skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about all the spare parts that have to be kept lying around? They are waste, too. Just one aspect.

As usually, when politicians think they can do business better than the businesses themselves, this will probably be a net waste.
I'm not even sure I have a problem with the hot ladies comment irregardless of whether he wrote it or not.
It could be DNS. Azure has had an all-region failure due to a single DNS provider outage. It was possible that same DNS provider's outage was also causing problems for GCE and AWS at the same time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19812919
I coach young people in other fields like public speaking so I have some skill in it. I use similar techniques.

The private tutors they've tried are actually math teachers. I think teaching a class is a very different skillset than tutoring.

According to my brother he came to the realization that an hour studying with me makes up for multiple hours with the tutors. I'm stubborn and authoritative when I coach, I challenge them and it takes me a lot of effort to butt heads with a teen, but I think they see the results.

Math is tough in that you don't get to enjoy it until mechanical concerns become an afterthought. So when my youngest sister, who initially didn't enjoy math, said "wow that felt good" about solving a problem I knew I was going somewhere.
Stallman resigned in the face of people who had always known who he was being faced with the reality that the rest of the world also knew. The motivation wasn't the misquotes of his already abhorrent argument.

(source: former FSF board member)
Multiple hominid species on Earth have had a technology gap on an unfathomable timescale. Indeed, the Denisovans developed stone tools tens of thousands of years before our own species.

We often look to the stars and wonder what other intelligent life is out there. I'm sure it's captured every one of our minds at some point. Dark Forest theory of the Fermi Paradox be damned, we want to share in the comfort of knowing that intelligent life exists. That we are not all alone.

But I wonder - had things been not much different, might we be cohabiting with an intelligent species, one perhaps tens of thousands of years ahead of us? Aliens on our own planet?

Would we even realize their sentience - would our minds even be comparable? Would their civilization fade to ruins before we came to sentience, and would we discover remnants of a long-lost civilization? Would they raze the planet to the ground and never provide us the opportunity to develop sentience?

So many questions. Are we in a similar situation right now with other hominids, who we've found to have a "theory of mind"? Are we morally obligated to not cut the nip of societal development in the bud for these species? And if this species suffers in developing and advancing, are we obligated to ease and accelerate their development?

For example, if a far advanced civilization was out there, merely observing us while they knew they had the cure to our dying loved ones and general suffering on this planet, would we not find the only ethical solution to provide said cure? As such, are we in a similar situation with other developing hominids?

When you think about it, it is possible that intelligent life developing on other planets is not a singular species but multiple species. And that's fascinating. I wonder what it must be like, to cohabit with a different species that is effectively your equal with respect to self-awareness/sentience, even if they are not your equal with respect to technology.
Not sarcastic
One thing I remember is some friends I met with a warehouse full of crazy projects they had worked on. They had a few axial flux motors they were really excited about that they had custom made. They seemed to think it was a superior technology, though I can’t recall the specifics.
> "If yokeless axial-flux machines replaced only a fraction of the older machines, we would save our customers some money and make the planet more livable while we’re at it."

The engineering feat is impressive and exciting, but this conclusion doesn't account for the Jevons paradox. In itself, a technical progress that improves the efficiency with which a resource is used doesn't lower the demand for this resource, but instead increases it. The solution to a more livable planet is political, and this is why it's so difficult to find.
What is the difference between this "small" vector and a vector?
That definitely seems like the obvious origin. I'm surprised it isn't mentioned in the article.

For those who don't speak Swedish, the pun is in that "glass" is the Swedish word for ice cream.

edit: I can't resist pointing out that for the Swedish word "it" I'd rather say "det", hence referring to the action of eating ice cream rather than "den", referring to the ice cream itself.
A true legend. Probably would have been considered the best poker player of all time (and still is by some) if not for his drug problem and untimely demise.
Its the nature of these things, that the original ethos gets lost, for example, Green Day is classed as a punk band.
Is an explicit “I’d better not see XYZ or else ABC” worse than an implicit one? Consider an implicit "you better not have the same opinions as stallman or I will cancel you" for example.
So just ship your washing machine to Poland for repairs, I guess. Very energy efficient.
You could also use an S3 or GCS “requester pays” bucket, which means you never get charged for data transfer. Would cost about $2/month for the 83GB storage, but that’s it.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/RequesterPay...

https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/requester-pays
> how autism is dealt with

Stallman was born 67 years a go.

Autism wasn't even a thing.

Until the 1980 it was diagnosed as schizophrenia and only in 1987 a checklist for diagnosing it was proposed

Anyway, not caring too much about other people's feelings when people don't care too much about your medical condition is perfectly acceptable
What do you mean by "naturally so"? In my work place there are about 20% women doing hard CS things, my point is that for some reason it gets easier to hire women when you already have alot of them doing the same interesting stuff.

