skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless someone explain or argue that this statistic, when a system with such high degree of availability let's say >=99.9% also can be said to have other properties beyond just the mere statistical nature. If not the resulting availability should be
99.8001%
The Moon has a uneven gravitational field which can cause surprising orbital perturbations. There are some relatively stable orbits known, but it's a little unclear how stable they would be over a scale of many years.

Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_orbit#Perturbation_effec...
I can't tell if you're suggesting that he's only there to write propaganda for Amazon? Someone doing that wouldn't need to work 70 shifts. Also he says in the article that he's been doing low-paying manual labor for most of his adult life. The most likely explanation is that he's a writer who has worked day jobs to pay the bills. Since he's in his early 60s, that's a lot of jobs. I don't see any reason to disbelieve him when he says that his Amazon job has been one of the better ones, even if he does have political opinions.
88% off on a 12 year old car is a serious discount. But, if it’s actually lasting 10 years as your daily driver without needing serious repairs you may just want to be buying lotto tickets :)

PS: A friend owned a used car for 3 years then sold it for a net profit without doing any repairs. But, good luck retreating that without spending a lot of time looking for great deals.
Meanwhile, Jeff Vogel (author of this article), has always had a 1-year refund policy on his games. He says it is rarely used.
I once had a boss who asked me to spend my last two weeks writing down everything I knew after working there for 13 years and basically creating the entire 2Mloc system they were happily selling from scratch.

That's when I finally realized how much of a clue he really had.

And the reason I quit is that he gradually started chasing me around and micromanage my time even though I had been left alone to do my thing since forever, and pretty damn good too. But you can't measure the effect, and suits tend to measure what they can.

The effect of leaving was easier to measure, the company folded about a year later.
>> I can only imagine the rarefied conversations that would have taken place in such a setting.

Yes, me too. Typical conversations you hear in data centers:

Alice: "I ...aid the... is... ...misf..."

Bob: "WHAT DID YOU SAY?"

Alice: "I ...AID THE ... ERF... MEF... NAH!"
> At the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, visitors can see a case filled with the fearsome homemade weapons that Canadians trench raiders plunged into the faces and chests of their enemy: Meat cleavers, push daggers and spiked clubs.

I saw similar items at the RCR museum in London, Ontario years ago. Definitely worth a visit.

http://www.thercrmuseum.ca/en-ca/
Unfortunately, things are regressing:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/07/world/europe/germany-murd...
In that context it's likely 8 bit operands and a 32 bit accumulator.
I find it surprising that an organization the size of Google doesn't have the resources to test key features in such a notable browser.

Though I just searched and it seems Firefox has a shockingly low market share in mobile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

Perhaps that's why it's not given the attention it needs, how unfortunate.
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Google employs over 100,000 people. They have the resources to test configuration X.
Back when I was in university we had a small course on Limbo/Inferno because of a connection my university (RIT) had to bell labs. I took the course in... 1998? and wrote a version of Tetris for limbo. The code was awful, but did find a bug in the Tk implementation. This lead me to my proudest/most embarrassing programming moment - apparently, my code ended up in front of Dennis Ritchie, who thought the code was terrible. Whatever, Dennis Ritchie looked at my code!

Anyways, here's the awful code: https://github.com/adamf/limbotris
Very nice work!

Reminds me of "The Reasoned Schemer" by Daniel Friedman.
I wonder where that comes from: outside Canada, a perception I'm aware of is a country big on marketing itself but ironic in its realities: clubbing seals for fur, biggest exporter of asbestos to third world countries, shamelessly, sponsor of trophy hunts on Canadian soil, and so on. Very confusing set of seemingly contradictory facts? I don't know how to think of it.
> If it was true the gigantic Walmart could completely dick me around when buying socks and toilet paper. In reality prices are very competitive.

If you switch TP vendors, that's not a big deal for either Walmart or you, so yes, prices are competitive. But if you switch housing, you are switching 100% of your housing, which will be ~30% of your total budget. I've had 13 landlords, and not one of them has had only one unit. And small-time landlords tend to have other work, so regardless, it's a much smaller deal to them to have a tenant move.

> It also completely ignores that fact that most landlords are small operations, and often the tenants are richer than their landlords.

I look forward to your citations on both points.

I'm sure the average landlord doesn't own more than, say, 10 units. But in major markets there are a small number of large rental companies, so I suspect the average unit is not owned by a small landlord.

I'm entirely skeptical about your claim that tenants are "often" richer than landlords, but would be happy to be corrected with data.
> Fully 61% of companies say GitLab is their most used tool for CI and build

It's possible that I'm taking their statement too literally, but it seems a little misleading to me to use "fully 61% of companies" without additional qualification to refer to "61% of companies that use CI" when a sizable portion of companies (e.g. 18%) don't use CI at all.
If the only places that call back are low paying, but you need to work, that's where you're gonna have to work until you can find something better.

