skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 2005 Honda Civic

That's a 14, approaching 15 year old car. The weather seals and such are probably past their lifespan, and I'd expect Honda has improved the Civic in a number of ways in the last 15 years.

That's also comparing a ~$19,000 car to a base model $35,000+ Model 3 (that costs $45,000+ in some cases). They're not supposed to play in the same league. You'd expect the Model 3 (or any Tesla for the price-point) to be a lot better than a generic Honda.
You can assume being a brain in a vat would be torture, but I see no reason to assume it wouldn't be euphoria. Either way, life is better than death. Living in any state gives technology more to work with than turning to dust would.
This should not be downvoted. It's indeed beyond ridiculous that some sites, and even some individual content makers (such as the well known 'SexyCyborg'/'Machinery Enchantress'), are having trouble accepting funding online for what are unambiguously political reasons.
Not road legal in US with camera wing mirrors either as far as I understand. I believe the camera mirrors are standard on all models so can’t be avoided. Current US Department of Transport rules still require new cars to have two traditional physical wing mirrors.

I’ve often heard that outside of the 25 year rule (if older than 25 years it’s much simpler), importing cars not sold in the US to the US is basically so hard as to be largely impossible for the most part. Most car enthusiasts patiently wait for their favoured foreign car to hit 25 years old so they can finally get it into the US, even for extremely valuable exotics. There’s lots of websites out there that catalog when foreign models will hit 25 and be eligible for US import.
Novice question here: Applications that care about performance already do things like buffered reads, to minimize the overhead of system calls. Is there much value to optimizing read() in that case? Are there other system calls that are harder for applications to amortize?
Neat! My main side project takes exactly the same base idea, that we need a synthesis v2.

The big question is "what have we learned in the past thirty years of OS design that's applicable?" Capabilities are amazing in this context is the big one; if you squint synthesis quajects and capability objects line up in semantics pretty well. I'd argue that xok would be a lot cleaner if they had a central VM concept instead of the three or so seperate kernel VMs.
Cool! -betterC looks well worth exploring. Also, pure and safe are fantastic features, I just wish the default was the other way around, so you need to specify impure and unsafe.
"Sensitive region" in this context means a region historically populated by a different ethnicity than which dominates the central government, and which would like to be free of that central government. In China these are specifically the Uighurs in Xinjiang versus the overwhelmingly Han Chinese central government.

States of emergency have been called in the past for various regions in Western Europe where violent separatist movements were active, but those moments have mainly abated, and besides, Western European governments these days are not so fond of mass surveillance as China.

Just across the strait of Gibraltar, however, one does encounter a similar situation in Morocco, namely in the region of Western Sahara which Morocco occupied back in the 1970s. Western Sahara is historically populated by a different ethnicity (the Saharawis) who chafed at Moroccan control of the region. Foreigners traveling on the roads through the region will encounter a long series of police roadblocks, and police do occasionally demand social-media accounts and passwords from travelers. The situation is vaguely like Xinjiang, although the Moroccan police are much more laidback, so a person can refuse to give them information and just bullshit about not having Facebook or Whatsapp. Compared to the very organized and rigorous Chinese police state, the Moroccan forces are pretty amateur.
Yes, yes. PostgreSQL developers don't care about messy real world use cases. News at 11.

I reiterate that no optimizer is perfect. Which means that if PostgreSQL redid some obscure statistic and a common query just switched to a far worse query plan, you've got a disaster and no easy way to fix it. Even if you know the right query plan, there is no easy way to fix it.

Similarly "this query worked fine in development and staging, but mysteriously sucks in production" is not what you want to learn while deploying to production.

Yes, I've seen both failure modes. No it wasn't pretty. And no, "File a bug report, wait for the next version of PostgreSQL to have a fix" is not an acceptable action plan.

