skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not insane when it's incremental.

I don't have any kind of special connection, but when I switched computers had to go through the process of deleting my entire online backup in order to use my new machine. Took a few weeks (not a year) for 5TB from scratch, all the while on pins and needles hoping nothing happened to my local disk.

I love Backblaze, but their confusing and weird policy re: switching machines made for a nail biting and slow, painful process. After reading this, I'm now considering alternative offsite backups.
Hackers reportedly leaked 32 terabytes of secret Windows 10 code
One of the comments has a pointer to a fascinating article in InfoWorld, reprinted from Texas Monthly, recounting the rise and fall of the TI 99/4. I can't figure out how to copy and paste the 500-character URL but it's very much worth following the link in the comment.
Yev from Backblaze here - as far as the technical aspects, it's tough for me to say b/c I don't know what happened in this case, but we do have use-cases where we need to "Freeze" backups (more info: https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217666178-Safet...). I would venture to guess that since this occurred on their C: drive, something similar to that happened here, and they needed to re-upload the data (in most cases, previously uploaded data is still available for restore - but with 13TB of data to re-upload and not a lot of bandwidth, it would have taken them way longer than our 30-day history to do that).
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No surprise, and anyone with 17TB of data can absorb $5 as a "cost of taking advantage of a company".
With this recent addition(https://webspeedtest.cloudinary.com) to tools you can use, Cloudinary(http://cloudinary.com) is hands down the best for me, In all the time I've been using it, It usually has a way of meeting all my needs. I'm obsessed with page speeds and Optimization, like I have sleepless nights optimizing, but since using Cloudinary, I can sleep well on some nights now. And No! I don't work there, but bless the people that work there.
At this stage, the only thing you need to do to get Reason to 'work' is to use Create Reason React App (when targeting the browser).

The language/compiler itself is installed as an npm package(!). The only other things to install are the CLI tools (again, just an 'npm install' away) and optionally a plugin for your editor.
Tesla S motor and inverter weighs 350 lbs on par with an ICE. The battery however weighs 1200 lbs while 20 gallons of gas weighs about 120 lbs.

No its all about the battery weight, and cost.
Microsoft indeed make their sources available for review by major customers including governments. From what I heard this is done under NDA and reviewers are forbidden from taking the code away from MS facility.
Marines Prepare to Do ‘Impossible’ with Ship-Launched Combat Drone
I'm curious how you make a living and whether the business you're in relies on advertising to sustain itself. Perhaps I'm reading too much into your post, but I detect a value judgment that businesses trying to be businesses (i.e., selling you stuff) is a bad thing.
I don't understand. Is that something that a Brita-like filter can't fix?
and now dang is going to harass him in an attempt to get him off the site. Dang doesn't appreciate being called out for his bullshit.
How did a 30 year-old Su-22 defeat a modern AIM-9X?
Has anyone tried Sia? From what I've read it is an order of magnitude cheaper form of cloud storage but I don't know anyone that has tried it.
Technically, JetBrains is a Czech company with offices in Russia, among a half dozen or so counties.
That really makes no sense. What is this, the BigJavascript cabal keeping back browser progress so a few guys can make some meager donation money?
College Dropout was still the best album of all time.
This kind of article title was always vacuous. It's essentially click bait. I don't think any of us have actually learned each thing that every article says that every programmer should know.
I come from Scala, and there semicolon inference works flawlessly. Why do you consider it to be an abomination in Javascript? (Except this famous corner case with continued line, almost never encountered in practice).
This is a pretty bad article.

Firstly, the course is called Calling BS in the age of Big Data. That's a big difference.

Secondly, Google fixed Flu Trends and that kind of undermines the article's whole thesis: http://www.nature.com/articles/srep12760

One might almost say I called bullshit on this article.
I wouldn't say that, it's just that I don't have a lot of data about this particular case to go on. In some cases if you overwrite our index files, you can get something that's known as a Safety Freeze. Again - I have no idea what happened with this customer, but I would venture to guess that since this occurred on their C: drive, something similar to what causes a Safety Freeze (https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217666178-Safet... happened here, and they needed to re-upload the data (in most cases, previously uploaded data is still available for restore - but with 13TB of data to re-upload and not a lot of bandwidth, it would have taken them way longer than our 30-day history to do that).
I wonder what the overhead is like on 13TB of data.