You can try to work more hours, but far too many businesses keep employees with enough hours to keep them coming back, but not enough to get health insurance or benefits.

Some might say you should get a second job in these cases, but the schedule is erratic. This, in the long run, guarantees there will be an overlap and you'll have to choose. Neither job will change your schedule (because that causes a cascade of who can cover and it's much easier to say no), so you'll invariably catch some flack and eventually be let go or have to leave.

It's very frustrating being in that cycle, and I can see why some/many simply wouldn't bother
AMP doesn't require web browser support. It's just a JS library.
I still have this bug.
https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/8396

Page faults from NFS client side aren't served by the server when they should (readonly map, reading a page). I could imagine this is related.
Linux containers feel like weak imitations of jails and zones found in FreeBSD and Solaris/illumos, for that matter.
Videos, but they link to the transcripts too: https://www.bfi.org/about-fuller/resources/everything-i-know
its not hard to reinstall if you actually want it, it most certainly is bloaty.
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I think you're on the right track but the motivation would be more for a smaller, lighter mass computer and not so much the one off nature as they made many hardware changes as requirements changed.
I'm a bit late to the thread, but if the difference is "the same person is reading the ad" some of what i think are dynamic ads are being done in a similar way. most of the ads within podcasts i listen to are read by the hosts anyway.

When there are ad spots in the middle where i imagine it could be pretty easy to cut in an ad dynamically. Some podcasts do a little music fade in/fade out before and after an ad, which is usually a script or something from the advertiser read by the podcast host. I assume the the transition and ad are mostly done dynamically? although i have no way of knowing for sure.
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No the stores were run by the carriers. Sprint and Verizon had an App Store before the iPhone was introduced where they sold a third party J2ME apps. Those carriers took a 70% cut.
Yeah zones especially, I agree.
Your school allowed that man to speak to students?
Maybe back then killing the injured was mostly an act of mercy.

There was no one coming to heal them. Modern medicine wasn't invented. They were spared hours of slow death.
This happens on every device I have Firefox Android installed on, since I started using Firefox on Android maybe 2 years ago, up until the current beta release today. As another commenter pointed out, it seems to work fine if you use a UA switcher to fake Chrome Android on google.com. Besides, AMP isn’t browser-specific. AMP pages render properly in Firefox when I tap AMP articles from the Google News app.
This logic leads one to conclude corporations are almost never malicious - they're just too lazy/frugal to test features on competing browsers/support patent-free filesystems/follow fire-safety codes/test aircraft electronics/recall HIV-tainted blood.
Taking a sick day and calling on sick are two different things.

I had a job where all unscheduled days off where taken from sick days based on company policy. Vacation days needed or be scheduled ahead of time therefore people valued sick days a little more than vacation days.

Others just put them all into the same pool. It’s more about what the policy actually is than what you call it.
Antitrust enforcement would probably take issue with that
Still I feel the 1s compliment was perhaps more of a choice based around the familiarity of the designer, Eldon Hall. It was a style of the times and 2s compliment had not yet become the dominant standard.
I was going to mention kernel TLS hopefully enabling sendfile for mostly-HTTPS workloads, as that’s the direction everything is heading anyway, and without it we don’t get zero-copy for those connections.

Now I’m more curious about the actual threshold where not having sendfile begins causing noticeable performance problems… at what point before you become Netflix?
HN discussion (206 points with 94 comments) from yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20477670
>AMP isn't available on mobile firefox

Kind of a blessing in disguise. I still have an addon that redirect AMP pages to their original URLs.

And to be honest, I switched to DDG and I don't miss anything really.
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Do we know if since the recent incident, Verizon is looking at implementing RPKI?

Or have they still not acknowledged the outage?
What's interesting about this is that, in a competitive marketplace of governments attempting to do this...they'll actually make the network more secure.
As an example, I have a friend who just took out a $30k loan on a car because "interest is only 2% anyway, so might as well buy something with the money instead".

I would guess that is an extremely common view for people to have.

Yes there are people in actual poverty. But there are also many people who just think there is nothing to do with money besides spend it.
That's not how big organizations work. Having 100,000 people doesn't translate to having proportionally as many people with skills to do testing and QA. Human resources are not really that fluid.
> For example, in AWS, a webapp with a single Region approach using multiple AZs will give you higher availablility, but similar costs to a single AZ approach.

