skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've heard people suggest a comparison between birds wings and planes. We don't understand everything about bird wings. They're incredibly complex and messy biological structures. However, we do know enough about the general principles of aerodynamics to build aircraft. Perhaps a similar dynamic is at work here. We don't understand brains, but perhaps neural networks are able to capture the same principles of information processing.
Ironically, I didn't finish reading the article...
That seems like a pointlessly mean comment to have written.
I'm surprised that they give out your drive(s) without handing out a document that explains why they had to do that.

As far as I'm aware (not a lawyer, a complete layman) there's no 'gag order' here. So, my limited understanding so far is that this is either a complete fuck-up ("Nah, we don't care to provide that document") or malicious. Even if I follow the 'probably stupid, not malicious' argument: Why would you want to pay Hetzner if this video is correct and you won't even be able to get the documentation for them handing out your data?
> However there is a concern that arises when switching from integer arithmetic to floating point -- the algorithm becomes susceptible to FP rounding modes and susceptible to C compilers generating code with double rounding when mixing 64-bit doubles with 80-bit extended precision.

The solution to this would presumably be to compile Errol with its own set of compiler flags, rather than with your normal ones.
I'm surprised that the author had 150GB of Creative Commons audio CDs to begin with!
Not necessarily, that maybe part of the explanation.

The majority of the population is simply not capable of doing the work because it requires a high IQ.
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I had a different takeaway from that particular line. Maybe I'm understanding it wrong.

For many years I would craft a system from the Ubuntu minimal install. It appears CentOS has a similar installer.[0] With Ubuntu's one could create a pretty good minimal install.

[0] https://www.centos.org/download/
Entering exactly the phrase "Does Google cloud have any plain VMs (running CentOS for example) available" into Google search results in, as a first result, a link explaining exactly how to launch one of those [0].

Your comment doesn't really relate to the parent, to this thread and is a question that is trivially easy to answer. There's no point in hundreds-to-thousands of HN readers seeing your comment which can be answered in under a second and anyone who's used GCE already knows the answer to.

Please considering querying Google, or a relevant knowledge base, before querying a tangentially related HN comment chain.

[0]: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/operating-systems/linu...
I'm not sure what you mean by "computer elbow", but one thing that was giving me discomfort somewhere in forearms or wrists (don't remember details anymore) was using mouse.

Basically, laying my hand flat on the mouse forced me to either rotate the forearm in some weird manner or spread the elbows unnaturally far from the body. The latter, I think, might be the reason behind your issues.

I solved this by switching to a trackball with angled top (Microsoft Trackball Optical 1.0) so that my palm doesn't need to lie horizontally anymore. So called "vertical mice" push this idea even further (never tried one).

And as for the keyboard, consider learning to touch type effortlessly. With some hunt-and-peckers I get the feeling that they apply all kinds of weird tensions to their hands, especially under stress, which hardly is good for longterm comfort.
Glacier is more comfortable to use through S3, where you upload and download files with the regular S3 console, and just set their storage class to Glacier with a lifecycle rule. I've used the instructions in here to do it: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/archive-s3-to-glacier/
The problem is that people have been trained to expect everything to be free. So high value, premium content doesn't get a chance.
One of the challenges is that the entire industry is following what people want-- so for instance, Apple rather than being mildly sweet and small and a little ugly are now huge, bright red, and super sweet. They've been bred to have more carbs!

For me, I love BBQ. I love Mexican. I hate cooking, so getting a crockpot and cooking mexican dishes (eg: chicken, taco seasoning, salsa and a little bit of peppers, plus 6 hours and you've got great tasting shredded chicken).... I don't feel like I've given up much. It does take a week or two to transition, though, and control over your diet (eating out is tough unless you go to BBQ restaurants.)
Yes, Compute Engine is what you're after (https://cloud.google.com/compute/). Those predefined things are getting started / "click to deploy" for people that don't want to bother.

Disclaimer: I work on Compute Engine.
I've never heard that and I'm stealing it.
Yes they are hypocritical to criticize Saudi and its sharia. But generally you will find the persians are not as strict as arabs. Now they have an over the top Islamic regime, but historically this is abnormal. You are aware Iran was much more liberal before this Islamic regime. They had 3 million demonstrators in 2009 to protest the presidential sham elections as well. This regime does not have huge populist support and it knows it so it went with this new liberal president after Ahmedijinad. I think the US can do better with the regime without an adversarial relationship. They can be better allies than Pakistan and the US should NOT land on any one side of the sunni/shia divide so making Saudi Arabia and its ideology exclusive allies is a BAD idea.
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The red pixel is (255, 0, 0, 255). Premultiplying it by alpha makes it (255, 0, 0, 255).