I have about 80GB with Backblaze right now -- just documents, photos and music on my laptop -- and the metadata it stores in /Library/Backblaze.bzpkg takes up 46GB, or about half the size of the actual backup. Most of this is in uncompressed plain-text log files showing every file which has been backed up, going back years. On a 256GB SSD that overhead hurts.

I asked their support, but their only solution was to delete the backup, reinstall the client, and start from scratch, which seems... less than optimal.

(On the other hand I do understand the impulse to squirrel away terabytes of data... I now make a point of archiving all of my mail accounts and PDFs of papers I read, knowing that with good search, they'll be valuable for years to come. But I haven't quite read 13TB worth of papers yet.)
A man who is blind to his own actions cannot sincerely apologize for them.
>- If I'm searching for details on some car models ... why the fk is google shoving insurance ads on my screen real estate? //

Brand marketing. It may not work on you, but it works in general.

Personally I consider myself pretty imune to marketing but when you think "who else should I check to switch my car insurance to" then that brand is going to pop up if it's been fed to your brain enough. Indeed when you're looking at a list of similar offers the one that's associated with a name you already know will seem somehow more trustsworthy, it's an insidious finagling of a brand in to your brain drip by drip. Why do they do it? It works.
or they do so because they've gotten seriously tired of the unfairness of it all.

When everything becomes sexual harassment, how can you trust accusations of sexual harassment?

It's like when people use the word violence to describe words, or call it rape when a man says something they don't like.

How can you trust the allegations in that sort of an environment?

It makes those of us who are a bit more moderate start to distrust everything we hear in terms of these loaded words. I've said this many times, but when you start using these words for every little thing, you do a disservice to those who are ACTUALLY being sexually harassed, raped, etc.

I for one cannot wait for this hysteria to end. I obviously don't believe men should be sexually harassing women (or vice versa), but the current climate has gone off the deep end. Things that would be considered simply misunderstandings, ackwardness, and so forth are getting people (mostly men) completely lambasted.
I wonder if the support rep recommended Backblaze B2, but I have no idea :P
There are two levels of debugging symbols. One is released with every Windows build, for end-users reporting back stack traces and the like. These are of the second more granular level - private debugging symbols available to developers only.
I think the membership model is the future. You pay a fee but get goods in bulk near wholesale and producers compete to sell in your store.
You can't reuse your Java code on iOS. C++ can be reused on virtually any platform. The only other language you can do that with is C and interpreted languages with the interpreter written in C/C++ (which is slow if it is cross platform).
Life is compromise. People with families are even less likely to have the low overhead or appropriate safety net to quit their day jobs for a labour of love. They've chosen theirs already.
I agree. The UI is so much better and more streamlined. I was also using Postman before I found this. It's really useful.
This is a 114 page paper that describes the extreme details of squeezing every ounce of performance out of memory.

While I agree every programmer does not need to know, calling it vacuous without reading is deeply insulting to such a useful document.

I read every page of it some years ago and will likely re-read it again soon as details fade.
All of them. The server serves public symbols.
Private symbols have structure info and even local variable names, which are very useful.
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Mine was came after attempting to pop my ears during a very bad ear infection. I was trying to relieve the pressure, as I have done a lot, but because of the bad ear infection it was actually making it worse. The pain was so bad and it felt like my ear was never going to pop. Eventually, the pain subsided but at that exact same time, in place of the pain, was a ringing.

My ENT said the tinnitus was most likely caused by the bad ear infection and tried to assure me that me trying to pop my ears didn't have anything to do with it, but I can't help but feel like that wasn't the case, as I made the pain so much worse.

Anyways, agreed with others here that the first few months were the worst, and now it's mostly unnoticeable unless I actively think about it, drink a lot, or leave a loud environment.
AES-256 crypto cracked in 50 seconds using about $225 worth of equipment
1. How would Microsoft prove that they saw the code?

