skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>a company that has seen fit to extract billions in wealth from developers through their app store

This doesn’t make sense - App Store is a voluntary program no one is forced to develop apps for iPhone, or even android
Some of these TVs automatically connect to your neighbors open WiFi.
Happy 25th year, blogging
Are the worker nodes written in a way that would let them be kicked off by something like OpenCue (or other more comprehensive farm management system), maybe with a small wrapper around them? Or would this need to be run in parallel with its own server and machine allocations?
You mean like these people in the article who turn donated bodies into cosmetic lip and penis filler?
Security requirements, credit card companies wouldn't accept a random phone as a terminal.
Would love to get a pointer for the equivalent for Windows 10. Thanks.
I don't think I am confused, no. The Internet in your pocket with a touch UI is a different thing. I tried to argue about this in a neighbouring branch.
Your quest to make it a left/right issue is belied by the facts. There is no evidence that Democrats are holding these issues back or not willing to sponsor nuclear-related bills. Look at the list of states that run on nuclear, they represent a wide mix of political control, from South Carolina and Mississippi to Illinois and New Jersey. [1]

The billions in loan guarantees in your first link was additional funding for a nuclear reactor approved by the Government in 2012, during a Democratic administration.

The NEICA was co-sponsored by 4 Republicans and 3 Democrats in the Senate. [2] It passed both houses in a bi-partisan manner.

The "Republican bill NELA" has 11 Republican co-sponsors and 9 Democratic co-sponsors. [3]

This all seems pretty bi-partisan to me, not sure where you got the idea that Republicans are "politely waiting for Democrats to come around." If that were true, they wouldn't be co-sponsoring and voting for the legislation you mentioned.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/business/energy/10-states-run-nuclea...

[2] https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/97/...

[3] https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/903...
Well, scientific discoveries required creativity and innovation, not just intelligence. At least, some of them probably do.
> So why self host? Sometimes it'll make sense, but the idea it should be the default to me doesn't hold.

You can’t outsource your privacy. Once you’ve given your information to a third party, that third party can and will probably use it as much as they can get away with. And legal protection from unreasonable search and seizure is also much weaker once you’ve already given out your information to a third party.

To generalize, and to also answer your other comments in a more general sense, you can’t outsource your freedom or civic responsibility. If you do, you turn yourself into a serf; someone with no recourse when those whom you place your trust in ultimately betray you.

(Also, just like “owning” a timeshare is not like owning your house, having a VPS is not self-hosting.)
True, pretty much everyone is “for freedom as long as it doesn’t impact other people, except in some cases.”
I am actually not seeing "Hey, it's like inheritance!" as a vote down, although I am not normally reading HN so I may be naive.
>> Lisp derivative languages are notorious for their poor readability

Is it though?

I find at least 2 other languages more unreadable.

- Scala, with operators everywhere, you need to have a cheat sheet

- Perl, you know that joke that this is the only language that looks the same before and after RSA applied on it?

Lisp, on the other hand, is pretty readable, at least to me. I only used Clojure from the Lisp family and it had a great impact on how I think and write code in other languages. The result is more readability. For a long time MIT tought CS courses using Lisp and SICP is also a pretty amazing read.
>Group policing is essential to the communal model. PodShare and Eddy both have on-site staff to help, but groups tend to enforce standards and keep those who stray on track.

Really? It's that easy? What about noise, incivility, uncleanliness, odors, substance abuse, petty theft, unwelcome nudity, and furtive sexual activity? In short, all the nuisances most of us remember from dormitory days. What's the process for booting and blackballing egregious offenders?

And why does this article seem not so much like journalism as it does a trade association puff piece?
> Most non-technical people I know cannot manage files even after decades of computing experience. I understand why many services try to abstract or simplify the concept.

You have met my mother I see. She still uses her multi-function printer like a copier because she's never quite grasped the idea that she can store her document scans on her computer.
San Francisco streets seem to take years to be repaired.
Knee deep learning Solaris 7 back right around the time 8 was approaching release.

I was convinced by a peer in my helpdesk job that I should drop out of community college and pursue Solaris training. Back then he said Sun had ~48% of the internet backbone market. Took a few thousand my parents loaned me and paid for an all you could eat training package. From those seven courses I took it helped develop my future career in sys admin work. I was all about Sun.

I think the true nerd moment of my life was learning the history of Bill Joy and figuring out his Sun email address. Sent him an email praising and thanking him for his contributions. I also complimented him on the article he wrote for Wired called, “Why The Future Doesn’t Need Us.” The article stood out as something I felt would be coming for humanity in the next several decades. He responded to my email thanking me for reaching out.
I also find it one of the least readable language. Or more precisely, the language that requires the most effort to be made readable. Every language can be made unreadable.

