skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe deeply that we need a profound, fundamental reorganization of our economy and culture to avoid apocalyptic climate breakdown and social collapse.

But, right now, starting a business with goals that aren't profitability leaves you vulnerable to somebody else who _will_ maximize profitability.

In your own life, even, trying to do things that don't maximize profit (taking more holiday, etc.) leaves you vulnerable to competition from other workers who will do that.

We need to design systems where maximizing profit (something humans have been trying to do forever) produces behaviours we desire, like treating the planet and other people better. But blaming a single business working within the constraints they find themselves in is unlikely to help.

For example, the lesson of Union Carbide is that it's OK to murder tens of thousands of people through incompetence and willful negligence. Other companies that spent more on safety were effectively punished for doing so, since of course they would have to spend more. This is why we still had Hydrofluoric Acid a risk of killing thousands and thousands of Philadelphians as recently as a few weeks ago.
It's only fragile when you centralize all of the information in giant websites. It didn't use to be like that. And now there are a ton of decentralization technologies that we should be taking advantage of, but almost everyone ignores them.

For example https://medium.com/@alexberegszaszi/mango-git-completely-dec...
YIMBY sits pretty far to the right as Bay Area politics go, and is primarily tech workers fighting against the DSA, tenants union, and other working-class coalitions.
Any chance you can give us a summary since GitHub is currently down?
You say that like marketing and shilling are two wholly distinct activities. Have you heard of Instagram?
Hard disagree with your disagree. Very few procedural artists seem to have a good feel for the medium they're working in, or know much about art/music history and current trends.

They either have a very shallow understanding ("I made an image" = "I made art"; "I played some samples in a browser or trained a GAN" = "I made music") or they have an academic misunderstanding, based on a decent technical understanding of the grammars of the medium, but limited insight into how creative originators can use grammars expressively.

There are exceptions, especially in visuals, so you have a point about Sturgeon's Law. But there are still far too many people treating generative media as a technical exercise, and too few using them for impressive original creativity.
OpenAI forms exclusive computing partnership with Microsoft
I saw a lot of people called racists because they disagreed with the implementation, if not the goal, of the US ACA health care reform. Now I see nearly every single presidential political candidate dumping on the ACA - whom I assume will shortly be labeled racists by all right thinking people.
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I believe your opinion aligns pretty well with a crescent number of researchers that see in investments like this exactly the scenario for the warp-drive you described.

In your opinion what should computer scientists be focusing on in order to achieve more advanced AI systems? I'm thinking things such as reasoning, causality, embodied cognition, goal creation, etc.

And this is without even delving into the ethics aspects of (some instances of) AI research.
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If someone recommends me a subreddit, I would check it out. Reddit is not inherently bad. However, you have to understand a lot of us have a negative perception of subreddits, given how many jerks, trolls and bullies participate in them. Even in the good ones there's so much negativity and discourtesy. It's so sad, I personally am afraid to participate most of the time because I admittedly have very thin skin and those kinds of interactions can ruin my day.
The headline glosses over the fact that Russia has at least 3 main intelligence agencies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_agencies_of_Russi...), although the article doesn't. Score one for dopey headline writers.

This mistake lets us take note that virtually all major countries have extremely messing "intelligence communities". It's not the only irrational British thing (check out their system for rating rock climbs, for example) but the MI5/MI6/GCHQ distinction makes no sense at all, except if you want turf battles between noblemen. The US is worse, because it doesn't have an aristocracy, yet its intelligence community is organized in an even more irrational fashion.
How do they handle a hire that lives in SF so he has to be paid the max who then moves somewhere else to drop his own cost of living?
In response to your final question, this[1] document from the UK's ICO has some interesting info. Essentially you're either a Data Controller (that would be your site in this example) or a Data Processor (Fathom, in this case -- probably?!).

"64. The ICO cannot even take action directly against a processor who is entirely responsible for a data breach, for example by failing to deliver the security standards the controller has required it to put into place. However, in these cases the ICO may decide not to take any enforcement action against the controller if it believes it has done all it can to protect the personal data it is responsible for and to ensure the reliability of its processor, for example through a written contract. However, whilst the ICO cannot take action against the processor, the data controller could take its own civil action against its data processor, for example for breach of contract."

Though it goes on to say that in some circumstances, the processor can _become_ a controller, in which case the ICO can go after it.

