skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haha yeah! Though times for these auctions are double-digit milliseconds, a lifetime for your fpga strategies!
And it's still fairly niche, these are complementing CLOBs/dark pools rather than replacing them.
Where did you move to from hft?
Free. The vast majority of Slack instances are groups of friends, common interests, and small businesses. This might be a super compelling feature for a model rocketry club, but they can't even afford to upgrade to paid Slack instances.

Now launch an enterprise plan. It should be hundreds or thousands of dollars a month, whatever keeps you afloat. Include SLA guarantees and support. Enterprise users are going to have you engage lawyers to redline contracts and do security audits since you are plugging into their internal communications. Saying you have "commercial grade encryption" doesn't mean anything to the people who will pay your bills and you are going to have to pay for outside pentests and privacy audits.

But most importantly start working on your next Slack app and diversify your income. In all honesty this is a feature built on a bug (poor text rendering in Slack). If a billion dollar company needs that bug fixed they are just going to pressure Slack during the next renewal to avoid having to pay you.
The comparison with UN is weird, UN does not have 1 member that is super special.

Anyway the issue seems to be that the messaging does not match the reality, MS needs to be transparent and very clear in this, then projects can decide if they agree with the conditions. Java world had from a long time foundations that were independent of Sun/Oracle.
Yeah they're great as long as you don't need to go up any hills.
> I think of it like the UN. You may not like the USSR (the creators of the UN certainly didn't) but if you don't give them a seat at the table the whole endeavor is useless.

What's the point of putting up a foundation if it ends up being nothing more than a facade of a single corporation?
> Speaking of algae, we're not turning wasteland into algae farming ponds and developing more useful algae because, well, I don't really know.

One of the reasons is that, according to many environmental activists, there is no such thing as “wasteland” that you could develop with minimal loss to environment. This is not a theoretical concern: read up on Ivanpah solar power plant, built in the middle of the literal desert, the place as deserving the designation of “wasteland” as any other place in the US. Activists forced the developers to spend tens of millions of dollars on relocating the desert tortoises living in that wasteland, at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars per tortoise - and that’s not even including the litigation costs. This also resulted in reduction of scope of the plant, reducing the total installed capacity, and reducing the amount of carbon-free energy we will get out of it.

The lesson here is that if the environmental activists are not happy about building solar power plant in the middle of remote desert, they won’t be happy about building literally anything else. They’re totally BANANAs: Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything.
Does anyone know the name of the note taking tool where pretty much everything is a bullet point, and each bullet point can expand to show sub bullet points. The website is essentially the tool itself IIRC. I've been trying to remember it for ages. I saw it in the comments for a different note taking tool on HN...
Yup, exactly. My current take is that "pursue experiences instead of things" is primarily a meme that's being spread by countless businesses that want recurring revenue. Experiences are fleeting, so you have to keep buying them all over again - where a well-chosen thing is something you buy once, and it keeps yielding value (including, possibly, experiences) for a long time.
That just means the GIL is good at hiding concurrency bugs. It doesn’t make writing correct code any easier. Arguably you could say it makes writing correct concurrent code harder, because it’ll take significantly longer for concurrency bugs cause errors.
You might want to read the article you posted. Women are over represented only in the Healthcare fields. Not exactly news and is exactly what the original article here that you're calling click bait is saying.
Thank you for the insights. I have not experienced it yet, but am moving to another cloud solution for my peace of mind ;-)
> No. Society was a threat to this non-violent minor.

You can't go around breaking into other people's computers and causing them massive headaches. He had investigators flying all over the world and utility providers planning around the possibility of a state-sanctioned attack on the country's emergency response system.

Many countries are horrendously punitive in general, and of course also over-criminalize and over-incarcerate computer-related mischief. Totally granted. But I just can't get my head around why folks think that's the case here.

A bit of community service as punishment/recompense for breaking into ISPs and university computer systems seems... downright reasonable?

> (By the way, the incomplete capacity to comprehend the negative consequences of actions isn't "nihilism" -- it is "innocence").

I think the word you're looking for is "ignorance". I'm disinclined to accept that being ignorant is a form of innocence. Ignorance doesn't lessen the load of one's criminal mischief on the rest of society.
Those interested in his story may also like "A Call from Joybubbles"(2017) produced by Jeremy Grange for BBC Radio 4
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08hlnjq [audio, 28 min].
Different league, but in the early days of Nuclear Red Button, UK Home Office was tasked with developing failsafe communication with Westminster when the PM is around the country. This was just after the US developed some kind of terrestrial radio system.

The UK equivalent was entrusting all drivers with a box of coins so they can use the phone boxes. Should have hear run out, the PM could call the operator and request reverse charge connection (with UK strategic command or sth presumably). This was also deemed failsafe, as there are many phone boxes around the country.