But it is also one of the most writable language. In Perl, for most problems, there is a quick and dirty way of addressing it. It is especially true when it comes to processing text files, the thing that Perl is best known for.

Many languages try to be clean and consistent, it is obviously good for readability, but it means that choices have to be made. Sometimes the best way is the "wrong" way and you have to fight against the language. Perl solved that problem by not having a "wrong" way of doing things, screw cleanliness and consistency.

Also, first class regex are awesome for quick and dirty text processing.
I don’t know of any products that were made by explicitly creating a separate framework for them first.

HN and Viaweb come to mind. But even those were made by creating a product in parallel with the framework.

If you like this kind of thing, though, you might like to read On Lisp. There’s a free pdf copy floating around the internet.
Wikipedia isn't my source. It is, however, a reliable reference for well-established facts. Such as the identity and general background of government utilities.
Chemical bond formation showing a transition from physisorption to chemisorption
It's just the brand for their super low end stuff, similar to how Intel is still using the Pentium name.
Probably in case the house burns down.
People are walking into corporate traps left and right. Too bad. they should turn on their brains every once in a while.
You need to be well versed in order to make regulation on it
I know I couldn’t get in-depth in all the aspects but let me know what are your thoughts about the post. Do you agree with my definition of Senior Programmer? What’s the best tip it worked for you to advance in your career?
My first reaction to learning this was also about the same, haha.

The issue with the "everyone starts walking" is the same reason why stationary cars are closer together than moving cars. If people walked with military trained precision you could get the same density and vastly higher throughput by walking. But for civilian strangers, it turns out two lanes of standing gives high enough density to trump the increased speed of walking, in terms of total throughput. I'm fairly certain there's even a study showing this. They tested it in london underground at least.

But yes, it's certainly better for the few walkers.
You can write on it, draw on it, paint on it, program on it, and you already mentioned video, photography, music, spoken word. Seems like an extremely powerful creation tool to me!

You could create many of humanity’s greatest works on it! What are you expecting more?
Aren't people animals too?
All the banking apps I use provide biometrics login (opt-in), plus your mobile device is a lot more likely to be operated by you personally compared to your desktop computer. I.e. your phone in someone else's hands is an exception because it requires your permission and your biometrics, and it would be very temporary anyway. Not so with the desktop. Online banking was never as secure as it is now.

Let alone that mobile platforms being managed environments themselves are a lot more secure.
I'm still rocking the i7 920. It's still running perfectly fine. I throw a new gpu in it every couple of years and have never had performance problems.
I use very good PCB inspection xrays and ct scanners, and it is critical to use energy levels which do not resolve the silicon, e.g. are not absorbed by the die. Otherwise, it is frustratingly easy to give the part a total ionizing dose which breaks it.
I wouldn't want to use an xray to do more than verify the die is the same shape and has the same wirebond layout.
The wager is problematic for both sides. There's no end-point in which someone who was wagering for could collect.
Sounds like a magnificient startup opportunity: everything you've ever watched / listened to / read stored into a file. Make files great again and make a great exit doing it.
> I had a VPS unnoticed recently I’d forgotten to cancel

I found on my Linode account one last weekend. It’s been up since 2010 running Debian 5, no updates cause the repos are archived. Couple of PHP sites on there which I don’t control the domains of (but the sites where active).

Last email I have from the people there is 2012, a backup. The company apparently is not in business anymore (I know the domains registrar was on the personal account of the owner. He might have have auto renew on).

Backed up everything there and shut it down.
I guess, that set up is optimized for latency and not throughput, which really makes sense.
The original iPod was a Firewire hard drive; you could connect it to your Mac and use it as a backup volume if you wanted. Apple took all that away a long time ago, and obviously it wasn't for technical reasons. It was so Apple could control and restrict how the customer used their devices. One of the many reasons why I changed from an Apple fan to an Apple hater.
What tools to use to unit test a C code base
> Why is it not possible for your family to sell your body

Because it's your body, not your families body. A law allowing the family to do this against your wishes will never pass.
I must apologize. I somehow forgot that Citizens United was about corporate personhood.

I can kinda understand how someone lacking any sense of balance, nuance, history could support Freedom Speeches™. That money is speech, and more money means more freedom, booyah. Some people are just wired to believe that might makes right.

But believing that corporations have the same rights, but none of the pesky responsibilities & obligations, as natural persons really is just misanthropic.
What I don’t understand is how the US accepts doing business with China, allowing tourist and student visas for a country that can just block US companies from doing business there without due process

The moment the CCP tried to influence a US company the US should have responded in kind - open the market or face tariffs
I was given iPad as a gift some years ago (they also gave a receipt). After playing with it for few hours and discovering that it does not let me do the thing I want I promptly returned it to the store for nice refund ;)
I wasn't going to post mine until I realized that I'm hosting some stuff that I haven't seen mentioned yet.

