skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe these models just don't even try to project subsequent peaks.
I'm surprised by the down votes. I still find it intriguing that during an outage the SRE handbook floats to the top.
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Countly (https://count.ly) is open source, push notifications, analytics, A/B testing, performance management and deployable on-prem. You can also install a limited, free-to-use version on Digital Ocean also.
> Gmail was a success from the beginning

Interestingly, I don't think that was obvious from inside the company.

Maybe some day this will be declassified by one of the early PMs or engineers, it's a great story.
Yeah, maybe they should save their concerns for when it's time for Jeff to interview them.
Quickly this looks like something similar to Azure Logic Apps - you probably know about it too. Why should I use Paragon instead of Logic Apps? Educate me! :)
That customer model is a mental construct of said companies. Just because customer does not proactively ask/request/mention something don't mean that he doesn't care about this. People implicitly assume that their personal information is not used for malicious purposes, despite that it is not true anymore for most of the companies. And in the era of monopolies/doupolies customers don't have vote with their wallet anymore, unless going full luddite and live in a cave.
Well, decentralization has benefits. It's just that we already have a system for keeping track of documents and their histories in a distributed manner and it is called git.
I was thinking yesterday that, in this aspect, Google is very much like General Motors during the decline years of the '70s and '80s. General Motors also had a similar habit where they'd bring out a new model (which would of course have issues). Then, they'd devote an enormous amount of time and money iterating on the model. And finally, just as the model started to show signs of market success they'd cancel it, and go back step 1. Meanwhile, their competition from Japan was steadily iterating and perfecting a stable lineup of vehicles

Sometimes I think that the only reason Google has maintained its level of success is that there is no Toyota or Honda equivalent for GM-Google.
Assuming that an answer to your question is even quantifiable (it isn't since you're asking me to prove nonexistence), how is it relevant to my original question?

The security failures that allowed the NSA to come in were comical. Deliberate choices that Google made are for the most part responsible for the Android fiasco. In fact, Google is one of the behemoths that put us all at -ever increasing- risk in the name of profit and so far have done precious little to reverse course [1].

[1] https://seclists.org/dailydave/2020/q2/1
I’m on mobile safari and the ePub and mobi files open as text. This means I can’t export them to Apple Books or the iOS kindle app. Could you please trigger a download instead if possible ?
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I haven't looked at it, but I want to get away from managing (pet) VMs. I want something that is fully git-opsed, and git-opsing VMs is a lot of work. It's much easier to string together a bunch of AWS resources via CloudFormation (or Terraform, although I'm less familiar), and then I can stand it up or tear it down whenever I want.
$6 is about the cost of monthly hosting for many personal websites. I'd argue theres not a good value proposition here, at the low end of the scale at least.
> "What is the non-lazy solution?" That's how disruption is born.

So there is no non-lazy solution.

I get your point about shifting the problem, but that's kind of the only option for the vast majority of website operators (particularly small ones).

I have zero love for CAPTCHA myself, I have put time and effort in to other, server-side solutions but none perform even remotely as well.
Ineffability
"Unreasonable removal" isn't actually much of a concern here under our current legal doctrine: As these companies are private entities, they can decide that they simply don't want this or that on their platform, and that can be as unreasonable as they like.

Presumably, platforms which profit off user content have a financial incentive already to allow user content as much as they can, Section 230 only removes the financial incentive to remote bad content. Removing Section 230 will restore balance: Companies will still be motivated to keep as much non-abusive content as they can, but will face legal challenge if they fail to remove abusive content.

(There's an argument to be made that Facebook and Google represent "public spaces" in the modern Internet era, but we currently have no legal precedent for applying first amendment rights to privately owned properties. Either we'd need a huge legal shift to apply the first amendment to private spaces or we'd need to nationalize online platforms.)
They addressed this in another post on HN.

Basically they don't want to manage U/P.
They are looking at other services as well (such as github).
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This is correct. This is the third book in our SRE series. It's reliability through the lens of security.

Disclaimer: I work for Google
Earlier versions were discussed in 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17121028

and 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14045987

(Links are for the curious. Reposts are ok after a year: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)
Thank you very much for your interest, I greatly appreciate it!

I hope you are all doing reasonably well. Please take care!

This book was most recently discussed here in May 2018:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17121028

Since then, I have added a new chapter, Logical Foundations of Prolog:

https://www.metalevel.at/prolog/logic

Also, I have made several other additions and improvements. You can
see most of the changes since the last discussion in a public git
repository:

https://github.com/triska/the-power-of-prolog/compare/8a94ed...

