skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/7/18215743/google-fiber-leav...

Google Fiber’s attempt to roll out its gigabit internet across the city of Louisville, Kentucky has apparently failed so spectacularly that the company has decided to completely shut down
> Haskell's not great for strings

What do you mean by that?
Slick reply, but a mocking, obsequious attempt to brush the definitions aside changes nothing: the parent comment is correct.

> We have different definitions of mass shooters.

You're almost certainly talking about high profile shooting incidents with broad media coverage, that drive what is essentially a moral panic.

Parent comment is referring to incidents where 3+ people get shot, which often do not make the national and international media, and are predominately carried out with handguns.

The shootings last August that got a lot of attention are a great example. Couple of back-to-back mass shooting incidents in TX and Ohio got a lot of press... even though just the week before something like 34 people got shot in Chicago over the course of 2 days; hardly a word in the press outside of Chi-town.
The MX Master 2 or whatever has been absolute trash for me on my work mac. There's the standard issue with macs and third party mice where the "inertia" or whatever of the mouse feels off, but more than that there has to be some sort of interference because the thing just floats and jitters constantly. Completely unusable, I gave it away to one of our finance guys.
And that's not a bad way to move at least in the short term. The problem is that longterm, people will avoid your products pre-emptively for fear of them being vaporware. Especially with something as serious as cloud implementation in an organization. I would hate to be the guys who now have to rearch all their applications to go from GCP to AWS.
In any enterprise competitor doesn't mean a similar product, it means any unit who can get headcount, budget etc. Google said in Q3 that they were spending a ton to grow cloud - which makes all the other kingdom building VPs concerned - they are the competition. Youtube, Gsuite, Ads, whatever else google hasn't abandoned that they charge for.
That's fine if you happen to be near a Whole Foods. That said, Amazon also uses UPS Stores in a similar way as Whole Foods for this, and that's what I've used.
You may use it for personal communications, but others can hear/see/decode what you're saying/sending. I hear people on 2m repeaters talk with their spouses about going to the grocery store all the time, but the point is, everyone else can hear it. If you need your communications encrypted, you need to use a different band or service.

FCC Part 97.113, "Prohibited transmissions":

> Music using a phone emission except as specifically provided elsewhere in this section; communications intended to facilitate a criminal act; messages encoded for the purpose of obscuring their meaning, except as otherwise provided herein; obscene or indecent words or language; or false or deceptive messages, signals or identification.

(I believe the only "otherwise provided herein" obscured communications are control commands sent to satellites, to ensure they cannot be improperly controlled.)

http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Regulatory/March%208,%202018....
I'm not hypothesizing anything, solar energy is the primary input to the system by nature of the fact that removing the sun would leave Earth a lifeless rock.

I do find all of the catastrophising of nature very fascinating. The switcheroo from "global warming" to "climate change" was pretty slick. The attempt to step the message up to "climate crisis" is going to be barrels of fun.

And, yes, I do feel for those people who are frustrated or living in fear by climate alarmists. "It's already too late ..." is full-on revolutionary agitprop. I can only hope people burn out on this whole thing, exhausted by it all, rather than have a psychotic break.
Google has built a strong reputation as a company that shuts down any product or service that isn't #1 in the target market. it is not unreasonable to believe that might extend to their third- or fourth-place GCP product.
Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV
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If that pharma company helps people, while it makes money...so what?
Having a steady revenue stream has not stopped many companies from also selling user data. See: ads in Windows, smart TVs, cell carriers selling location data, etc. The list goes on... Why would ISPs be any different?
Okay, well that's easy, too. ZFC has been proven consistent in other formal systems. For instance, you can prove ZFC consistent using Morse-Kelley theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse%E2%80%93Kelley_set_theor....

