skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdote. May be untrue. Don't trust everything you read online, etc.

A friend was a 7 year Ericsson employee (ending in 2012). In his opinion, Ericsson's networking equipment was universally acknowledged as having slow deployment times. Nokia's stuff was much faster to deploy. When Huawei hired the ex-Nokia engineers at 2.5x their previous salary, they asked them how Nokia did particular tasks. The engineer would say 'The best way of doing this is...' and get cut off: 'we want to know exactly how Nokia does this, not anything different'. All the Nokia customers moved to Huawei's kit. After a couple of years of extraction Huawei would fire the ex-Nokia engineer saying 'we have everything we need from you'.

Again, might be bullshit.
I stumbled across a 2012 article on this [0] that says they'd 'retire' instances. Wouldn't force the VMs over to another host, they'd just terminate them. They'd generally give forewarning.

I wonder about live migration. I imagine there must be some brief interruption even there.

> Many VMs are run indefinitely, so whatever machine they’re on has to stay powered on

Amazon must be adequately motivated to find a way to power-down unused capacity. My guess is they have some kind of system to maximise this.

[0] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/20/aws_ec2_servers_ret...
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> It talks about "connectedness" which means basically the same thing.

I think you might be imbuing that word with meaning which isn't conveyed in the article. Or at least: nobody else has yet stated that they also read 'connectedness' to mean 'trade', and even re-reading the article with this calibration I do not see how it is an easily drawn conclusion.

Let me know if you think any of the below is wrongheaded:

Connectedness comes up three times in the article.

Firstly as the CEO of Airbus talks about the possibility for needing to leave the UK due to the economic uncertainty created by Brexit. The author refers to the jobs "connected" to their supply chain: he is, I think, trying to create a sense of the ripple effect of Brexit through employment and trade.

The second occurrence of 'connectedness' is much tighter: Friedman cites Hagel (he of Deloitte fame, not he of Dialectic fame!) in a thread about how connectedness to flows of knowledge and resource are more important than fixed stockpiles. The argument is that building moats and protecting IP, intelligence, systems, etc. from competitors is less important than continuous collaboration and innovation.

I believe this approaches a central point of the entire Brexit debate. The debate is not so much regarding the possible outcomes of Brexit, but whether those outcomes are good or bad news in the final analysis. The argument the author makes here is that the 'leave' instinct is based on an outdated model for how things work in 2019. And perhaps it's wrong. But that's the argument. Not that we cannot trade, but that like the court of Hrothgar, seeking to build up figurative walls (and again: not saying "no trade") is a net negative.

The final mention of 'connectedness' is in relation to trade! But it's a reiteration that our leadership seems to want to unplug us from a connected world (I don't think you would disagree that the European Union is connected, and Britain is trying to disconnect from it; and I also don't think you would disagree that this metaphor of connectedness is not anything to do with trade), and that Trump is pushing for that because he sees us as economically weaker without the European Union, and that the breakup of the EU would be advantageous for him. Again: nothing about trade here.

> Why should the UK be disconnected without the EU?

I'm afraid you're once again submitting a straw man. The article does not say that we are not connected without the EU. It says that we are disconnecting from the EU. The article specifically goes on to discuss ways in which forming connections with other nations are challenging.
And you can also redirect all port 53 traffic to PiHole on the gateway and let only PiHole query DNS to circumvent clients that use hardcoded IP addresses (e.g. 8.8.8.8 by default)
10% of topline is frustratingly low. To make matters worse, my bank wanted to total debt to fall in that realm so the existing credit cards kept us from getting the loan at all.
I agree with everything you say. But let me offer a slight critique of "As I'm posting a lot of such disbelieving comments". Please consider that HN is also a media outlet. And while mainstream media wouldn't engage in consumption reduction brainwashing, you can offer a counter voice and do your own brainwashing. And HN crowd is the right audience. I believe a fair share of us belongs to the top 10% that emits half of carbon globally (https://www-cdn.oxfam.org/s3fs-public/file_attachments/mb-ex...).

The absolute emissions reduction from individual lifestyle adjustments is not that important in itself. But it should create a cultural space required for the current and future politicians to take action. Politicians don't lead, they follow. We live in a democracy after all. But hopefully it apparently takes only 3.5% of the population to take an active stance on something to cause a change (https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=YJSehRlU34w).