It was once described in length on QI...
This isn't about trying to "raise him."

There's a difference between instilling your own moral principles upon someone and actually helping them.

Their only idea for solving the problem, in retrospect, is to remove from his life the only thing he cared about!

You can help someone in more ways than just "raising" them, and in this case the way to have actually helped him would have been to display enough understanding to gain his respect, and then guide him gently into a safer course.

Even in an article that's published in a paper with fact-checkers and standards, his parents still refuse to acknowledge RollerCoaster Tycoon as anything other than a violent video game! It's a game about building a theme park! It is blatantly clear that even the mildest effort to understand him or his activities wasn't taken, and that they refuse to do so even with the benefit of hindsight.

You can stand on a hill and grandstand to your child as much as you want, but if you don't put in the slightest effort to understand them it's your fault when they end up doing something that hurts them.
HN user asks a simple and direct question to Facebook's VP of AI:

> What are you all doing to allow those of us that don’t want to be a part of your utopia to opt out?

Answer from Facebook VP of AI:

> I encourage you to read the details of the news that doesn't actually answer your question but gives you an idea of how we think

I'm glad to see that even on a industry-specific forum like Hacker News, we can't get straight answers from people like this. Giving people "an idea of how we think" seems like a great way to stay vague enough that your thinking can change however it needs to over time to fulfill your business objectives, health or safety of the community be damned. Facebook doesn't need to give us vague "ideas", it needs to provide straightforward answers to straightforward questions.

> AI-powered wearables will have stringent privacy guarantees, both for the wearer and the people around.

Reading a sentence like this from a Facebook exec completely stretches credulity for me. I have zero confidence that your definition of "stringent privacy guarantees" is anything close to something that actually benefits the community as a whole.
Lack of multithreading can easily be a win for a language. A tiny subset of problems really needs it these days and for everything else it's a potential way to either screw things up or make them way more complicated that needs to be.
The most enduring product of any nuclear power project is not radioactive waste, but corruption. Nuclear power construction projects, at least in the western world, invariably become conduits for wholly legal, long-term corruption, making nukes about the most expensive kind of power (ignoring externalities from coal). This is a common feature of big-ticket public-works projects, particularly also including tunnel projects and military procurement.

Nukes take so long to build not because it is so hard to do -- it is mostly just concrete and plumbing -- but because nobody actually involved wants the construction money ever to stop flowing. No output is even promised for years, which is easily stretched out, often beyond a decade. Sunk-cost fallacy helps this process: once a few $B are burned, it is easy to unlock more against the prospect of admitting what was already spent bought nothing.

As bad as is the corruption around fission, fusion has been and must be much worse. A fission plant is expected to produce power eventually, or the plug will finally be pulled. One recent fission failure has cost $30B, so far, which seems like a lot, but fusion has burned more already without even breaking ground on a plant. ITER, even if 100% successful, will generate zero watts: no turbines are in the site plan. A plant built after it would cost, conservatively, >$50B and take decades to finish. (The most likely outcome would be that it is never finished.) Meanwhile, the costs of solar, wind, and storage are still plummeting, with no hint of a lower limit.

Thus far wind and solar have mostly avoided becoming conduits for corruption, probably because it is easy to see how the money is spent, and maybe because of the high fraction of idealists involved. (The exception is solar thermal.) Power can begin flowing almost immediately, after a small fraction of the whole installation is done, which can then fund further construction. Thus, the up-front capital needed is small, and costs are constrained by immediate revenue.

Thus, every penny diverted to fission and fusion (not to mention feeding and maintaining coal) from solar and wind brings climate catastrophe ever nearer.
Encryption used to be outlawed (banned for export and controlled by government). Then it got ridiculous and they finally realised they couldn't control maths.
Emacs with org-mode?
I have issue with this:

> .. you need to provide to meet demand ..

To put it bluntly, if you have enough to power baseload, you have nothing, except maybe pitchforks in your face.

WRT baseload demand, I don't see how it's relevant to pretty much anything. Baseload power - I don't see how one would use it as a backup, unless you're throwing energy away, or it's variable, hence not baseload.
Facebook got a penalty, but the main gripe is probably that it shouldn’t have been necessary to give one in the first place. I think what is on everyones mind is : “how can we trust a company that has a bad track record?”

I think in the coming years FB should invest more in a public conversation on these issues. How can we meet the future in a way that our data is in factuality is our data, even though it’s stored by a third party such as yourself.

Especially in light of in the FB model, where the user seems to be the product, and advertisers the client.
They refused to give him shelter when he was 22 and came to them begging for it.

You don't get to grieve after your child after you shut your door in front of his nose.

