skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IDK, I feel like it's a lack of respect for the culture you're going to to not try to respect the dress code of the place you are in. In France, Americans are usually the worst offenders, wearing sweatpants and pool shorts in public.

Reversing that argument, you'd probably feel that French tourists wearing monokinis (or kids not having a full on bathsuit) on the beach in the US don't respect your culture, even though that's perfectly acceptable back home.
Needs (1988) in the title.
What happens with the tips sent to a website that doesn't register with Mozilla? Maybe there should be a standard meta tag that websites can add to show they are looking for tips. And then they can even add a URL on the tag so they can use another provider if for some reason they don't want Mozilla to be the gatekeeper of their tip jar.

But then again, they can just add the link in the website itself like they already do.
For some reason I get 502 Bad Gateway when clicking your magic.gd link but entering magic.gd manually works.
This would be difficult to target on sites that host content/articles. Would Medium get the tip, or the author of the article. How would the browser decide, and how would it differentiate ownership.
App Engine and Cloud functions were apparently returning error rates of > 30 percent overall between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m., with some projects experiencing a 100 percent error rate. GCS was also experiencing issues for the first half, which was attributed to the networking issues. Google said the networking issues were resolved initially but then stated they were investigating the GAE issues. Those issues were resolved, and the networking issue has been reopened as of 2:35 eastern: https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-networking/19....

GAE and all other services still show green here, of course: https://status.cloud.google.com/
38 page process to get something done. That's insanity. Most places the editors have pre-prepped art that you slap on. There's no time or staff for careful crafting.There's not even editors to look at writers pieces before they go up anymore in most cases. Writers do their own production! MAYBE, if you have a special project, you might have ONE meeting, if not two. No one has these kinds resources to have the staff to have these kinds of meeting and these kinds of processes, not even at the big guys. You'd have to be flush with staff to even allow your staff to have enough time to entertain something like this. And again, that's so much time to spend on something -- look at all these meetings, these discussions, and then look at those results. I don't see the payoff here.
Gambling: Why is it so addictive? (BBC Newsbeat)
They also mentioned decay in the conversion process. I wonder if we have good data on the decay of the thermal-electric converters from missions like Voyager that have traveled through large portions of space or if they're being conservative?
Vascular system can transport also genetic matherial sometimes (and is a big problem).
Sorry, didn't mean to put words in your mouth.

direct competitors != existential threat

But you're describing a "disruption": AWS's offering is comparable yet far cheaper. Which sounds like an "existential threat".

Oracle should be immune to this disruption: the same people are doing the same thing to the same data for the same purpose - so, the cloud is a "sustaining" innovation in this context.

Plus, Oracle is a sales company, not an engineering company, and I don't think AWS is oriented to compete that way.

You've softened your thesis to a "threat", and yes I agree of course it is. And yes, their competitive situation will inform their actions.

But... $10 billion dollars is reason enough to file in itself, right? They have huge departments devoted to just this kind of thing. And recall the fuss they made vs Google over Java, for much less (though TBF, that had strategic advantages for them).

I still don't see how this particular contract would have knock-on consequences for Oracle, making it an existential threat. Maybe I'm missing something.
Which of these two items are you not convinced of?

1) It's getting warmer because of higher concentrations of greenhouse gasses (primarily CO2) in the atmosphere.

2) Humans are releasing large amounts of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels and other industrial processes.

It's a pretty straightforward line of reasoning.
I'll offer you good odds that Dell, Cisco, Juniper et al happily sell equipment to companies and agencies they know are likely to be used to break security systems and harass undocumented migrants.
I'd imaging that phantom body signals could be a real issue. Pain, burning, numbness, motion, visual hallucinations. It could really be hell.
This is such a weird scenario it's hard to imagine how traumatic this would be, and if it would ever be possible to regain conscience that thing would most likely be just something else other than human.

According to António Damásio our conscience and memories are part of our body - the whole of it. We aren't brains mounted on a bio-mechanical motion, sensory and life support systems.

