skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Low transaction costs are an essential factor for free markets to function well, so when the government provides services at no charge, just because they are operating at a loss from an accounting perspective doesn't mean they aren't unlocking large amounts of wealth in the private sector.

People who claim to like markets tend these days to subscribe to a quasi-religious faith that markets are maintained by some ethereal force rather than human institutions. Free markets are an absolutely vital and fundamental aspect of the wealth and power of the developed world, but they cannot exist in their highest form apart from the centralized machinery that enables people to trust each other and easily buy and sell. If anarcho-libertarians were to break that down, perhaps society could still function at some level, but it would be vastly poorer until everything was rebuilt in some other form.
I don't think so: I didn't touch anything and it just starts beeping its "high temparature" warning.
Depends on the version of elasticsearch you’re running and the use-case. If you’re running a single index with a well-defined schema, I think elasticsearch works very well. If you need many indices and can’t have a defined scheme, then it can be tough.

I work on a team at Target that provides a log aggregation product and we’re finding that a single index with a well-defined schema used to troubleshoot applications via logs is very easy to manage and scale. We support some legacy patterns like “index per application” that are a pain in the ass to manage.

Just to provide some context, we manage about 40 clusters that range from a few data nodes to about 160 data nodes with the majority falling in the 16-60 node ballpark. We don’t have a problem with data loss due to elasticsearch, generally speaking.
Hackaday story on waterproofing (700m) the casio f91w by hand... does not look difficult at all! https://hackaday.com/tag/casio-f-91w/
If the problem is just repetitive, boring questions how about the power users just use the API to filter them out? Or improve the UI. The power to ruin someone else's experience is a heavy-handed alternative to some basic filtering.
Props to anyone sticking it to Google, but this site has too many conspiracy-sounding things:

>Transhumanism is a quasi-religious belief that technology is the only way to “save” humanity. A small Transhumanist elite from the Silicon Valley believes Earth’s resources should be invested to merge humans and machines (Elon Musk’s Neuralink builds chips to inplant in our skulls) or go to Mars. Google, through its sister-company Calico, is now one of the first funders of transhumanism.
Here[1] a NZ journalist, who tried to come for work on ESTA visa waiver shares the horrors of CBP nazis not understanding that it's hard to get J-1 visa and denying entry. This proves that being literate is not enough to understand requirements of various visas.

[1] https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&object...
so then HK could do...to china
Hmm I think someone is in jeopardy but neither side has realized exactly who yet.
I certainly don’t disagree with you on principle. It’s just a bad example in this specific case because A is roughly equivalent to B in this case.

Also, Amazon doesn’t have the same reputation as Google for killing products, so it’s a pretty safe bet. And AWS will be around for quite a long time. The financial stability of MongoDB (the company) isn’t as guaranteed.

Maybe the parent’s company’s processes did work in this case.
> Whenever the topic of names comes up, I reread one of my favorite blog posts I've ever come across: "What's in a Name" by Olin Shivers [0].

Thank you for this! It was a really engrossing read.

> When he said “distal access,” he assumed that you, too, have structures on one side of your head representing what you know about, say, Neil Armstrong, and a smaller structure on the other side of your brain encoding the name “Neil Armstrong,” and cognitive mechanisms allowing you to fetch the former given the latter.

I thought this was an interesting example that glossed over some (to me) really interesting things in cross-contextual (usually cultural?) miscommunication. This assumption that the other person you're talking to has the same concept in mind for a word is at the root of all communication we do.

A simple example would just be UK to US English -- something as simple as "fanny," which has differing meanings to both populations.

For a non-geographical contextual gap, we can look at slang like "salty." a "salty meal," "salty boy," and "salty dog" are all completely different things.

Some of the biggest difficulties I run into with communication aren't with people who speak no English at all (I live in Japan), but people who speak English in a dialect(?) that's close to what I expect, but slightly different and used differently (e.g. as high context instead of low context). Sometimes I can be speaking with someone from India who has perfectly grammatically correct, fluent English, and suddenly be thrown for a loop when I realize that a word had a completely different meaning for both of us without either of us realizing it.

It's just a really interesting concept I think about a lot since I do a lot of cross-cultural communication.
Do you think everyone agrees on those odds? There are other organizations that model collisions and they usually disagree.
You're correct, the new license only prevents AWS and other cloud from running the MongoDB software itself as a managed service unless they open-source their entire platform (although, as we see with DocumentDB, they can legally implement the API without the license coming into effect).

The parent comment states "their sales people started coming around and asking for insane sums of money" but I can't find any reference to this.
> they didn't pronounce these students "innocent" or "guilty."

Here student were already pronounced guilty and forcibly send back on return flight.