Which is a "stronger" theory than ZFC; but you can also prove ZFC consistent in a system consisting of ZFC plus the axiom that "ZFC is consistent"; or indeed, in weaker theories than ZFC, augmented with the axiom that "ZFC is consistent".
Maybe this helps GCP as the leak now makes this reputational for GOOG. They’ll have to keep it running to prevent people leaving because of the leak so they’ll do something drastic like pledge 10 years of support or something.

This is what has always terrified me about GCP. The business mode wasn’t there so I haven’t done anything serious since they killed/overhauled app engine years ago (aws seems to always make stuff better and I think Microsoft has bet the whole company on azure).
As I said, I don't think any of them should have been fired.

But I don't think glossing "the change went through code review" as "She did it exactly according to internal policy" is helpful.
This is accurate. I drop all of my google gadgets access to google DNS services and they use my local DNS.
I'm glad the author specified that this is mainly for GNU make, because I suspect that if I tried most of these using OpenBSD make I would have a bad time.
That ZFC by itself is consistent, i.e. you can't find a contradiction.
We have three choices with different success chances:

- Rename non-gnu makefiles of a specific platform (tedious but possible),

- Rename gnu makefiles in the entire internets (0% chance),

- Continue insisting to no avail (requires no effort).

>if so, then it should

A wonderful world where such implications always work, but not where we live.
Post them to https://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=66

They are a group of volunteers who verify and counter advanced fee fraud by wasting their time and increasing opportunity cost.
"More to the point, why would I want to have to get the government's permission in order to talk on it?"

Actually, I really appreciate this sentiment.

One thing that has always seemed odd to me (as a non-HAM with a marginal interest in RF comms) is how authoritarian and ... adherent the community is.

There is no deviation from the established regulations and a striking lack of interest in even discussing amendments or alternatives to the rules.

Whether it is the prohibition of encrypted comms or the radio typing categories (that cause me to respond to fire calls with, literally, three radios in my hand) you will find very little sympathy or enthusiasm for stepping outside the party line even a bit.

... which surprises me because you'd think HAM would be skew libertarian ... or something like that ...
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That's assuming people play games in well-defined shifts. I find it more likely to have 8 users play between 8pm and 11pm and zero users for the rest of the day.
Sorry, but this is the classic "I have nothing to hide" argument in regards to privacy.

If they want to market their services as "donate your DNA for research" and then, as a side-note, we'll send you back some fun details about you... Fine. But right now, they sell it as a way to know about yourself, your family, genes, etc. Then millions of people wake up to the news to find out that their DNA was handed over to a pharma company.
> having one lawyer trying to get the best deal for 5 of his clients, even if one is innocent and the other 4 guilty

That's stretching the analogy too far, and adding biasing details to force the impression that unions are bad.

Here's another analogy:

Going to work without a union is like going to war without any military organization. If your enemy is well-organized, how smart is it for you and your fellow soldiers to attack individually in an uncoordinated way without any overall strategy?
Yeah, that's not a definition of garbage that's going to be taken seriously.
"Russian propaganda" is all over facebook? This has never been substantiated.

We had 3 years of the mainstream media networks pushing the Russian-Collusion narrative and how Trump is going to be impeached for it.

Then the narrative get's utterly dismantled. It's such a farce at this point that the DNC didn't even list Russian collusion in it's articles of impeachment against the President.

Still, as this circus continues, very smart people still believe that Trump was elected because of Putin, and is in fact an agent of Russia.

It's mind blowing.
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If your supervisor knew that you were taking the trip to vacation, why would they approve it?

If the supervisor did not know, then your analogy is flawed. There was no information asymmetry between Spiers and her reviewers - they knew what the change did and they approved it.
Are you aware of https://smallstep.com?
Wow, this seriously highlights Google's lack of understanding regarding enterprise customers. Enterprise purchase decisions I've been a part of place stability and the long term partnership way above cutting edge tech or price. It takes about 2 seconds to extrapolate all of the internal investments you'd have to scrap in 4 years if Google decides to defund GCP.
The $ dates back to either shell scripting or perl (and applies to PHP as well), and this is a reasonably common usage in tech/programming circles. See also $dayjob.