I want to be part of that 3.5%. And I will keep brainwashing (eh, I mean inspiring) people around me.
By a tiny margin, after a concerted misinformation campaign.
The advice may not be as great. Amount of land and water needed to grow crops that sufficiently replace nutrition provided by meat may be worse for climate change than just eating meat. Obviously that only applies to grass-fed cattle. I don’t have a source right now, but the choice is not as obvious as many think.
No wasn't able to secure it. Should have abused distributors to send us stuff without meeting their payment terms as written, since our fixed costs were low, profits excellent, and people loved it. Flying off shelves with high margin. At the time I thought meeting obligations as written was important for "karma". Actually, I now think giving the distributors another outlet is way better for karma and for them than not being behind on payments. Abusing them for credit is an easy win for everyone especially them (and they know it) - long-term health is much more important, and money is very scarce and pursuing it is a waste of time. We left behind disappointed customers who couldn't give us the money they wanted to, disappointed distributors when we weren't reordering, and an ecstatic landlord who got all our renovations for free after successfully evicting us. We should have left behind happy customers, distributors who loved thay we were selling all their stuff and ordering a lot more but a frustrated receivables department with them having to chase us for months, and a disappointed landlord that they were stuck renting a place in a prime location for so cheap, when it was now so palatial.

If profits are very high, sales are very high and the fixed costs are low, the missing part of the equation is payment terms. Abuse them. The distributors aren't going to go out of business if you pay them from your own profits on them. You will be the one to go out of business, if you try to get credit or factor it instead. Then they don't get any reorders from you. I really wish I had known this.
No. Unless the storage providers support it natively, you won't be able to do it yourself.

Unless you just want to avoid doing it through your local connection. You can always stand up an instance in AWS, GCP or someone with the minimal connection distance to Google Drive and the target storage and automate the copy from there.
Personally, I'd be more responsive to what you have to say if you were to post comments that were more participatory in the discussions, and not always using your comments to post the same link to the fundraising site you founded.
I would also argue that supporting efforts to understand where the methane is coming from would be good.

For example Methane Sat[1] looks like it can cover a wide area and is coming on-line in the time frame to do some good (2020).

[1] https://www.edf.org/climate/how-methanesat-is-different
Perhaps they meant that downgrading is not possible without a reboot.
Greta Thunberg
Just huawei? Isn't that the case for china's rise overall? Wasn't the basis of US-China relations the past 50 years a simple transfer of technology/capital for cheap labor/lax environmental regulations? We looked the other way while china took our technology and money. And they looked away as we exploited cheap labor and lax environmental law. It was a wage, technology, capital and environmental law arbitrage. It terribly skewed the wealth/income inequality in both countries, it destroyed large segments of the US ( rust belt ), it has been an environmental disaster and it's significantly altered the global power balance. But at least the elites got ridiculously wealthy.

For 50 years, the wsj and the ny times defended this. Bloomberg defended this since their inception in the early 80s. It's odd to see the entire establishment media shift from supporting it to now suddenly attacking it. Also, you would think independent media would offer differing opinions rather than speaking with the same voice. But it's always complete support or complete rejection as if someone flips a switch on and off.

"Theft and dubious ethics" has been the basis of the US-China relationship from the very beginning and it went both ways. This is something everyone and their mother knew from the very beginning. Why did it take 50 years for the wsj and the rest of the media to figure it out.

If the wsj is concerned with "theft and dubious ethics", are they planning on an expose' of the US-Saudi relation and US-Israeli relation? Maybe in another 50 years?
You mean “compile your own binaries” using code which you downloaded without auditing, just like NPM? That’s actually what we used to do; blaming NPM is both reflecting a misunderstand of the problem and blaming the update system which means you can fix a problem orders of magnitude faster — the half-life of random tarballs people used was much longer.
That is a really silly excuse.

Basically what they say is that this information can theoretically be calculated so we demand you just give it (and some more) to us.
When I was doing my anaesthetics terms we used more than just propofol. We used a cocktail for various effects. Propofol to knock you out. Volatile gas to keep you under. Opioid (usually fentanyl) so you don't feel pain. Suxamethonium to relax your muscles. Benzodiazepine (e.g. midazolam) so you don't remember anything.

