skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The E10K -- the former Cray Business Systems Division purchased from SGI for a pittance -- made $1.2B in its first year as a product, and probably still stands as one of the most profitable acquisitions in the history of the industry. (And was due entirely to the adults in the room.) Yes, Sun was badly disrupted by x86 -- but not being able to adapt to economic disruption is really not the same as not being able to "figure out how to make people pay for it." (Indeed, those most fixated on immediate revenue are those for whom economic disruption is most difficult to counter.)

To be clear: Sun lost a microprocessor war first and foremost. In my opinion, Sun needed to respond to x86 by being even more iconoclastic than the company had the stomach for at the time: by buying AMD ca. 2004 and fighting the Intel cross-patent poison pill in court. So in the end, Sun's problem was arguably too many adults in the room, not too few...
I really agree with your point around "best and easiest-to-use". I like this even more than how Google became defacto choice by being the "better" search engine (I put it in quotes because its pretty fuzzy now if it is better, but when it started it was certainly cleaner and probably better).

I like when a company wins by just being superior (and hopefully in a way where they aren't deliberately building a moat)
I wonder how many Jenkins exploits will lead people to put their Jenkins hosts behind a perimiter?
When is enough enough?
I have a feeling such privacy-conscious decisions will eventually have consequences, akin to the social-ranking systems from that episode of Black Mirror, or in China[0], where in both instances various forms of punishment are dealt to those not contributing "positive" data to the cloud.

It seems like there aren't very many people who really care about privacy... and they would be easy to single out and punish.

On that note, enjoy your semblance of privacy now... while you still can!

[0]: https://www.businessinsider.de/video-china-train-warns-citiz...
To make it "new" or virgin they need to replace the CPU an the baseband, I'm not sure how they manage the secure enclave problem as the touch id is tied to the CPU.
For a point of reference I got a really quite decent ebike for $1800. (Disc brakes, rapidfire shifters) Ebikes range in price quite a bit but that seams middle of the road.

Those scooters are fast though, easily going 20 mph. I can’t imagine what the ride is like in our pothole filled streets...
Obligatory Joel Grus: slides from his 'I don't like notebooks' talk. He has good follow-up talks too.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1n2RlMdmv1p25Xy5thJUh...
It was driven by Uber needing to become profitable and either having to raise ride prices (and lose customers) or lower driver cuts. If there was an abundance of drivers you'd see Ubers/Lyfts waiting around with no one in them constantly, which is not my experience based on wait times in major metropolitan cities (NYC, Boston, SF, LA), where drivers usually are booked for the next ride before they even drop me off.

It's also misinformation and deceptive advertising by Uber and others that don't educate drivers on the real costs of driving for them when it comes to gas, car wear and tear, surge pricing models and how it affects them, etc.
Ajit Pai Refuses to Investigate Frontier Telecom Problems in Minnesota
Looks like spam... whee....
I think part of what the author is addressing is the ignorance exhibited in your comment. I don't mean to be rude; it's easy not to see the big picture when you're busy just making a living.

To me, Searls' point is that an overwhelming pressure to monetize everything has corrupted the health of the open source community. This is not just holier-than-thou moralizing; there will be real financial consequences if the creators of open source products don't start eating a lot more of their own dogfood.
Tangentally, I don't think "investing" is the right term here. When you invest in something, you buy/create an asset (like a machine, or stocks in company) that is creating returns. Meanwhile, buying assets that don't create returns, with the hope of selling them for more later, is just speculation, not investing.
No support for gene hypotheses for major depression across large samples
Yeah, nothing really stops you from intermixing, you just need an inverter at every point where the two join.

The problem is that inverters are expensive enough that you really don't want to do it a lot. This is why HVDC is usually used for grid interconnection or underwater transmission.

If you can drop a bunch of lines down, then with AC there isn't to much of a reason not to just pump the voltage up to insane levels. The main drawback is that the higher the voltage you push out, the more AC power will want to "leak". That effectively means you need larger pole and you need a larger distance between the AC lines. This is why you can easily pick out high voltage AC lines from regular lines, they are larger towers with bigger distances between lines.
> Why have users chosen those environments?

Because they don't give a rat's ass about the freedom aspect of free software. If software A requires four clicks to do something, but B has a way to do it in 3, they are on B without a second thought.

But in this case, those users are not just any old end users; the are actually supposed to be FOSS developers, so there is a heavy irony there.

I think what is doing on is that large numbers of people are now "reluctant" FOSS developers. They do FOSS because someone told them to. They got a job somewhere and the job involves writing code that gets upstreamed somewhere and is redistributable. Well, they don't give a damn about that, it's just a job, no different from working on proprietary software. Or they work on some proprietary stuff, but it interacts with and depends on some FOSS pieces so they get in there and make changes out of necessity, and those changes are freely licensed only because they are derived from a work which requires that due to copyright doctrines about derived works.

