You don't need more trains and buses, you need higher density near the existing trains and buses. That allows you to run one every 15 minutes instead of every hour and still have it full, which is what it takes to make it a viable replacement for a private car, and that is what makes it cost effective and affordable.

But even that, which would reduce the number of private cars significantly, would never eliminate the need for them entirely. There are things (large farms, industrial facilities) that must or should be away from higher density areas, and the people who work there need some way to get there and back. And mass transit still doesn't work in those kinds of low density areas.
In Japan you have Namahage in the north. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namahage
And you have "oni" (demons) everywhere else in the folkore too (see Momotarou's story for example).

There are plenty of dangerous mythical characters too in Japan, ghosts, spirits and non-humans creatures, I am not sure where you got the idea that there's less than anywhere else in the world.
And also drives drunk.
A recent quote I loved from YC's Paul Buccheit (who helped inspired "Don't be Evil at an early Google"):

“[Social media] is like a game where you get 1 point for being fair and thoughtful and 1000 points for character assassination”

https://twitter.com/paultoo/status/1100144882872532992

This is partly why I spent so much time writing a media literacy guide to explain the incentives behind what we see in our feeds and our newspapers:

https://github.com/nemild/hack-the-media/blob/master/README....
> they sell in a year what toyota manufactures in a day

You're off by more than an order of magnitude.

Tesla sold 250k cars in 2018, and Toyota makes < 25k/day.

Not to mention the Tesla number is growing substantially, while the Toyota number is flat.
Having recently visited a few, I’m thinking no.
I'm probably projecting my own experiences onto your wife, but I always get annoyed with people who hear something like "be dispassionate and try to be as logical as possible" and immediately discount it- primarily because I notice they've never tried it.

I used to make a lot of emotional decisions based on my gut feelings and intuition, and it took me a great deal of work to get over that and to start thinking about the "optimal course of action" whenever I had important decisions to make. My life has drastically improved, and all of my relationships are more stable and my goals have proved to be more attainable.

But when I try to preach this to people, a lot of them give the same reaction your wife did- and I get annoyed, because I observe them constantly having their feelings hurt, getting frustrated, missing their goals, and feeling stressed out, because they're operating off of anything but "optimal course of action reasoning".
Why on earth did the shooter tell viewers to subscribe to pewdiepie? this is pretty surreal.
> “The reservoirs are full, lakes are full, the streams are flowing, there’s tons of snow,” said Jessica Blunden, a climate scientist with the National Climatic Data Center at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “All the drought is officially gone.”

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-rain-california...

EDIT: Sorry, you're referring to aquifers, not reservoirs.
Not to pick on you specifically as others are saying more or less the same thing... But if you're such a genius that you know how to slash Lyft's AWS spend without knowing basically a thing about their infrastructure, you should be knocking loudly on their door because I'm sure they have an extremely well-paid job waiting for you.

Otherwise, maybe consider voicing opinions like these about things you actually know something about.

ADDED: Meant to respond to a different comment that didn't suggest any inside knowledge. (Though I'd still point out that even insiders often can't understand how their own company has so many employees in X department, is so inefficient, etc. And this is more or less the case everywhere.
How to Eat a Tomato (2011) [pdf]
Does anyone take Wikipedia seriously at this point?

Calling Wikipedia 'neutral' is comical, it's full of opinion, ideology, bias, misinformation, disinformation, astroturfing, and other nonsense noise and utter garbage.
Inuit and suicide:

From wikipedia: Among Inuit it is 6 to 11 times higher than the general population.

By 2007 in a population of 30,000 that is mainly Inuit, "40 per cent of deaths investigated by the coroner's office were suicides. Many of the 222 suicide victims were young, Inuit and male."

The article (written by women about the finding of some other woman) is a praise to the way females handle overt aggression, which is basically to shun it off (in this case, calmly).

Not saying that war-machine macho raising is a reasonable alternative, but male emasculation is not proving to be that useful either, as you can see in the massive shooting spreads, young male suicide rates, and the general passive-agressive tone of most male interactions these days.

Aggression should always be acted upon, just not in a retarded way.

BTW: I like answers where I'm literally given "the benefit of doubt". No, passive aggression is not a problem. At all..
What, was being an elected congressman not enough?
I don’t believe this. The GOP is desperate to discredit him because he puts Texas into play a couple years early. This smells like a weak hit job.

I’m not sold as Beto as the candidate but this is a weak meme. 2/10 be best.
And people should also understand where lobbying dollars go. You could consider lobbyists management consultants for the gov't. You hire a firm who will develop a lobbying strategy for you - who you should talk to, what you should say, who you should partner with, etc.

It's not like you spend $600K on lobbying and it's a $600K transfer from the corporation to the elected officials. A lot of that money ends up in the hands of the lobbyists.
He named his BBS "TacoLand". He should definitely play up this angle...maybe campaign on a taco cart on every corner. I know people who will vote for him for that alone.

This piece is a disaster. It's an excerpt from a soon to be released book, it's light on facts about O'Rourke and is at least equally about Cult of the Dead Cow, it's trying to make things sound more nefarious than they were, and it's playing the guilt by association card. The only questionable activities by O'Rourke are:

- he dialed long distance without paying for it.

- he used pirated software.

(Not that I'm defending this behavior, but so did I.)

And he wrote fiction that barely rises to the level of a really bad Stephen King'esque short story.

