skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have been teasing/warning about a new version of Twitter that was due to launch soon. I wonder if this is it.
... only if you have another pane with root logged in or with sudo authorized.
Chicago has decent public transportation and plenty of young, affluent techies. It's not SV or NYC but it fits the bill for a midwest city.

Chicago, and IL, have plenty of issues to work through though so I get why they didn't want to setup a HQ there.
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its sad that the operational risk is so damn high though.

you have to:

1) like the idea

2) trust the management team

3) hope infrastructure gets built around it so that there could be perpetual demand for these tokens

4) hope the regulators play ball

and if any thing incompetent happens with the management team, all liquidity evaporates permanently, no matter if the problem and solution were sound ideas

when really you just want to be able to "like the idea" and let it flourish on its own, where a management team doesn't need to exist, or a management team can be hotswapped for anyone
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And of course this is standard practise. I've contracted on largish apps before (rails! Shock!) and of course we provided read-only replicas for BI query purposes. I wouldn't have provided production access even if asked.

Anything else is simple incompetence and the macro-organisation of the code and/or services is irrelevant.
It's summer time and everyone who knows how stuff works is halfway through a drink right now. Probably with their families. Is it a trend year over year for 7/4 +/- a week?
I'm talking about the yearly rental rate/mortgage payment. This is my main source: https://smartasset.com/mortgage/what-is-the-cost-of-living-i...

It's possible I lowballed some things, but see my other comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20415130
> It doesn't represent anything tangible that exists right now. It's realized capital gains, not unrealized paper wealth, that is the proxy for goods and services that could be used to meet peoples' needs in the present.

I'm not going to argue the broader point about who is really "rich" but is this really true? My understanding is that there are ways to use assets to meet your needs without realizing capital gains. An obvious one is to borrow money with the asset as collateral, but I think there are others as well.
Why the share price doesn't go down drastically when services like Facebook, Instagram , Twitter goes down. Every minute down is lost business right?
Seems to be partially back.
Please... no token offering is "historic"
Exactly. Contracts, identification, phone numbers are not necessary for this. It could be dead simple: the application on your phone generates a pair of private and public keys. You pay some satoshis to a carrier and get some amount of Internet traffic, using your private key for authentication. If you want to switch to other carrier, you just generate a new key and send some satoshis to its account, and your modem generates a new random IMEI. You generate a new key and new IMEI for every new payment so it becomes difficult to track you and sell data about your location. And you can switch between different providers any time. You can even switch depending on who has a better signal in your current location. No need for identification, making a contract, getting a phone number, selling data about you (because carrier doesn't have it) or reporting your location to the government or courts.

This is ten times better than what any provider offers today. If someone implements this, nobody will want to use old scheme anymore.

Also this should promote competition between carriers.
Sorry for stalking, but so was your very first submission! It's probably standard reading here on YCombinator, but it was my first of Paul Graham's essay on "Why Nerds are Unpopular", and it just speaks to me on so many levels...

Considering the main topic is about influencers, and that their "currency" is popularity, it's not even that off-topic to repost it here:
http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
It's probably forbidden by EU regulations.
Was receiving 500 on the main page for some time. Seems to have recovered now.
We don't. It's a cool video for a training night but really it's a pretty standard dash roll. Electric cars present a very real danger but so do ICE. High pressure fuel lines with pumps that don't shut down. Diesel engines which "runaway" with air intake leaks.

Every call is a special situation where you start with a baseline tactic and evolve the approach as needed. 20 minutes is overkill but the whole time we were watching it here we were discussing extrication in general. "Would you do this or that? What would you look for here? Did you see their step cribbing placement?" The Tesla responder guide is awesome and available online and is all you "need" to know where and what to cut. The video is more a conversation starter.
It’s not a very informative comment.

The obvious next question is: what’s a rocker panel?
idlewords, the user you're replying to, was listed as a consultant on the show
Another day another rust post. Wondering how soon will it fade in obscurity as go did.
At long last, productivity has been restored. No more time wasting anti-intellectual arguments on a platform that has provided little to no value.

Unfortunately, the poor SRE's at the company will reboot the system and the masses will resume their daily centralised content consumption. Oh well, I will just have to go to Mastodon or other instances for curated content (with no algorithms messing up my feed).

I encourage you join Mastodon and the decentralised web.

As far as I am concerned with Twitter, nothing of value has been lost.
> Having the option to not comply with laws, is an unfair advantage.

All parties in this scenario are legally compliant.

> VAT is a sales tax, effectively, but even that is managed away fairly easy. It's an efficient tax, but when it comes to B2B activity it's effectively unpaid. Amazon, though is a retailer, has a very large amount of B2B business.