It's partly a generational thing. Notice how Doc Searls looks about fifty-something. He remembers a grassroots free software movement which was about actually about displacing proprietary software and liberating the user, and not about about providing reliable commodity middleware for locked-down devices and cloud services.

If you were born after 1990, you don't know a world in which Linux and other FOSS wasn't used for making locked-down tech, and proprietary web sites that lock in millions of people and step on their privacy. So of course it's hard to understand someone like Doc Searls.

The free software ideology originated in a world in which you still installed applications locally and ran them on local data, on a machine where you were allowed to stick in a floppy disc with any piece of machine language in its boot sector that could easily take over the machine. The machine that was understood to be owned by you once you paid for it.
Well if it wasn’t, it certainly is now. Thanks for that typeformer.
As a user? I don't care a lick.

Of course we can map any kind of relational system into a series of strings. What matters is support to do it in an intuitive way. Nested folders are intuitive, in terms of organizing, browsing, and highlighting the existing structure when adding new items.

Tags fail at least at the last two without UI support.
This! Like much else, these kind of movements (FOSS etc.) depends on having good “institutions” that work. In this case e.g. the documentation project and similar. They are fundamental building blocks ...
> What specifically are you concerned about that is a problem with this and not with them having the email in the first place?

That they use millions of computing-dollars to extract this information and store it.

Supposedly spam detection does not need to understand the numbers in your bank emails. Supposedly it needs mostly information about you previous contacts and spammy patterns from the rest of the internet.

The point being that you cannot misuse the information you do not have. Google is very good at thinking of a lot of this kind of quality of life functionality, they do not seem to realize how creepy and disconcerting they can be.
There's a section about half way down that lists all end-to-end encrypted data (keychain, health, payment data, ...).

By implication, all other data is not end-to-end encrypted. That includes iCloud drive, photos, calendar, contacts and mail.
Define low.

Unless you're a competitive body builder on show day, you've probably got enough fat to cover a few weeks worth of energy needs.
I mean it's also tremendously inefficient, in terms of physical real estate, throughput, and energy efficiency.
Yeah, I'm often puzzled by some FOSS developers not using open communication tools and not running Linux on their actual day to day work computers.
Geoff Golberg’s War Against the Twitter Bots and the XRP Army
But self driving is just around the corner!*

[*] This will be true year after year (and Waymo will beat them to it even if it happens soon)
I mean it's so thoughtless of people to waste time in traffic instead of teleporting everywhere.

Even if we eliminated cars people still have to get to work/stores/church/school/home/etc... Mass transit options are more efficient in many ways than single occupant cars, but only occasionally are they faster.
VoCore store at ameriDroid.com:

https://ameridroid.com/search?q=vocore*&type=article,page,pr...
I feel like all the technical arguments here are besides the point. The ad is designed to take you to a page, which tells you a lie, to convince you to give them your money.

We already have a legal term for people that make money by misrepresenting something, it's called fraud.

Sure, you can tell me it will still be a cat or mouse game and that laws aren't gonna reach into whatever sort of clickfarm network exists far outside of US jurisdictions, but make it so people are held accountable for this kinda stuff.

I'm no fan of the carcereal state, I'm not suggesting that we throw people in jail or drone bomb their server farm, perhaps large fines and getting banned making ads across any platform would work. I dunno, just seems there are not many incentives against this sort of behavior in an ad-dominated internet.
Taking Notes by Hand May Be Better Than Digitally (2016)
It's better to appear busy than actually being busy.
I’m probably bad but I honestly can’t get slack to work with all the different communities I’ve been invited to. Discord basically works like IRC, except almost every channel I’m in is by invitation only, making it almost impossible for new people to join.

In my opinion IRC is still the best tool out there and I really, really wonder why we stopped using it.
Well, Minecraft didn't have survival mode originally. It was just "creative" multiplayer.
Really wish I could read this article...
Re foobot, did you see this? https://mobile.twitter.com/dhh/status/928661125327069184

Airthings looks interesting. I'm curious to know of any reviews of their accuracy.
And I think you're missing that this is caps, not minimums. The actual selection process happens before these caps are applied, which is what leads to the waitlists - people pass the selection process, and then get stuck in line due to the per-country cap hitting India but not Vatican City. (Or Germany, or Japan, or the UK...)

The cap for Vatican City is far larger than the population. This does not change just because no one used it.
This. The problem with FOSS are incentives which are not aligned.

Sure, some developers will give their best for free... for some time. But sooner or later the going gets tough and maintaining (let alone developing further) your pet project becomes a chore. Will you still do it? For how long? And if you try to monetize the project to at least somehow offset the lost energy and time, and maybe even pay someone else to help you, then you figure out you can't. Because free / open / libre means that anyone can take what you did and run with it.

