skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not claiming it’s a CA system, and the terminology “partition intolerant” is not verboten by Kyle Kingsbury. From your link: “Specifically, partition-intolerant systems must sacrifice invariants when partitions occur. Which invariants?”

The answer in this case is that availability is sacrificed, unless Amazon is making a very misleading claim of strong consistency (per the submission title/link). So it’s CP.

In case “not fully partition tolerant” is what is throwing you off, all I mean by that is that there are likely network partitions of the S3 nodes that will not cause outward failure (e.g. partition of a single node), though some will (e.g. too many partitions to form a quorum, or whatever their underlying consensus implementation relies on).
Heh, my cable TV provider in Mexico came with a remote control with a fat "Netflix" button on it for easy access.

While useful to people, most of whom want to just go to Netflix, that level of integration doesn't feel right.
I searched for the same on iOS and now use Brave as browser with JS deactivated by default, since it has the functionality to quickly switch on JS for the current site only.
This salvage operation is far more expensive than the scrap value of the ship and cargo.
WOW... thanks for sharing that. 18 years later and it all still holds up, and imparts wisdom.
AstraZeneca is as well known as Pfizer, they are big pharma after all, the subset of people who know about Pfizer and not AstraZeneca is going to be quite small.
The M3 processors are going to be sooooo fast. Can’t wait.
I get it. I think self-driving cars are way over-hyped, and I'm not expecting them to be real level-5 automation for 10-20 years. But I think trucking is different. There is a lot of work to be done, but we can cheat a bit.

The first cheat is to only automate the long-haul portion. As anybody who has driven cross country knows, long stretches of American highway barely require you to be conscious, let alone skilled. The truck pulls over before needs to get on city streets and a human driver gets in.

The second cheat is what Waymo is doing. If the car doesn't know what to do, it slows or stops and asks for help from a central driver that plots a path through the hard part for it. This works for trucking because network coverage on highways is very good.

The third cheat is to work around the limitations. If the weather is going to be bad, the truck waits or takes an alternate route. If it gets into trouble like a freak snowstorm, it either proceeds very slowly or just stops until either conditions improve or a human driver can get to it.

This approach isn't perfect automation, but it will significantly drop labor cost right away, and it gives you a lot of road-miles to iteratively chip away at the problems.
A chain is never harder to repair than its weakest link, I guess.
You appeal to your intuition. However, it could be misleading. Log-normal distribution has been found in many real world processes. Could you explain where is multiplication in cases below?

1) The length of comments posted in Internet discussion forums

2) Users' dwell time on online articles

3) income of 97%–99% of the population

4) Milk production by cows

5) Amounts of rainfall

6) Size distributions of rainfall droplets

7) The size of cash payments and size of transactions in Bitcoin

Many other examples could be found here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log-normal_distribution
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> Pulling a Google Fiber on the chip fabs might not be a bad thing right now -- TSMC is way, way too powerful at the moment. Even Google isn't the driving factor behind a likely military invasion.

TSMC only got so powerful because the competition, especially Intel, were abysmal failures in rolling out new tech. It's not like their Dutch supplier ASML only sells their tech to TSMC, too. Anyone with the cash at hand could buy their stuff.

Also: the last US governments (both Obama and Trump) or the major EU governments could have stepped in any fucking time in the last 10-15 years and say "hey it might be a good idea to have some backup for Intel instead of leaving everything to Taiwan"... only in 2020 TSMC finally announced to build an US fab, and the EU is still sitting on their hands.
This is peak Silicon Valley.

A Personal Relationship Manager feels like something that would be used against you in a jury trial. Not any specific information entered into it, just the fact alone that you were using it.
>As a traveler I don't want a fancy hotel, let alone a shitty one - I prefer a decent room or a bed in an ordinary private home.

I think that's a generally minority position though. For the most part, people prefer their own room, bathroom, and possibly kitchenette/sitting space. Along with flexibility about checking in and out. Not always of course. Sometimes you need to adapt if you're off the beaten path. But I'm pretty sure that if you surveyed most people, especially business travelers, they're not really looking for a speare room or bed in a private home.
I don't think that proves what you think it does - that's with AirDrop on, but in a limited mode.