Currently, I am working on several videos that will eventually form
the core of the book. Here are a few previews:

https://www.metalevel.at/prolog/videos/logic

https://www.metalevel.at/prolog/videos/timetabling

https://www.metalevel.at/prolog/videos/sparrows_on_eagles

These videos are all work in progress, and they may be replaced by
better versions at any time. Hence, if possible, please use the links
above to refer to them: They will always point to the latest versions.

Alternatively, please use the following overview page that shows all videos:

https://www.metalevel.at/prolog/videos/

Also, I have published a comprehensive journal paper about my
CLP(B) system, i.e., a SAT solver with some nice algebraic
properties, seamlessly integrated into Prolog as a specialized form of
unification:

https://www.metalevel.at/boolean.pdf

For Prolog application programmers and system implementors, the
paper's appendices may be especially interesting. They formalize a few
important concepts that are also a major theme in the book.

As of October 2019, the CLP(B) system is also available in Mark Thom's
Scryer Prolog. Scryer is a Rust-based Prolog implementation that is
freely available, conforms to the Prolog ISO standard, represents
strings efficiently as lists of characters, and includes important
features for implementing Prolog-based constraint solvers:

https://github.com/mthom/scryer-prolog

As of a few days ago, Scryer Prolog also ships with my implementation
of CLP(ℤ), Constraint Logic Programming over integers. This is a very
useful declarative paradigm for solving combinatorial tasks, in some
ways superior to SAT solving because it allows more convenient
modeling, easier experimentation with different formulations, and
reasoning at a higher conceptual level. The chapter on declarative
integer arithmetic contains more information, and further pointers:

https://www.metalevel.at/prolog/clpz

For illustration, here is an example page where you can solve timetabling instances with this approach:

https://www.metalevel.at/prolog/timetabling/

I welcome all comments and suggestions about the book, these videos,
and Prolog in general. Also, I would like to take this opportunity to
thank all readers for your thoughtful comments and endorsements. Your
feedback and encouragement are making this work especially worthwhile.

Enjoy!
Do you know how much data that would have to be? Scaling that seems improbable.
Are you running one cluster per application? I've seen that a lot but it's actually quite inexpensive when you use one cluster for multiple applications.
My take is that they probably just don’t care enough. It’s like Intel and their forays into all kinds of adventures outside of processors. Eventually these things are so small compared to their dominance in the core market that as an organization they simply don’t care enough to make it work.

It probably started as an initiative of someone high enough to get the resources, but the org never doubled down on it or change one inch of its roadmap to make it work.

Google had the first mover in modern email and maps and had very easy onboarding for both from search. Google somehow made Android work (which seems like a miracle in retrospect) and also Chrome (some would say they had to make Chrome work), but that’s all I can think of (it’s still huge, obviously, but also narrow in scope for an organization with that magnitude of resources).

As long as Google is filled with connected, talented, bored people it will keep pushing out all sorts of product experiments.
> No, and they wouldn't be by any informed understanding of the law.

You are misinformed about the history of 230. 230 was proposed exactly because the law was interpreted the way you're saying it wouldn't be.

From Wikipedia below, added emphasis mine:

> This concern was raised by legal challenges against CompuServe and Prodigy, early service providers at this time. CompuServe stated they would not attempt to regulate what users posted on their services, while Prodigy had employed a team of moderators to validate content. Both faced legal challenges related to content posted by their users. In Cubby, Inc. v. CompuServe Inc., CompuServe was found not be at fault as, by its stance as allowing all content to go unmoderated, it was a distributor and thus not liable for libelous content posted by users. However, Stratton Oakmont, Inc. v. Prodigy Services Co. found that as Prodigy had taken an editorial role with regard to customer content, it was a publisher and legally responsible for libel committed by customers.

> [...]

> United States Representative Christopher Cox (R-CA) had read an article about the two cases and felt the decisions were backwards. "It struck me that if that rule was going to take hold then the internet would become the Wild West and nobody would have any incentive to keep the internet civil", Cox stated.

---

It's become increasingly popular for people to say that Section 230 was a mistake. Usually they support that with claims that concerns about its repeal are purely theoretical fearmongering, despite the fact that we literally have case president on the books right now about what the Internet would look like without Section 230, and how the existing laws were being interpreted.

When people raise concerns that without Section 230 the Internet would be divided up into completely unmoderated platforms and aggressively curated gatekeepers, that's not fearmongering. It's history.