[1]: https://ico.org.uk/media/for-organisations/documents/1546/da...
well actually I spent the holiday weekend not working and now I have a time window to work with our east coast contractors before they stop work for the day (they don't work on the weekends or after 5PM) so having the system down isn't really end of the world but it will impact our productivity.
What's your policy on employees' side projects? Let's say I want to work on a side project and one day hope to turn it into a business (and get into YC), do you allow me to retain intellectual property for the side project which is of course unrelated to my gitlab work?
same for "name-of-movie streaming release date" will give you a lot of seo filled long articles that often just end with "we don't know"
> Until there is market-driven demand for humans to be on or around the Moon, politics will dominate the story

I don't know if I've ever thought this before, but wow. That's a great argument
Uber specifically.
https://downdetector.com/status/github/map/ << interesting to see where the big development hubs are located...

EDIT:
Some observations:
- Its getting late in the day in Europe - and a bunch of people are trying to commit and push before heading home.

- Its 11PM in Bangkok - but people are still plugging away at their code

- Notable Eastern European cities with red/yellow heat dots: Bucharest, Odessa, Kyiv, Krakow, Prague

- Would've expected more outage reports from Sophia Antipolis in Southern France - but nothing much.

- Barcelona is red hot

- Some light activity in Rwanda

- In North America: Toronto, NYC, SF, LA and Seattle are hot

- But also notably: Wichita, Topeka, Austin, Raleigh, Denver, Boise,
Also how ISP speed is measured ;)
If I were to buy a house there I would probably make no money renting for efficient market reasons. The bank would probably absorb all the money I could make into interest, after all why wouldn't they? The only people who are benefitting are the previous landowners, who saw the appreciation.
Do you loosen your belt to fight obesity?
More and more of my google searches are being appended by "reddit". Someone's asked it before and it takes half a second to load/skip for it. It's sad, but effective
My cat does the same. My theory is that the cat gets overstimulated and then the claws come out. I’m not sure if cats are ticklish, but if they are, it would explain a lot.
Stratified neighborhoods means stratified schools, means stratified networks of connections, which means less social mobility.

> Second, trying to manufacture non-stratification by telling communities what type of housing they must allow feels a little hamfisted

I'm sorry, but this is COMICALLY absurd at this point.

Here we have communities that have used a relatively recent invention, zoning regulation, to force a historically unprecedented urban pattern of building onto the vast majority of residential land in the US, with the express intent of keeping out undesirables. As the libertarians like to put it, at the point of a gun.

And you're saying the ones who want to loosen regulations, to return to more environmentally friendly, historically common urban building patterns, patterns that would not shut out the poor, are the ones "hamfistedly manufacturing" something?

I'm sorry, I'm having trouble believing that you're not being deliberately disingenuous at this point. It's like calling the removal of Jim Crow laws "hamfisted, manufactured non-segregation".
What can a modern F1 tire do that we couldn't do with a 500BC wooden wheel ?
This whole worldview is totally baffling to me.

A) So what should these landowners be doing according to you besides jumping off of a bridge? Are you against private property. Or did just exactly the set of evil people happen to be also be exactly the set of people who wanted to buy property

B) So what should we do, a Mao style repossession from everyone who bought land totally fairly according to the legal system they bought it in?

C) You honestly believe they are mustache twirling villains don't you?
HK police had made high-profile-arrest followed by low-profile-release on protesters. They claimed to have found an arsenal of protected substances during arrest, and found nothing until release half a year later (weapon of mass destruction, Hong Kong style).

For a case related to earlier protest in 2016, see [1] in Chinese.

[1]: https://thestandnews.com/politics/高調拉人-低調撤案-警方旺角騷亂後-環保倉當-武器庫...

For this particular case of arrest you mentioned, one thing stood out: the supposed “petrol bombs“ were in fact sealed, unopened beer bottles (see the zoom-in here [2]). The correct way to make a petrol bomb needs to replace the content [3]. For all we know, the police have found 10 bottles of unopened beer and claimed to have found 10 petrol bombs.

[2]: https://lihkg.com/thread/1335217/page/1

[3]: https://img.appledaily.com.tw/images/ReNews/20130804/640_13b...
Of course it would.

But the important question is "how much closer". That would be much harder to answer.
They manipulated the data to generate the appropriate headline knowing 99% of people that come across their article wont look deeper
Why not just keep working? That next commit will work just fine without a central server.
If anyone is curious about the short fiction market, I've been knee deep into that for the past year or so (coming from tech), I'm happy to chat and give advice.

In short: do it for leisure, hobby, or the love of the craft.
Git implementation for Plan 9
interesting to watch the West coast become an angry sea of red as everyone wakes up
> 1Password tells you...

This is software acting as an agent of the effected user. 1Password could be authorized by the email holder to gain access to the API without making the information public.

> Other websites won't allow you to use...

This and the following example in your comment are discussing the breached password API, which is a completely different API that I specifically mentioned up-front as not compromising any PII.

