skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aren't these services still wildly overpriced?

At $0.0125/GB/month, that means it costs $75 for 6TB per month.

But a 6TB hard drive costs less than $300, which means that assuming the data is stored on 3 hard drives for redundancy, they break even in less than a year.

However, hard drives seems to last at least 3-5 years on average, so this service seems to be priced at least 3-5 times as much as it costs to Amazon.

And there is even a $0.01/GB charge for retrieval on top.

There are other costs, but they should be relatively small at scale.

Am I missing something? If not, why doesn't anybody compete with Amazon and provide more reasonable pricing?
Given its name, and its creator, I wouldn't necessarily make that assertion so absolutely...
Locality in in quantum theory confuses the proverbial journalist because meaning of locality is different from the intuitive understanding of the word.

Two entangled particles light years apart share state. Physicists can still say that principle of locality is not violated because definition of locality in physics is does not include quantum state.

Quantum states have no location. Quantum correlations are non-local. As long as this is excluded from definition of locality everything is fine.

Information transfer and energy transfer follows principle of locality strictly.
Test your internet connection speed and ping using speedtest.net from the CLI
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> As Mermin points out, “quantum theory is the most useful and powerful theory physicists have ever devised.
Yet today, nearly 90 years after its formulation, disagreement about the meaning of the theory is stronger than ever. New interpretations appear every day. None ever disappear”

Isn't this the essence of science (excluding the last sentence)? The widespread conflicting interpretations of QT is something to be proud of, every time a new interpretation is dreamed up it's yet another opportunity to draw closer to the truth. Science is a field where being wrong should be seen as a good thing and that certainly used to be the case.
The Western form of Buddhism itself is mostly a mutation where usually a few ideas are borrowed and then espoused as something profound (I am not talking about Western Buddhist monks, which again are their own Western version of these ideas). It takes a lifetime to understand many of these things, and so monks spend a lifetime trying to come to grasp with the mindset of what is being said, to cultivate that mindset. The Western user of these ideas is usually a lay person who read maybe a few books and then starts pretending as if they are a monk who has spent a lifetime developing a certain mindset.

Religions are just that, a mindset. To be a religious person is to adopt a certain set of ideas as an ideology and a mindset and to become that sort of person. And often that sort of person can only exist within a society that is conducive to those ideas. And so monks go off into the forest with other monks and then have rituals and practices to try to cultivate the right mindset to become that sort of person. This is a very personal thing, it has implications for society but its most profound affect is on the thinking and behavior of the individual.

The monks then interact with lay society as some sort of role models for how people ought to act. And the society support them with supplications of food and money to aid in their journey. Because all society can't be a monk.
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So whats the solution to the multitudes of people in need of work?
The separation of powers seems to be our only saving grace at the moment.

The notion that one style of government is appropriate for all peoples in all places seems absurd. The US constitution was written up by and for people in a particular place and situation and the tensions that existed then look to have escalated to the civil war and these tensions look to remain today. It's interesting to read the anti-federalist papers.
I've read this book together with the two books about Effective Altruism bei Peter Singer (The Life You Can Save and The Most Good You Can Do), and I have to say these books have really changed my life. I know it sounds cheesy, but I've never read books that had such a lasting influence on me.

Those books provide just the right rational and scientific arguments and have shown me with how much cognitive dissonance I, as a supposed rational person, ran through my life.
Use scribble/lp2 [0] to do both !

[0] http://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/lp.html
I did not follow the links in wired article, and didn't realize there was a link to a youtube talk. Thanks for tl;dr, need to watch the video!
way to troll us all, OP :)
I'd like Peace in reverse: with a blacklist instead of a whitelist.
You can just also use git annotate if you want to avoid the negativity.
As Knuth himself said, literate programming facilitates the task of thinking about a problem without having to use a formal language to construct such understanding bottom-up. Therefore literate programming can, for example, produce much less stack depth in a program while making it easy to understand and maintain. This is quite an interesting aspect with regards to performance of the resulting code, that is often overlooked. He also claims that if TeX had been written without it it would not have a depth of 4-5 subroutines on the call stack, but around 50-100 [1]. He also states that he would not have been able to produce MMIX [2] without literate programming because he would not have been able to reason about it's design bottom up [1].

So, a lot of complexity is added to a program just so that it can be understood and maintained in a formal language; but he also states that many modern comment styles go a long way towards literate programming.

Having worked on large codebases I concur that using literate programming to construct these seems far-fetched and too academic, yet I am enticed by the idea of optimizing code by literate programming since I have seen far too many abstractions for the purpose of maintaining easy to read code.

