skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is DoH capable of storing and serving cookies? I always wondered.
One of the most amazing things I have seen in a long time. The patience alone (not to mention the insane skill level) is off the charts.
I've worked for a company where the CEO's home office had less than 10% of employees, and the HQ (for lack of a better term) halfway across the country had greater than 70% of employees.
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Hi. Former Permaculturist here.

The problem with Permaculture is that it takes the classic "Anecdote is not data" misconception and turns it into a design philosophy. This can lead to some serious problems and you end up with a design philosophy that is completely divorced from the science.

For example, some of the key components of Permaculture Design - the use of nitrogen fixers and dynamic accumulators - stand on shaky ground. They're based on a limited number of studies. It's not clear whether dynamic accumulators actually add any nutrients to the soil. And for nitrogen fixers, it's not at all clear that the nitrogen they fix is available to the plants around them. It might not become available until they die back and rot.

This "personal observation" basis of the design philosophy that replaces careful experimentation leads to some pretty disasterous results - like Permaculturists being extremely laissez-faire about invasive species (which, after climate change and habitat loss is one of the top contributors to the loss of biodiversity world wide). I once heard a leading Permaculturist give this really fantastic lecture about the law of unintended consequences as it relates to human engineering, and then completely write off the risk of introducing invasive plants through novel ecosystem design. I mean, it's the same damned arrogance and mentality, just using plants in mimicry of nature instead of metal to dominate it.

So, personally, I've stopped encouraging people to listen to permaculturists. Permaculture is not the answer. Agroecology, however, the core kernel of Permaculture thought re-integrated with science, that holds _a lot_ of promise.
This is usually called the Russian famine as Soviet Union wasn't established yet. The one in 1932 is called Soviet famine and even more people died that time, some 10 millions. There was also 1919-1922 famine in Kazakhstan, and in these two events combined Kazakhstan lost more than half of its population.
USD is printed in necessary quantities to satisfy market demands, and is used by its issuers to buy some privately issued assets on the market, injecting liquidity into the stagnating ecosystem. This is called “quantitative easing”.

If USD works this way, why shouldn’t USDT?
ASUS makes 'Turbo' graphics cards.

Vitamix and Robot Coupe both make 'Turbo' blenders.

Intel offers 'Turbo Boost' CPUs.

Miele makes a 'Turbo' vacuum cleaners.

Intuit makes a 'Turbo' tax preparation product.

Porsche buyers know that 'Turbo' means 'it's the fast, non-track variant', and normal people also know it means 'this one is fast'. A few nerdy pedants will get upset, but literally nobody cares about them. They weren't going to buy one anyway.
At least the Turbo Porsche is actually faster than the base just not using an actual turbo forcing air into the engine.

My old PC had a Turbo button and it also did not have forced air induction.
Humans are not much better gatekeepers. Studies have shown that for example having certain name can be serious disadvantage when applying for work.

Algorithms can be bad as well, but at least you can look into them to understand the reasons.
From what I encountered, this is generally the case when someone is in the "analysis/reports" mode. Rather than get summary statistics on each column, find number of nulls, etc by writing a sql query, they instead get the data into the Python/R instance, and use general purpose functions, utilities, etc. "Programmers are expensive" statement probably applies here as well. I'm not trying to be defensive here, just saying that this might be one reason.
But you can connect to it via NFC to change what kind of tune the piezo buzzer makes on an alarm, right?

/s
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Oopsie! Had a wittle famine >w< Sowwy about that!
http://archive.is/HF7Nh
Yes this is exctly what I'd like to see, an appliance protocol of some kind. People can then write their own apps if they want. Maybe just REST endpoints -I've seen web servers of sorts crammed into avr chips, so it should be feasible with all but the most limited devices.

App rot is a problem no doubt but do apps break quicker than the crappy hardware UI? I'm not so sure. probablty on iOS that's true.
Given that this comes from scams reported to the FBI, my read is that this number is likely low by 10-100x.

The personal scams are only a part of this too: scams against business are also running rampant.
Most of those 30k+ are ICE vehicles, though. How much of the ICE vehicle infrastructure and manufacturing capacity and know-how is going to be irrelevant in the EV world? EV's have fractions of the number of parts, their chassis and structure are categorically different due to battery vs fuel tank and weight and aerodynamics, not to mention how much of VW's know-how is in gasoline ONLY parts?