Especially since that rejection was direct cause of his move to Asia where he was found dead.
The effects of Chernobyl are not limited to the exclusion zone. In the 100km radius zone, my family had to test all our food with a Geiger counter because anything grown in the area was poisoned.

(The government made Geiger counters illegal to own, btw.)
checkvist?
"The failure modes are huge. Most notably, the Cheernobyl Absolute Exclusion Zone stands at 1000 square miles 35 years after the fact"

We can also talk about all the tragedies and catastrophic events related to commercial aviation. But no one in their right mind would propose that we stop or slow down the airline industry because of the 'failure modes'.
Before the new version, let’s revisit 1984’s Dune–the greatest movie ever made
This is what Bitcoin was designed to do—-make the net safer by incentivizing the government to reveal the forms of encryption it can break, starting with SHA256: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28860239
Yes, "long flu" is also a thing.
First yes, finest no; I had one as a kid and I sure do not recall any games that looked even remotely as nice as her example at the top of demaking one of her own games at its resolution. It was an amusing toy to play with when my engineer father got it for me but I was covering my friend’s VCS by the time next Christmas rolled around.

A quick search for a list of all its games shows how visually underwhelming it was: https://voxodyssey.com/fairchild-channel-f (and confirms my feeling that Nicole’s demake of her game looks tons better than any actual Fairchild games)

The controllers were interesting, but quirky as hell: a shaft held in one hand with a triangular head poking out, to be held by the other hand. Push up/down/left/right to function as a digital joystick, rotate l/r as well, push it down into the shaft to act as a button.
What is profile ? What do you do / specialize in ? For how long ?
>"But a bit of community service as"

The OP said 240 days in prison. (Easy to misread, as it was a "suspended" sentence... that ended up being served anyway).
What does Obsidian offer that Foam doesn’t or vice versa? I use VSCode for writing and programming so am trying to avoid yet another tool for note taking and knowledge management.
> but let's not pretend that it is without problems

Nobody is doing that.
He was given the option to do community service and chose prison instead.

He should've chosen the community service, and his choice of prison over community service should've triggered some sort of mental health review. But in any case the option was "contribute to society or go to jail" and he chose jail. I doubt that was the intention or expectation of the judge.
Well they have 5 five permanent members of the UN Security Council (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States) with veto power ...
What do you think when you hear web3?
Lots of people are building the real web3. What is the popular architecture? ceramic, fission.codes, solid / inrupt, or something else entirely?

https://blog.ceramic.network/the-next-architecture-for-build...
https://inrupt.com/one-small-step-for-the-web

https://fission.codes/blog/we-re-fission/
Popularity has probably as much to do, if not more to do, with ease of access (or lack of alternative) than good design of the language. Php is equally if not more popular than python.
I cook them once a year. They taste good but it's a pain to peel away the black and tacky skin.
Can you explain more about this? Do these have certain properties that you find beautiful, or useful?
The other day:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28880782
"capping your energy budget" is a non-starter. I oppose it, the majority opposes it, and this is a good way of getting kicked out of power and then having even your realistic policies rolled back. Unless you're the type of person who enjoys being right rather than being effective, you'll make reasonable proposals that have a chance of being enacted, rather than unreasonable proposals that lose elections.

The future is one of cheap, abundant energy, that is growing in use. It is one of increasing industrialization and output. Increasing consumption and production. If you can't find a way to get there, then you'll be left behind as the rest of the world chooses a different path.
Perhaps https://workflowy.com or https://dynalist.io ?
The summation of what you are saying is that I am wrong because lots of people with power made an opposing decision and that I should just read a Wikipedia page because reasons.

That's asinine. I could just as easily give you an Amazon listing for an entire book making a case for nuclear energy, tell you to just read that without giving an explanation of why, and that really wouldn't be much different from what you are telling me. It proves nothing.

Why are you even on HN if you want to avoid real discussion? Do you know why I and nearly everyone else here includes snippets from the pages they link to? It's because no one has time to read that shit if they have no context.

Can you even make a single point to back up your position? What you've shared is barely even a citation; a citation is usually in tandem with a piece of information or an abstract of the source being cited. You shared a hyperlink. Goodie for you.

You know what, I don't even really care if you are right because you wrote as if I'm a dunce who should "get started" learning about the facts around the subject. Are you kidding me? You turned a blind eye to my points and then have the gall to say imply I'm ignorant because you have a Wikipedia page? You're being a total jerk.

Instead of reducing what I said to a "personal opinion" that I am trying to "pass off" that is "baseless", you could have respectfully disagreed even without a reason and included that Wikipedia page, and there was a chance I might have read it. But you had to be a jerk. If you still don't get this, then you're on the wrong website.
I don't think it's necessarily predictive of anything, but I think it's clear that certain types of violent video games, especially first person shooter games , do serve to desensitize people to committing violence.