This is the reason why FOSS projects don't reach the maturity and polish of closed variants. The only exception I can think of is Firefox, because it is able to capitalize on its unique position where it threatens (a bit) Google Search. With Google also making its biggest rival.

And the end result is that while the FOSS software is free (as in freedom), its quality leaves much to be desired, so the users are not flocking to it. Far from it.

Until FOSS movement rethinks what "freedom" is, nothing is going to change for better. Maybe giving Commons Clause and other hybrid licenses a chance could be a way out? I don't know, but it makes me sad that I'm typing this on a closed phone without (realistic) choice.
They can offer their services to other ride sharing companies, no? Ultimately consumers will take the best deal, and that means there can only be so many ride share drivers before the earnings get too low. It's like that guy in SF that recorded himself complaining to Kalanick that nobody wants to ride his limo. Somehow that's Uber's fault.
Why couldn't they use Matrix instead of Discord?
It’s amazing how casual people are about this

Only if you think of it that way really, considering a) the majority of people don't have problems and b) long-term effects of those products are sometimes not known at all, let alone known by the general public. Don't forget things like allergy information for food etc are fairly recent developments even in the western world. And studies showing/hinting at links between cleaning produtcs and premature deaths etc are also fairly recent I think, so unfortunately the general population isn't really aware of the dangers.
Adam Tooze posted this on twitter just now:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D5_zaDzWwAActB6?format=jpg&name=...
What does "Free Rides Package" mean? Do I need to pay to use my own scooter?
previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18013286
What causes depressurized houses?
The linked bug report showed errors using OpenSSL to generate keys after resume on an AMD platform. It seemed to indicate RDRAND returning an error code instead of entropy.

Sorry for any confusion.
Red Hat and CentOS don't have any official relationship. It's CoreOS you're referring to. RHEL's binaries may be available for some SW, but license-wise cannot be used for production workloads unless explicitly stated.

CentOS can be used for whatever you wish, but that's not a RH binary of course.
Depends. Normally I would do with golang apps. But if I need to debug an issue I'll redeploy them with Ubuntu underneath so I can use the debugging tools.
I'm baffled why there are no Minecraft clones, a game created by a single person without a budget. The gaming industry is otherwise notorious for ripping of each other's games. Almost all successive games, Minecraft included , started by copying another game (Infiniminer). Or CandySwipe->CandyCrush et.al... I think a MMO version of Minecraft would be interesting.
Is there reason to believe they're using old-growth trees rather than managed forests? I would guess the former are more valuable in actual wood products.
Note that HN formatting ate the single asterisk before and after. You'll need to enter them as well.
This is a painfully well contrived bit of PR.

When companies start peddling poor people in need from some desperate place to pull on our heartstrings ... it's a problem.

If this were something related to their core product - maybe.

But this is virtue signalling at it's ugly finest.

Surely, they mean well. Kudos for that - it's good they're spending a tiny portion of their trillion dollars doing that.

What I object to - strongly - is the attempt to brand themselves by this act, to imbue themselves with some kind of moral fervour, especially in such an emotional way.

"Look at these puppies, they were starving, and then we saved them! Everyone likes puppies, right?" Ok, so they actually saved puppies.

---> Now please fix our privacy problems, which is actually the core of what you're supposed to do.
If you're just using off-the-GitHub models and pressing them into service, sure, Keras is adequate. If your work actually requires research and experimentation (as most practical problems on which actual cash money can be made do) you'll be much better served with PyTorch. The main cost in all this is not actually implementing or training your final model. That can be done in any framework. The cost is finding a model that works really well for a particular task. You will get there a lot sooner and with a lot fewer headaches if you use PyTorch for this more "researchy" part.

As to deployment, once you figure out what works, there's also libtorch, or if that doesn't work for you for whatever reason, implementing a model you know working hyperparameters for can be done in a day or two on whatever framework works for your backend, including TF.
Just use Riot. I actively seek to contribute to projects nowadays that actively use Matrix as its communication platform. Rust was mentioned in another comment - Mozilla might move to a proprietary data-insecure privacy violating walled garden of Discord, but the Rocket web framework, Tokio, and several other Rust projects have official Matrix discussion rooms as some of their primary points of contact.
My simplistic explanation, coal and nuclear power plants can take several hours to "bootup" (startup). Gas plants can startup in minutes. So when the sun goes in the clouds, or when power demand spikes, a gas plant can quickly come online unlike coal and nuclear.
Please don't discount how deep the rabbit hole goes with adtech.

I spent over a decade in adtech. I have several patents from > 8 years ago for metadata-based ad targeting.

While I agree with you that it is better to see relevant ads over irrelevant ads, the datastores that enable fine-grained behavioral targeting is, simply put, just too much power for any corporation (or government) to wield.

