skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the first time I hear of a physicist saying he rather QM and GR never be reconciled! :)
If you don't mind me prodding, what was the condition causing this for you?
When I say consumer, I mean price-wise. Sure there may be a 200TB drive but if it costs $20,000 it's not really aimed at general consumers.
Dota 2 Mod: Player Performance Study
I've got a FreeNAS system built by iXSystems. It works well. But a NAS system is more expensive than a single drive. The FreeNAS box replaced a NetApp StoreVault unit.

Generally I've gone to a archive first strategy for recovery though. I didn't want to buy a tape drive to back it up (10TB usable after dual parity protection), so I write media as I get it to BD-R's and put them on the NAS box for accessibility. I also backup individual projects on their own DVD-R or BD-R. That negatively impacts 'time to reconstruct' because each source will have to be located, loaded, then verified. But it essentially means nothing on the NAS box isn't already available on shelf-stable read only media. It also means the option for recovering from a ransomware attack is to re-format and re-load. The challenge is maintaining the discipline of making the restore media first.
Too bad the U. S. has had almost a hundred years to drill into us that anything even slightly along what you mention is to be met with an immediate reaction: "that sounds a lot like COMMUNISM!". At which point common protocol dictates that the discussion is now over.
Seems to be working now!
Given that once a judgement is made it is hard to get people to change it getting better than your peers at skill A also seems like only useful if you value getting better at skill A and don't care about your peers in relation to it.
What about VR for surgery training?
It's entirely possible to discuss suicidal ideation with a competent therapist/psychiatrist without being committed.
According to Wikipedia:

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Consistently named to US News & World Report's "America’s Best Colleges" list under the Regional College (North) and Best Value School categories. The Princeton Review also recognized the college as "A Best in the Northeast," and Lebanon Valley College was also named on Forbes' list of "America's Top Colleges."
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I'm not familiar with LVC, but it seems like it's regarded as a pretty decent place to go to school.
If you're going to put WD Greens in a FreeNAS, run wdidle to increase or disable the idle spin down timer in the drive first.
I have been using CyanogenMOD without the famous Gapps for year and I have to say that I don't miss anything in them.
Do you have reason to believe these aren't intended to replace your current daily driver headphones?
I think that's actually a great description. Much better than my vague feeling. Thanks.
+1. No maintenance/admin required, syncs with S3 or Dropbox.
These all feel like hypothetical examples of potential problems to me. Yes, I have a heap of privilege, and I can understand why people might be concerned about these things, but deep down I don't believe (still!) that Adwords is something that puts these minorities at risk.
"Free-market", like many -isms may mean many different things to different people.

However, it seems clear that pressure to profit, pressure to grow fast, to raise ever larger rounds, etc. leads to huge missteps, both in tiny startups and in huge corporations. If you replace "beds" in that quote with "bank accounts" you get the Welles Fargo scandal. Ditto for Theranos. And these are only the very recent examples (that we know of).
And [one of those dogs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_space_dogs#Belka_and_St...).

I also plan to release "belka" as an HTTP client library mirroring the functionality later.
Having called the cops in a Domestic Violence incident in CA, I will say that none of these horror stories happened to me. In fact, the Police handled the situation well, it was the District Attorney's office that failed to follow through with the case on a number of things.

I have a number of friends who ended up becoming officers and I sympathize with a lot of their struggles.

There are problems with our Law Enforcement system. There are bad officers. But let's try to not over-generalize, stereotype, and point fingers at a single point of failure. It's a complex issue with many parts.

As far as LA police go, I am motorcyclist which randomly lead me to find out about "OfficerRob" who motovlogs some of his on duty experiences as a motorcycle cop in LA:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2DeutGisK66k4JdomiiUyw

I personally like his motovlog...
This post describes how I've felt for many years. Marketing is an important function of business - otherwise one could easily go broke waiting for people discover on their own what great goods or services a business has to offer. In a busy marketplace, getting and keeping buyers' attention is a necessary first step to developing a business relationship.

But a lot of marketing people seem to think that the best way to do this is to annoy potential or existing customers, so that their employer's brand will always come to mind first, even if it is tainted with somewhat negative feelings about the product. In one way, I don't blame them - that technique is empirically proven to work, marketing people want to meet their targets, get paid, and go home like everyone else does, and the uncertain nature of business communication makes it difficult to adjust to the information preferences of each individual consumer.

But in another way, I do blame them, for two reasons. One, because they are deliberately choosing to clutter up people's lives with unwanted solicitations of attention, often despite specifically being asked not to. One thing I really miss about living in the Netherlands is that the post office there gives you stickers you can put on your mail box/slot to indicate whether you are willing to accept different kinds of commercial mail, both generic and personal.