[1] http://www.codersatwork.com/
[2] http://mmix.cs.hm.edu/
> Try out searching for arrows, chess pieces, emojis, arrows

Any reason it lists arrows twice? :)
svn ships as annotate/praise by default. git annotate also works though praise does not unless you alias it as shown in this thread.
False advertising is a misdemeanor crime. You can be fined up to $5,000 for it and spend six months in jail, or more if it’s your second offense.
Those '7 rules' are a giant OR concatenation of a zillion rules, lifted from somewhere else (i.e. the usual publicly available sources.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10192391

It's not going to be any faster or slower than any other blocker using a similar number of conditions.
Oh yeah? Why is it git blame when it was svn praise?
Google Patches Latest Android Lockscreen Bypass
> I am curious how this will impact the web.

It will make Google (the only ad company that actually outright steals personal data instead of acting nice and building Bayesian models) into a monopoly. You can't adblock the Google.

(Obviously I'm exaggerating for emotional impact, but the basic gist is true. This is not a good development for privacy on the Internet!)
My guess is off site backup is expensive. Also add the electricity costs, CPU etc, engineers, rent, etc.

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That probably takes the margin from 80% of price to maybe 40%, in line with most retailers and whatnot
data already exists. apple is very late to the game and has a relatively tiny market share when compared all browser usage among all platform when including desktop.
The problem is that nothing is being proven wrong. Science doesn't advance by the proliferation of theories, but by their narrowing into a smaller set of theories that agree on more and more points.
Condition 1. As long as teachers are drawn from most the lowest deciles of the graduating class, this will continue.

Condition 2. As long as we fail to value the education of children, Condition 1 will continue

Condition 3. As long as the majority of parent perceive that the life outcome of their children are less important than the parent's own desires for money, assets, sexual intercourse and self validation, Condition 2 will continue

Condition 4. As long we are humans, Condition 3 will continue.

Iterate ad infinitum
( or recurse if you love Lambda )
You have no idea about ad network at all. "unnecessarily track"? Tracking is the only way to make the ad relevant to you and increase the ad's value so you actually see fewer ads and those ads fund better content. Without any tracking, you gonna see at least tripled amount of ads on the most popular websites today in order to generate same amount of revenue. And BTW, everything between "you land on a webpage" and "ad network decided which ad to serve" happens in about 100ms or less, like you can really notice it?! Complain about ads when you actually pay for subscription rather than asking for "workaround links" when you try to read a WSJ article posted on HN next time.
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Practical Invalid Curve Attacks
A serious question about Lisp and Google, is Lisp used within Google, and if so, in what projects and why?
We've gone full circle!
Thank you, thank you, thank you for the keyboard selection. So many cool web game demos assume querty which makes it really inconvenient or even impossible to play them without changing the keyboard layout in the OS, but that's asking a bit much for trying out some game demo.
> Sure, we're trying to improve our rail infrastructure to the point where that's an option, too, but we're a long ways off.

Which is fine until some idiot blows up a train, then all of a sudden that becomes a massive inconvenience (all in the name of public safety!) as well...

Although interesting to see that that's exactly what happened on the 7/7 bombings in London and seems to have made zero difference re: security theatre on the Underground.
Good tip; many thanks.
Voice -> it is not recorded by default by anybody unless you are under the spotlight.

Prove you are somewhere else -> can you prove you were somewhere else 24/7? I bet you can not.
Can you add the 'save to pocket' as well, that would great.
3d view is though is not. it works on a 2d grid but it gets weird when you move in 90 degrees in a 3d game
That was a good write-up. Thing is, this works. Even (or especially) for startups. Only if to kickstart the hype a bit. Real followers and likes will follow, but let's be honest here: Who doesn't automatically trust a business that has 19K Twitter followers and a few good reviews out there?

From the article: And these days, which is more real: a fake business with a real website or a brick and mortar business with no online presence?
> I am just trying to ask if it is fair to punish people for bad attitude of ad networks.

Publishers should ask themselves whether they are in the business of providing quality content to consumers, or in the business of sharing revenue with advertisers. Deciding which side of this line they fall on will help them make the right choices.
What I like about the effective altruist movement is the research they provide.

What I don't like is the cultish behavior, and inherent bias that what I think is good is "universally" good. Effective altruism is nothing more than a rebranding of utilitarianism, and suffers from the same moral quandaries.

Should I kill someone if it is the best way to decrease child mortality rates in Africa?

Should we all quit our jobs to solve friendly AI? Because if not there is a non-negligible probability of human extinction, and the math clearly says this should be our top priority.

I think it's healthy to be aware of the short comings of effective altruism as well as its benefits. Morality and duty are too nuanced for a single ideology to provide all the answers.