People who lose a limb, or those who have spinal injuries go through such traumatic experiences, I can't imagine a glimpse of consciousness of a head..
I'll just add that Foxglove is poisonous (you'll die if you eat it level). So don't grow it if you have kids around.
I agree with that. To me, the most worrying thing about Tesla this year has been their overemphasis on full self driving features. They do not appear to be close and I do not like the way they are using puffery around that to sell vehicles.
You mean like IOUs, aka a step above barter?
We too are hopeful that the narrower scope will allow our economics to work out!
Space station mold survives 200 times the radiation dose that would kill a human
Yes. Anyone taxpayer who has used Oracle’s Cloud (or dealt with their salespeople) is probably happy that the Pentagon chose someone else.
What a magnetic field looks like
Ooh fancy https://www.bezoekkrakau.nl/bezienswaardigheden-krakau/visit...
I don't understand. This reduces transportation capacity, and what's more environmentally friendly than buses? If tourists stop using them, it seems like whatever they switch to would get more crowded?
Building the Superhuman Product/Market Fit Engine (Tutorial)
Firefox is working on a first-party JS popup blocker. They're collecting data on them now. You can report them with this add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/in-page-pop-u... Chrome version: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/in-page-pop-up-rep...
Trouble building one of their new models to be reliable. They have several very mature lines that they have no trouble making reliable.
Well, sure, if you hate your devops team and you want to make sure they can’t use any of the proprietary functionality of either provider. At which point, if you want to be managing a fleet of vanilla Linux boxes yourself, why use a cloud provider at all?
One answer to this is to paginate long threads so there's a definite upper limit to the length and depth of the thread on any page.
It's quite common in cloud solution design to design for failure. One of the common assumptions that we hold to is that one region may go down. Other examples: Assume an instance of an app can go down. Assume a VM can go down. Assume a DC can go down.

This is not to excuse the downtime in any way.
I have an awesome demo I give running a complex stateful workload across cloud providers to show off the system that I work on. What I have learned from giving that presentation many times is that while it is nice to say you can run cross cloud, for most workloads you should just pick one cloud, and be able to move to another provider if you ever need to.
> alternative system of governance everyone knew was absurd and evil

Kind of ridiculous hyperbole here; there may have been the usual establishment bootlickers saying that, but the US was hardly the first Republic in the world.
I drunkenly invited someone to Denver at my expense for a duel the other day (not literally, but figuratively). All this partisan, populist rhetoric is driving some of us a bit nuts, but you are usually a voice of reason. It's ok to slip up from time to time.
Ironically, one of the most controversial parts of the Annapolis Convention (which came up with the current US constitution after it was decided that the articles of confederation used since before independence didn't work) was the question of whether an effectively national government/republic over an area as large as the then 13 states was actually possible to operate as a democracy.
Corruption as due process? That's an incredible stretch.
You may be right in that regard, but I would argue that Tesla is bringing a new variable into the equation which is autopilot software.
I'm no expert at mechanical engineering but knowing how every major car manufacturer has mastered their transmission and emission systems, and how none of them have a reasonably full-featured autopilot solution, it does look like that variable is (far?) more complex.
Both have access to nukes, which is a credible argument they are "just as powerful as any emperor in history"

> What do they all have in common? They have too much power and
> display autocratic tendencies when exercising it.
Isn't that Sonic?
No, not unless you are someone like Netflix. Usually you can configure multi-region failover and such and that will keep your things running. It is more expensive but for most use cases I think the cost is still less than the dev time/complexity of setting up multi-provider workflows and the inevitable duplication of resources (which is part of the cost of multi-region anyway)
I don't understand why journalists do things like these. The only conclusion seems to be that the don't want to seriously discuss an issue but instead to just pander to their existing fanbase.
not sure what cloudflare costs but compared to the amount our business lost in those 30min, it probably does not matter much.
There are lots of little nice things:

* you can more easily handle more than 2 options

* you can more easily have a bunch of code in each case

* you don't have a new syntax for the compiler or programmer to have to know about, everything is just consistently an expression

It is nice, and those of us who say that are usually aware of various alternative workarounds with ternaries etc.
Nevertheless, it is one of the unpleasant traits that turned me off from a hobby that I'd otherwise be interested in. The technical aspects are appealing, but it's the outdated rules regime and the people in the community that drove me off.

It may be different in your locale, but the hams around me are mainly older white men, and the voices that can be heard on the air are frequently strongly biased against my moral and political opinions. And they have no "block" buttons.
This is true for Python, too, albeit quite a bit harder due to the relative lack of first-party tooling for generating standalone executables.
They cache the image when the email is received, not when it is opened.
You can move 1.6TB between providers in a month for the same price as a single beefy DB server (m4.16xlarge here). That's a whole lot of logical replication..
Venice late at night can be a pretty cool experience too. I had the place almost entirely to myself (this was December)
That doesn't make it any less creepy.
By copying them to harddisks, and burning the important ones to blurays.
Ask HN: Where to get a commercial software licence agreement?
Hi All,

I know the MIT license and the GPL are great for "free" software projects. Is there a similar "free to use license" that is actually for commercially licensed projects?

I'm about to start commercially licensing a side project and I'd like a license agreement that basically says I get X% of the revenue generated by said software, and that there is to be no modifying, de-compiling, reverse engineering or installing it on other systems without written approval.

Is there a place where I can get such a written agreement?
yeah. With google maps I ran into this little bug when trying to get a new key/update my payments info like they forced all google map users to do.

The UI was maddeningly obtuse. This is from the second time I tried.. They did fix it eventually.