Two, because a great deal of marketing material goes beyond a solicitation and description of goods and services and into bullshit and deception. Almost every marketing professional I've ever met seems to think that some dishonesty in commercial matters is OK. It's understandable, as they're partly backed by a legal system that historically regards many false claims in advertising as 'mere puffery' - essentially saying that because consumers are exposed to a lot of bullshit anyway, it's OK to bullshit them.

I disagree, and the greater the degree of bullshit I receive from any given business, the more likely I am to retaliate against them in some fashion, by adding them to spam lists, badmouthing them within my social circle, or occasionally responding with bullshit communications of my own designed to waste their time - followed up with helpful comparisons to their own marketing materials so they understand that deception doesn't pay.
I was more poking fun at myself for thinking you "should" when the other way actually works fine.
I feel like a lot of people go into a PhD program for mediocre reasons. Many of them would probably be better off doing a 2 year Masters program to learn 2 important things:

1) How to do research and run experiments (where you don't already know the answer).

2) How much they actually don't know about a very deep field (and how to study independently).

The extra 4 years of a PhD, as I learned, were to make me an expert in a piece of the field with enough experience writing papers, meeting with colleagues, and designing my own research (not just next-step experiments), and writing funding proposals, that I could teach in the field. Like most others I chose not to become a professor... it's a very competitive and odd position.

Part of the issue is the pressures that have been put on PhD programs. The fight for funding, papers, lab space politics, and relevance seem to have become all consuming as the number of students have grown and positions have remained fixed (filled and tenured). The days when you could follow a reasonable path into academia and Professorship without a lengthy post-doc are gone in most fields at most Universities. Professors have become unhappy managers of giant groups cranking out complex papers based on a huge apparatus (equipment, code, or lab) in order to get tenure and keep their position. CS and Math have a real advantage here as the tools for the job don't usually require as much yearly funding.

Perhaps all this is fine for Particle Physics, but it feels like more and more of the positions at research universities are run this way... and it's not conducive to how many people want to earn their Doctorate... which is often just a badge of honor in the Business world anyway... so maybe we shouldn't try to push so many people through an academic mold so that they can have a different set of letters next to their name.
I have always used my QC20 noise cancelling earbuds in this way so I'm glad it will get better. Just last weekend in a noisy eatery I put them in and my SO and her friend thought I was listening to music, but I said, "No, now I can hear YOU". Cool.
This isn't possible in a properly deployed HTTPS site, since it would already have an HSTS header with includeSubdomains.
How the Green Button Initiative Secured Its APIs with OAuth
You've heard correctly. If asked to name just one thing I don't like about my DS410, I'd be at a loss to do so. I guess maybe it's too appliance-like and therefore I don't get to fiddle with it much.

Now, back to dreaming about slapping four 12Tb drives in that thing...
Video Chat App Houseparty Raises $50M Funding
If you do

ctrl-b d

to disconnect from tmux, it pretty much leaves the server useless.
i always feel like racket just ultimately fails at self promotion
I didn't say we didn't spend money. But if you look at what we did to Germany and Japan, the extent of the control of our occupation, rebuilding their government from the ground up for most of a decade, there's no comparison with Iraq. We wanted to have few people there, and not for long. And it didn't work.
France has national healthcare and everyone has a smart card with vital information, and all doctors have the hardware to read it and software to process it. Or at least they did 15 years ago when I was there.

Edit to add: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carte_Vitale
France has national healthcare and everyone has a smart card with vital information, and all doctors have the hardware to read it and software to process it. Or at least they did 15 years ago when I was there.
Not sure what you mean by "secure". The linked page flat-out says:

> Warning! This is not a cryptographic function, and it certainly should not be used as one.

So the focus here is speed, not resistance to malicious actors attempting to generate collisions.
When the boy was little I read him Pupniks: the story of two space dogs many times. Belka and Strelka, That's about the extent of my Russian.

https://www.amazon.com/Pupniks-Story-Two-Space-Dogs/dp/07614...
Come to think of it, rather than following the usual inverse square law, power should drop off with the fourth power of distance (just like with radar) - there'd be one inverse-square dropoff on the path from active transmitter to transponder, multiplied by a second inverse square loss on the return path. That's got to hurt performance.
Soviet Space Dogs
Think of augmented reality. It's generally conceived as modifying what you see, but why couldn't you benefit from a computer able to modify what you hear? It ought to be possible to do a lot of Google Glass-like things, not to mention Black Mirror-like, without looking as much like a space cadet or demanding as much of the hardware. (As a hearing aid user I was thinking about this 10 years ago.)
But the cost of the drives is extravagant. Not anywhere near the price point for individual use.

And for enterprise use, a tape drive doesn't make sense unless it is part of a tape changer. Fortunately, the drives are so expensive that the cost of the changer is marginal in comparison.
My copy of Alley Cat from 1983 disagrees with you.
Ask HN: Do you ever feel like you're fighting against imposter syndrome?
Someone just asked me this question. I'm interested in hearing how the community deals with this.