That's it.
I don't mean that Modi personally signed the order banning PUBG. I meant that Modi and the BJP have ruled and continue to rule over a state where policemen think they are a law unto themselves. They think they can ban perfectly lawful activities, then arrest anyone who violates their idiotic ban. The policeman thinks the ends justify the means. I am asking why the policeman's boss agrees with that.
>> Senior algorithm nerd on my project is going nuts over algorithmic complexity

This is me, but luckily where I work I have people who can keep me in check because we generally do design reviews before anything big is built.

However, I have been in situations at previous companies where big(o) was ignored to take short cuts up front, because the "data was small" and suddenly scaling to even just 100 users starts to break things because of poor design decisions when it gets into production.

I guess the lesson here is more the importance of design reviews. Also n^2 is HUGE even for small data if there is IO or api calls involved. Any public api you provide, that is n^2 is not a good idea because you never know who may end up using it for what.
And with an open and thought through policy platform deeper than platitudes.
I occasionally get angry at people doing unpredictable or frightening things on the road but I'm rarely blessed with understanding.

What I do is I try to keep myself from building larger narrative around it with malicious reckless idiot drivers as the villains.

Then each instance of anger lingers usually for roughly a day and then gets forgotten.
Their grammar's a bit off, since they have:

<bool> ::= T | F | IsZero <num>
<num> ::= O
<arith> ::= Succ <num> | Pred <num>

Here `<num>` can only ever be `O`, so that's the only valid argument for `IsZero`, `Succ` and `Pred`. I would put `O` into `<arith>`, get rid of `<num>` and replace all references to it with `<arith>`.

That doesn't affect the actual implementation, since (as they say right after) "For simplicity, we merge all them together in a single Term."
It does seem to me that value-adding to GitHub or the like is not a great business model. Because sooner or later, if the feature is popular enough, GitHub is going to implement the feature directly (such as with GitHub Projects), rendering your business somewhat obsolete.

Having a clean migration path for people out is a nice touch though.
Conversely, his supporters will use this as a measure of how "in touch" he is with "tech culture."

So, on the one hand the stupid stuff will be touted as him being just a dumb kid, but the non-stupid stuff will be touted as revolutionary and ahead of his time.
You don't need to be patient, you just prepare accounts in advance.
Accelerationists have always been around.
Wow, I used to read the Cult of the Dead Cow's stuff when I was a kid, mid-to-late-90s. Still won't be voting for Beto, but that is cool.
Yang doesn’t have a snowballs chance in hell. He’s posturing just to raise his own public profile.
Facebook's new AI technology can detect “revenge porn”
Shills/trolls pretty much have the freedom to do whatever they want on Reddit. Vote manipulation and simulated conversations between groups trying to steer the discussion seem to be fully sanctioned by the mods and admins.

If you look at the comment history of the accounts involved, there's often a pattern of accounts that used to only discuss US sports teams before going dormant for a year or more and coming back with a strong interest in defending some corporate or government entity 24/7.
I read his "manifesto" and it didn't look to me that it was an attack of passion or by someone mentally deranged. It was calculated. His references to past events, including Roterham seem to resonate well with the dark side of the internet.
Aquifers are not manmade reservoirs, lakes, or streams
I think the assumption is that any such candidate has been bought long ago by "special interests". So you're looking for a candidate with executive and political experience who will work on behalf of the people. I think that ship sailed with the likes of Winston Churchill and Eisenhower.
I don't think it's necessary, as a simple Google search on "structural brain differences" reveals hundreds of studies identifying physical differences correlating with various things such as transgendered individuals, dyslexics, etc.
> they don’t see physical cameras/microphones everywhere

Rather, they don't understand that cellphones that all of us provides that, along with GPS tracking etc.

They see the cameras, but they do not understand the implication...
Maybe I read the OP wrong but I've never heard of building out and/or holding data center real estate assets. I worked for a large data center and even they leased their buildings. Their customers included government, big banks, large tech (even FAANG level) and they either colo'd or leased space.

There are dedicated REITs that hold only high-tech/data center real estate.
For context: Apple's original plan was that artists would get no royalties from users using Apple Music's (3-month) trial. Taylor Swift threatened to (maybe actually did for a bit?) pull her music, and Apple backed down.
Give it a few months
This is incorrect - you can go and buy a used Mac Mini for 250USD.
Is he wrong? Most terrorists in the US are white. Hell, the terrorists in NZ were white.

For everybody downvoting me: https://www.vox.com/world/2017/10/2/16396612/las-vegas-mass-...

I'm not sure what's so controversial here. Most attacks since 9/11 on American ground were perpetrated by white supremacists or similar. But it's nice to see how quick Americans are to defend their precious country.
The lack of a convenient way of anonymously paying is probably the root cause of that. There's cash, which is a pretty convenient way of anonymously paying. There's no such convenient way to pay for stuff on the Internet. Emphasis on convenient.
Are tips required to do a lot of things? No. But some people find them useful.
Reminds me of this old story... couldn't believe it was 10 years old when I googled it.

https://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-is-chairman-of-san-die...
> by being dispassionate and using logic to reason the optimal course of action.

Even with all the logic in the world, it is very hard for most people to overcome their own biases (because they are not always obvious to oneself). So, not sure if it's a good rule to set.
This. I think people who are trying to put this in context need to read his pdf/manifesto. Some people will balk at that because they feel it will give credence to his beliefs. That’s burrying your head in the sand.

ISIS, Osama Bin Laden, Al Queda in Iraq, and every other effective terrorist org has telegraphed their intentions. STILL we have, time and again, fallen into the trap they set. It would be funny if it wasn’t so damn tragic.
Leia's theme-I knew she was a villian, or at least a counterpoint.