Very complex system for distributing new keys taking payments.

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/124188941
Sonic is a trademark so it was murkier to call it that, there's a popular image macro called "sanic" [1] which made a good enough alternative

[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sanic-hegehog
Large parts of AWS don't run on AWS either, due to issues with circular dependencies and similar problems. Similarly, if all of AWS onboards to use your AWS service, suddenly that's the business. Your 'real' customers and their traffic are dwarfed by the rest of AWS, making it hard to keep those real customers at the forefront. There's also an issue with those deps of cascading failures; having two separate fabrics/strata for internal and external offerings is similar to having a multi-regional offering in that it's more robust to random failures and such.
This seems overly negative. There are lots of ways to do hybrid clouds, especially if you’re doing it for only the more critical parts of your application.
Apparently fear still creates clicks.
Longer than 4 hours. We have stackdriver setup to monitor uptime/latency and its been acting up since 2am PST.
Location: Seattle

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: Python, Pandas, PyTorch, Machine Learning, Data Science

Résumé/CV: https://gpir.es/cv.pdf

Email: mail [at] gpir [dot] es

Note: Need a visa.
I'm a hiring manager, but not a recruiter, I use it most months we have a position open to do direct reach out as the pool of people is generally pretty good.
BBC Box: Offline data capturing and analytics
I have the opposite conclusion as OP. Google doesn't use Google Cloud for anything critical, so I wouldn't use Google Cloud for anything critical or services that run on Google Cloud for that matter.
> Companies in JBS’s supply chain are potentially responsible for the destruction of between 28,000 and 32,000 hectares (280-320 sq km) of forest each year for exported beef

I don't think "greed for meat" is aimed at poor people of Brazil. It's literally about cutting down the rainforest to raise beef for export.

It seems like a lot of environmental organizations ignore the impact of meat production, so I applaud The Guardian for highlighting it.
Reading history helps put it in context. I've been consuming writings on the last ~150 years voraciously over the past few years, as well as talking to any of my relatives still alive from some of those eras.

The political tone feels similar to the preamble to Afghanistan because it's not even been 20 years, and most of the actors are still in comparable position. Time moves very slowly, and we're still watching the slow play-out of a "new cold war" primarily acted out through economic interference and proxies.

The current state has definitely gotten normalized. Think back to the responses vs. Rodney King. But then think back further to Kent State, and the fact that much of the nation thought the national guard was _justified_ to kill innocent students. There's some sort of a sine-wave there, and I think it has to do with personal exposure to Real Suffering and Loss, and the lack thereof in recent memory has innured public perception to the cost of our action, and as such we're willing to fight eternal wars, bluster about destroying our enemies, and engineer the economy past realistic growth.

At the end of the Vietnam war, not even 50 years ago, a communication was sent by the final CIA officials evacuating Saigon. "It has been a long fight and we have lost. . . . Those who fail to learn from history are forced to repeat it. Let us hope that we will not have another Vietnam experience and that we have learned our lesson. Saigon signing off."

Cutting through the noise: The world won't end, history shows we're quite good at brinksmanship, but this is not an optimistic statement. We have not learned our lesson. I doubt we ever will.
Staying on current versions, and the ability to scale usage up and down?
I’m not familiar with any models not loading mobi. The only caveat is that there is a sub-format of mobi that’s fixed rather than reflowable (like, a PDF vs. a TXT), and that’s never been supported. But I’ve only come across those once in a blue moon in the wild.

ePubs seem more popular than mobi though, so I think that’s where most of the “converting for kindle” happens.
I guess, but it all (well, 99.999999% and more) gets converted to heat anyway when you use the electricity. So ... I don't understand.
That's why the toy example is described as "Euclidean".
U.N. Predicts Disaster if Global Warming Not Checked

Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of ″eco- refugees,” threatening political chaos, said Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program, or UNEP.

He said governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it goes beyond human control.

As the warming melts polar icecaps, ocean levels will rise by up to three feet, enough to cover the Maldives and other flat island nations, Brown told The Associated Press in an interview on Wednesday.

Coastal regions will be inundated; one-sixth of Bangladesh could be flooded, displacing a fourth of its 90 million people. A fifth of Egypt’s arable land in the Nile Delta would be flooded, cutting off its food supply, according to a joint UNEP and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency study.

″Ecological refugees will become a major concern, and what’s worse is you may find that people can move to drier ground, but the soils and the natural resources may not support life. Africa doesn’t have to worry about land, but would you want to live in the Sahara?″ he said.

...

The most conservative scientific estimate that the Earth’s temperature will rise 1 to 7 degrees in the next 30 years, said Brown.

The difference may seem slight, he said, but the planet is only 9 degrees warmer now than during the 8,000-year Ice Age that ended 10,000 years ago.