It's not that the article says anything wrong, it's that it uses an example texture where there are no translucent pixels and no hidden colors. In a texture like that, premultiplying by alpha does nothing. In a texture like that, you only need to add a division by alpha to your shader.

The combination of using premultiplied textures and altered shaders solve the general case.

Using only altered shaders solves only an edge case.

But the article only shows that edge case.

That made it harder to follow.
Yeah, this surprised me too, given the stated interest in a light-weight, server (no GUI) platform.

But we see this a lot - people jump onto Ubuntu despite not having an interest in running Unity, Mir, upstart, etc, or having a slightly fancier installer, or different schedule on release of stable / long term support versions.

I suspect it's simply that for many people unfamiliar with the various GNU/Linux distros, Ubuntu is the one they've heard of more often. And while most people marvel at the sophisticated package management system, few ponder why the package files don't have a .ubu suffix.
This is pretty much exactly what Marx called the "tendency for the rate of profit to fall ", with the quirk that cheap content requires almost no capital investment to be replicated infinitely.

I worry that quality may not be the route back. After all, how exactly do we define quality?
Is there a place where info like this is tracked? For performance/features you can find some level of information in various forums, but trying to find stories like this is probably difficult.
I think a lot of the recent events around Rocket Internet need to consider the very unique position of the company: they are both a Venture fund, and a very closely involved corporate holding. They provide technical support (including development, hosting and dev ops) and marketing assistance to their subsidiaries/investees. The CEO of their companie” have a relation to the head-office similar to what local GMs have with the Uber HQ.
This means that financially-motivated decision can be confused with doubts over the management direction.
Note that with "on-demand I/O" you can basically remove this I/O throttle (best effort though) at an increased cost. Nearline is still cheaper than dealing with glacier (or even S3 Infrequent Access) particularly for small files.

Disclaimer: I work on Compute Engine (GCE) but not Cloud Storage (GCS).
It's ... a thing. I don't miss it.
It's a bit of an odd article, that assumes the blame is on the food prep departments. "The US has food far below France's quality, but the departments only get $3/head instead of $7/head". All this means is the problem isn't in the departments, but in the willingness to fund appropriately.

It's probably also not fair to compare pretty much anywhere to France, given France's extreme cultural connection to fine food (and hence pool of suitable school-level cooks).
I am legitimately pissed that the entire treaty was negotiated behind closed doors and we the people won't get any say about something that will have a big impact on the joined economies.
> they don't have the experience and the awareness to understand the differences between the shows they're watching and the ads they're consuming

citation? There's no way anyone under 18 just lacks the ability to distinguish between commercials and the program they're watching. Source: was once a kid
We don't do school lunches here in Australia. My parents packed me lunch every day for 10 years, and I'll do the same for my kids.

It's really no big deal.
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The only thought that goes into many stories is, "What is the best headline to get clicks?" Those sites need to watch out. With the current level of competition, users are fast to blacklist. It's a measurement issue - it's easy to measure clicks but hard to measure damage to reputation.
Yes sadly there's nothing in their GitHub project other than their site - https://github.com/Neuroware-IO
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This sounds misleading. They mention the French version is a high-end school for high-income parents. But this isn't how the public school system works in the US, right? Wouldn't it be more fair to compare to a high-end private school in the US, where I'm sure the lunch budget ends up at more than "a dollar + change for student"?
> I was initiating the same 150 retrievals, over and over again, in the same order.

>> This was the actual problem that resulted in the large cost.

That is not true, according to the article itself. The first request for the full 60.8gb already results in a $154.25 bill, regardless of the ones that follow. From that point on he can continue to retrieve 15.2GB/hour for the rest of the month without incurring further costs.
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John Carmack doesn't have a college degree. According to Wikipedia, he dropped out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack
> > I was initiating the same 150 retrievals, over and over again, in the same order.

This was the actual problem that resulted in the large cost.

Except that it wasn't. The repeated requests were free, because he already set the maximum rate with the first wave of requests. Surprising?

Also, it really is not a hit piece. It's an honest report of what he did (and what he did wrong) and that he thinks the docs aren't as clear as they could be.
The minimal CentOS install is pretty lightweight. It's not a tiny distro by any means, but for keeping w/in the RHEL/CentOS realm, it's really pretty good. It's the only version that I install on servers, just to keep the excess cruft out (no X, no Gnome, no extra services, etc...).
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> If the cost of home ownership has a major decline by blocking foreign investment, then you would actually be able to buy a home for cheaper than renting, which is normal for markets without so much demand.