Whether your costs are similar or not depends on the amount of inter-AZ traffic, which is charged for.
That's not true, as I have implemented both, in FPGA. The INRA implementation missed key optimizations in the adder and multiplier.
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There’s not a fucking thing that’s even slightly improper about taking your allotted PTO days.
I thought about this myself and it's really cool to see someone follow through on such a whimsical project. One consideration is that the is already a great lunar lander game for this system!
> Is the ‘polite Canadian’ (“Sorry!”) trope

Canadians are polite. But they're not apologetic. Your comment misses the mark.

> a country big on marketing itself but ironic in its realities

Add up all the clubbed seals and exported asbestos, and a single ICE automobile is worse.

It seems like anybody can have an extreme opinion with no supporting logic.
There’s a tradeoff between neural net performance and CPU performance.
I suspect the biggest win is getting over the mostly mental hurdle of “I deserve a new car because reasons...”, deciding to buy used, and then just not picking absolute maintenance hogs. Most cars are quite reliable now and can easily go 150-200K miles without major drama. 10 Audis owned for 10 years will likely cost more than 20 Toyotas owned for 10 years. Even “over paying” at a place like CarMax (who makes it “easy” to shop for a late model used car) is better than getting fleeced at the new car dealer.

People love buying new cars though... It’d be a lot more amusing if it weren’t so financially harmful. (I confess to buying a new electric LEAF but only because it came with $10K in government money in the trunk. Even with you guys buying 1/3rd of it for us and Nissan financing it at 0% interest, it’s noticeably more expensive than our other cars. Good car though. Has needed wiper blades and washer fluid in 55 months of ownership.)
I met Naveen Rao after Intel bought Nervana. He seemed pretty adamant about getting stuff shipped fast. In contrast, the Xeon folks own all the politics and seem to want the transition to be very gradual. Plus the Phi folks get phased out. They had done a Nervana trial at Facebook but then flaked on other trials. Clearly Intel is trying to desperately manage their books.

Having Nervana and friends on a Xeon chip could be a huge positive change for software. Not only could we toss out the issue of GPU memory transfer, but Nvidia GPUs aren’t so great with concurrency, and here with the linux kernel we might have a chance to beat Nvidia. Naveen sure would like that... Nervana once had a Maxwell compiler that was better than Nvidia’s.
The dual meaning of sanction seems to be on every language that imported it from Latin. I imagine is remotes to the Romans.

Anyway, both meanings are a positive administrative act, where an executive does the thing he usually does. The different meanings usually don't mix on the same context.
I'd say that Google did the numerical analyses of the format, then proved the memory bandwidth improvement and behavior in regards to large production machine learning models with their TPUs. So they derisked the numerical format. That and how simple it is to implement given you already support IEEE 754 single precision (just fewer bits for significant), and lower overhead to convert to and from floats (relative to fp16) makes this format a no brainier for Intel.
Risks like that are begging for insurance policies.

Net result it may not actually change much in practice.
Thoughts on Presenting (2014)
Quantum supremacy is actually a more specific concept than you might be thinking: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_supremacy
I'd wager $1 that if the order came down from @sundarpichai to test in a particular browser, it would happen within hours not days. They have the resources.
> The S-Expressions on the either hand are a sea of parentheses with no way to quickly tell what's a list or mapping or whatever without closely looking at each item.

I guess that's part of the point from my point of view: it's not about hash tables or objects or even lists, but about what they represent. In my view focusing on the implementation (a hash table mapping strings to hash tables mapping strings to numbers or strings) is looking at the trees and missing the forest.
Yes.
Google has been doing this for years, they serve a degraded version of YouTube as well.

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Sounds like they're not a stellar performer then? Unless they're a solo founder with no funding, they don't work in a vacuum.

Edit: changed you's to they
How the Self-Retweeting Tweet Worked: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and Twitter
We have multiple teams who handle security at my company, they lease with our teams to grade and find a solution that suits all parties including clients.

Our planning prioritises anything that is Security or compliance related and patching those things is number 1 priority. You can’t ship good product if you’re not in business
You're misreading, I'm not suggesting anyone fake being sick.
Nope. The rest of the book showed plenty of the wounded being treated (however well, still not killed). And this was in Moscow just as it was conquered - plenty of places to treat and there were enough inhabitants in the city who would see to it.

But even if you’re right, don’t you think it deserved more than half-sentence?
Hmmm; you’re closer to correct than I. Actual details are covered in http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/lgp-30-man.html#R3.16 where it explains that the “R” instruction would store away the address part of what was typically an unconditional branch. So, it was only by convention that this would be kept at $FOO, and that FOO would return by branching to $FOO. A super-smart compiler (they existed) would know the address of the last instruction of each routine, and be able to R into that location directly before calling (actually, just jumping) to $FOO.