I take zero issue with providing an API to see counts of how many times a password has shown up on breach lists, although I wouldn't use the API myself on any of my own passwords, because it leaks a 1-in-1-million discriminator to the actual password you are querying.
I've recently reached a personal finance threshold where I'm making a substantial return e.g. enough to live on on a relatively "low risk" mix of index funds/stock investments. It made me realize that being in a position where your money is "working" for you is really the starkest difference between the rich and the poor.
Same. Inertia kept me with Dropbox all these years. It was easier to pay them than to figure out how to operate the alternatives. I'm not going to get those hours I spent migrating back--it's sunk cost now.
Is my project lost now?
Has nothing to do with Digital Ocean, and everything to do with how the website is designed (which is often, but not always, a function of what framework was used).

Stick a properly configured nginx or Varnish in front of whatever they're running, and we'd not be having this conversation.
Creating elastic PostgreSQL clusters with parallel query processing
I was kind of shocked when I saw the $23/hr, because that's a pretty high wage for a line cook. Like I could not imagine anywhere else except for maybe NYC where a line cook would protest with that rate.

According to the MIT Living Wage Calculator, he would be able to support himself on that but it'd be difficult if he had any dependents. http://livingwage.mit.edu/metros/41860
The parent is saying that if you're going to fight for labor you should probably start with the local restaurants, because they're the biggest problem. If that doesn't fit the "stick it to the big corp" thing then I guess things might be more complicated than that.
They're probably still moving stuff to Azure after the acquisition. If my memory serves, there was an uptick in outages ~6 months after the buyout.
Everyone does not do this. I work remote and get a fair market rate (for the value I add, not based on where I live). Unfortunately I couldn't apply to Gitlab last time I was in the market for work because their salaries are both lower in general and lowered even further due to geo adjustment.

I'm fully a fan and believer of remote work, but you need to pay your employees just like any other top tier company would. It's actually even more important as you really want the best people for remote work since they need to be excellent communicators and more self-directed than in-house employees.
Besides, why would I care if how I capitalize a company's name isn't perfectly in line with their marketing style guide? Github is lucky if I even feel like capitalizing the first letter.

What a weird thing to hold over others.
Absolutely. I'm (cautiously) optimistic that some good can come from all this downtime in that sense.
And reflect why keep using git when we still work the good ol' centralized workflow style of SVN and the likes.
Perhaps those on the receiving end of those labels have an interest in blanket dismissing that criticism as a thrown-around "willy-nilly" wolf-cry.
Insanity. Having an emergency mirror on standby is not hard when it's critical infrastructure. Surely npm/Cargo/etc.. could do this.
I'm in the same position trying to build Neovim, but I have all the sources downloaded already since libmpack always times out. Maybe someone browsing this thread who can't work right now can help: does anyone know how to force/suggest to Cmake that the dependencies it needs are already downloaded and in some src directory?
Also, without Kennedy's martyrdom I'm not sure Congress would have been willing to keep appropriating the funds to see it al the way through.
Then why do software developers have more spending money than line cooks?
Damn. Thought I was going nuts when I couldn’t browse certain repos. Everything I checked said GitHub was up
"If I redefine everything to fit my parameters, then nothing can contradict me."

I mean, okay, but if you want to avoid being intellectually disingenuous you can't do that anymore. You don't get to just randomly redefine things until they fit your arguments better.
merging work with contractor right now...
The problem is you get more information in the future, but all this boilerplate is has been written before that information so the first instinct / seemingly least-resistance thing to do is to fit the new information into the old boilerplate / hierarchy.

Lots of people have OO scar tissue from getting weird impedance mismatches on newish OO systems designed this way.
In an economist’s perfect model, land owners could sell their land to developers or build apartments on it themselves. Supply and demand would keep prices from rising.

In practice, regulations and zoning stifle the operation of the “perfect” economic model and you get what we see now.
So you’re saying.. it comes down to whether you believe AGI is achievable within our lifetime? Or even worth contributing to at all even. I think the parent has made their position pretty clear through their employment choices, that’s a level of skin in the game that naysayers don’t really have.
And all the interns pushing to prod...
Thanks, you're right, I was being dense.

My feeble mind can accept that it's just a replacement board, you can host all your existing chips on.
Wavefront is another public user. If you poke around on the forums and Google peoples' names you can see where they work.

There are a number of large companies you have definitely heard of in a variety of domains including ad-tech, analytics, gaming, and logistics who are evaluating or using FoundationDB in production.

FoundationDB can replace ZooKeeper or etcd. Not literally of course, given their APIs vary wildly, but you can achieve the same semantics. Plus you get arbitrary conversational transactions instead of just things CAS.
The whole point of money laundering is to get it in the bank as legitimate income. This accomplishes that.
Developers could target low income housing by building a bunch of megacondos to suck programmers out of the old neighborhoods.
Continuing the pattern of downtimes in high-profile tech products. I'm genuinely curious whether this is a quirky property of Poisson distribution or something more interesting is going on...