I think I interpret "naturally so" as some biological argument, but even if it alludes to what society makes us do, I still think it is incorrect. The reason is that working at broculture dev shops killed my will to code, so I really think it's a question of how a vocal fraction those 95% men create a culture of exclusion.

Remember we are both talking about personal experiences here, I do not think that all workplaces that do not have women are broshops, nor do I have solutions for more women in CS. For me it has been a pleasure to work in places with a lot of women doing "things that are naturally ment for men", that's one of the reasons why I do not like the term "naturally".
yeah sorry, first time i read the comment, i missed the nuance.

My partner actually researches prostate cancer and i asked her about it and basically her answer is that its complicated. In her research, she found that cancer cells in the prostate are able to find other sources of energy so cutting glucose might not help. From what I understood (not a biologist) it basically depends on tissue and mutations.
That would be in the DNA though. Our physiological structure emerges from that.
The philosopher Diogenes was sitting on a curbstone, eating bread and lentils for his supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, "If you would learn to be subservient to the king, you would not have to live on lentils." Said Diogenes, "Learn to live on lentils, and you will not have to cultivate the king."
Not sure if this is a joke or a mistake since the English "glass" is "glas" in Swedish, but the Swedish "glass" is "ice cream" in English. The correct translation in Swedish would be "Jag kan äta glas, det skadar inte mig".
Google will kill it like the Wikipedia clones.
Can you build an iPhone from standard parts?
These are obvious examples of «things you can’t say», e.g. opinions that are considered normal in some societies and times, and anathema in others.

(For reference, in case someone hasn’t read it: http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html)

Without saying anything about my own stance on these opinions, it’s intellectualy weak to consider it a firable offense to have uttered them thirteen years ago. People should be stronger than that, and have a wider perspective.
Is there a consumer test website that measures repairability?
That's not America's concern. We're looking for the best and the brightest.
I don’t have a solution for the general case. I do think I have a solution for the specific case: Mustelier would have to get a Canadian lawyer and sue for damages plus lawyer and court fees. Square Canada would settle for this amount and ask her to sign an NDA and offer extra for her to sign the NDA. Square Canada would write-off the settlement as a loss. Square Canada would forfeit the amount frozen by JP Morgan Chase.

Yes, this solution is probably still not good enough. Maybe Square Canada’s US parent would still have to pay a fine.

I understand the what US law will be broken if JP Morgan Chase releases the funds in that a U.S. entity would be party to a transaction involving Cuban goods. However, right now, said U.S. entity is effectively party to a theft involving Cuban goods and Canadian funds.
Swedish newspaper stops taking adverts from fossil fuel firms
My personal favorite art piece related to Polish history:
https://mnwr.pl/en/category/branches/panorama-of-the-battle-...
& the wiki page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racławice_Panorama

I don't think any of the pictures do justice to the painting - I personally couldn't understand what the fuss was about until I saw it in person. If you have a chance, go see it!
I wonder if our dialect differences change that perception. In NZ English (usually closer to British than American), it's "show your working". "Working" as a noun pretty much exclusively means mathematical steps, rather than the much more general "work", and I don't think I've run into the same mistaken student idea you did (I teach undergrads maths).

I totally disagree about the "fictitious" part though. I think without proper working most interesting problems are impossible to solve.
Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles?
It never ceases to amaze me that we allow our FCC to sell leases for so little. Instead of demanding companies share revenue or provide basic services for all for free, we allow this type of theft under colour of "fair governmental auction".

I feel the opposite -- why are the leases so expensive? Billions of dollars paid to the government for spectrum is a hidden tax since it's paid by consumers.

Much better would be to sell them for the cost of administration of the sale, but only upon approval of a business plan that weighs the value to consumers in awarding the bid. So instead of selling to huge telcos that can afford to pay billions of dollars, it could be sold to a much smaller company that may provide a better value to end users.
There are a rapidly increasing number of Teslas, a decent number of Jeeps, a bunch of Chevy/Opel rebadged cars, and even the occasional Ram pickup truck where I live in Switzerland.
You're not going to believe this but sometimes I stream video and go to sleep before it's finished. It's 4k too. I don't even give a fuck. An hour of wasted bandwidth, not even half a shit given.
If you call CQ at that speed you’ll get someone answer at that speed. Just go for it. First one I did I actually had a couple of drinks first :)