How does its B2B business help Amazon evade taxes? When I think about AWS, the billing doesn’t seem to lend itself to any obvious sales tax evasion schemes...
The idea is that the tokens won't be securities in the future. A security can eventually become a non-security.
Ha! Fabrice is prolific enough to where two people felt that they had to exclaim it to the world.
I hope this year it's videoed well. In past years except the last it's been fine, but last year I'm guessing whoever normally does it wasn't available for 2018.
For the sake of cinema, Disney needs to be broken up
You must be doing something wrong. There's a lot of overhead for frameworks like Symfony, yes. But it's possible to write reasonably productive and modern website code where you can get sub 20ms responses (doing auth, fetching from db, processing and rendering html). I know because I've done that, on PHP 5.4.
This is bad... There is an Amber Alert in California for an abducted child and on the amber alert that popped up on my phone was a link for more information... That link took me straigt to twitter, which is down.
>and the safest cars ever tested by the NHTSA

Stop spreading blatant falsehoods.

https://www.autonews.com/article/20181009/OEM/310099923/u-s-...

“A 5-star rating is the highest safety rating a vehicle can achieve,” the agency said in the statement, which did not name Tesla. “NHTSA does not distinguish safety performance beyond that rating, thus there is no ‘safest’ vehicle among those vehicles achieving 5-star ratings.”
Having worked on a lot of ops teams in unstable environments, it's just really dickish.
You only need the sigil during definition. So, for example (in the Perl 6 REPL):

> my \x = 1
1
> my \y = 2
2
> say "Look Ma, no punctuation!" if x + y == 3
Look Ma, no punctuation!

There are some implications of this; namely: x and y are now immutable. Back in the REPL:

> my \x = 1
1
> x = 2
Cannot modify an immutable Int (1)
in block <unit> at <unknown file> line 1

This is because in Perl6 the sigil is a container for the value represented by that variable, so since you don't have a sigil, you don't have a container; that is: the names "x" and "y" are now literal synonyms for "1" and "2" (respectively). "x = 2" fails here for the same exact reason (and with the same exact error message) you'd get if you tried to do "1 = 2".
It's up to them to figure out where's the right trade off to maximize their gains.
If your incentives are aligned w/firefighting as opposed to fire prevention b/c management is not motivating and rewarding the extra work that goes into avoiding these scenarios in the first place, you're encouraging fire.
> by D-Day the Luftwaffe had been mostly destroyed relative to what it was in 1940.

From my reading about D-Day, it would have failed if the Allies had not achieved absolute air superiority. The Allied positions behind the front line were safe, and any strong points of German resistance were immediately attacked by ground attack airplanes.
This has been somewhat fixed in recent years as my latest unlocked Sony phone has working Wi-Fi calling on T-Mobile.
Yeah, I may have missed some things and lowballed some others. Let's add an extra 50 grand to the yearly expenses to cover anything I may have missed. I would still say that $40k/year free and clear after all bills and major expenses are paid is not "lower class" by any reasonable definition, as thatfrenchguy implied.
A tax on revenue makes sense in a very high margin business like software
The more the conspiracy grows the faster these otherwise minor stories shoot to the top of HN and add to the pattern.

It fuels itself.
The people of whom you speak would need to be gifted communicators. I'm sure that there are some smart, well informed and well intentioned people on Hacker News that could argue for realistic, multipolar solutions.

That said, it's an anglophone site for IT professionals. I feel that most political discussions are steered in the direction of 'good thinking' progressivism and neo-conservative interventionism. It's the majority demographic where many of those people live.
I wondered why there was a sudden peace on Earth.
Seems like maybe you want to reward fire fighters and also reward fire prevention?
seems to be up now
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What matters is not the volume but the cost. A back-of-the-envolope calculation shows that olivine rock is about 20 times cheaper than crude oil.

Olivine rock: 10-25$/ton
Crude oil: $60/barrel, so about $400/ton

Their website reads that "A volume of 7 cubic miles (11 km^3) of olivine, or around 30 Gigatons, is needed each year. This is less than half the volume of construction materials and less than that of fossil fuel equivalents mined yearly".