It just seems to me these legacy automakers who haven't done much at all are in for a rude awakening. If battery costs keep declining, anyone who isn't using a battery is going to get smoked on costs, and this is in a carbon-tax free scenario. In many economies with environmentally friendly policy, we should see EV's smoke ICE vehicles on cost MUCH sooner.
As in the Russian word совет, lit. advice or council.
We've switched to that phrase from the subtitle.
Feel free to split hairs if it makes you feel better to dispute what happened during the civil war.

The Soviet Union managed to kill millions in the 1930s as well.
> I wonder what this says about rationality and efficient markets today.

Nothing new. Markets are more heavily dominated by those with more resources. If these players decide to act irrationally, then you'll go bankrupt faster than they will.

This is why you don't short industries, you only short companies. Industry will eat you alive. There are also strategy and tactics. Musk can fend off the short siege even though they might collectively have more resources than he does. If you want to beat someone in the market, your better bet is to enter it yourself than to try to bet they're going to fail.

Trying to use a short maneuver to expose market irrationality is not for the faint of heart. It never was. Shorts were only ever really useful to try to profit off of stupidity, not irrationality.
I agree with you to some extent, but picking it apart:

1. I think there is value in immutable data structures. Languages like Haskell and Elm make everything immutable by default. A big problem I find in C#, JavaScript (and I'm sure you'd get in C++) is if I return a List of something, even if the list is readonly, the consumer could modify the items, unless I go to some tedious lengths to make sure the list only contains immutable objects. Also if I compute something based on a reference to an object, I cannot be sure that what the reference represents hasn't changed later in the program.

2. The algebraic data type produces very nice tight data structures and makes it easier to create data structures that can't hold invalid values. And where this is not possible you can use techniques to hide/product the data - usually by hiding the constructor, and requiring a function to make the type. You can do this in OO with classes, but the fact that any reference can be null causes issues, also if you return anything from your class that isn't immutable then you are passing out a potential backdoor to f' your state. See React and the hoops you have to jump through to keep things immutable.

You can absolutely get stuff done without FP, but I like the abstractions and guarantees it brings. Less to go wrong, and less to think about overall (once you have carefully planned your types).

What I don't like about FP, or Haskell in particular is the very complex types people dream up and all the crazy GHC extensions which are hard to understand and produce the most unhelpful of error messages if you make a mistake. Elm is more my kind of thing - very simple type system but still algebraic, no forced nulls etc. Gives you the 80% benefit of FP for 20% of the effort.

When I read an Elm program from someone else I don't have to think much. Reading a Haskell program I need to learn a lot to understand it. Maybe Haskell is OK if you are doing it full time and can commit all that stuff to long term memory.
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> Tesla makes ~1k cars a day.

Tesla's Chinese Gigafactory is just popping out it's first Model 3's now, and will ramp up to a similar output in the coming months, so they're about to double their output, and start building another Gigafactory in Europe starting next year.
Because they maliciously sabotaged Sanders in an extremely undemocratic way and Sanders supporters would want accountability and change so that doesn't happen again?
Yeah Tesla is way ahead of the curve here, they've figured out that all car feature branding is supposed to be based on "Spaceballs" references.
> Ideally you would just use plain old US dollars. But since it's crypto, you can't.

Because unbanked cryptocurrency exchanges are essentially in the business of money laundering. A service that facilitates illegal transactions has obvious value to any libertarian or criminal, but I’m not sure that counts as “providing real value to people.”
http://archive.is/FFKDk
I've heard this argument before but can't really make sense of it.

Moving apartments and similar activities are (a) rare; (b) can't be done in a pickup anyway - I'd need to rent a much larger truck; and (c) renting a proper truck every time I moved and will move apartments/houses in my whole life is cheaper than the cost difference between a pickup and a smaller car, especially as fuel is a huge part of total cost of ownership.
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>imported means only 25% of _all of Canadian_ oil is imported

Yes! 25% of Canadian oil is imported! Don't know why wrote "only". An oil rich country gets 1/4 of it's oil from elsewhere, including Saudi and apparently Azerbaijan.

Anyway, HN reply mechanism is nudging me to move on from this discussion, so I will.
Yes! The cheap dumb fridges also have the highest energy efficiency ratings of all the fridges.

Who knew that defrosting three ice-makers twice a day had an energy cost?
I wonder if the name is actually a part of the problem? It's been 10 years (more or less) and to a first approximation, Illumos has got zero value as a name.

Some of that might be due to its murky origins, with OpenSolaris, OpenIndiana, Nexenta, SmartOS, OmniOS, etc, all having an unclear relationship and basically muddying the mindspace that Illumos sought (and seeks) to occupy.