Corporations directly profit from larger data stores. The more invasive the data extraction, and the more available it is to their true customers, which are advertisers, the more they profit. The advertiser dashboards and ability to explore potential audiences based on targeting, both on G and FB, are astoundingly detailed.

I try to convince everyone in my life to run an adblocker and stay off FB.

One of the richest sources of metadata about you and your loved ones are your photos. I quit my day job to build a self-hosted, life-scale photo store, partly as a passion project, partly driven by disgust and penance from prior adtech work.
Actually I want to make a slightly different point. The problem is that "intelligent" systems are unpredictable. In the future google could wrongly decide that your business is inconvenient blacklist you from searches. Maybe it got that idea from your name being mentioned in relation to some extreme stuff and unified you with ISIS.
Unless you're behind a load balancer which terminates TLS and the traffic you deal with is purely http.
Ask HN: Is it common for an HN user to be a CTO/VP/Director level employee?
Asking because I had a conversation with a VP level person and he was adamant that HN is consumed by "practitioners" only.
I did an analysis with the official Docker Python image [0] with the --enable-optimizations flag. Although not the point of the results [1], they show a decent speed up when using Debian vs Alpine as well.

[0] https://github.com/docker-library/python/issues/160
[1] https://gist.github.com/blopker/9fff37e67f14143d2757f9f2172c...
I was using Google Docs for note taking, and as long as drive.google.com was already loaded, I could pop open the lid and create a new document in about 3 - 5 seconds.
No, it is specifically about Uber's practices.

The point of the article is that Uber enticed people into a new way of earning a living with higher pay rates, kept these up long enough to convince the workers to go into debt to purchase a vehicle, then slashed the pay rates so much (~58%) that they cannot even afford to keep paying for the vehicle.

This is not mere anti-Uber clickbait; it is a record of what Uber did.

While it is probably within the law, it is certainly unethical exploitation of a very unequal power relationship.

There is a reason behind the frequency of "negative sounding" headlines about Uber -- it is because they build a company on fundamentally unethical practices predicated on screwing the other guy first, whether it is the cities, the govt, the drivers, or their own employees -- whatever they can get away with.

Perhaps that is OK, with you, but it is not the way to build a sustainable business or society.
Walgreens sells a sparkling water that inexplicably has artificial sweetener, though it's not sold as "soda" but as "sparkling water." I bought it expecting, you know, sparkling water and the experience of getting a mouthful of unexpected aspartame was... memorable.
The Bugzilla report seemed to indicate that AMD was returning an error code, because OpenSSL was failing to generate a key, not generating a bad key?

Why would OpenSSL fail visibly if the API was returning success but with non-random data?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1150286
Most often the stack effect (warmth in the house causes air to rise & leak out the attic which sucks in replacement air down low- like a chimney), but also potentially overpowered range hoods, bath fans, clothes dryers, open flue gas appliances, wood fireplaces, etc.
“Converting calories to gas, a bicycle gets about three thousand miles per gallon.”

https://twitter.com/grescoe/status/1122883766207352832?s=21
There's a big difference between "eating when you want" and having an active lifestyle that restricts eating naturally, versus binging TV on the couch with junk food 10 feed away.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3102055/

Conclusion

Over the last 50 years in the U.S. we estimate that daily occupation-related energy expenditure has decreased by more than 100 calories, and this reduction in energy expenditure accounts for a significant portion of the increase in mean U.S. body weights for women and men

That's 3000 calories per month, or almost 10 lbs of fat per year.
Use Matrix. It's been a slow and bumpy few years, but it's there now. Idealism aside I genuinely prefer it to other messaging services.

You don't need to host your own server or anything special (unless you want to). You can just sign up here: https://riot.im/app/
Giving up tea presumably would mean giving up something the poster presumably finds pleasurable. Drinking tap water instead of bottled has no such trade off. There's a big difference between asking people to live like monks and asking them to not consume things that give them little to no value.
Exactly. With copy on write and samepage merging it's more important to use the same base image for all your deployments.
I noticed the same when I am sitting near the sensor. I'm thinking though that it is partially due to me essentially breathing onto the sensor and the sensor dynamics having an averaging function so that I'm not sure what the sensor reports and what I breathe in are the same. Repositioning the sensor so it wasn't in the "line of sight" of my breath changed the readings significantly.
you're rationalizing, i.e., looking the other way to avoid cognitive dissonance. but part of why we have such big brains is to anticipate the future, not simply accept events as they occur. what might the future you say? should we ignore that gas leak in the kitchen because it hasn't killed anyone yet?

it's important to expose this kind of mis-rationalization, especially when tiny individual harms accumulate otherwise silently to become population-level dangers (e.g., measles).