Of course it's more complex than that since most of those also make it easier to keep you under.
Yeh, asuming we are still talking about hand written html and css, and not about auto generated and minified source. Complex layout tend to turn into a div nest. But most web pages can do fine or even better without the complexity - and get responsiveness and mobile support for free.
Have y'all had any maintenance/upkeep issues operating multiple instances?
You are using Google dns servers and you are saying you have "control over the privacy issue involved in using a public DNS server" ?
Why is the camera attachment not a patentable idea> Huawei also holds patents for seemingly obvious things.

https://patents.justia.com/patent/20190155499
https://patents.justia.com/patent/20190158530
Moving a 320 year old house across an ocean from Japan to California
Remind me to never be one of your suppliers. Not paying on time is a absolute shit head thing to do and suppliers will not* love you for it.
I use Trello a lot. The free version is fine for me. The only non-free feature I want would be to set the background image to a custom one.
But no way in hell will I pay a subscription fee for that * . I wish I could just pay a one off fee for that one feature

*I live with almost no income, but almost no expenses either. So I only need to work when my money is getting low, and otherwise can just do what I want. A constant subscription type expense that constantly drains my money is something I avoid. eg I have a 'pay as you go' mobile phone contract.
During working hours where?
It's been a mixed bag. I'm not sure exchange rates matter that much.

In terms of GDP its not what it would have been "Brexit had cost the world’s fifth largest economy nearly 2.5 percent of GDP at the end of last year, compared to its growth path prior to the mid-2016 vote on exiting the bloc."

But at least we still grew a little and "UK unemployment falls to 44-year low despite Brexit fears"

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-goldmansachs/br... https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/mar/19/uk-unemploy...
Poland brings a case before the European court against the copyright directive
Extended number line is one way to formalise this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_real_number_line
> Honestly; how can you call it "theft" if it is done via buying or a joint venture?

Joint ventures are compulsory. What China does is extorting market access. As for buying: Systematically undermining them by price-dumping and then buying up the carcasses isn't exactly fine business practices either.

China is definitely going to be the enemy of the next 20-30 years, pitting a ruthless dictatorship against whatever freedom and democracy will be left in the Western world.
Shenzhen kindergartens are a bizarre place: a cross between a typical kindergarten and a mitary bootcamp.
Isn’t most cattle fed grain?
I guess he was a troubled character? Couldn't sleep normally, perhaps due to some trauma?
I think non-essentials and some types of food via an emissions tax would be a great thing.

For example, flying is so cheap I would say people "over do it" just because they can. I often think it would be great if there was more cost associated with air fair to factor in the environmental damage each flight causes.

Yeah people will be inconvenienced slightly but what is the alternative? Holiday in locations closer to home? Go by rail? Video conferencing ? They all seem like good options compared to the alternative.
Normal cha (what we call it in Gujarat) has no extra spices except perhaps some fresh ginger. Masala cha is made by boiling it with a spice mix of dry ginger, cardamom, black pepper, cinnamon, cloves, all ground to a powder. I use a proportion of 4:2:2:1:1. You can vary the proportion to your liking or add a bit of nutmeg or mace or fresh mint leaves or Indian basil (tulsi). I often add fresh grated ginger as well. At Indian grocery stores in the US you can find Wagh-bakri brand instant masala chai. Just add about 4 fl.oz of near boiling hot water to a tea pack and you get some amazingly good masala tea!
Our culture if toxic masculinity that equates mental illness with weakness and personal moral failure
I’m always a little sad that I missed the golden age of computing. I read my first Byte Magazine in the mid 1990s, a couple of years before they stopped publishing. Even then there was a ton of substance about the upcoming Windows 95 release, various detours in OS design that never panned out like Taligent, and how RISC was going to take over the world. It’s rare to read articles of that depth anymore, even on the web much less in published media.
I don't understand why they would go about this in such a weird way. The methodology of forging "super elite" units is pretty well documented, any number of former SEAL Team 6, Delta Force, SAS etc members have written their memoirs, and an allied government that already had such a force would be happy to assist in the training, giving access to the facilities and details not covered in the books. In fact Delta Force was created with the assistance of the SAS. Even in "normal elite" forces, e.g. the Rangers were created with the assistance of the Royal Marines. Allies help each other out all the time in this field.
Supplements are a $30B racket–what experts recommend (2018)
Re long term, I mean I'm thinking of how I can see the grid ideally looking, not in the transitional phase we are in now. Sure if we plonked down a nuclear reactor now, that would be good, absenting cost, but it isn't going to be ready now, or in 10 years, so we need to be looking at what the grid will be looking like, and I hope by that point the grid will be well on the way being green so this power station will be competing against wind and solar, not coal and gas.