It's unfortunate that there's a specific terminology conflict in this case.
Never heard about it. Aren't resellers, though, you have to buy from Visa.
Nor should you get anything that plugs into the wall, because it could burn up your family.
I prefer the G400s over the MX518 as I like the more grippy shell.

You can get cable replacement kits for the MX518/G400/G400s for $9 from eBay that includes new feet and a USB cable. So I'm really not worried about longevity.

P.S. You should take the mouse apart and clean it probably at least once per year. I cleaned my MX518 after about 5 years when the scroll stopped working consistently. I was shocked how much hair was on the inside, blocking the scroll sensor.
I don’t think Google internally uses GCP. So a direct competitor would be whoever runs the “real” google cloud that all the internal stuff.
Also, I feel like they are in an almost impossible competitive position. Their main competitive tool against aws is further differentiation by ‘moving up the stack” with more and more “do the tough stuff for you” platform services that fewer and fewer people use. It’s getting so baroque with no developer “pull”, people aren’t begging for these services to solve a real problem, more like goog saying “here’s another piece that could be helpful”

Meanwhile, aws’s long history of walking people up the ramp of IAAS makes it more of a fit when they do start adding PAAS service and they fill a real need and get great adoption(for some/a lot of them)
Not a farmer or a Lawyer, but if you collect seeds from the tainted plants then the new plant is too close to the Patented plant, and therefore illegal for you to grow on your own.
Not that I know of. "We'll give you SQL Server for free if you buy $300k of Azure" is still par for the course.
Sure, but if they can spot-price other loads on them the rest of the time, I could see it working out.
Where is "here?" The average engineer salary (even if you say software dev only) in the US is absolutely not $170k/yr, it's closer to half that.[0] And $400k/yr is dentist-level money. I'm not saying nobody makes that, lots of devs (in absolute terms) do, but it's about as helpful as saying "businesspeople make $40M-$40B a year" when the vast majority of them make $65k/yr as a middle manager.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=median+software+engineer+sal...
Trying to search around that website, it's ironic how broken it is. :-)

Solid implementation beats lofty design maybe?
Just goes to show the negative PR campaign is working.

Obviously the U.S. has problems, but on the whole it is pretty great. I’ve traveled quite a bit and lived in other countries, and some are better in some respects, worse in others by a large margin.

People complain about police at schools in the U.S. (and it’s fair) but I don’t feel comfortable in Paris walking by a Jewish school that has soldiers with rifles standing outside either. YMMV. ️
I don't know about their climate data, I just think their claims of the impact of carbon costs are pure speculation. If they had a calculator for determining temperature increase depending on carbon output, it would be more credible.

They are piping two complex system into each other - economic and climate. At least economics are not understood well enough to really make such predictions. And if the output of the economic model is unreliable, so is the result of the climate model.
The GM Field wouldn't be collecting the seeds anyway.
I'm not disputing that, but that still really doesn't seem like a fireable offense. I'm objecting to the fact that she got fired for it after (presumably) making the change through appropriate channels. There are always appropriate channels to roll back a good-faith change, too.

If you could concisely and cogently explain why this change is a bad idea in an HN comment, surely someone can do that in response to the change, revert it, and move on. If it's SOP for Google to fire people who make well-intentioned changes that have the side effect of alert fatigue, then one, I don't want to work there, and two, I would expect to see a lot more firings.

And surely they could explain the problem, revert it, and move on without calling her into a conference room and grilling her about who else she's organizing with. That makes it seem like it's about the content of the notification, not the alert fatigue.
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My job is managing infrastructure, services and products for large corporations in the cloud. It is managed hosting, and SaaS/PaaS, and yes, there are plenty of providers who have alternatives that we regularly use, in addition to being able to build our own with mostly open source tools. It's part of my job to find alternatives so we don't get into a jam when the one solution we use becomes unusable.