If you turn AirDrop/Bluetooth off, you may well disable this.

On my phone:

- If you disable Bluetooth in the notification tray, then it goes to Bluetooth "Not Connected", but not Off.
- If you disable Bluetooth in settings, AirDrop automatically goes into "Receiving Off".
- If you then enable AirDrop, it'll automatically turn Bluetooth on.

So I don't think it's true that you can't disable it - unless the UI is misleading about Off.
3. Vaccinated people can still be carriers of the virus and infect others who aren't vaccinated yet. As you point out in #1, vaccinated people still need to practice social distancing and wear masks.
10 quarts? I don't think the v8 in my first car even took that much. Aren't most vehicles more like 5 or 6 quarts?
If you hold a strawpoll of everyone around, then you may get an expert. But you will also primarily get non-experts, which is the problem and what headmelted is pointing out. If expert opinions are desired, why not ask for that? The non-expert opinions are already abundant, vocal, and ready to spread misinformation. shusson was not soliciting only expert opinions or even primarily expert opinions, whether that was intentional or not.
I have often complained about my employer on here, for their lack of foresight, their lack of empathy from the top, and (right now) their lack of really giving a shit about us as humans during a pandemic.

But. At the end of the day, I stay here for less money than I could make somewhere else for two reasons:

A) I don't like moving; and

B) They leave me the fuck alone. They don't really know what my office does. They don't really know how we do it. But they do know that we provide massive value for the expense. And they let us do it with as little oversight as they can stomach.

That's worth something.
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To be fair, a lot more than 1.5 million people could have died if there were delayed adverse affects of the vaccine and we'd already done a mass rollout. I think it's probably good that we put it through a proper trial process.

Also, we'd still have had to wait for production ramp up which I believe has been done in parallel to the testing, so it may not have saved that much tie.
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Presumably one could get re-infected after vaccination, too, isn't that how vaccines work? I.e. they try to simulate as close as possible a real prior infection.
Consider pilots in an aeroplane. Most of flying is automated but there are more pilots than ever. There will never not be pilots.

Same will happen to trucks and trains. You may see some sort of fully automated cars in some small cities in the next couple of decades. But trucks? Nope! Not happening.
Canada still has an exemption for small suppliers not to pay sales tax, so this provides a strong incentive for those to find ways to take bookings outside of Airbnb.

Does an owner-operated web site count as a "digital platform"? What about a centralised telephone booking service?

Or does it just mean "anything that's big enough to be targeted as one entity by government"?

It seems clumsy to tax the booking method rather than the supply itself, but maybe it's a matter of practicality for tax collectors.
Science doesn't have all the answers. My partner recently got into a heated debate with a pharmaceutical company she was working for because they wanted something added to their standards of care document for a rare genetic disorder they developed a therapy for.

She couldn't find a study to backup the claims that the medical team wanted to make in the document, but the lead doctor said that if this wasn't included, the patients would suffer and ultimately die.

So she said "you need to prove this in a study so it can be included, otherwise you put the company at risk". To which the doctor said "We could do that, but it would take 3-4 years, and in the mean time, the patients we're caring for would go back home, the doctors would be missing the one key piece of advice, and then they'll all suffer and die".

Science is slow. People are dying now.
Yes, that's absolutely valid. This too is hard. But then again, if it were easy everybody would be doing it so consider it a problem that when solved properly becomes part of your moat and a thing that you could easily mention in a sales process to ensure a level playing field with other parties pitching.
You'd fit right in with the folks that approved thalidomide.

"Why worry about something that isn't going to happen?"
Colo the servers. I had 17 servers + the hardware firewall and a massive data store in a single cabinet for $600 a month. The colo I selected was a former Enron data center, so it had a massive Internet pipe.
The Moon is very difficult as the long days result in extreme temperatures. Daytime temperatures can reach 253.4 degrees Fahrenheit (123° C). Covering a large area in a reflective surface can dramatically lower that, but the Apollo missions only worked because they stayed for a few days near lunar dawn.