Ironically, the only websites that wouldn't be affected by a repeal of Section 230 are the completely unmoderated hellholes we want to discourage online, because they have Compuserve's precedent and the 1st Ammendment to hide behind.
Interesting. The amount of invite code sharing / trading was huge from the moment I learned about gmail. I'd love to hear the story of the issues!
As Sweden took in a lot of refugees from the middle east I actually hear a lot of their own views on the subject. As long as the rest of the world are infusing the area with money in exchange for oil the wars there will continue.

There exist a good reason why nations stopped allowing money going to blood diamonds. Inequality fuels conflict and oil money has a long and proven history of increasing inequality. Cutting off the money river would do more to stabilizing the region than any number of more military bases, bombs, drones and invasions could ever achieve. Yes, china and Russia would jump in in order to attempt seizing that oil in the absent of US interest, and in order to prevent them we would need to make it worthless for them to do so. Just like with money laundering we would have the new problem of oil laundering.

If we look at EU for inspiration, the peace inspired treaty that created it was primarily focused on steel. Steel production was expensive, required a lot of workers and energy, and involved a complex chain of inter-dependent markets. Nation measured themselves in their ability to create steel. The iron miners however did not get massively rich. Nor did the coal miners. EU managed to connect the sources for iron, coal, and nuclear energy, and in large this was the revolution in Europe for equality. The lower the friction of that market the more interconnected the involved countries became. As we now move away from a world focused on steel that union has seen increased instability. Just now in corona times people are arguing if countries of more successful management strategies will bail out those that is currently failing. We don't really feel it like we used to do if one country in EU drop in equality.

The US tactic of using bombs and invasions in order to create equality did also not work in the middle east. It might had worked in a steel focused era such as that after the second world war. Similar the EU tactic might had worked in the middle east if the oil market would behave more similar to that of steel. Right now however I doubt either will create the equality needed for peace. The most promising strategy would be to just leave them alone and make sure that the oil is never going to be worth wasting blood over.
this is awesome and I can't wait to try this new hiring platform! Congrats and good luck
As yes, I remember that statement - "Don't be evil" - that one, right?
Look them up on Discogs.com for more info. I typically preview bands I find from my own sources using Youtube, soundcloud and bandcamp.

Also Women formed another band called Viet Cong, and then after getting rolling had some pushback on the name, changed their name to Preconceptions. Great band, saw them live at Desert Daze last year.

Also one of the band members recently tweeted something about wanting to hear more Women so they might be reforming.
This is very true. The 12 or even 16 hour workdays we hear of in the early industrial era in the West seem incomprehensible. Until you realize that the factory complex was essentially their whole life and community. Don't need to walk far to work, or go shopping, or spend time cooking, when you live on-site in the dorms and your wife works in the company canteen. And you get most of your paycheques deducted for that privilege, so going anywhere else is mostly theoretical anyway even if you had time off.
> assuming full social distancing through May 2020

Are there any projections that have the social distancing set as a variable, from 0% to 100%?
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It amazes me that so many millennials seem to be pushing for communism.
> The worst cases I have seen is when executives take a problem and ask data scientists to "do some of that data science" on the problem, looking for trends, patterns, automating workflows, making recommendations, etc.

While I agree on the point, there's a case that's arguably worse: When those executives hire Data Scientists and then ask them: "So what can we do with Data Science?"
- US doctors are choosing ventilators to prevent aerosol contamination, at the expense of patients' lives.

Aerosol contamination leads to heavy viral exposure to health workers and all patients in the vicinity. This leads to more sick patients, and fewer healthy health workers. Which leads to more fatalities.
Is there a file that can be downloaded so it can be laser cut from plastic sheets?
I was aware of VMS and its proprietary history long before they added Open to it. I'm still not sure how Open ties to those other things.
Extended family, yes. In China it's far more common for them to live together.
The concern over xss is important. But the data you send to google opens your users up to a different type of risk.
Thanks for the feedback. This is a known issue that another user flagged this morning. The team is pursuing a fix. The content-type on the file is incorrect :/.

In the meantime, you can open it in a browser and email it to yourself. Not ideal, but a workaround.

[EDIT]: s/pursing/pursuing
"History is written by the victors" is not merely for the physical but for memes as well. The only alternative histories that remain must be the ones most open to ridicule for our enjoyment _and_ initiation. Initiation is much easier when the only alternative narrative is literally insane.

In many 'conspiracy theories' there are often curiosities, contradictions, or straight up open questions.

Roswell was an actual conspiracy to hide Project Mogul. [1] The US government conspired and lied to convince the public it was just a 'weather balloon', when it was very obviously something else to witnesses. This truth was only revealed to the public (relatively) recently.

Your other examples are very current and are politically difficult if not dangerous to address with an open mind. Would you allow someone to challenge any of your _beliefs_ on racism, nazism, climate-change, vaccines, etc?