If olivine rock needs to be mined in comparable amount to fossil fuels to offset global CO2 production, it will cost about 5% of the fossil fuels, i.e., the price of oil will grow by about 5% globally, which is not much.
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I went back and rewatched it. I completely forgot they forced it. I first saw this a couple months ago when our TC used it for extrication refresher. I have to admit, even though it is staged and the car is completely intact, watching those guys is money. Super smooth execution. The way he handled the halligan solo to create the frunk gap was pleasing to watch.
You sound like the worst coworker in the world. Stealing rewards from ops? That sucks.
Why work remotely when you can nerd around sv, have your creativity drained in exchange for high rent prices and hobos? Plus you can brag you are a worker at some popular new unicorn, and bash facebook and google, the former cool unicorns, on hackernews and reddit all day long and look like an intellectual.
To take the history of direct queries at Twitter even further back, I built a web interface at Odeo for the CEO to run direct queries against the database (and save them so he could re-run them). There were some basic security precautions, but this was totally cowboy.

That Odeo team was filled with best practices aficionados and the management (including me) was a bit cowardly about being clear that "WE ARE FAILING HARD AND FAST." Damn the practices.

So of course the engineering team freaked out, especially since the CEO managed to find lots of queries that did take the site down.

But I honestly credit that as one of the biggest things that I contributed to Twitter. Having easy SQL access let the CEO dig into the data for hours, ask any question he wanted, double check it, etc. He was able to really explore the bigger question, "Is Odeo working?"

The answer was no. And that's how he decided to fully staff Twitter (twttr then) as a side project, buy back the assets, and set Twitter up as it's own thing.

I think that it really was very close--if we'd moved any slower we would have run out of money before anyone was ready to commit to Twitter. Same story about Rails--without being able to do rapid prototyping we never would have convinced ourselves that Twitter was a thing.
This is a good article. However, in regards to credential stuffing:

> Some guidance says to ban all passwords on this list. Try that and see how successful your users are at choosing passwords at all.

We're doing that. We don't let you choose any password that's been discovered in a prior breach.

Did Microsoft implement the same thing and discover a high rate of users bouncing off the registration page?
You misunderstand. The purpose of taxation is to take away the ill-gotten gains of the rich and redistribute them to the oppressed poor. Because, you see, all humans are equal, so if one is richer than another, he must have become rich by exploiting someone else.

Well, that's taxation in Marxism. And to an increasing extent, in the European Union. And no, I'm not making this up; the socialists (whether they call themselves The Left, Green or Social Democrats) explicitly state it in those terms.
I think the last thing that's holding Linux back is the root qdisc lock. It becomes very problematic on high PPS workloads and complicated shaper configurations.

Jumbo frames largely solve the problem, but it's the biggest hurdle we've found.
Yes, I know that QM is not "classical". By "classical QM",
I meant regular, Schrodinger-equation QM, not "quantum trajectory theory" QM.
Your sarcasm and snark is next level. Well done.
(Also an SRE at Google)

From my reading of the article, the way that Dark is intended to work is that the language and environment enforces that changes to code accessible in production are forbidden to be made without putting the change behind a feature flag. Feature flags can be written so that flag flips are rolled out gradually - to whitelisted users, percentage of users, etc. (I'd be interested in how sophisticated the set of requests enabled for the feature flags can be specified.) Writing a tool to instantly revert the feature flags to their state at a previous timestamp is straightforward in principle. And presumably there'd be no need to write separate configuration files in a pure Dark environment, so changes to configuration would also be feature flagged. In this case, there would be in theory no need for a separate canary process, since the feature flags themselves can be canaried. I just hope that Dark will encourage teams to canary changes rather than have "easy" defaults of "cowboy deployment to prod".

Dark would probably make it very easy to roll back the simple changes that result in exceptions being thrown on every request. All the most interesting outages that I've seen have involved emergent interactions that put the system into a state unrecoverable without manual intervention. It's unclear how Dark would help with that from my reading.
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We haven't hit any scaling issues yet. GraphQL is nice. It's really about getting data directly from DynamoDB and Aurora to an end point that Android/iOS/React-JS can query and subscribe to. Apache Velocity Template Language that AppSync uses is a pain though. This post captures it well (unfortunately): https://www.reddit.com/r/graphql/comments/b0zomv/aws_appsync...
You're comparing late model luxury cars to ALL cars? Do you see anything wrong with that?
For reference, French wine in France can be had for 3 or 4 euros a 75 cl bottle.

That's for good wine. There are cheaper wines available of course.

If you're saying $20, you must be talking about a 6 pack ;)
There's a nice FFI for C stuff, but writing glue for C++ is more work.
Here's hoping it stays that way!
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Imgur has become actively hostile to anyone who browses the mobile website instead of using the app. They've spent years slowly pruning functionality out of the mobile site and just recently announced that in August users won't be able to log into the mobile site at all.
If the ops team got beer every time the servers went down (as a reward for fixing them) then they'd have an incentive for the servers to go down.
Can you simplify that for me, chief?
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It's on purpose ever since the revolt against Ellen Pao. Was it sparked by firing Valerie, the AMA admin?
Reddit went down this morning too
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A true BOFH would have either disposed of any witness or made them the culprit.
>What's more, people continually click on them, which implies that they are getting some sort of benefit from them.