> this resembles the situation when a police officer arrests a US citizen.

Its not the same.

When a police officer arrests a US citizen, they need to grant him rights and access to lawyer. If they want to take away that right, they need to have a strong reason and apply patriot act or some specific law. If there is a wrong application of law the police officer and department can be sued for wrongful arrest.

Here the punishment has already been meted out by sending them back forcibly, without any due process, but based on border agents discretion.
The American economy doesn't work for workers. Maybe American workers should stop working until that changes. Maybe it's time for a general strike, regardless of laws forbidding them?
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Given they hire them as a consultant or contractor, I'm sure there's plenty of plausible deniability on their end.
And destructive reads with limited life cycles, assures a steady recurring revenue for TI...
Saying he was a teenager to excuse the morally questionable behavior and reduce his culpability is invalid when he isn’t really a teenager based on legal standards. He would be tried as an adult in any legal proceeding and fully morally and legally responsible for his actions. So my point stands.

Pedantic doesn’t mean anything relevant to this conversation.
Already common in China, under Wechat/Alipay.[0] The key is to get widespread adoption.

Presumably FB Libra would cover this.

[0] https://www.asiaone.com/china/no-loose-change-beggars-china-...
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> A 1TB laptop hard drive has ~100MB/s of I/O usually (unless its dying).

For sequential transfers, yes. But that's hardly ever the relevant figure for whether your system feels fast. You should be looking at the random read performance, where your hard drive is good for ~120 IOs per second and your SSD is good for several thousand at a minimum.
> If it had been SQL it would have been easy to drop in another database.

Not true at all. Way too many organisations are locked into Oracle just because it's too hard to switch to something cheaper.
Deorbiting satellites make that a hilarious proposal.
Umm, the brave browser? (which I will never install)
Why do SO proponents feel it's smart to answer questions with 'this question is closed because dupe' or some other useless bullshit answer.

It's no harder to say 'this question is closed. You will find that the best answer can be found at <Stack Overflow link>'
If your undergrad is in computer science then be very specific and picky about your continued studies.

If not then compare the end state job prospects with cheaper educational options. Consider the cost of putting your life on hold for several years
I think allowing users to subtract points leads to a larger delta between good and bad content leading to a better differentiation and ranking of content insofar as voters are good judges. I think this is mathematically unassailable.

All that's left to discuss is strategies for maximizing the quality of votes and voters. Ex minimizing the impact of low quality voters by requiring rep to vote.

I think highly paid professionals whose wages mostly put them in the top 10% of the world have an easier time changing tech support forums, perhaps by opening a new tab, than the refugees fleeing murder and mayhem with nothing but the clothes on their backs have of picking a different country to land in.

Perhaps pick a less disgusting comparison.
probably because they ultimately make their money off people who go over the free storage limit.

storage hardware is incredibly cheap, relatively speaking, so for Dropbox the main thing is not reducing costs, it's convincing people to pay in the first place.
The Aeolus satellite needs to be reboosted on occasion due to atmospheric drag. So, potentially, it was free.
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They may have felt it would be too disrespectful to film the death of so many people.
Just as an anecdote to the jepsen test findings, I’ve used elasticsearch at two jobs as a primary datasource and haven’t had data loss as mentioned in the tests. The tests are, at this point, pretty old and I’ve found that newer versions are pretty good at controlling data loss.

As a counterpoint, mongo also still has some outstanding issues with jepsen tests, but they are working on being compliant. Honestly, as far as resiliency, I’m not sure either has solved the problem perfectly.
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am I the only one who can't access the website? I get a "Your connection is not private" NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID
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Do not pursue a general computer science graduate degree. Be specific, be intentional.
Just don't use your real name.
> And hearing about arduous, days-long efforts to install Windows 10 on an M.2 SSD didn’t excite me about trying it.

what? it works fine
Long time Debian user here, since Debian 6. My main laptop is a Dell Inspiron 3000 AMD E2 6110 Quad core with integrated Radeon R2 8 GB RAM and Standard 500 Gb 5400RPM hard drive. The OS is Debian 10 with Gnome3(Previously the laptop had Debian 8). I just want to say that Debian 10 is fast in this hardware and I mean fast. The system is so responsive. Everything works and was properly detected. Everything is very polished. Extraordinary work from the Debian team.
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This kind of device matching can be done across any of the carriers or their MVNOs, all of them give up the data when asked by a government entity. Many tower locations will even be identical across carriers, making the matching even easier.

Also this correlation could be done with stingray towers without bringing the cell carriers into the loop.
I remember digging through .NET forums to find answers for working with ASP record sets. 100% not fun.