I'll give some examples of wrongthink questions: "What other pogroms did Zionists instigate? [2][3][4]", "Was Stalin the real 'Hitler'?", "Other than Katyn, what else did USSR try to pin on Hitler?". "How could there have been _no_ atrocity propaganda during WW2? [5]". These questions (and more!) might make you a racist anti-semitic nazi sympathizer.

Does anyone remember vaccine enhanced RSV? Nope, lol crazy anti-vaxers with crazy theories of government mind-control or something.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mogul#Roswell_incident
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavon_Affair
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950%E2%80%9351_Baghdad_bombin...
[4] https://www.motl.org/yad-vashem-interview-with-miriam-ron-wi...
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocity_propaganda#World_War_...
Hammurabi's code is prominently featured, ruminated upon, and contextualized in Nassim Taleb's Skin In The Game.

It's a profound and highly recommended read, especially considering the sheer amount of downtime that's available at the moment.
In WA state a variety of non-lethal methods are preferred and attempted before lethal culling is allowed. Wolves are smart so some always eventually learn to circumvent/ignore non-lethal methods and begin targeting livestock.

Non-lethal methods help reduce the requirement for lethal culling but they will not eliminate the need for it. Wolves will out grow their habitat if not carefully managed. Usually, recreational hunting serves this purpose well, but until wolves can be hunted, the state will have to do the culling.
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Just curious deals like this work. Does Google pay O'Reilly for the editing and typography or does O'Reilly make money by selling the book themselves.
It's almost beside the point. Enterprises want to pay someone for support (and, more importantly, someone to blame when things go wrong) rather than (rightfully) attempt to put something together with duct tape and bailing wire.
I think it's a bit more nuanced, and is not quite either.

Google Wave had two relevant components: (a) its network infrastructure and (b) its user interface.

- by (a) I mean the extension of xmpp

- by (b) I mean not only the visual design and ux, but also the accompanying development ecosystem around integrations/media renderers/etc.

The innovations of Wave were, I believe, primarily in (a). Anything cool in (b) was merely a feature built directly because of/on top of something novel in (a)

I'm not sure why exactly Wave failed, but I suspect it was primarily because of the execution of (b).

And I think your point about online communication methods trending toward Wave are largely concerned with Google's innovations with xmpp
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We did our best to highlight the intersection of security and reliability. I admit there might be more emphasis on security in some chapters, especially those that overlap with the previous two SRE books (that were exclusively about reliability). We wanted to avoid repeating ourselves.

(disclaimer: I work at Google)
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They do a damn good job. Sure opening an app takes a few seconds and apps tend not to do much to save and restore state when re-opened (the app developers could do more of that, if they cared to) but the experience in any given app is usually pretty smooth and snappy, considering what it's running on. It's a testament to how good UI can be even on fairly low-end hardware when you're not fundamentally screwing up performance, repeatedly, over several levels of abstraction.
> The country can, as part of managing its economy, also manage the currency.

You think a requirement for currency is that the country using it can manage it? What about all the non-US countries that use the dollar? They absolutely cannot manage their currency. What about in the past when the US and others were on the gold standard? There are a million counterexamples.

And again, let me reiterate (because it seems we're drifting away from the point here) that we were originally discussing whether bitcoin was "negative sum". I'm telling you that if it has utility (like any other currency) there is value being created.

> This means it exists in isolation, unaffected by whatever economic activity takes place around it.

I don't really know what that means, everything is subject to outside economic forces.
I love stories where absolutely everything goes wrong, lessons are learned, and at the end of the day everyone goes home safe.
This is truly momentous. This should be on the HN front page.

This will help get Google and others to follow suit.

With all the big players using DNSSEC and DANE, you can expect close to universal deployment, and that will be a game changer for Internet security.

None of this would have happened without Viktor Dukhovni's incredible effort these past several years. He built a survey of DANE usage so as to find brokenness and get it fixed -- long-term brokenness would have caused the protocol to get abandoned. Once the big players have DANE support, them and everyone else will have huge incentive to monitor their own domains for breakage, which will make breakage a rarity.
> Full screen mode -OR- a sidebar?

It's supposed to be a (mouse/touch controlled) tiled WM, not limited to a sidebar at all. It's great that the GNOME folks are finally exploring this space.
We (JAX) see JAX and Numba as mostly complementary; they have different strengths and they are focused on different things.

We haven't tried combining them yet, but we think it would be fun to explore (https://github.com/google/jax/issues/1870). For example, you could use Numba to hand write a numerical kernel that then participates in a machine learning model that uses JAX automatic differentiation.