I’ve been meaning to try one of the ISS SSTV events on 2m but haven’t got around to it yet. Looks like fun
im not sure but i believe mine falls into the latter category of obvious problems with unclear solutions however i can generally adapt to most problems, when people ask my skill set i struggle to answer, im not an expert in any one area off hand but if a problem requires it ill simply learn whatever is required to achieve the end result

i do work for a few places that deal with recycled and grey market tech. im often tasked with problems which dont have a solution, one example is the phones you see in stores playing demo loops etc, after the phone comes off the shop floors theyre usually simply auctioned off in batches as is, my task is to find a way to remove that demo software and make the device into a standard saleable unit

how this is done has a different answer for near every device and can range from simple software tricks to full jtag operations. i have no aid from OEMs on this or even any documentation, i just have to "wing it"

id never really considered it a skill as such, its just something ive always done. ill rarely use instructions or set methods for anything, i guess doing that over many years has made me pretty used to working with the unknown and may be the reason im successful with particular problems others arent, i just approach it in a different way.
Does the browser display the generic "no favicon" icon, or is it just completely blank? I like the idea.
Such as?

Most of "examples" that were in circulation for past days were usually misunderstood jokes that others made at his expense. Seriously - how can one treat somebody mentioning "if he ever hits on you, just tell him you use vim" as an example of what's wrong with rms seriously? Stories about plants being kept by female professors just to scare him away? Please. You need to be completely missing the context to interpret it even remotely close to how it's being used now.
In addition to that, this quote had a link to https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/jan/03/paedophilia-...
The policy in question appears to be affirmatively requiring moderators not to (deliberately) mis-gender trans people, or allow user content to do the same.

All these ex-mods wrote these coy essays with discussions of free will and human rights in order to avoid discussing the issue at hand.

Trans people are surely a more important part of the StackExchange community and business than a few unpaid volunteers.

I am not sorry that Monica’s feelings were hurt by a demand for basic human decency.
> ...the workload we had mostly kept us working separately on our own tasks with little room for interaction. It wasn’t uncommon, for the first part of my time at
Snap, to get up in the morning, drive to the office, go through the work-day in the same room as two other people but rarely speaking to each other, and then drive home...

Sadly, I find this to be all too common in the industry. It’s super isolating and depressing when you work alone on projects and aren’t in an environment that fosters socialization and team-building. Forming those bonds is what makes people happy to go to work everyday and work hard. Managers should do more to prioritize interaction and teaming up on projects when it makes sense.
> I don't think the customers are a big force here

Of course they are. Customers are not stupid, they know what they are doing. They know that a cheap appliance will last long enough and that "in 10 years I'll want to buy a new one anyway".

> why are everyone make a new model each year that most of the time seems to be a redesign that brings nothing new

Because that's what sells. You need 'new' to convince people to buy it, certainly to buy it at the same price it was last year.
Google's RCA is here, I believe: https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-networking/19...

Reading between the lines, it looks like their maintenance system needed to take down several Borg clusters within a single AZ, and their BGP route reflectors all ran from the same set of logical clusters. They'd tried to set up geo-redundancy by having different BGP speakers across different AZs, but they were all parented by the same set of logical clusters, and the maintenance engine descheduled all of them together. Then the network ran okay ("designed to fail static for short periods of time") until the routes expired, after which routes got withdrawn and traffic blackholed.

They realized the issue within an hour.. unfortunately, since they took down multiple replicas of their network control plane, they lost Paxos primary and had to rebuild configuration.

(Disclaimer: I work in Azure, I just find it fascinating to look at Google's RCAs because failure provides an insight into their architecture and risk engineering.)
Right.

Blame the autistic.

The what?

The women will.be next, because they are sometimes conditioned by their hormones.

And only white rich,Christian, maybe Nazi male will be the right ones.

Already seen, no thanks.

Stallman have never harassed single woman.

It's all fake.
Most people do a whole lot of things other than consuming media during their day, and computer technology is woefully underoptimized for all those other use cases.
In what possible way could using the same fridge for 10 years be worse than buying and dumping a fridge every 3 years?
Can we warn humans about nuclear waste in a million years’ time?
The sysrq subsystem supports permissions - the distro maker could have prevented it if they had wanted to.
> Leadership is soft skills

Grifting.

> the employee in question doesn’t have them

The employee in question seems capable of upending your financial priorities.

> stop the demand on labour

For compliance, right?

> petulant child

We hate about others what we hate about ourselves.
Philips tooth brush is the opposite: they even warn you that at some point you will have to replace the battery and how to do it.
It makes zero sense to specify a byte order for an encoding in which it is irrelevant. It only persists because of a lazy vendor that can't encode Unicode correctly.
According to the Wikipedia page I provided a link to, the rights to make a movie of Daemon were optioned but “likely reverted” by 2013.