In fact, the military found long ago that changes as small as using a human silhouette rather than a round target helped soldiers to hesitate less when they were confronted with having to shoot someone on the battlefield.

Now, the military uses first person shooters for this same reason and I can't imagine that it isn't quite a bit more effective than a silhouette on a paper target.
> A tiny subset of problems

like processing web requests?
Shared L3 cache.
That just leads to the same question: is there proof its harder to game random batches?
> I feel guilty now for sending him so many messages over the last half decade.

Knowing geeks, I wouldn't be surprised if part of why he didn't let on was because he didn't want to stop having fun geeking out.
I think you are taking about moo.do?
5%! Pfft you kids have got it easy. My first mortgage was 7.8
Oh nice! I should have checked the docs or Intellij to see that it returns the primitive type ;)
Earn $340 and more every week
A lot of what they're saying sounds a lot like parts of "Industrial Society and Its Future":

> If the machines are permitted to make all their own decisions, we can’t make any conjectures as to the results, because it is impossible to guess how such machines might behave. We only point out that the fate of the human race would be at the mercy of the machines. It might be argued that the human race would never be foolish enough to hand over all power to the machines. But we are suggesting neither that the human race would voluntarily turn power over to the machines nor that the machines would willfully seize power. What we do suggest is that the human race might easily permit itself to drift into a position of such dependence on the machines that it would have no practical choice but to accept all of the machines’ decisions. As society and the problems that face it become more and more complex and as machines become more and more intelligent, people will let machines make more and more of their decisions for them, simply because machine-made decisions will bring better results than man-made ones. Eventually a stage may be reached at which the decisions necessary to keep the system running will be so complex that human beings will be incapable of making them intelligently. At that stage the machines will be in effective control. People won’t be able to just turn the machine off, because they will be so dependent on them that turning them off would amount to suicide.
I tried virtual desktop for a bit with a DL360 Gen 9 using ESXi and an Intel NUC. Not exactly a laptop I know, but the NUC is essentially a laptop in a cube.

The NUC worked perfectly. I ended up switching back to Fedora because the cost of the VMware license wasn't worth it on an old Skylake NUC which is no longer supported. I'd do it again on modern hardware.

For the DL360 and an Nvidia 1660ti the only caveat was that Nvidia's driver stack wouldn't enable CUDA in VMs even after applying various workarounds. If I had to do it again I'd buy an AMD video card and a Dell server. AMD doesn't fight the user about fully enabling consumer video card features when passed through to virtual machines and Dell releases the latest driver and BIOS updates for free rather than hiding them behind a maintenance paywall like HPE and updates are crucial to stay abreast of CVEs.

With supply chain issues and chip shortages video cards are so expensive and hard to get the idea of sharing one device between VMs as needed vs building multiple PCs or even multibooting is quite appealing.

Beyond that you have enterprise-class equipment available cheap in the secondary markets so you can host your VMs on ECC memory, raided storage and talk to your network at 10 or 40 gigabits.

I realize this is a bit far afield of your original ask but ESXi on laptop-class hardware like the NUC works great. Finally if you do decide to use VMware on consumer or prosumer hardware I highly recommend William Lam's blog: https://williamlam.com/
> yeah, if we don't have blackouts this year i'll be pleasently surprised.

How does this address GP's statement that governments don't "walk the walk" ?

Meanwhile, some member states, like Portugal, already managed to get a few days of the year being 100% self-sufficiency from renewables.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy/news/portugal-breaks...

What exactly leads you to believe that blackouts are possible or expected?
For example, nothing was done to replace similar cladding found in hundreds of other high-rise buildings. Or with similar, deadly fire hazard risks found in older council buildings.

Or rather, not nothing. Live human watchmen are patrolling hundreds of buildings and will wake everyone up in case there’s a fire; because there are no fire alarms and if a fire does break out, you have no time to spare at all. Oh and the residents have to pay for this.

But the people who built these, designed them, accepted as safe, or indeed set the regulation, that’s all fine.

https://www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/insight/waking-watch...
Radiation on the other hand is all but permanent.

No it isn't. The purpose of a nuclear reactor is to take highly radioactive material found in nature, cook off a bunch of its radioactive energy (producing power in the process), and create less-radioactive material as a by-product. The waste that comes out at the end is less radioactive than the material we started with, albeit much more concentrated. But that makes it easier to handle and store, compared to the CO2 and other greenhouse gases that are spewed out all over the place.

If we dumped all that radioactive waste into the ocean (BAD IDEA), mother nature would dilute it for us and spread it out until it disappears into the natural background radiation. The drawback is that it'll be dangerous to everything that encounters it before it's diluted, so we can't do that.