In general if you've got a working site and working queries, there are two possible outcomes to changing the query plan.
Either nobody notices because the plan was already good enough. Or everybody is upset because the new plan is worse. I don't care if 99% of the time it turns out well and nobody notices, that 1% keeps people up at night.

The top missing feature in PostgreSQL is this. If the query plan is good, allow the query plan to get locked and not change. Predictability beats perfection in production environments.
Don't Cite the No Free Lunch Theorem
I'm always beyond impressed with how responsive and transparent CF is with incidence and post mortem communication. Given who the CEO and COO are, I suppose this shouldn't be surprising, never the less as a customer it builds a great deal of trust. Kudos.
this is a bit ridiculous... folding a few thousand lines of plain text should be fast no matter what. If it isn't, then there's something quite wrong.
To be honest, I was always fascinated by the D language. I am glad it is still alive and kicking. Evolving too :)
Hacker News: The real status page and help desk for the internet.

Do companies realize how absurd this is?

ETA: It seems someone at Google had a change of heart, and most of what boulos posted in this thread has been added as updates to the official google status page. Better late than never, I guess, especially if this is the start of a trend in outage reporting.
Just nitpicking on your arguments, but..

> snow falls off the rear windshield into the trunk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkSuyXnCSO4

> no place to store sunglasses

Most cars me and my family had - had no such thing (though I agree it's very convenient).

I agree that Tesla is mass manufacturing newbie (slow to scale up, compared to the industry veterans), shoddy manufacturing practices/decisions, but they have things sorted where it matters though. Extremely well built batteries with superb longevity (Nissan Leaf's AFAIK are the worst, due to being air-cooled, etc.). Tesla has powerful and more efficient motors/batteries/drivetrain than competitors. Using adapters between power/data connectors is daily occurrence to me. I am not amazed we have this problem with relatively new tech of EVs.

I am not sure about charging. Was there any standards when Tesla started developing their Superchargers and Model S, especially for Tesla's demands for very fast charges? Maybe they did not have any other option?

P.S. all in all if not Tesla breathing into the car giants' backs (and probably if not diesel-gate), most manufacturers will not be aggressively expanding their EV line-ups now. They would do it in 5-15 years time, when more aggressive regulations would kick-in.
Once you start to do transactions that involve transfer of anything off-blockchain (ie. any really useful transaction) you still have the same issues with trust and credit as without blockchain or whatever. What blockchain solves is somewhat fast settlement of monetary-ish transfers, which to me looks like a problem that does not really exist. (In my exerience SEPA transfers are mostly instantenuous and generally irreversible)
The Fly America Act is pork for the Airline industry; they aren't intended to save the taxpayer money. Exactly the opposite.

I've even seen identical itineraries -- one under a US flag carrier and the other under a foreign flag -- with a mid-3-figure price difference. The airlines know what they are doing.

Call your congresspeople.
Dr Disrespect’s short ban divides Twitch community
The few folks I knew who worked at Tesla told me it's basically 60 hours a week at a minimum. It's not uncommon to find someone sleeping in the office or folks going out to dinner and coming right back to work.

The last person I talked to was looking for a new job. He loved what he was working on and felt proud of his work but was also feeling extremely burned out and wanted to stop working every weekend and evening. He also told me they use _literally every_ technical stack. He had worked on a Ruby app, a Python app, a .Net app, a .Net Core app, and many of them are supposed to work together they were just written that way because whoever started it was more familiar with a specific language.

It doesn't sound like a great place to work for to me. I talked to someone at SpaceX who told me similar things but it sounded like their usage of random tech stacks was at least lower than Tesla's.
Both the US and most other western countries have a reasonably good separation of powers. Also, the US and other western countries both are clearly the most attractive places to live in the world. And democracy is a large part in this.

However, in both cases there are worrisome trends. It is as if they got it organized reasonably well and then stopped improving and started backsliding. There are many things that the western democracies could do better.