Personally, I found Freedom™ to be a much weaker endeavour and... prefer to forget about it.
Given that you mentioned CloudFlare, they actually encourage using Full SSL (Strict), which requires a valid certificate from the origin server to the edge server. You can also get them to issue an SSL cert for you if you don't want to deal with that yourself. It expires in 10 years by default, but can be revoked easily in case of key compromise.
> Yes! We need emojis on the terminal, why not.

Great reasoning. There may be a reason why emojis in the terminal are mostly used by the nodejs community.
If it's over then what pain does it cause HN to discuss it here?
Steps to Write a Book and Get Published
> people who were chased away from CSAIL, MIT or CS in general by people like Stallman

Stallman never chased away anybody from CSAIL
It is possible to run large portions of your operations in the cloud and still have in-house admin expertise. Having your own servers is definitely much cheaper than a 10% saving, depending on whether your connectivity needs are more relevant. Servers from hetzner or such like are similarly much cheaper than AWS/Azure.

One thing I definitely wouldn't run if I could help it would be email, going O365 or gsuite saves a ton of effort that doesn't contribute to the bottom line and has significant security advantages. But 'everything azure' or 'everything aws' has its own challenges.
I think this should be mostly about information. Sort of 'right to understand'. The law should compel companies that sell on EU market to release to public domain full documentation of the product. Service manuals, precise dimensions of components and such.
Fridges don't break down after 3 years. Please let's have a serious discussion.
This actually sounds like a near-perfect setup to me. Get it, program, get out. If I want to socialize, I'll do it outside of work.
Google has this neat implementation on Android where your work applications end up in a seperate profile that the company can manage. They can erase that profile but they can't see or manage any data outside of it.

This is the only way I'll ever allow work things on my phone.
I know what I'm doing :)
> how do I get to be like this employee?

You don't.

If you have to ask, you aren't anything like that employee.

Life as a human being is not a choose-your-own-adventure, and your personality can't be altered in a deterministic way.

Learn to embrace the person you are, or fuck right off.
It mentions him but it is not about him https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/jan/03/paedophilia-...
Using the correct pronouns for trans people. That’s it.
Yeah that's same as beta.

Was incredibly fussy when I tried it & tends to silently fail over to CPU if it doesn't like something (and worse builds of versions. Eg 7.4.1 comes in 10.0 Cuda flavour and 10.1)
Aza's formal resignation is here:

https://literature.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1195/res...
Yes, that was made visible by the blocking of github accounts for developers in Iran, Syria and Crimea [1]. The US can disrupt whole businesses just by blocking access to fundamental services, tools or equipment. That's some nice political power right there. Free stuff is always a double-edged sword. You can't have free Google, free Youtube, free FB, free Github, free everything unless you also give back something. In this case, it limits the options of Nation States where most of its citizens use these free services on a daily basis. One wrong move, and the Government of said Nation State will have a nice (color?!) revolution on their back.

In the end, good for US for having the brains and the determination to build all these systems, conspicuously. I'm sure Russia does the same or is striving to do the same. Different methods, same desired outcomes. It will be interesting to see what China will have in store in the coming years.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20552797
Wasn't this effect mentioned in Cal Newport's "Deep Work" under a different name?
> Well, if she had a decades-long pattern of abusive

But there's not.

It's all lies.
This is one of many silly sentences I heard while growing up, mainly from other Swedish kids who were learning English and finding silly similarities in words. So it's definitely deliberate.
It would have been nice if every well-encoded Unicode document started with BOM and every legacy doc did not, instead of having to guess whether a doc is more likely UTF-8 or Latin-1.
> only thing really harder is seeing the parts.

Get a 5X binocular microscope. You can get a budget model for about $200.
That's funny. Mine is "mi hermano esta infirmo, pero mi pantalones son rojo". I'm so glad others share the urge to say something insane in other languages they don't know!
>The process of converting fats to ketone bodies, and the body using those ketones as energy, is a well-understood process.

Only at the high level and first order effects.

The idea that this is OK as a diet, and the tradeoffs long term, is a not-well understood process with tons of pro and con papers, as is most of nutrition science.
Yeah, the myth that "just use aws" to have 99, 9999999 percent uptime is coming to an end...
Tangent. How is it logical to deprive people from access to a booth just because people in a wheelchair can't access it? That's like banning computer screens because blind people can't see them.
So where are the blogs defending him written by all the women there were included in his culture of tolerance? I would upvote that!
We need to genetically engineer all apes and monkeys towards human levels of intelligence. It's their only hope for survival and a great hope to change our politics for the better incorporating more of nature into our civilizations.
In many cases I guess one genocide the other specie.
They represent too much of an existential threat before both of those species reach rationality and altruism as constitutional finalities.
He he. And then you have people complaining that you're a "bad OSS citizen"...