Edit: wording
I taught college pupils to math and basics of cs. I think the "multimedia" materials make things worse in many cases, because people are not enforced to imagine things or just think hard on problems. The mistakes, the way of discovery toward e.g. a formal proof also help them to understand more tougher problems and advanced learning materials and instant solutions on the net take this opportunity away.
Would be nice to apply this to EBS snapshot storage too, that can add up mighty-quick.
Spamhaus has a history of extorting larger ISPs into dropping their customers instead of just blocking said customer.

https://www.virusbtn.com/blog/2011/10_13.xml

It's worth noting that spamhaus had no real reason to do this as they had already blocked the hosting company a2b was providing bandwidth to, so blocking all of a2b didn't actually stop any more spam.

Zen is far far from not blocking any real email, they regularly block large ISPs that refuse too indiscriminately drop customers on their request.
Go look up one of James Hamilton's talks, he breaks down the cost of running datacenters/cloud. 'Servers' are ~50% of the cost, hard drives are of course less than 100% of server costs.

So you need to at least double the cost of the hard drive. Tripling the cost of hard drives might be a good assumption for S3/Glacier because you could assume they are building servers where hard drives make up 2/3 the cost of the server.
It seems to me and in this day-and-age, the teachers were desperate to not be sanctioned over a violation of some rule.
The main problem with interpretations of quantum phenomena is that even today many physicists receive very little information about modern concepts in quantum mechanics (QM) during their University training. The standard QM course usually starts off by explaining the two "postulates" of quantum mechanics, i.e. that a state is described by a wave function which evolves in a totally predictable fashion, but which suddenly "collapses" to a classical state in a random and non-predictable way when we perform a measurement on the quantum system.

Unfortunately, this picture is almost completely wrong. In fact, there is no randomness and non-predictability in quantum mechanics. The fact that we observe wave function collapse in a quantum system is the consequence of coupling the system to a larger, external one that becomes entangled with the "small" quantum system and -through so-called decoherence- produces what we call the collapse of the wave function to a "classical" state. This process is entirely deterministic.

The theory of such "open quantum systems" is well established today and explains many of the seeming paradoxes that have plagued quantum mechanics, and it also provides clear answers to many of the questions posed in the article.

Some questions, in particular what happens to the parts of the wave function that do not become part of our reality after a collapse cannot be answered by any known theoretical framework, hence different people will have different opinions concerning those. The problem here is that we ourselves are described by a quantum wave function and therefore "live" inside the quantum world, we can therefore not "step back" and look at a wave function from the outside, which is why we can't answer what happens with the parts of a wave function that correspond to measurement results that we have not obtained when measuring an observable of a quantum system. Different interpretations of quantum mechanics like the "Many Worlds" or the "Copenhague" varieties are basically just arguing about what happens with a wave function after it "collapses".

To my knowledge there is no way to discriminate between different alternatives here, the preferences that individual physicists have in this matter are therefore based more on personal belief or concepts like simplicity or "beauty", hence we should not waste time trying to find out which is the right one.
Your premise that drivers need to speak English is incorrect. We are talking about two parties with aligned goals, smartphones and automated translation tools available, even human translators available by phone if required.

However, I agree with your statement that foreigners are nearly irrelevant to the vehicle booking market in China. Frankly this move sounds like it's mostly about marketing hype.
OK, thanks. Will contact the dev to see if it’s planned functionality.
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Is it only me, who would prefer to have the phrase "efficient altruists" rather than "effective altruists"?

In the context of sciences, "effective X" usually means "something that is not X, but in the effect acts as X" (e.g. "effective potential"). So, I when I first met the phrase "effective altruism" I was thinking it is something in the line of Ayn Rand or so - that we should be egoistic, but (some) egoistic behaviours are effectively altruistic. While "how to do as much X given fixed amount of resources?" is talking about being "efficient".
As always, kudos for taking an idea and executing it. But this is juvenile and harmful to your work environment. Please think twice before using it.
I have a small question for people who know better than me about IPFS. Does IPFS includes some equivalent of the USK (Updatable keys) concept in Freenet ? How things can be updated ?
What do you mean by 'geographically diverse'? AWS has a model of 'availability zones' and regions. A region like us-east-1 means a bunch of AZs (a.k.a. datacenters) that are close to each other.

S3 (and most AWS services) copies your data across multiple AZs but they are all pretty close together.
Explanation from Henk Barendregt (logician and Vipassana teacher) http://www.cs.ru.nl/~henk/BP/bp1.html

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1.7 Explaining apparent contradictions

Now we will explain how contradictions, which happen to occur in some buddhist texts, are possible. Suppose some part of reality U is described using some language L. Some of the regularities observed in L are in fact physical laws, but may be confused with logical laws. If we extend the reality U to U+, but keep as the describing language L, then statements may result that contradict statements made about U. Although the contradictions are only apparent, because the statements are about different `worlds', it may seem that logical laws are violated.