Re renewables not being constant. That's my point, and nuclear isn't flexible enough to take advantage. You can make the case for £100mwh batteries because they can step in instantly, nuclear can't, and also, when the winds blowing that's always going to be cheaper, so the massive fixed costs of nuclear get amortized over less and less MWHs.
Nudging out support for a carbon tax
the Apple II didn't have something like this built in already

I don't think any of the popular 8-bit machines did. It might make more sense if you consider it from the other end - what would you do with an accurate date and time on such a machine?
NPM is an actual company, they are the ones responsible.
The theory of computation doesn't really have anything to do with math. It's based on logic, machines, automata, etc. You can use it for math but, in principal it has nothing to do with math. For example, the automata may not be calculating anything. It may be describing a process of doing something more abstract.

Solving DE in computation is an interesting point to make tho. I've seen analysis style arguments, like real analysis or calculus, in symbolic languages like lisp.

Actually, there's a really interesting set of papers very much related to this topic. Link below.

http://strictlypositive.org/calculus/
all the cows farting in happiness after modi gets elected in india
I don't know about iOS, but on Android, you can use Whatsapp without giving it access to Contacts. It'll refuse to show the user's name, despite having it (they show in the group conversations), showing the phone number instead, but it works fine.
Interesting comment on nuclear by Mike O’Sullivan, Senior Vice President, Development, NextEra Energy Resources https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SXxJWUv-x4&t=77m59s
The impact of my choice as a consumer is a blip in the radar compared to the impact of large companies changing their course, or being forced to change their course. Even more, compared to the people making those decisions. We need to take personal responsibility to those concrete people quickly, instead of blaming abstract concepts like "corporations" or "the market".
"The datastream will include a specially designed primer, or set of simple scientific principles and data that would be common to all extraterrestrial intelligences, providing a common base of reference to enable those receiving the signal to commence the mammoth task of decoding the encyclopedia. /The message will be accompanied by a short video message by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, and images required for the re-creation of fundraiser banners/" (emphasis mine)

Seems like they're very serious about their banners, glad that gift to the world has a chance of living on in the lives of extraterrestrials in the case of our inevitable demise!
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Loading microcode on a CPU (without patching the firmware) takes effect immediately. The update is lost immediately upon reboot and must be reapplied each time.
Theory of computation is based in mathematics/logic. It is a part of mathematics just like computer science is a field of mathematics. I'm not sure I agree that it is more fundamental than mathematics since it is a part of mathematics. You can't have a theory of computation without mathematics. Just like you can't have the field of cryptography without mathematics. Theory of computation and cryptography are built on top of fundamental ideas of mathematics. How can that translate into theory of computation being more fundamental. It's like saying a molecule is more fundamental than an electron or proton.
I agree that this is quite shady, but they require your explicit permission when you enable music sharing.
My QC35s are great btw.
What Tolkien Officially Said About Elf Sex (2002)
Why should people move to IBM? Remember, their POWER processors were also vulnerabile to both Meltdown and L1TF - IBM systems are probably the only non-Intel servers that were. (Note that I really do mean non-Intel here, since AMD wasn't affected.) Their z/OS mainframes were probably vulnerable too but they don't release public information security about them. The only reason no researchers had discovered this is that IBM hardware is too expensive to test.
I remember reading an article about how a Chinese company would hire European bakers to demonstrate how they bake breads ad nauseum until they could reproduce and automate each steps perfectly.

The thinking was "they [chinese] have no imagination so they stick to known processes and don't deviate".

Don't really know what to make of that.
My $35 pair of Phaiser BHS-760 bluetooth headphones connect far, far better than my $350 Bose QCII headphones and the BHS-760s don't require an app.
Remember BATNA. I can't get across the river without the bridge, so the opportunity cost is immense. I can replace this app with a few minutes of my time searching for these pictures myself.
An iframe is a possibility; the fixed box size is an user experience tradeoff. I really believe in the vision of a read-write web, i.e. for me the default should be all involved parties being able to comment on any given content.

Of course this should be possible to turn off for certain content and moderated, but it still seems artificial to not have the discussion on the same page, compared to the original post. HN is beautiful, for instance. :)
Most of these companies are Chinese power companies, aramco, etc. How do you deal with them without dealing with humans personal consumption of energy?
Looks cool but seemingly iOS-only. I need Linux desktop (and would also find an Android version handy). It's also isn't clear if it supports custom columns or can only do classic 3-column Kanban.
Ah, by "this" I meant the articles 60Hz timer, not the proper date/time peripheral I imagined the article to be from the title.

For a 60Hz timer, just being able to have a delay without needing to count all the instructions in between when programming.
I wouldn’t call MDMA downer.
One Man's Modus Ponens