Here was my full reply:

All the time. It's just that lizard part of your brain imbuing a healthy dose of fear. That fear is just a part of exploration and pushing yourself as a person. I marvel at people who go through life effortlessly being seen as "natural" or "talented" at something. But then I remember we're all the same and perspective and optics are everything.

Managing that fear is a part of mindfulness I have yet to achieve, so I use that fear as an indicator that I'm learning and doing something new and I'm probably in over my head -- which I think is where good and new things come from. I've just learned to live with it.

The real test is this: are you going to let the fear move you, or are you going to push through it?
Eventually that fear you're pushing through goes away once your actions and thinking become habit. That's where you have a new trap: complacency -- that's the worst fate.
Some rhetorical questions: How does a person know if they've trained themselves well? What if part of the training involves interacting with other people?
How commonly do WD Greens actually fail? I'm either strangely lucky, or the whole unreliable WD Greens thing is way overblown because I've been using three 1TB ones without incident for 5 years now..
PBS Space Time: What Happens at the Event Horizon?
How to Grow from “Thought Leader” to Actually Leading
Visual Studio Mobile Center (Preview), waitlist lifted for new users
>Might as well ask here. My 2TB Plex hard drive is getting full. What's the best solution if I want say 10TB to store my media for Plex but very hands off?

You probably need a NAS. To store 10TB securely you are looking at a bill of materials of about ~1200usd. This includes a NAS from synology and 3 6TD Western Digital Red drives. This will give you 12TB of storage space running in a RAID5 configuration.

Synology DS416 NAS diskless: 365USD
WD Red 6TB: 253USD (x3)
Total: 1124

For a little more you could pick up a HP Microserver for just under 400USD and run ZFS on a pool with SMBD and get about the same results but with more hands on fun.

Alternatively, just aim your requirements a bit lower (e.g. only 6TB) and pick up a 2 disk nas and 2 drives running as a mirror and it will be much cheaper (~700-800USD).

Resources: http://www.raid-calculator.com/default.aspx
5. Hmmm... they're right. I've been doing it the easy, wrong way the whole time :-)
How Registration Bots Concealed the Hacking of My Amazon Account
> It's unlikely to happen as the vast majority of the public simply does not care. There is a deep technological disconnect.

Same thing in the music industry, most people just want sound on in the background.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13141912 because of an annoying limitation of our software. It keeps about 3 days' worth of stories in RAM, which means that if we re-up a post from 3 days ago (as explained below), we're taking a chance with it no longer appearing on the front page, which is computed from RAM. Someone will now ask why we don't 'just' (<-- I call it the J-word) keep everything in RAM since how much data can HN possibly have, and my answer will be first a mad cackle of exasperation, followed by the info that we have lots of memory we don't get to use because garbage collector, and that we're working on a fix but it's a medium term kind of thing that we work on when we can.
I think you misunderstand the effect of the long tail. For that many sites the average is going to be tiny. And where did the figure of 73 million come from?
We need HKT. F#. Cmon... I love F# but seriosly...
When I finished my physics Ph.D. in 2005, my advisor showed me his dissertation. It was literally five papers with a cover around it. He graduated in 1985.
Some functional languages make certain behaviors implicit, such as partial evaluation and laziness. However, these work better if they are explicit. They work better because one of the two is severely confusing when implicit and the other potentially performs badly.

C:\Users\kaz>txr
This is the TXR Lisp interactive listener of TXR 162.
Use the :quit command or type Ctrl-D on empty line to exit.
1> (defstruct integers ()
val next
(:postinit (me)
(set me.next (lnew integers val (succ me.val))))
(:method print (me stream pretty-p)
(format stream "#<integers ~a ...>" me.val)))
#<struct-type integers>
2> (lnew integers val 0)
#<integers 0 ...>
3> *2.next
#<integers 1 ...>
4> *2.next.next
#<integers 2 ...>
5> *2.next.next.next
#<integers 3 ...>

Why would I want implicit laziness everywhere? The best of all worlds is to have expressions reduced to their values eagerly before a function call takes place.

When I don't want an expression evaluated in (what looks like) a function call, I can, firstly, make that a macro.

If I really want lazy semantics, I can have a decent vocabulary of lazy constructs that fit into the eager language. For instance for making objects lazily I have lnew, distinct from new.

Implicit laziness everywhere is academically stupid. You're drowning the execution of the code in an ocean of thunks and closures.

The pragmatic approach is best of making a compromise between making everything explicit and visible, yet keeping it syntactically tidy and convenient.
The translation layer isn't where the interesting bits are. The parts hardware companies want to keep secret are the hardware-specific parts, not the OS-specific parts. It might even help them to open source the translation layers because then others could potentially use them and shoulder some of the maintenance cost.