To name one, the huge and ever-expanding regulatory state is severely harming democracy in both Europe and the US. This tends to be seen as a talking-point of what is called the 'right' (but, indeed, mostly a talking-point, as opposed to an action point) and as such does not need more elaboration but it could be a talking-point (but often is not) for what is called the 'left' as well by noticing that much lobbying is involved in creating regulation and that the outcome is therefore not going to be in the citizens interest. Regulation is where the executive branch is sitting in the chair of the legislative branch and because of this the citizens have little influence.

To name another point, western countries have been far too friendly with countries that have a very bad human rights situation. I think that taxes on import should be proportional to the amount of human rights violations and other failures in democracy that a country has. That way every improvement that a country makes regarding to human rights immediately leads to a financial gain. The US being so very friendly to Saudi Arabia is just terrible. I think this is a thing that if you keep it up for a few decades it would enormously improve the lives of people all over the world. Note that this is also something that takes away discretionary and rather arbitrary power from the executive branch by basing the policy in a very simple and objective law instead. I think one could gain votes by campaigning for this. And this is what law should be. Simple rules that feel like they are discovered rather than invented as opposed to rules so convoluted that only the executive branch has the means to write them.

You talk about the difference between the US and other western countries. Many things could be said about this but one thing that seems to be on most peoples mind in regard to this is that the US has less social security and some European countries have quite a bit more. Well, I think that is mostly an orthogonal issue to the point of democracy. The respective peoples of respective countries can choose for themselves the amount of social security that they consider to be correct. Let me say that from a democratic point of view it is much more acceptable to 'bail out' citizens that get into trouble than to 'bail out' banks that get into trouble. The latter being a prime example of where lobbying has led to a situation that is in the interest of the sector being regulated and not at all in the interest of the citizens.
Thanks. Good point. Regardless, gcloud has been having issues for nearly 12hours. (timezone agnostic)
I’ve been holding off from React for a long time, but also after reading the “boring technology”, I came to realize React is in fact - here to stay.
A meta tag is better granularity because different pages on the same domain could be attributed to different authors.

Also, if we put bank account numbers in DNS (metaphorically speaking), we will we a lot more DNS spoofing attacks.
You are wrong. All .org domains will be priced the same as will .info domains. They can't decide a particular .org domain is worth more than another (that has already been registered and is being used). They can charge what they want but they can't differentiate between domains. And the quote you gave essentially says that.

This is different than a completely new tld whereby they might decide that a name is premium. The point is no legacy domain will be priced as premium. I guess in theory if it expires they might be able to do that but the 'can charge what they want' will not impact existing domain registrations. And in the case of a valuable domain if that were released it would be grabbed at auction and not available for the simple registration fee.
> And I choose to live.

Have you ever seen firsthand a person in the final stages of Alzheimer's disease? If life is so precious to you that you are willing to exist for eternity in such a state, far be it from me to tell you otherwise.

May you enjoy the outcome of your choices.
The synthesis paper directly talks about the cache effects.
I'm using an OpenDyslexic font and your page elements don't seem to recognize the bounding boxes of the text in this font.
As it's used on the first page, "utilization" is just the fraction of time that the "service center" is in use. So if it's not doing any work at all, it would be 0, fully utilized would be 1. I don't think you need to connect it to Poisson distributions or go into much more depth to use it to understand the gist of the rest of the paper. I assume that since this is an excerpt from a book, it would've been defined elsewhere.
No. And there's been a lot of talk recently about multi-provider being the right strategy to mitigate downtime, which IMHO is a farce peddled by expensive consultants. The parent comment is correct - this is why availability zones and regions have been established by each provider.

For the large majority of businesses investing in infrastructure-as-code far outweighs any crazy HA, redundant, multi-provider, whizzbang whatever setup you may have.
Whenever somebody brings up this "unknown unknowns" thing, I'm reminded again why we ended up in such a shitstorm in Iraq:

Rumsfeld listed three out of the four possible combinations of "known" and "unknown" that he had his minions thinking about for him.