It's probably too late, but a rebranding exercise might help clarify that it's the survivor, and could also highlight the technical advances it offers, both over Solaris 10 (which is the last release most people used) and Linux (which is what it's competing with).
I agree. I think the real question (which is much broader and beyond the scope of OP) is how does humanity have to operate differently with every order of magnitude it grows in size? Humanity seems to be transitioning from single digit billions to crossing the double digit billions barrier in the foreseeable future. Until 1900 humanity had been on the order of a billion people, and we are currently transitioning towards 10x as many people sustaining the planet.

I do not mean this to be about finite resources and our planet. I am referring to the way that organizations require more layers of bureaucracy as they grow. A rule of thumb is for every 10x in people, you have another layer of management. So what will this extra layer of management be for people, not just from a government perspective but also a capitalistic corporation perspective? How do Google, Facebook, Apple, Stripe, Amazon, and all of those other companies handle so many customers? How much do they use automation, how many of their rules are archaic, how hard is it to challenge the system if you think there was an error?

I am not convinced AI can solve many of the fundamental problems humanity are facing - and I think overpopulation might actually be the problem. Modern capitalism has conditioned us to believe "growth is good" but growth for the sake of growth is no different from cancer.
Wow. Dystopia is here. This is messed up.
I recently bought a spiffy top-of-the-range washer/drier to replaced my 15-year-old one.

I did my research; knew it was wifi-enabled, but could be used without the app or an internet connection. So that's what I did at first.

Then I tried to configure it to use the manufacturer's app, so that I could check power consumption and consumables remotely. The app refused to let me use it without registering an account with the manufacturer. As part of account setup it demanded my street address, then when I entered it it crashed. (Hint: there's a slash in my street address. Yes, this is my official address as per the Post Office. Yes, Scottish street addresses are odd.) Nevertheless: the app crashed. It handed me a long alphanumeric error code returned by the server ... then thereafter refused to let me abort the registration process or edit the address, instead delivering a variety of new and exciting long alphanumeric server-side error codes every time I tried it.

I was not impressed. (I'm guessing it passed the address through to a SQL or other DBMS that didn't properly escape or filter the raw input ... and got part-way through initializing some records that were part of the account but was unable to recover from the dodgy input data, leaving me in limbo.)

TLDR: my washing machine disapproves of my street address.

(Luckily it works just fine without knowing it. So there's that.)
I used to show up between 10:00-10:20 AM, after all the 5 managers got their morning gripe emails together and caught up on all the work I had gotten done and reported on overnight. The highest of the managers had a question for me at 9:30 AM and got mad I wasn't at my desk. New policy: everyone is at their desk by 8 AM. I explained to the 2 other higher managers that I work basically all night long, and during the day at the office, I'm constantly distracted because I seem to be the only person who knows anything. My direct supervisor completely understood my process and schedule and couldn't be happier with my production. The CEO as well, but this manager and his "butts in chairs at 8am" policy couldn't be stopped. I happily accepted and explained I would be leaving every day sharply at 5 PM and leaving my laptop at my desk.

The manager and the policy were both fired about a month later.
But, it's like $50 or less a day to rent a huge uhaul truck. And an SUV can easily haul a boat or other toys, plus keep gear covered and provide seating for more people. If you really need to haul something that wont fit in the back of the suv, you can always rent a uhaul trailer for about $20/day. Heck, you can rent a large flat bed truck from home depot for about $20 for a few hours that can probably haul more than an F-150.
From my experience in Reston the houses near the mixed use developments are soaring in price.

People like living close to shopping and restaurants.
Fair point. Perhaps it is harder than I thought without looking anything up or testing? At least to get the canonical version written down.
True. Middle managers probably feel more worth when the five engineers are huddled in a pod around them, usually with headphones on so they can concentrate.
Some would argue that a Socialist state cannot be realized through the currently established democratic processes, even with majority popular support. Wealth has simply far too much influence.

However there is still the good old general strike.
I get what you're implying, and I think it's a valid approach (connected). But so is the converse (unconnected).

The connected can be controlled by apps or heck, APIs, perhaps offers full flexibility etc. However, what guarantees the controlling app is going to keep being updated? What if there's a wi-fi vulnerability in a few years? What if there are calls to company servers that go offline? What if you phone is off and you want to quickly set the time?

The unconnected can be controlled by a physical unchanging interface. It offers few extra features, its buttons will wear and break, etc. But it probably will function just fine in 10 years time, is probably extremely easy -- and less time consuming in total to set. I disagree the experience will be poor or inconsistent -- those products usually obey a common language of household appliances that works well enough. Physical buttons are usually very responsive and easy to use. There is not much to go wrong.