Nothing is perfect and SO has its warts — but it’s far better than anything we’ve ever had.
As a guess: There's probably a lot of gray zone.

When I worked in insurance, our HIPAA training indicated we could call a doctor and ask questions and pay the claim based on information obtained by phone. But we could also be told we needed to send a written request and HIPAA compliant authorization.

For that and other reasons, I suspect jobs like private investigator exist precisely because they don't have to comply with the same rules as, say, the police.

Reading further:

Frank Ahearn is ....a skip tracer (i.e., unlicensed investigator) who has worked to find missing people when a private investigator can’t do so legally.
> although sometimes, unfortunately, it turns out that the people he’s looking for actually are dead

Or those people are really that good at faking their death.
Back of the envelope, to see scale: to brute force SHA-256 you need to try about 2^255 combinations, so you'd need to have 2^194x (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000x) the hashpower of the Bitcoin network (80 EH/s).

If you told me you thought they had cracked a common algorithm so they could do it in only 2^60 time that would at least be plausible. But the idea that they have hardware to straight up brute force it, though, is just impossibly wrong.
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> 80% of the canadian population

The Wikipedia article you linked to says it's actually closer to 50%.

Quote: "With more than 18 million people, it contains about half of the country's population"
>A few years later, Olivia Newton-John’s fuckboi boyfriend Patrick McDermott

What could have possessed the author to publish this phrase?
Well you can say having to force is a solid barrier but you'll see plenty of comments suggesting that as well as plenty of comments stemming from having had to clean it up.
That article started that the Spacelink satellite -had- been at a much higher orbit (the "regular" for their satellites, but had been brought down "to test de-orbiting maneuvers". Do you have a source to the contrary?

Also, the ESA satellite has been in that orbit for 8+ years. It wasn't "moved" into the Spacelink orbit by any means.

I get that en route to or from orbit, entities will pass through other orbits.
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell edges it to take first prize imho, but it's a close one.
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My mongodb knowledge is probably a bit out-of-date here. It didn’t have them either when I was using it. Multi-document ACID would have been really useful, is that a feature now? That would be one data point against elasticsearch.
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Doesn't seem like the author knows C. The C example of codecs is riddled with syntax errors. When he writes

struct Codec
{
*int (*encode)(*int);
*int (*decode)(*int);
};

he probably meant to swap the int and the asterisk to mean a pointer to int. But no one would use a pointer to int to mean bytes; we have pointer to char or pointer to unsigned char for that:

struct Codec {
uint8_t* (*encode)(uint8_t*);
uint8_t* (*decode)(uint8_t*);
};

And that doesn't exactly deal with ownership issues.

But besides those nitpicking, I struggle to see what his point is. His point is to extract common features of components and build interfaces for them? I mean isn't that something we've been doing for a long time?
Probably. The preceding statements talk about the need for an inflated ego.

But even still, the closing statement made me feel more claustrophobic that I'd like to admit.
This. Last magnetic laptop drive I had was measuring under 10MB per second with small random reads. On a fragged old OS install it’s unbelievably impactful. Back in windows 98 days simply copying my data to a second partiton, erasing and reinstalling the OS and copying ALL the data back would get me back to like new for a few months. When a drive is nearly full “defrag” is not that successful. Similar things happen with nearly full SSDs via other mechanisms
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> I really don’t need the newest of everything, especially if my hardware is working well

this sounds dubious if one has, say, a web browser installed or other consumer-type software. you almost surely want the latest security updates (which are for better or worse often packaged alongside cosmetic or other performance updates) for a piece of software like this.

for this reason i've moved to a releaseless distro. the idea that i can't get the latest firefox without upgrading my "operating system" version to a new release seems harmful for most types of software:

- imagine updating an app required you to upgrade your iOS/android version

- imagine updating a plugin requires updating your browser

etc. it's anti-modular and so i can't support it.
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Asiana 214 was arguably a "crash of a large commercial airliners", though thankfully only 3 people died.
I meant to ask where you get your music and movies. Do you pay for them?
He hints at it when he shows the file_operations struct.

Basically the way to achieve runtime polymorphism is to have function pointers in a struct.

But you don't necessarily put the pointers in the per-instance struct. That would take memory proportional to the number of instances. So you create something like file_operations, which is nothing but pointers and no instance data. Maybe the ext4 driver declares exactly one of them as static const. And so every ext4 file gets the same function pointers. Another filesystem is free to provide their own. This arrangement is pretty similar to C++ vtables.

Also note that some of the operations aren't unique to the filesystem. So ext4 points some function pointers at a generic implementation rather than a specific one.