But, evidently, neither he nor his minions thought of or spent any time on the fourth one: unknown knowns. Those are the ones you think you know, but you're wrong. And that's what knawed 5 trillion dollars out of our guts (and killed hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children) over the next N years since.

It is not a new observation. Usually Mark Twain gets credit for "It ain't what you don't know that gets you, it's what you think you know but ain't so."
If this fascinates you, then you'll like Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, and Woken Furies by Richard K. Morgan. Changing bodies is commonplace for the rich in these novels. They are quite excellent, if not a tad violent, so don't read them if that's not your thing.

The novels are way better than the Netflix S01, which was the first book. I'm guessing there will be 2 more seasons, one for each book.
We know that putting people in concentration camps by the millions is effective.

It takes a particular kind of cruelty to see the world from the eye of effectiveness only, and that thinking propagates through society.

No surprise that Chinese have been found to be the least honest and least trustworthy society in many experiments and studies, e.g.

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2019/06/19/scie...

https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/1879850/chinese-most-...

We are embedded in society, always. One should be careful thinking only about effectiveness and efficiency, and not individual dignity. There's a feedback.
No it wasn't ignored. I was largely inspired! Inspired to invent on principle. He also produced amongst others real products such as his synthesizer which received rave reviews.
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To be honest most people already see surveillance capitalism as normal. Weirds me out for one.
Uncovering similarities and coherent groups from unlabeled data
why do there also seem to be so many physicists claiming with 100% confidence that no such thing could ever work

Because it would violate conservation of momentum. Now wait a minute, you might think, haven't we just learned that such conservation laws don't hold in GR?

It's more complicated than that.

An analogy would be doing mechanics in a rotating reference frame. To make this work out, you have to account for things like centrifugal forces, with energy contributions that come 'out of nowhere' - as in, if you go to the non-rotating, inertial frame, they vanish: There's no real physical source providing that energy.

Something similar happens in general relativity, where you can get conservation laws via Noether's second theorem even if your spacetime is not static (or rather stationary, to be pedantic). You will generally get a contribution from the gravitational field, which cannot be localized, but also - in contrast to the previous example - cannot be made to vanish because global inertial frames do not exist in general.

One should perhaps also mention that reactionless motion supposedly is possible in classical physics: It's been claimed that a body can change its position without ejecting any propulsive mass through a series of deformations in an inhomogeneous gravitational field. There's a cute name for this, 'swimming in spacetime'.
The flip side of this is that as your data grows and your schema changes, sometimes a query planner can do better than an optimization based on old, no-longer-true assumptions. Sometimes SQL is the right abstraction, and this kind of tool then becomes very useful.
> Also, it mentions that the investigation was done by other organizations, but doesn't provide any links.

The New York Times is guilty of the same. Each of the articles mentions that this is a collaboration with other publications, but doesn't link to the other ones. There's not really a single original source.
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Nice writeup overall. Tiny nitpick however - in your Rust generation of the diff image, you go by column instead of by row, making it quite a lot slower than it should be (probably because of cache locality, I ain't no expert).
Switching from

for x in 0..w {
for y in 0..h {
let mut rgba = [0; 4];
[...]

to

let mut rgba = [0; 4];
for y in 0..h {
for x in 0..w {
[...]

cuts down runtime by between 35 and 50% on my side.

EDIT : moving the call to get_pixel outside the inner loop take off another ~10%, bringing it to sub 0.145 from ~0.290.

let mut rgba = [0; 4];
for y in 0..h {
for x in 0..w {
let pix1 = image1.get_pixel(x, y);
let pix2 = image2.get_pixel(x, y);
for c in 0..4 {
rgba[c] = abs_diff(
pix1.data[c],
pix2.data[c],
);
}
let new_pix = image::Pixel::from_slice(&rgba);
diff.put_pixel(x, y, *new_pix);
}
}
Just a question, are you familiar with work that's been done on the OpenCensus Collector and Agent [0]?