One other cute thing was that all memory was on a spinning drum, and you could really speed up your program’s execution by placing variables at addresses that were just about to be under the read head when the current operation was being performed. Otherwise, everything had to wait for up to a whole drum rotation. Kind of the original “pipeline stall”.
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They did teach it, they just weren't callous enough to teach the moral judgement you've just made about the conduct of your anscestors while entire nations were trying to kill them.
I mean, if that's the path we're going down...is telling someone they can only be sick for 10 days in a year treating them like a professional adult person in the first place?
wish I could upvote this 10 times.
Somewhere out there... Skynet is gestating. What an exciting time to be alive.
Grip: Graph-Based Interaction-Aware Trajectory Prediction
So this may be a stupid question but I'm genuine curious, I checked out the thread about this yesterday and why are HAM radio people complaining about this? What do radio spectrums have to do with IPv4 addresses?
Yeah. The one who winds up in power is whoever is best at using the situation to take power. This does not have any correlation with who is best at actually solving the problem.
What’s incorrect about accepting a risk that could kill you, such as flying on air planes or becoming a soldier? Another example is going all-in during a poker game, you’re simply saying you’re ok with that severe risk for the corresponding upsides.
People still fall for "convincing" emails and social media profiles with a name and a photo. I work tech support at my university, and we regularly have to deal with faculty clicking on things they shouldn't, or not clicking on things they should. I also do some work for a local non-profit and a month ago two employees came uncomfortably close to costing us thousands.

Cryptographic trust won't help much either unless it is packaged and presented in the right way to the end user - it's basically advanced black magic to most people. I would love to have cryptographic verification setup for the non-profit's communication so that they can have some guarantee of legitimacy, but first I have to figure out how to make it fit into their workflow and not require them to actually take any action.

It's important to keep in mind that we have some distorted sampling. I would guess that most if not all of the people on HN are technical to some degree, so we may tend to have a bit of a bubble. We are a pathetically, uncomfortably small minority.

Never, ever, ever rely on humans doing the right thing if you can help it, whether in the form of an individual, a corporation, or a government.
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Lots of comments, but no one has just come out and said it:

Fuck. That. Manager.

They care about butts in seats more than results, and they've deliberately sought out the metrics to justify it.
Roughly, GRPC ~= Schema + Binpacked messages + extra semantics for HTTP2

The "performance" bit is bandied about a lot, but I'm convinced that you can get far enough with `Content-Type` and bin-packed messages when you need them. You can request/receive binary with HTTP 1.1, that's how images and what not get to you -- if what I'm imagining is even relatively easy to implement, HTTP 1.1 would be strictly better than GRPC because of the flexibility (at the cost of sending a few more headers). Once HTTP 2/3 settle and see more adoption, GRPC's performance benefits would be reduced even further.

I'm not convinced I need to buy into all of GRPC to get efficiency from bin-packed messages across the wire, or bidirectional communication.
Don't blame central banks so much.

They only directly control one lever in the economy, interest rates augmented by QE-purchase of company bonds in Europe & US.

In retrospect, they've been caught in a downward spiral of interest rates because politicians have been unable to add pro-growth policies.

Unfortunately the "wealth effect" of shares in the US, even after Trump's unaffordable tax-cuts, has been channelled towards shareholders (via dividends & buybacks) rather than wage increases or capital investment.

Something's wrong when companies can't find worthwhile ways to spend money investing in their own future, but instead direct profits and BORROWINGS into share buy-backs.

I do suspect one of the factors encouraging buybacks is that executive remuneration is often based on the share price. I've tried searching but haven't found anything suggesting executive remuneration excluding the effects of buybacks on share prices.
That just gets you back to automated systems, for example, causing their own failure, then responding to it by causing more failure.

For example, a relatively common occurence is a BGP link getting saturated. Get that situation bad enough and the BGP session will go down, which will redirect all that traffic to another link with another BGP session, which then proceeds to go down. Meanwhile the original session comes back up and ... And then the failures synchronize and cause a third link to go down (each time taking more traffic with it and therefore causing failures faster).

The second issue discussed is that the math in the statistics only works if the failures never synchronize. That's true for a lot of statistical analyses and mostly people ... just don't care. Yes that makes those analyses wrong. But we don't have a better way of doing those analyses.
> ...entire nations were trying to kill them.

That’s not what the article says.

> Throughout the war, stretches of the Western Front observed an unofficial “live and let live” policy between Germans and their French or British enemies. By mutual agreement, both sides agreed not to attack the other unless ordered — and would even schedule truces for meals and bathroom breaks.
So she was given 10 days sick per year but she isn’t allowed to take all 10 without being up to no good?