But then they would stop building them (or stop building such nice, expensive ones). I'm talking about brand-new 35th floor curtain-glass condos bought straight from the developer.
I spent years living in France, and my daughter went to kindergarten and grade one there.

The lunches were insane. A 3 year-old can expect a five course meal every day. Prepared fresh on-site. Different every day of the month.

The school district would mail a calendar of lunches to the parents every month. I still have some.

The parents care about the food their children eat. They're willing to pay a little more for good food at school. As a computer programmer, I earned an above average salary, and paid small amounts every semester for better food. IIRC, it was about $200. And definitely way below $1K.

My daughter loved her lunches, and I was happy to not have to make something with the French parents would then laugh at. ;)

The French attitude is "we live to eat". They say every other country "eats to live". That definitely shows in the different attitude towards the school lunches.
All French public schools have an in-school cafeteria where food is prepared fresh every day.

High income parents get billed for this, or they can supply lunch themselves. Low income parents didn't pay.
You make a good point about the Square reader. This would put Apple in a good position to obsolete Square's POS devices, possibly so they can get in the business?
Yeah, I'm a bit surprised that the author didn't try direct LVM for their device. The speed up is noticeable.
About 10 years ago I've been running a popular German blog with a lively comments/discussion area. It didn't take long till the police showed up and took the server hard drives.

To my misfortune the procurator in charge didn't know much about how blogs worked so not only did the police confiscate the server drives but also my private computer.

Turns out someone liked Hitler too much and some other user notified the police.

Since then I haven't hosted anything in Germany. It's just too much trouble because German law regarding insults/forbidden symbols/hate speech is very strict. Policing user comments on a popular site would be a full time job.
My understanding is that BOSH is the closest to this from the Cloud Foundry ecosystem.
That was my intention.
If low carb is working so well for you, why are you adding more carbs? Seems like people rave about ketonic diets but don't want to be on it for the long term.
I think it's accepted now also that insulin blocks the effects of leptin (satiety hormone) on the brain. So a diet with an excess of carbs interferes with both fat regulation regulation but also intake.

Also I tried looking this up and failed. But I'm sure that leptin wasn't discovered until the war on fat was well underway. And the first instinct when it was discovered was to try to use it as a drug target (all these failed badly).
Don't have a tantrum.

"Later on more work was done to get better global temperature proxies and it was decided that the trend was upwards."

Anecdotal memories of an article or two on Ice ages in the Seventies do nothing to support that claim - It was wrong.

nuff said
Sometimes you have to break backwards compatibility to move forward and get better technology, and as painful as it is, and as controversial as it is, switching to a new standard is often the right thing to do.

That said, if you're breaking backwards compatibility to move to _proprietary_ technology, you are not working to move us to a new standard. You're breaking from the old standard to create a balkanized set of non-standard technology. Doesn't matter if it's technically superior--if you're not letting people use it for free, you're intentionally creating a worse ecosystem at the expense of consumers and every other vendor.
I think this is a good guess,
http://storagemojo.com/2014/04/25/amazons-glacier-secret-bdx...
I doubt it. Even if you are relatively fit, many of these escalators are equivalent to 2 - 3 flights of stairs, after sitting standing in a hot carriage for 30mins plus.

The speed that you are expected to ascend as a "walker" is high. I know, because I used to climb every day, and I would get disapproving noises/looks if I failed to climb with sufficient speed.
I wouldn't say it has a use case per se, it's more of a toy. I hear you, though - I've added an info link down the bottom right that leads to https://github.com/sgentle/scrawl, where there is some more information.
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The post is a useful cautionary tale, and he's not alone in getting burned by Glacier pricing. Unfortunately it was OP not reading the docs properly.

Yes, the docs are imperfect (and were likely worse back in the day). And it was compounded by the bug, apparently. But it's what everyone on HN has learned in one way or another... RTFM.

Was it mentioned in the article that the retrieval pricing is spread over four hours, and you can request partial chunks of a file? Heck, you can retrieve always all your data from Glacier for free if you're willing to wait long enough.

And if it's a LOT of data, you can even pay and they'll ship it on a hardware storage device (Amazon Snowball).

Anyone can screw up, I'm sure we all have done, goodness knows I have. But at the very least, pay attention to the pricing section, especially if it links to an FAQ.
Yes, plane wings are built on fundamental physical principles. We do not know the fundamental physical principles of intelligence.