There was discussion earlier this year about creating a design doc for OpenCensus to handle logs. I'm not sure if that got finished, or it was sidelined while the OpenCensus & OpenTracing merger was worked on. Both projects will combine under the OpenTelemetry name.

I've been quite happy with the OpenCensus instrumentation SDKs.

I think the Logs & Metrics space is interesting, especially because there is so much overlap, both are just ways of representing data about an event that occurred in the software.

OpenCensus is fairly widely backed: Google, Microsoft, Etsy, Scalyr...[1]

[0] https://github.com/census-instrumentation/opencensus-service...

[1] https://opencensus.io/community/users/
Show me a GCP post-mortem that's as detailed and proactive about future improvement as https://status.aws.amazon.com/s3-20080720.html

Their last one was laughable in it's lack of self-awareness.
Things like:

* filtering traces by services has been broken in App Engine flex environments for more than a year.
* copy/pasting identifiers between places is a nightmare
* their IAM design is somehow worse than AWS. It’s so impressively bad I can’t even be mad. My favourite part of their IAM approach is how they have consolidated a majority of the IAM controls in the IAM page, but then random services like GCS have it defined elsewhere.
* not able to do basic time zooming of metric grafs on App Engine dashboard.
* multi-account paper cuts. Almost everyone on my team has their personal and work google accounts logged in. Whenever I send them a link to a dashboard or whatever, they end up getting a permission denied, without fail.

These are all just off the top of my head. Many of them seem silly and minor (and they are!) but there’s enough of them that I kinda dread doing anything in the Cloud console now. I need to take more time to get productive in the gcloud CLI I guess...
I am describing buggy games as costing billions, rather than suggesting this is the only bug that ever occurred. There are many expensive examples where excessive bugs tanked sales.
Could you open an issue with the specific font and screenshots of the affected pages?

https://github.com/distributed-containers-inc/sanic-site/iss...

Thanks!
As jgrahamc (Cloudflare CTO) noted below, these aren't related. They had a push that they rolled back, we lost some fiber links.
You and I must have very different ideas about what "privacy theater" means. To me, privacy theater is the _illusion_ of privacy not real privacy.

So, removing "privacy theater" does nothing to your actual privacy and only shows you how exposed you really are.
My concern with this thought is that eventually any company will shut down or stop supporting whatever service I’m using.
seriously, they've got a text field on the official status page, why not put the text boulos posted here in that instead of the meaningless text they've got there?
Except that we don’t need innuendo to imply Tesla is a fast-paced work environment. You can take Elon and every employees’ word for it. It’s an extremely fast paced work environment, and if auto executives from elsewhere in the industry were lasting for longer than the average tenure, you could argue it would be a cause for concern.

If you’re going to make a claim like Tesla is “playing fast and loose with the rules and compromising safety, and they felt ethically compelled to leave,” its beholden upon you to provide evidence.

If your claim is you have no idea, then you can certainly make that claim which requires no evidence at all.
Nearly Half of Dog Owners Turn to Their Canines over Family for Comfort
> > no place to store sunglasses

> Most cars me and my family had - had no such thing (though I agree it's very convenient).

OK, but we're not discussing budget cars - a Model 3 will run you $35,000 to $45,000+. That's premium car territory - and you should expect premium build quality and features.

Skimping on a sunglasses holder is ridiculous for this price level, and while may be trivial by itself, it's indicative of the tier of design that went into the vehicle - budget.
Seattle’s promising, extremely early look at congestion pricing
I've been working out of us-east1 all day and haven't noticed
You're describing Flattr.
Yes, and sort of. Most sites don't require an existing clearance, but you'd have to be eligible. The main reasons for rejection seem to be foreign connections and debt you can't handle. After that I think it is addictions and fraud. Stuff you did many years ago is less of a problem than recent stuff.