Appveyor
Gitea
Graylog + Elastic Search
Minecraft/Pixelmon
Nodered
ruTorrent
Taiga
Tiny Tiny RSS
Ubooquity*
WikiJS
Zulip (chat/IM)

*I hate it, but haven't found something better

Also, kudos to those brave souls who are running Tor exit nodes!

Edit: Forgot a bunch
Runkod, Decentralized Dapp Hosting
> Now, maybe you're imagining a scenario where people don't want to walk.

Agreed that this is an imagined scenario because people in a hurry will want to maximize their speed by walking/running up the escalator.

More importantly, people generally (I'm imagining) do not want to stand on the same escalator step as another person, especially if they are strangers to each other.

That means in a 2-lane standing escalator there will be breaks between people standing to the left or the right which, effectively, will turn a 2-lane standing-only escalator into a "1-lane" standing escalator.
Thank you for linking software mentions here and throughout this thread.
Well, that's one way it happens. The language is just the set of conventions the speakers understand. When those conventions change, through ignorance or any other reason, then the language changes. That doesn't mean you can't grumble about it as it happens, though.
Hi fellow Texan!
Standing people stand closer together than walking people. However, I think they should optimize for minimum annoyance, not maximum throughput. With a walking lane, there's lower latency for people willing to walk.
Ask HN: Would you guys use our site, should we keep doing this?
Hi guys, so, we kept trying to make this startup work, and it's been a while now without any progress, we are thinking to risk our money and invest in ads, like basically adwords and youtube, and we'd gladly do this, because we believe in this project, but we're not sure this is something people would want …

The main idea of the site is that you can share your opinions about things, like you know when you browse the internet and you see something that maybe excites you or gets you mad, you can just hop on the website and share your thoughts on that subject.

The main idea being that the trending tab is not meant to sort posts by the number of likes, if you post something that people don't agree with, that doesn't mean the post should get buried, and even so you can find like-minded people that you can follow and have discussions about the things that interest you. So, in short a platform with an unbiased ranking and banning system where people can have civilized discussions about any topic, and follow people that like to blog their thought.

So the question is: is this something you would would want to use ? Should we keep going ?
Is there a drop in replacement for TensorBoard? It’s probably the biggest thing keeping me using tensorflow. Ideally the api of the pytorch equivalent would be about the same too.

I answered my own comment before posting it. But in case it’s helpful to anyone else, I’ll put the answer here: yes, TensorBoardX. Looks like it’s very easy to use: https://tensorboardx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial.html

Anyone have thoughts on TF2.0 vs pytorch? Over on Twitter people seem to be pretty hyped about TF2.0, but when I tried learning it it just felt... not very fun. I need to give it a fair shot though.
i learned about this event through woody guthries song some years ago. i never read anything else about it until today. this story more or less confirmed the picture that the song already created in my mind.
I forgot the link :) In case you want to check it out https://www.argoledo.com/
> You stop blowing your nose in public

Is it to stop germs from spraying in the air or is it more a polite thing? Or maybe to avoid having to carry the soiled tissue.

Do they hide in an alley to do it?
security awareness training, sexual harassment training, time reporting, etc.
It's not strictly observed but in San Francisco BART people generally stand to the right while walkers pass on the left.

EDIT: spelling
That sort of operator is often tough, just look at section 15.25 in the Java language specification (https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se13/html/jls-15.ht...) in the type of such expressions.
Transport for London experimented with this, and found higher overall throughput during rush hour with two standing lanes:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/it-is-faster-to-s...

> Standing-only escalators had a "throughput" of up to 151 passengers per minute, while an escalator where commuters were still allowed to walk saw around 115.

Your thought experiment's completely right, but in real world circumstances, once an escalator is above a certain height, people rarely use the walking lane:

> But a 2002 study of escalator capacity on the Underground found that on machines such as those at Holborn, with a vertical height of 24 metres, only 40% would even contemplate it [walking up]. By encouraging their preference, TfL effectively halves the capacity of the escalator in question, and creates significantly more crowding below, slowing everyone down.

(from https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jan/16/the-tube-at-... , which has a great graphic showing the two systems)
Files and directories are not a great abstraction. Never have been.

E.g. the insides of git are much better (although the abstractions layered on top are fucking gruesome.)

Something like IPFS is an obvious way forward. https://ipfs.io/
I'm in Tokyo but you sound like it's clean only because others clean up after people litter freely but that is absolutely not the case here...

People don't throw when it's clean, like how the NY subway changed.

I've never seen people pull down mask to cough in the middle of others.

You sound like running a negative campaign.
I can store my currency quite well in a cold (or hot) wallet. I can store it in my drawer if I want to.
> Go lacks the semantic density needed to express solutions in both a concise and consistent manner.