There are ways around this, but the moon is a harsh mistress.
I have a brain injury. I can’t remember my parent’s birthdays. I recently couldn’t recall my wife’s middle name. I love all those people and live with one of them. Needing or wanting a technology assist doesn’t map to one’s level of commitment to a relationship in my opinion.
I'm getting a bug halfway down the page with Firefox on Android, couldn't read about learning to code.

Coding may be a good use of this as someone noted that gpt3 can often give creative answers more often than objective answers.

There currently is no objective solution to problems after abstraction. "Good enough" is somewhat the motto in programming.

On the contrary, if you ask it to design a bridge(or new invention), it would need to combine both specifications with somewhat complicated physics and geometry. Unlike in Programming, 'Good enough' is not ok, it needs to be perfect.

Would be a fantastic tool if every profession could skip the time consuming process of writing and debugging code.
Because A.) Approx 1 20yo in a million will have life threatening complications. Plus B.) there are a lot more of them than their (are people who have non-negligible chance of dying + people around those with non-negligible chance of dying).
This provides you with a link you can share with other people who might not know how to disable JS in their browser.

I created it to help show clients how their website behaves without Javsascript support.
That's not at all obvious from the marketing pages, possibly a point of improvement? It would be my #1 concern.
It would be amazing to plot the 2.4 GHz amplitude vs. time series plot of this exploit.

Think about it, an ocean of electrons in the copper WiFi antenna bump along with a certain guiding EM wave and in so doing, they inadvertently cause the information moving electrons in the silicon crystal to disconnect from the electrons being pushed out of the Li-ion battery.

This amplitude fluctuation in principal could have been broadcast by motions of stars in the universe, as astronomy does peer into the deep with these frequencies [0].

In the future, one could imagine a bad actor with control over a global network of low orbit satellites spewing out this code for decades preventing the such devices from being turned on long enough to receive updates, deactivating billions of dollars of human capital.

[0]: http://www.astrosurf.com/luxorion/radioastro-frequencieslist...
I have found fatherhood empowering but did not go into it with that expectation. Fatherhood has opened me to new emotional expression and capabilities that I lacked beforehand and I now speak for more than just me when I look for new work or increase my responsibility at work, since any pay or benefit improvements go directly to the family. Fatherhood added more responsibility to my day, which ends up feeling like I have more power, even if I traded some of my personal freedom in order to obtain it. I'm not sure if that means I actually have been disempowered; if so, my more powerful life before marriage and childhood felt less fulfilling.
Depends on the jurisdiction. In many countries, yes there are insurance requirements. Even in ones where there aren't, most vessels owned by larger companies carry insurance for the same reason anyone else does.

On the other hand, since oceangoing ships are (mostly) regulated by the countries they're registered in, which is frequently a regulation-light jurisdiction like Panama, Liberia, or the Marshall Islands - there are a surprising number of situations where the owner of the ship just completely disappears and the ship is left to rot.

One of the most famous recent examples of this was the ship involved in the Beirut port explosion this year. After being impounded for being unseaworthy, it rotted at its moorings and eventually capsized in the Beirut harbor.

A quick trip through developing-country ports on Google Earth will have quite a few ships like this.
Government should take bigger role in promoting U.S. technology
Sure, and interestingly you've made my point in one way as I was arguing it elsewhere in this thread, namely that more expensive products from companies like Apple are likely to come under more scrutiny from an ethical POV.

I do highly rate Apple for what they are doing - albeit under pressure from others. I chose FF more specifically because of the part maintainability / ability to replace as well as what seemed to me an ethical approach.

Back to the main point though: surely companies producing goods this cheap are going to de facto be cutting corners all the way up the chain, including ethical ones
The UK government had also ruled the second national lockdown, but here we are. Is there a counter since the last U-turn of the UK government?
It’s not illegal if you get user consent. I signed up (in Sweden) for a mobile contract with free Apple Music data last year, and they made a big thing of getting consent for them to do DPI to get that.
> Haven't they paused the rollout of this?