The most "cutting edge" things I remember announced at re:Invent 2019 were machine learning and AI stuff, but it was all stuff integrating with existing 3rd-party services and products. They know you want to be able to work with somebody else's tool, and they want to make it easier for you to spend money using that tool on their systems. The bulk of AWS's income is still EC2 (and data transfer); the rest is window dressing to keep you from looking elsewhere.
I've recently been lightly toasted by GNU Make's implicit "old-fashioned" suffix rules, where it was looking for YACC files as prerequisites for my own generated C code. The manual suggests a workaround that clears the implicit suffixes and also allows you to add back the ones you want. For me, clearing all of them with an empty ".SUFFIXES :" rule was exactly what I needed.

https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Suffix-Ru...
Margin and expected future profits, I assume.

Breaking even doesn’t cut it since capital could be put toward something better. Unless it has some other strategic value (eg, bragging rights, growth potential, security, etc)
For anyone wondering, these are also sold outright (though not on their site I guess?) for $400. They are essentially a generic pair of bluetooth headphones that don't even have ANC, and use some kind of proprietary charging cable.
It's not me questioning physics. CO2 levels lagged historic temperature increases. It's up to the CO2-causes-warming people to explain it.
Yes, but they are paying you. There's a power dynamic there, even if you aren't literally in custody.
Solar energy is the primary input to the system, but it isn't driving warming. There is no evidence that it is. Literally everything else you said here is just politics.
I believe it is happening, yes. The obvious plausibility and the way I’ve seen other state-sponsored things (any state) hushed up means the only reasonable thing for me to do is assume the story is based on truth even if the picture isn’t 100% complete. To put it another way, I believe the Bloomberg story is the “Room 641A” to a Snowden-level expose we may never get.
The problem with your comment is that it is not long enough to put any ads on it.
I mean sure, my comment was far too pompous, but calling this anarchism is silly.

If we leave rhetoric aside, what she's done is the equivalent of sending a leaflet or putting up a poster on company property. That's not strictly 'proper', but life does not happen in courtrooms. You actually have talk to people, let them know what's happening, organise, etc. Courtroom is where the fight is settled in it's last stages.
It actually is correct, I think. If you're selling hardware that ships with any GPLv3 software of any kind, the license requires that you don't restrict users from installing their own OS if they want. This was intended as a workaround for so-called "tivoizaion", where TiVo boxes were open source but would only boot signed firmware (and the keys were confidential).

Apple didn't want this, so they blacklisted all GPLv3 software. So did most companies that ship embedded Linux products like smart TVs.
Ask HN: How to Cross-Compile with Clang?
From x86_64 to AArch64 on Linux. Without:

- Relying on GCC, but glibc is ok.
- Recompiling LLVM for AArch64.
- Recompiling LLVM for x86_64 but during that compilation process using whatever is in
clang/cmake/caches, so that runtime stuff like compiler-rt gets compiled for both
x86_64 and AArch64. Without that.
- Without using Zig.
- Without using build setups based on CMake, Meson, Autotools, or Makefiles.

I looked in many places but couldn't find anything helpful. If you think you know how to do this but never done it, then you are probably wrong, it is not straightforward. To clarify why I want to do this:

1. LLVM toolchain can be used independetly of GCC, so even though I have a working GCC cross-compiler, I don't want to use it to supply missing bits, because missing bits can be supplied in other ways. Missing bits are the linker, runtime library, libc++, libc++abi. I'm concerned only with C though.

2. Clang is a native cross-compiler, cross-compiling it to AArch64 is missing the point.

3. I'm NOT going to rebuild the whole LLVM monstrosity, it is impractical. It literally freezes my laptop for 1+ day. I aborted complitation. It is ok to recompile something small like compiler-rt but then the question is how to use in a non-hacky way because Clang keeps looking for complier-rt related stuff in it's own directory as installed by my Linux distribution (Arch Linux by the way), and -L and -I flags do not help.