That is a difficult statement for a Go user to parse.

It is referring to a lack of language features that result in verbosity or boilerplate?
Yeah, the iPad is a shopping mall.
You could, I dunno, use the tools specifically provided to disable saving passwords in environments where that's undesirable:

https://thycotic.com/company/blog/2013/09/09/securing-web-br...
ps: Ukraine gave away their nukes for a promise of security with the budapest memorandum ca 1995. I suspect this has a high effect on any future promises by the nuclear backed countries.
whatwg creates review repositories and uses issues for their working group https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/428 and includes helper scripts so working group members can run 'make review' and publish the latest draft https://github.com/whatwg/dom/blob/master/Makefile
Honestly that sounds like a privacy nightmare... that's the kind of shit that would make me live in a cabin in the middle of the forest with no power!
I do not know why but disabling all the mitigations as described actually resulted in worse performance for me

mitigations on score: 719 Single-Core Score 1438 Multi-Core Score

mitigations off score: 679 Single-Core Score 1418 Multi-Core Score

Running Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS with i5-4300 U on a T440s.

Any ideas why? Makes no sense to me.
Not to mention a fourth kind of person - one who just wants services that work better than what the cloud offers.

By definition, self-hosting means the service is under my control, doing what I need, customized for my use cases. And because I use only open source stacks, I can (and have) even modify the code to customize even further.

And that's ignoring the fact that free, self-hosted options can often provide features that third party services cannot for legal, technical, or supports reasons.

For example, my TT-RSS feed setup uses a scraper to pull full article content right into the feed. A service would probably land in legal trouble if they did this. And while it works incredibly well, like, 90% of the time (thank you Henry Wang, author of mercury-parser-api!), if it was a service, that 10% could result in thousands of support emails or an exodus of subscribers.
I haven't thought much about this, to be honest, but I want to argue the opposite.

When considering the risks of nuclear war, there are (I would say) three principle risks:

1. An intentional first strike by an actor who is non-rational. (E.g., a believer in an apocalyptic ideology who does not respond to traditional deterrence.)

2. An intentional first strike by an actor who believes they can reduce or eliminate their target's second-strike capability (or for whom a nuclear first strike is otherwise a rational response).

3. An accidental launch due to C&C failures. (E.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alar...)

I think one can easily argue that two of the three are more likely since the end of the Cold War!

Risk #1 is rather obvious: the rise of international terrorism combined with an increase in the number of (domestically) weak state actors who have nuclear capabilities--post-Soviet Russia, Pakistan--makes the risk of nuclear attack (via stolen weapons) by non-state actors credible.

Risk #2 is the one people normally think of, and, on a large scale--between traditional nuclear powers--it is probably lower than during the Cold War. I would consider two points here, however: first, this might never have been the principle risk during the Cold War (insofar as, with rational actors and full information, deterrence is effective), and second, there are multiple regional powers (again, the usual suspects: North Korea, Pakistan and India) for whom a first strike might be somewhat more tempting.

Risk #3 is also arguably worse. While the total size of deployed unclear arsenals has declined, the number of nuclear states has increased, increasing the odds on a C&C failure for any given nuclear state.

Interestingly, the significant point among all three observations boils down to "nuclear arms proliferation", which, well, duh--that increases the opportunity for mistaken or miscalculated use of nuclear weapons.

More interestingly, the US considering a withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty goes to another point: information access. As I noted above, deterrence seems to work with rational actors who have perfect information--by reducing access to information, we increase risks.
Where do you camp otherwise where you are seeing all this trash? Even in developed sites I don’t think I’ve ever seen what you are describing here. Definitely nothing even remotely like that once you get a little further from the trail.

There are a couple of places where people have left shotgun shells that I can think of around some of the 4 wheeling areas around Phoenix, but it’s nowhere near any sort of hiking trail.
Osaka is so much fun. I felt the same way. I didn’t get the vibe that I was an alien compared to the rest of Japan.
which is for all intents and purposes is more insulting than not being able to care less.
I'm not saying I like this current system either, I but I could definitely see some downsides to letting people legally sell bodies for profit. It certainly seems chilling to me that people could have serious conversation about "what to do with grandma" if you have to consider not only how much it costs to take care of her, but also how much you could stand to be paid for her. It opens up a lot of unpleasant doors, but I guess its up for debate whether anyone thinks that's worse that what we have.
I used to really, really agree with your line of thinking, and get an almost depressing feeling that this happens. But if you sit back and think about it, a lot of our 'correct' language started off as mistakes. Mayday, Ammunition, Culprit, to name 3 of a list of likely thousands...
You mean like a heterogeneous cluster? Do you have suggestions on how to manage load deployment on such a topology based on how security critical the application is