Building an NN and hoping its brain-like structure will start to think is like building a flapping machine and hoping its bird-like structure will start to fly.
We designed a lot of food for ourselves, from grapefruit to cabbage to bananas.
Maybe, but I'm already afraid of dumb and dangerous tools. Nuclear weapons. Maybe we get stronger dumb and dangerous tools, but what scares me much more is a smart drone that has AI and the ability to learn things about me at a rate I can't comprehend.
One result of the regulation is the cookie law: You can only start tracking users after you have approval from them.

You may not even set a cookie or store their IP before you have that approval. Direct approval is needed, and, in some cases (like insurances, banks, etc) your site even has to work without tracking.
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since people seem surprised, let me reiterate on those laughable german data protection laws:

http://glasz.org/sheeplog/2015/02/data-privacy-regulations-i...

DO NOT trust any government or company. everything is full of submissive sheep. particularly so in germany.
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Why do you assume there's no gag order? From what I understand it's either that or what you suggest.
It would be pretty interesting to do A/B testing starting out with a group of people who regularly drink a lot of Soylent. I haven't heard of anyone doing that sort of testing, though.

The experimentation that the Soylent folks are doing themselves looks like the fairly uncontrolled do-it-yourself kind, not like a real scientific study. It seems like it would be difficult to do properly because the formula of Soylent changes quite often.
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My experience in California was light years from my experience in France. The bulk of school lunches provided by the parents were low-grade junk food. Sugar, snacks, and empty calories. The kids with vegetables and a balanced diet were in the minority.

I saw an article while I was in California about a high school of last resort for juvenile delinquents. The reporter visiting it was shocked that the school was quiet, and the kids were well behaved. The reason (according to the principal) was largely diet.

The school had a cafeteria with organic food (some subsidization). About 1-2 months after a new kid entered the school, the behavor problems went away.

I can't find the link now, but I did find some related ones:

"Dietary management of juvenile delinquency",
http://www.feingold.org/Research/PDFstudies/Feingold-delinq7...

"Nutritional influences on aggressive behavior", http://orthomolecular.org/library/articles/webach.shtml
as user re pointed out above, apparently for Glacier that functionality actually exists: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonglacier/latest/dev/data-re...
When I went to school in the 80s and 90s (I live in Australia), our parents had to send us to school with our own lunch.

We had cafeterias but they were by and large for treats not for day to day lunch.

I don't understand why taking their own lunch is not an option if the food served is so abysmal?
Mortgages also give people access to leverage though, so it's a bit different from other investments most people make.
Losing weight doesn't mean you are eating well.
As someone who works with youth, everything can backfire depending on you kid, circumstance, tone, and so on. This is one of those sometimes inscrutable skills that parents/youth workers develop over time. I wish we had a better way to teach these soft 'people skills' as so many have no idea the effects they can/do have on those around them.

Saying the right thing, at the right time, can have an amazing effect on a kid.

OTOH, it's so frustrating and sad to see that some insidious/self-destructive idea has been beaten into a kid's head. Hard to break those things, particularly when they become self-reinforcing (e.g. dad calls me an idiot > I do poorly in class > I must be an idiot > I do even worse in class ...)
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Quantifying quality is a complex domain-specific topic with patterns that can be boiled down to, but requires one to be knowledgeable of the expectations of assigned value and image to a given product.

What is more vexing in my opinion is when an organization creates works that are widely agreed upon as high quality, whilst still abusing monetization efforts to various degrees.

In the games industry, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and Dota 2 would be interesting case studies, since, in order of wildly unrelated user generated content from greatest to least, these are probably Valve Corporation's highest revenue churning titles at the moment. Though, this is still an example of quality not eliminating the issue at hand.
Yes, just without the "exploded". https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/688837706005131264

Rocket lying on its side, bottom end looks a mess though. There was apparently some level of deflagration.
People labeled “smart” at a young age don’t deal well with being wrong
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I agree with this completely and I think a simple board or coalition of companies and governments will be the answer. Regulation, policies, and awareness are the solutions to this problem, but thinking because it isn't a problem now that it won't be a potential problem at all is a scary thought.
Oh, there also a hacker news thread about this

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4416065
> The French attitude is "we live to eat". They say every other country "eats to live".

Japan also lives to eat and their public school lunches are very healthy and nutritious. The children often also partake in the preparation of the meals in part, so they get that learning as well.
Hm, how frustrating. I've seen that issue before on my own VPN and I think it's something to do with the interaction between Cloudflare's security cookie and my site, but it's tricky to reproduce. I'm trying it using the Tor Browser now and it seems to be working.

If all else fails you can try https://sgentle.github.io/scrawl/
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