How do you go from "people exhibit this behaviour" to "this behaviour provides them some benefit"?

Most of the ads are hyper-targetted to psychological weaknesses we have in the same way that drugs hijack our reward pathways.
There is one other reason to do things: you cannot trust anyone else to do it. Fullfilling and/or profitable are hopefully the only ones that apply, but sometimes you have to do something because the risk is too high...
What updates would people not want to install? Just curious, not arguing.
The story is most probably not true. Love the taco tunnel though :)

Edit: apparently the stories actually are true.
The outages might not be independent. Chances are these services are cross integrated at some level.
I'm curious - what is/was the intended application of this?
The real question is, if twitter were to go down permanently, what social media tool would the president use? Would he switch to something else or not use anything at all? I can imagine whatever tool he were to choose would become popular over night.
I will not use google home unless they remove the restriction to provide both browser history and location on your google account / cell phone. When my google home refused to work after disabling tracking features I unplugged it.
Chicago has a doomsday clock that keeps ticking down with its pensions and the state's pensions. Those governments might start raising the taxes more and more and fall into a tighter death spiral as it pushes people away, leading to less revenue.
This feels like using “keyboard privilege escalation” to mean an attacker could type on your physical keyboard to access a terminal logged in as root to execute commands.
If your website crashes because a single person ran a query, your system is too monolithic. You can have thousands of little microservices running all over the place, but a single query causing a fault proves that a vital system is running without redundancy or load sharing and that other systems cannot handle the situation. You have too many aspects of your service all tied together within a single system. It is too monolithic.
No, morality is not subjective.

What do you mean by unwanted externalities? Unwanted by who?
why not use tc for linux traffic shaping? you can even use bpf.
If everytime the site was brought back up (because it had gone down), and the ops guys got free fancy beer, then the message pretty quickly turns into, "if the site goes down, I get rewarded."
Being inexperienced with modern Python, that leads me to ask, what's the story with GUI work on Python? Are there any good libraries?
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Additionally, it appears twitter is also down, so I can't check to see if they have acknowledged the issue :/
They don't seem to have a status page of their own.
> Read up on keto diets

I politely decline. In 2017 and 2018 I lost 100 lbs in 18 months and the primary staple of my diet was pasta dishes. The low-carb thing is not for me.

Like I said, find what works for you and ignore what people say is supposed to work. Today it is quite trendy to demonize carbs, tomorrow it may be something else, meanwhile plenty of healthy people eat lots of demonized items, but a narrow focus and overemphasis on good/bad may cause you to lose the big picture.
This is really cool + extra points for the vi/vim keybindings
What the hell are all of you smoking, some moderately expensive alcohol is nowhere near enough reward to take down a service.
Chicago alone is a glaring exception.

- It's not constrained for space, rent is relatively cheap

- Good public transit and airports

- Great food scene

- Cultural mecca

- Young people love it

- Several great universities are either in it or nearby

- Pedestrian/biker friendly

- Each of the many neighborhoods is like a different town with its own character

Google and Facebook recently made minor expansions into Chicago, but why the trickle? I get that in the short-run the elite want to be "where it's at" i.e. SF and NYC, but Chicago has so much to offer. Tech companies would get a lot for their money if they start a virtuous cycle of investment and employment here. Many STEM students from UChicago, Northwestern, and UIUC would rather stay home but the opportunity in California is too great to pass up.
What about raising temperatures ?
> The central computer notices just about everything. Keeps track of every key you hit on the keyboard, all day long, what time you hit it, down to the microsecond, whether it was the right key or the wrong key, how many mistakes you make and when you make them. You're only required to be at your workstation from eight to five, with a half-hour lunch break and two ten-minute coffee breaks, but if you stuck to that schedule it would definitely be noticed, which is why Y.T.'s mom is sliding into the first unoccupied workstation and signing on to her machine at quarter to seven. Half a dozen other people are already here, signed on to workstations closer to the entrance, but this isn't bad. She can look forward to a reasonably stable career if she can keep up this sort of performance.

Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson

And now, from the convenience of your home...
To be fair, the font is a bit too small on mobile. But it works with reader mode, so there's that.
For light gaming, it is miles ahead of my old Intel one. The Radeon card is just much, much better than Intel integrated graphics.

For normal browser use, I think it hiccups a little bit more than the Intel. It has twice the cores, but each core is not as fast as the Intel cores.
For a later season. This was one of my favorite scenes on the show.