The ultimate measures here are probably net productivity (time wasted on clock and setting time), cognitive load, and robustness. If you have specific timing requirements maybe the networked clock is for you, but for most people I'd say the good old digital clock is probably still easily best.

Maybe in the future the digital infrastructure will be standardized and simplified enough that more appliances will become connected, but the real value of 'iot-enabling' is still quite low for most objects.

Remember, newer or more flexible isn't necessarily better (even for very complex systems: see UNIX philosophy).
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Yeah, I suspect a good chunk of the performance improvement is related to GC performance improvement. The netty benchmark with pooled buffers compared to unpooled buffers hints at that (although I don't know for sure).
So, encoding == encryption? and compression == encryption?
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For you then, I believe the above comment to be not only uncompelling but also disingenuous
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If a discussion is about halloween costumes and then another person asks a pointed question about [material/structure/use/etc...] and then devolves into nearly perfect corporate speak supporting [sponsored industry]. No big deal.

But if this happens frequently on a wide range of topics, on a regular basis it gets to a point where a rational person has to question the validity of the information source.

Edit: clarity
Even that is only the battery, and it works out to be very roughly 1 litre of crude per dollar. 2.5 kg CO2 per litre of crude, USD60 for a barrel, 160 litres per barrel. So 40% of $7500 cost is embedded energy by my calculations.

So let's say a USD35000 car is 35000 embedded litres of crude, which is 500 tanks full. Of course you need to compare against embedded energy in whatever other car you might choose to use.

All the above doesn't matter too much to me, since I simply believe that cost is the most honest estimate for CO2 production I can use. Which doesn't mean I don't want a high salary, but it does mean I don't have kids!
I don't know why you think subgradient is that important. It's just a shorthand for anything reasonable. DNNs are overwhelmingly underdetermined and have many many minimizers. It's not so important to find the best one (an impossible task for sgd) as to find one that is good enough.
That is a very apocalyptic headline. Global electric car market share projections tend to be quite spread but the high-end I have seen is something around ~30% by 2040.

So even if German manufacturers were unable to compete with Tesla or Chinese electric manufacturers at all which is in itself a questionable assumption, the lions share of the market will still be traditional engines.

The entire article is very confused and mixes up autonomous driving with electric vehicles and the emissions scandal so it's heart to discern a clear point, but saying that Google is a competitor of Volkswagen is just a category error.
Exactly, because PayPal has to comply with regulations.
Basically that the brand should represent what Facebook is about. But in shiny, marketing oriented, words.
I work as a consultant in Marketing and I still have a problem respecting creative people and their explanations. For me it's simple BS. But the reality is that they truly believe in it. We simply expect more science and less imagination from them.
Has there been a rash of scooter riders running into people?
Knee jerk acceptance of cannibalism is far worse, which is what acceptance of it must be. Because anyone who's read about modern accounts of cannibalism would realize that any loosening of the moral restrictions of murder leads the state to killing millions in the name of some lie - who's only purpose is the furtherance of unrestricted power.
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5 years ago, I would have agreed with you about BtrFS.

Since 2012 or 2013, I'd been using BtrFS essentially as a cache on a build server; ephemeral data was kept there, if it was lost, it just meant that later operation would be slow. And I did see corruption, every few months I'd end up having to reformatting it.

And then at some point I realized that I hadn't had to reformat it in a long time. And so when I got a new laptop in 2016 I felt comfortable formatting the whole thing (including / and /home) with BtrFS. And then I was building another server in September 2018, which would store a bunch of data (currently about 4TB), and went with BtrFS. And then a work laptop later in 2018.

So using BtrFS on a variety of systems (all using close to the latest kernels the whole time), I haven't seen any data corruption since at least 2016. I'm sad that RH decided to no longer invest in it.
> I wonder what this says about rationality and efficient markets today

There isn't an efficient market around Tether.

The exchanges that trade it are predominantly controlled by its backer. Fraud investigations in play make a short's gains at risk for clawback. (Or at the very least, creating a legal headache for their owner.)

There is no assurance that the end game isn't a crash in value, but no value, which makes closing out a short position difficult or even impossible.

I have traded securities my entire career. It's been pretty obvious, from the start, that Tether is a scam. I wouldn't short it.

Disclaimer: This is not securities advice. Don't buy or sell securities or currencies based on Internet comments.