EDIT: One datapoint, Boston, MA, here still getting 500s e.g. in gist.
So it's not as easy as just pushing the update to the repo. We are still committed to open-source, but we also have a business to run and need to make a living here (we're two dudes who care about privacy, not a huge company with deep pockets) :)

The community version is getting a full update soon. We just have to focus on profit a bit (this keeps us in business and able to update the repo).
Controllably fly in strong wind using very primitive sensors.
Your comment is probably going to inspire a lot of people to start self hosting remote repos during the downtime today.

As with most things, it'll start great, but a lot of those people will be in tears in a few weeks.

Great power; great responsibility.
"We have AI systems that can learn walking, running and other [...]"

In one of your examples, which are all of narrow AI, we see a mechanical crab powered by ML that has become specialized in walking with a broken limb, which is not even close to what we need if we aim for AGI. For AGI we don't need agents that mimic simple behavior. In my opinion, _mimicking_ behavior will not lead to AGI.

What _will_ lead to AGI? No one knows.
The lander was supposed to be Russian, but delays from the Russian end forced ISRO to do everything itself. This is completely Indian design.
India launches Chandrayaan-2 moon lander
For those of us with broad shoulders, being set back a few inches is going to turn me into a pretzel. Yes, I understand that with a “normal” seat, my shoulders violate my seat mates space. The only option I’ve found is to claim a window seat where my shoulder is aligned to the window cutout. As there’s no way to determine this arrangement with online booking tools, I prefer Southwest where my status allows me to always get that shoulder/window seat. And my company also doesn’t pay for seat upgrades, so I’m stuck gaming the reservation system to land a southwest flight.
What we typically see is fighting to maximize price-controlled units as a percentage of development while still minimizing overall development. A small, 100% affordable project preferred over a large, 20% affordable project, even if the latter yields more affordable homes.

If you believe that market-rate units accelerate gentrification, this even makes sense, as the more market-rate units you have, the more affordable units you'll need. The first priority is to minimize disruption to existing communities; BMR units are just a way of partially mitigating it when it does happen. Hence "we can't build our way out the housing crisis."

"De-commodify housing" is a lot sexier than "find the optimal BMR percentage requirement."
I'm sorry, this is hilarious to me. You see, urbanists constantly get pushback from people who know almost nothing about urban planning, or cities in other countries, who say, "uh, you can't apply lessons from Japan/UK/Germany/France/etc., because the US is so much more spread out, duh."

And now we have someone arguing literally the opposite. Now it's the US that's apparently too dense.

We need a new word for this brand of snowflakey NIH syndrome, where unless you can't prove that [city/country] is exactly the same as [other city/country], there is nothing one could learn from them.
Uhm, what? Have you never had a pet before? All the cats and dogs I've known eagerly seek out being stroked, and if they're tired of it (mainly cats), they'll just go away. No need to force the animals to do anything against their will. And hell, I do enjoy being touched and stroked and caressed, sure (getting my head scratched? fuck yeah). We're as much social animals as they are.
There are certain types of algorithms such as protein folding that are exponential time in silicon, but constant time in biochemistry. Right now AI can approximate polynomial time algorithms like alpha/beta minimax for game playing in constant time, but can it approximate exponential time algorithms in constant time?
Interesting. I absolutely love DB sync on Linux, but I cleared my data yesterday. I got tired of dealing with the ecryptfs situation and couldn't go all in on DB because of the 2TB cap. I ended up going with Amazon Drive plus ExpanDrive for now.
Upfront transparency of data use is key for consumer acceptance of AI devices
That works too, believe it or not. Just add another remote and pull it.
People losing their minds over this would sound a lot more sincere and principled if they'd been even half as upset about Obama placing kids in actual cages with a much higher per capita death rate. Now they just sound like ideologues grinding a political axe.

But maybe that's just my differing opinion.
Bold move - to use the positive results of pre-1965 immigration policy that selected for educated and affluent Europeans - as if it's an argument for a /more/ open immigration policy. Incredible and stupid.
At some point there has to be centralization. We are deploying one product, not N products for N commits. If I can't push, I can't have CI build my branch, and I can't submit a PR for review.
Tell HN: Docker just ate 19GB of production data
Be very careful with the live-restore feature of docker. Running 'docker volume prune' just removed all my named volumes, which were used by running containers.

See https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/38883
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It's flat where I live (south Orange county, California) for homes in the $500k-$1M mark. Newer development has stickier prices than older homes. However, there's a lot of local business development happening and, in the case of a single organization that I am aware of, many high-paying jobs are moving into the immediate area in the next 18-24 months. That single organization is stated to be investing over a billion in this new facility alone. It'll be very interesting to see what this does to the local market.