I can't speak to the legal status of GPL drivers for Windows, but several seem to exist already (e.g. Windows ext4 driver), and if they were actually worried about it they could always get explicit permission from the copyright holders of the relevant code. Either they say yes and you're fine or they say no you know what pieces of code to replace.
We merged comments here from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13110615 because of an annoying limitation of our software. Feel free to check that thread if you want the gory details, but let's keep this thread on topic.
I do not want ideology. I want tangible results that will improve the freedom, privacy and safety of the western world. Quite frankly, Google does more for this right now than any 3 open source competitors to gmail do, combined.

Open source is irrelevant in most fields of user-facing software because they have insisted on being irrelevant. And any time a group forms a structure to do better, they're ceaselessly attacked by the community and given increasingly worse components to build off of.
Or you can offer a perk google and other's WON'T offer. For example 100% remote. That brings the guy in the middle of Alabama into your candidate pool. He is not competing against an offer to Google.
For $$$
YEah, for servers - but in 2-3 years you'll be able to pop one into your workstation, for sure. MYself, I'm still recovering from the surprise a few months ago when my wife mentioned we should update our backups and dropped a 5tb external drive on my desk - I hadn't bought a hard drive for a few years and didn't even know consumer drives had hit such capacities. So my advice is forget about it for now and then be surprised when you stumble across a 20tb drive at the bottom of your cereal box in the not-too-distant.
Foam earplugs are absolute garbage. The difference is night and day.

With foam, it's like being at a rock show underwater. With musician's earplugs, it's like being at a rock show at a reasonable volume. Spend the $20.
> What worked for me was stop fighting and start loving it. Now it's a perma mantra. Some somatic malfunction that enables me to ear the hum inside of me or whatever poetry works for you. Try it maybe.

Whoa, what an interesting strategy. Here's a question for you: is your tinnitus a constant predictable pitch? If so, you could probably train a strong relative pitch skill enough to be able to spoof perfect pitch! That's pretty cool.
PureScript
We've been able to fuse deuterium into helium for decades. What makes this different? If they're implying that they were able to get the fusion reaction to break even, that would be an incredible breakthrough, but the article doesn't say anything about that.
Don't run 12TB of data with consumer hardware in a RAID5. If you have the money stick with RAID 1, 10, maybe 6 or even JBOD.
I used to think of Google as the nemesis of the open web, out of an instinct against monopolies and for the little guy. Now I'm thinking Facebook and others are much worse monopolies (though I always wonder who's using Facebook? Certainly not anyone I know below the age of 30).

Fb hasn't a reciprocal relationship with the web in the sense that it takes content from the web but doesn't give back. Best thing about Fb is that it's a good filter for people I choose not to care about, was what I was thinking. But now I believe the kind of communication going on in Fb is extremely detrimental, dangerous even, to an open society/democracy, because people with opposing views don't talk to each other but rather prefer to talk themselves into rage with like-minded people, and get fueled with fake news.

Needless to say, worse things happen in autocratic states.

It's only in Google's best interest the web doesn't become a scripted ghost town anymore than it already is. Therefore I don't understand what they want to accomplish with AMP.

I used to think that p2p is the future of the web, but eg. zeronet/ipfs don't help one bit with the above problems. Also, I don't want to cede the web; it was created by a whole generation of liberal-minded people.

Google should leverage their power for something big to counter web balkanization and echo chambers.
Thanks, hadn't seen that, but am going to check it out.
> entirely my fault, not Google's

No. Do not do this to yourself. Google is all about making you think that your job as an employee is to only solve billion dollar problems and everything else is failure. You are constantly told you need to do more, work faster, be better... But also you're entirely responsible for own career, and no one in leadership is there to help you.

So no, it's not your fault. Google doesn't provide an environment for people to succeed, and I suspect it's by design. They think they're a meritocracy, and express that by not helping anyone.
Yeah, I think "postmodernism for techies" is part of what he aims for. He writes,

> Unfortunately, the postmodern pioneers chose to write in obfuscatory riddles. Their insights were difficult enough to understand without that. Few followers could extract the insights. Most teachers are second-generation professors who didn’t understand pomo when it was new, and third-generation ones who were mainly taught dumbed-down second-generation “pseudo-pomo.”

https://meaningness.com/metablog/stem-fluidity-bridge

A part of his project seems to be to pick what he considers to be the "good parts" of postmodernism, and explain them in a way that makes sense to people from a STEM background.
This whole thread was about memory leaks caused by not sticking to a single language.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13081116
Richard Feynman on how we first found the speed of light
So, they tear Zuckerberg a new one for not policing fake news hard enough, then end the article with: "Algorithms can’t solve everything."

And this was written by "Sarah Jones [...] the social media editor at The New Republic."

Sarah needs to take a forest-level view of her life. There is a striking contradiction in the way she has played her cards.