An example will be helpful. Consider a tribe living on an isolated island. Vision of the tribesman is such that they can only see the colors black and white. In their description of the world they say: ``Something is either black or white." Although we know that this is for them in fact an empirical law, the people of the island are tempted to consider this as a logical law. Sometimes they use the words `white' and `non-black' interchangeably. On some day someone has a mystical experience. In our language we can say that that person has seen the color green. In the language of the tribe she says: ``I have seen something very impressive. It was neither black nor white." For most of the people of her tribe she was saying: ``It was neither black, nor non-black." Therefore on the island one may think she is speaking nonsense. However, we know that she is not.

There are, however, stronger contradictions. In his book Exploring Mysticism already mentioned, F. Staal discusses the following so called `tetra lemma' occurring in buddhist texts.

It is not A;
it is not non-A;
it is both A and non-A;
and it is neither A nor non-A.

Even this contradiction may be explained. Simply consider again the tribe seeing only black and white. But now our mystic sees the color gray. Indeed gray is not white, not black. And it can be said that gray is both white and black. But also that it is neither white nor black.

I hope that the examples show that contradictions occurring in texts of mystics are not a sign that something essential is wrong. Nevertheless it is preferable that descriptions of altered states of consciousness are free from contradictions in the sense of logic. I will try to fulfill this requirement in sections 2 and 3.

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Personal note: this "Buddhist logic" is useful in the context of phenomenology and how to communicate certain fundamental changes in viewpoint that come from meditation. It's not new better way to think.
In my case, Google always shows sites located in Russia first (first 10 results are always in .ru), despite that I located in Ukraine, and write queries in Ukrainian language, even lang:uk does not help, so I must restrict results with site:ua. IMHO, Google just sold places on their first page, so Google is not screwed and will never be.
I'd have read that but I didn't get more than two lines in before an overlay appeared in front of the content. So I gave up.
The most awesome part is that it works super smooth on my android, feels absolutely like a native app from store.
There's nothing wrong with the American constitution. The problem is we don't follow it any more.
CBS Canada, did this about a year ago, very interesting watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y0pYUdfGiw
Europe's refugee crisis, explained
I remember coming across ARM's VIXL (https://github.com/armvixl/vixl), which is a similar concept but for C++, and just being blown away by how easy it was to twiddle the stack and assemble new functions on the fly - yee haw!
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Good read, thanks!

The argument is well established except that the author omitted one crucial factor, which is, US became the only super power in the world in recent two decades. At the time the Constitution was drafted, nobody in his/her wildest dream that US would become the dominant power in this solar system. With the existence of outer threaten, branches (or parties) were driven to cooperate for their very own existence. The threaten was removed, so gone the drive.

My argument is also supported by one common phenomena in the business world: it's really rare that a successful company enjoys no political infight. The logic behind is the same: when insiders can obtain more benefit through relative cheap inner fight, they are no longer interested in relatively expensive, difficult and risky company growing strategy.

Is there anything missing/wrong in my logic?
Yes, surely it is considerably more concerning when it's the government that already exercises physical jurisdiction over you.
"Attached is a picture of the device that shows it was suspicious in nature."

Nope, it shows no such thing - I see bare electronics, that's all. I really do think that the idea that that is intrinsically "suspicious" needs to be challenged, or better yet ridiculed.
Really cool idea, hope to see more examples! :)
These days I consider PayPal to be about as scummy as Western Union. If I can help it, I don't touch them with a ten foot pole.
Almost every knows that supporting backrefs makes it slow, i.e. exponential. I'm tired of these excuses which come up all the time.

What is perl5's solution to this problem? Saying that is unsolvable (like here), and supporting external matchers. Nobody uses them because it's a joke.

What it should of course do is to check for abnormal backrefs and use a fast matcher without backrefs. 90% of the regexes have no backrefs.

There would be a tiny performance problem if perl5 would use a normal dynamic one-pass compilation, something a modern matcher does. But it uses old-style two-pass compilation, so it's trivial to check if there's a backref, and use a proper Thompson NFA if not. Or a faster jitted variant. Instead p5p still holds on to their awful Spencer DFA with longjmp's all over the place to fix the broken architecture, and engages heavily in badmouthing better algorithms and implementations.

The few changes that were done there made it even slower. Davem's conversion from recursion to iteration caused a significant performance bump. Davem's support for proper /e (eval rhs expressions) caused another significant performance bump.
You are not allowed to critize that. The p5p zealots will come all over you. Ross Cox ran away very fast.