So these are some of the patterns discussed. I think it is just not exceptionally clear writing. (And I saw one spot where they got the syntax for pointers incorrect...)
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Hi Jorge,

Pardon my ignorance but lets say that someone runs a typical cell phone jammer in the area, would that block the Bluetooth signal from working or are RF wavelengths not able to be jammed?
FWIW, scp is deprecated (but I believe that's the entire protocol, not just the tool, though the tool is ludicrously slow and awkward).
I have a question: has anyone simply forked MongoDB from the time just before the license change? Owners of open source software can change the license, but can they change the license of old code?
I actually asked if cloning Google Reader was all that hard, not if it had been done.
It'll be interesting to see whether those absent from class get an automatic 'Fail' for the year.
> Who's equating caloric intake with nutrition and satiety?

Well, jonwinstanley above, for one. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

> No, calories vary massively. If someone ate 2000 calories of vegetables each day and someone else ate 2000 calories of sugar there would be a huge amount of difference between their nutrition.
I'm pretty sure he's bullshitting. Even the Mossad couldn't track down every high-profile Nazi after the war, and often took years to find even the ones they did find.
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One good source might be NIST. Here’s an open access ballistics dataset: https://www.nist.gov/programs-projects/nist-ballistics-toolm...

Edit: I should have looked at the linked book first, since this dataset is listed in Ch3. Oops.
I use 2FA and my Android device as a HW key, so not worried as much anymore
What he said wasn’t douchey, it showed disregard for the rights and worth of other people. That should be learned in kindergarten. We all make mistakes, but his mistake was not age appropriate.
Unfortunately that’s typical in enterprises. Procurement staffers are typically not technologists, rather they are contract wranglers, responsible for setting terms with vendors that have longevity, references, willing to negotiate, approved by security, are provably better than at least two comparable competitors, etc. If you want to sell to enterprises you have to bend the knee to their procurement team.
It's worrying that developing countries can buy off-the-shelf solutions to surveil its citizens without going through the decades of cultural and social change other countries have. We asked questions like "Is this ethical?" before the technology became possible. For them, the tech is here and the social discussions were never started.

Maybe this is the same thing. We haven't upheld our ideals on privacy anyway.
Why use Postgres just to store JSON? The entire tooling around Mongo is better for JSON Data.

Not to mention the LINQ driver....

And you can’t do updates on individual JSON fields in Postgres.
No app will work.

You just have to reprogram yourself to do it.

Nothing else but ACTION will suffice for exercising.

A very fit friend of mine said to me many years ago "I just don't give myself any choice about whether I'm going to the gym."

You can talk and use apps and make plans and get trainers and coaches and excuses etc etc etc but in the end the ONLY thing that works is ACTION - go and exercise. Find an exercise that suits you. I like running because it's so easy - just pull on shoes and go - and you can listen to podcasts as you do it. Also CrossFit because I find exercise boring so it's really great to do a group class where the instructor tells you what to do - all I need to do is turn up for an hour and hand over all the thinking about it to someone else and leave fitter and hour later.
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> I can’t understand how this news would surprise anyone

I tried to tell my family about the Snowden leaks and the implications just a year ago. They are all university educated people.

They categorically did not believe that what I was saying was real, and when I showed them all the leaks they did not believe the content was true.

Billions of people simply don't believe it's true.
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Back then they didn't have the technology and networks we do today.

Social media facial recognition is a game-changer for this kind of thing. You'd have to live as a hermit if you attempted to fake your death, because if you're in the background of a photo uploaded to the internet, game over.
Sure, but that’s completely different from your hyperbolic analogy of looking down the barrel of an unloaded gun. Force push has a solid barrier, it is not default behavior, it gives you warnings, the manual gives warnings, and if you read anything online you’ll find many warnings against. If people still do it not knowing what they’re doing, yes it can definitely cause problems, but you can’t call it an accident or easy to screw up.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20851501
I don’t agree with libertarian conservatives, I’m just relating the perspective.
It's surprising to me at least because South Africa has a GDP per capita of $~6.1k, and perhaps can't afford access to that expertise.

Which I suppose suggests that they didn't pay for it, and another nation state 'helped out' via intermediaries.
Well, it's a little hard to make the math on this other claim work out: Steven Rambam, a blunt-talking, New York P.I. who’s helped locate tens of thousands of missing and dubiously dead people over the course of his 40-year career

20,000/(40 * 365) = 1.3 found per day for 40 years. Maybe there are large groups faking their deaths at the same time?
We've moving into the real of digitizing fingerprints, faces, DNA and everything else into databases.

Soon, faking your own death will be almost impossible. Maybe you can move to that remote village in France, but you aren't getting on a plane or a cruise to get there.