4. Zig can cross-compile C with just one option without any preparation but I don't know how to pass flags to Clang via zig command line interface. For example I cant pass -O0.

5. These are useful for bigger projects, here I'm just interested in cross-compiling hello world.

Please do not give links to anything you might find in the official LLVM docs, youtube, first few pages of search engine results. I know about it.
Sounds like the page had a lot going on. I use Ublock Origin with my Microsoft Edge beta browser (Chromium), and that worked as per my post above.

Shame, it was a good article.
You cite a lot of uncertainty about Solar activity!

Sure, you can use models to make predictions for a date in the future. Then, you wait to see if you reach that date and the predictions come true. Then you can make qualitative assertions about the accuracy of the model, its shortcomings, and whatnot. Do we have evidence of past climate models making accurate future predictions? (I really don’t know, now you have me curious.)
Someone might. It's always better not to introduce such code.
I apologize for not having a source, but browsers are actually looking into disabling shared caches between sites because of side-channel attacks.
Are there really that many people who think climate change isn't happening or isn't caused by those factors? That sounds like a strawman.
Leveraged relationships Oracle has, and look how that turned out for them. Universally hated have they became.

Microsoft after a decade of Ballmer is not far from where Oracle is now, despite some recent positive reputation gains. They are already squeezing those relationship by bundling services, and it will be too far too quickly.
All of these points are valid to an extent, however they all exist on every other service that fills the same role.

FRS: unencrypted, type accepted radios only. Extremely low radiated power and sensitivity.

GMRS: Gotta pay $70 to the gubment every 10 years, type accepted only, unencrypted.

MURS: Unencrypted (mode restricted), and very few usable channels, type accepted.

CB: Unencrypted, unwieldy equipment, full of lunatics, type accepted.

At the end of the day, you live in a society that requests you follow some laws and get licenses for things that can effect others. The encryption issue is contentious and not entirely one-sided but realistically you're far more likely to be bothered over the public bands and the security risk you fear is rather non-existent. I don't exactly know of a hams being kidnapped or attacked in the streets. The US is far safer now that it ever has been on a crime level so having some trust in your fellow man is not unwarranted.

If you really want to be left alone, use Fusion or Dstar over simplex :)
At the very least the manufacturer should tell me in a legally binding statement, for how long a product will be supported.
Fair, and that was certainly the YouTube model— years of free video hosting to saturate the market, now preroll and interstitials everywhere with "YouTube Premium" just a click away.
Sure.

Clearly the portfolio adviser, who used his name no less and did not stay anonymous, doesn't have as much visibility to their charitable works managing a 100B portfolio as say you do bookkeeping for your local ward.
>Singaporean citizens of Chinese heritage tend to enjoy preferred treatment over their Malay and Indian counterparts. Examples of overt discrimination include employment ads specifying that someone must be of Chinese origin to apply.

Not to defend this, but I expect to see this among smaller employers in US tech hubs in the future.

Anecdotally, I know two PRC nationals who spent two years in Singapore working for employers that discriminated. They had nothing but bad things to say about their workplaces when it came to code quality, leadership, and how women were treated (both of them are female).

I know it's a sample size of two, but it makes me think that you wouldn't want to work for an employer that favors Chinese applicants as anything but a last resort.

Keep in mind that these companies are often fulfilling three things simultaneously: allowing a PRC national to gain citizenship in another country through an avenue that involves significant financial investment, laundering/protecting RMB (often the same thing in China), and, finally, functioning as what most of us consider a viable business (turning money into more money). These are listed in order of prioritization.

It's ok if the business fails completely and never turns a profit, as long as the first priority is accomplished. Accomplishing the first and second is ideal. Ending up with a viable business and a financial return on your initial investment is just a nice-to-have.