Not entirely. I'm not sure if they're still introducing Google Fiber to new cities, but they're definitely still expanding to new neighborhoods in existing cities.
A skillful display of ad hominems. It's a shame to see your talent wasted on an arena as HN, when twitter would appreciate it so much more.
I wasn’t suggesting they were small potatoes, but if your whole infrastructure is just a single rails app and you don’t need S3 or SQS or Lambda or any of the other AWS offerings then you probably aren’t benefiting much from AWS.
Bingo. We need standard communication protocols where the identity is separated from what is shared and so the platform is only a UI skin and users can easily swap. I.e. SMS for social media. Enforcement is an issue but only matters for market power of these large firms.
does it mean s3 could be used efficiently as a file system? Would that compete with FSX?
The 0.1% win again.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/the-bir...

If the FED doesn’t succeed in fixing the productivity to compensation ratio ( https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ ), there will be more revolts by people who cant afford to send their own kids to the dentist.
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What?
One can also search for lizard people and alien takeover which may seem just as "real" to some, but fully automated trucks that will replace drivers is not happening.
In the early days of S3 this was a real problem. Over the years they've beefed up the backend so objects become became consistent faster, but this is a huge leap.
"Genghis Khan is a god in Mongolians' minds," said Ulzidelger Jagchid, an ethnic Mongolian from China who is now an activist living abroad. "The government fears that Mongolians, with this belief in a god, will come together and unite." Beijing, he said, "Wants to lower the position of Genghis Khan in Mongolians' world."

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It's a wear part. Yes, it will wear, but that's logical, just like a knife will get dull when cutting cheese. The impressive bit to me is that it lasted 25 hours. They then fixed that one link and went on cutting. Keep in mind that it still is a chain and that all it took was for one link to break under a load that was not exactly typical for a chain and after some abrasion of the link itself.
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There are 321 vaccine candidates under development as of September with about 30 in clinical trials. Throughout the year there were probably many, many hundreds or thousands more discarded at early stages of development and evaluation. How would you have selected this particular candidate over all the other possibilities that got dropped?
I did this math, I've got an MBA. Physical hardware wins in nearly all cases.
Are Walmart, Amazon and eBay liable for selling vulnerable devices?
Is the issue that the doctor didn't make records of their patients? It sounds like they have data.

Formal Peer review is good, but not necessary in science. Replication is necessary.

And as a note, we can still have Authority based healthcare, but a science based healthcare system would be cheaper and more reliable.
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Right, but OP was listing chat apps to say how many Google killed. Allo was the analogous chat app that was released in tandem with duo. Duo is not a chat app.
Assuming your job/role is unmodifiable is a more serious problem that is only slightly aggravated by it being automated.

Some jobs are more easily automated than others, sure, but the problem is that some people don't realise the market might render your current job useless much before automation comes, so you should be ready to adapt always, and in any case.

We like to talk about pivoting business models on this website, but when it applies to what a person considers "sacred" everything falls apart. (not just here, as the automation discourse is happening globally)

edit: typo sacred
This simply isn’t true
Don't design them. Contextual grammars are a pain to deal with, both for the implementer and the user.

Alternatively, you can split the parsing into stage. Take XML for instance. The fact that it's opening and closing tags must be marked by the same identifier makes it context sensitive. You can however get around that by simply registering opening and closing tags in the parsing stage, and verify they match only later.

Really, though: if you have the liberty to design the syntax yourself, context sensitivity is generally best avoided. Heck, you probably want to limit yourself to a subset of context free grammars, like LR (which is guaranteed non-ambiguous). You can restrict even further, and stick to LL(1) —which goes a long way if you parse binary operators in a later stage, with shunting yard or precedence climbing.

Easier parsing means easier tooling, more predictable syntax, easier error handling… Sure, if you don't have a choice (compatibility or business imperative), you can introduce some context sensitivity. Ideally though, you want to use the least powerful grammar you can get away with.
Remember the food pyramid (that said you should eat more carbs than any other category) which was published by the medical experts?