Brown said if the warming trend continues, ″the question is will we be able to reverse the process in time? We say that within the next 10 years, given the present loads that the atmosphere has to bear, we have an opportunity to start the stabilizing process.″

He said even the most conservative scientists ″already tell us there’s nothing we can do now to stop a ... change″ of about 3 degrees.

https://www.apnews.com/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0

PS: The 30-years period has just elapsed, how did the “most conservative scientific estimate” of 1 to 7 degrees rise fared?
Webassembly would probably be an ideal executable format for a synthesis kernel. Safe to execute, easy to generate these days from all sorts of programming languages.

Plus, you can actually inline syscalls and whatnot into your compiled application at runtime.
Paid by the ISP which I already pay for
China was a nuclear power since 1964. Part of the reason Nixon had to go there in the first place.
Fastest Growing Companies in Chicago – 2019
Why would you want to lock into a cloud provider? You're losing a lot of operational flexibility for less devops and sysaadmin work.

You are really limiting your tech stack by using standardized things like Jenkins, Docker, K8, mqtt, kafka.
I’m ambivalent about it. On the one hand it’s interesting patrimony of a sort, and, from a linguistic and separately a historical perspective, it’d be really nice to be witness to some dead languages of antiquity, but, on the other hand, languages have always come and gone.

I imagine modern India and Africa are losing languages as the main languages displace lesser languages.
But data centers are typically designed with network and power failures in mind, not? Isn’t this why these kind of ring based network topologies exist, so that whenever a single network connection fails, it can still easily be routed around?
So electricity should be paid for by automatic deduction from my paychecks? That's how taxes work in the USA, anyway.
Definitely agree on the snobbery - it is amusing that some tourists think they'll fool someone into thinking they're a local by dressing less comfortably. You're not fooling anyone. Just be yourself and dress 'politely' and comfortably.

As for the gondolas, that's a hard pass for me. I've been to Venice twice, and was definitely not there for the gondolas. Not even for 'great Italian food' - it's not really that great at my price point, unless I travel 15-20 min away from the usual tourist sights. I'm simply there for Venice. For the canals, for the layout, for the architecture, for the history. Canal-side, I can see all I need to see from the vaporettos.
> I used to think like lqet, and my travel habits reflected that, traveling to obscure places (at least for an American) to "get away from the crowds."

that seems odd to say the least. it seems highly probable to me that popular tourist attractions are popular because they're desirable to go to. sure, there's some marketing drum up in there but there's something seriously weird about going to less desirable places solely to get away from the crowds. it's almost as if you're signaling you're somehow superior or better by doing something other people aren't doing, even if that thing is objectively worse. value signaling made manifest via tourism or something.
I find that a number of Kindle books I've purchased at the beginning say:

"The author and publisher have provided this e-book to you without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied so that you can enjoy reading it on your personal devices"...

So I assume either they don't have kindle DRM, or it is ethical (possibly legally allowed) to remove the kindle DRM.
Thanks for the reply Terrance. But isn't it more expensive to run in more than one region?
Others have responded to the trunk thing, but I will comment about the "non-standard" charging connector. There was no standard available at the time that Tesla started deploying thousands of high-KW chargers. It is hard to blame them for choosing their own.

Even now, there are only certain regions where the other networks have advantages over Tesla's (coincidentally, the part of the US I'm in is one of those regions). Tesla is currently promising to support other viable networks in the future, presumably by adapters. At the very least, Chademo is expected for the model 3 in the near future, but hopefully CCS as well. Obviously they already support CCS in Europe.

Also, keep in mind that GM is a pretty traditional manufacturer and doesn't even give you a CCS charger without paying for an additional DC fast charging option.

Tesla isn't perfect, cars aren't perfect, but Tesla's are as good as they get in EVs right now.
Security was mentioned in passing:

> In production we’d need to think carefully whether we wanted to include a big chunk of non-hardened code in the kernel.
The way I understood it is that it would only perform code generation for trusted kernel code, not for arbitrary code provided by the user. Doesn't this resolve most (all?) security concerns?
Do you sell more electric cars by emphasizing their oddity, or by emphasizing their regularity?
"bad push / deployment" seems like it covers 108% of breakage.
That's ignorant. The Taiping Rebellion was comparable in death toll to the world wars, despite the technology involved being significantly more primitive.

No poison gas, no aerial strategic bombing, no blitzkrieg, dive bombers or machine guns. But 20-70 million people dead nevertheless.
And thus Chainlink! They aim to do just that: fixing the oracle problem
I think Tesla's finances combined with the scaling problems are the reason.

All these VP's had traditional auto industry background. What traditional auto-industry does well is manufacturing profitably in large scale. Tesla is just learning to do that. Startup mentality works for luxury cars. It does not work when you have to design for maintainability and big recalls or errors can break the company.