2. If microsoft sued wine devs it would be horrible for
Microsofts public image. They won't do it.

3. I hope the WINE devs don't listen to you.
I could do it in 13 days if Backblaze supported backing up at line rate. If you have gigabit it's even less.

This isn't too much for online backup in general. 17t is not so bad in a lot of cases.

It might be too much for Backblaze. I don't know. I don't know if they can effectively back up at line rate. They couldn't for me.
I agree that not every programmer needs to know the contents of this giant paper. It be useful for any programmer wanting to learn more about how memory and allocations affect performance and correctness.

Since there are so few things that every programmer actually needs, please enjoy these latency numbers that I think will benefit just about every programmer: https://gist.github.com/jboner/2841832
> I just wanted to say that I also dislike the concept of intellectual property.

Right. I understand the "copyleft fights against IP" argument. :-)

> I'm not sure how making it harder to change out parts of a compiled program makes the language "more free". It's a feature that's missing.

Really? Are we really not above misappropriating words? My point wasn't to lay claim to the word "freedom." My point was to say how silly it is to bake our biases into our descriptions of the world around us. The various perspectives on freedom are well covered by the Internet at large, and extend far beyond the realm of IP.
IoT, AI, biotech and possibly VR/AR (it's too soon to tell) are so development intensive, they are the purview of giant corporate teams, not indie developers.

The web spoiled us. It's hard problems from hereon out.
I think there's a huge range of what's enjoyable and, like many things in life, it's all about set and setting. A wedding band playing at a skilfully appropriate volume can be the right answer - so can the intense effect of body-shaking sub bass at something like a Iration Steppas or Channel One show [1]. But, yeah, take care of your hearing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvKTMv4E09Y
Our perception of loudness is highly subjective and we quickly acclimatise to loud music. Music sounds superficially better at louder volumes, hence the notorious loudness war in music production [1]. This is one of the big risks of using headphones - it's easy for the volume to creep up to dangerous levels if you're not worried about disturbing the neighbours.

Sound engineers often suffer from a significant degree of noise-induced hearing loss. Hearing loss is highly dose-dependent, so working with live sound equipment on a daily basis is far more damaging than going to the occasional loud concert. As a result, they tend to set the house volume too loud. Noise-induced hearing loss affects the high frequencies first, so live sound is often extremely shrill and trebly to compensate. Those engineers who don't have noise-induced hearing loss have made a habit of wearing ear protection, which has basically the same effect.

The unfortunate solution is to wear ear protection to any amplified live music event. I recommend the Etymotic ER-20xs [2]. You'll hear a better, more balanced sound at a much safer volume level.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war

[2]https://www.etymotic.com/consumer/hearing-protection/er20xs....
To be clear, I think your original comment is just fabulous and you're 100% right.

I'm just curious since I know that controlling the level of E. coli contamination in milk is important from first-hand work on dairy farms, plus I know that pasteurization heats (not boils) the milk, and not for the ridiculous durations I see when searching online for "making water safe to drink".
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It's clearly evidence that they anticipated a problem. I don't see any other way to spin it except that he covered himself because he knew there was a good chance he would be sued, and Uber, in its typical risk-hungry style, was willing to take the bet. Turns out it was a bad bet.
i think you meant exabytes, not zettabytes, and as they state on their website "350 million GB stored ... (and counting)" that means there at about 1/3 of an exabyte now
It seems to me that accusations of harassment can be as damaging as harassment itself, and that the presumption of innocence applies to both (or all) parties.
weibo did have livestreaming for a while before the ban.
and memory consumption. I'm always amazed that gmail.com uses so much memory if you leave it open for a few days.
Of course, but the premise (of both my scenario and Justin's apology) is that his eyes are now open.
What a great story - and now I know about Lubbock, TX.

Google street view has confirmed the authors' opinion.
I wish I had your advice when I was trying to deal with the pain of an open-office work environment. Listening to music or white noise for 8+ hours per day to drown out extremely noisy coworkers has left me with very nasty tinnitus. I am hearing it as I type this, more aware of it than I usually am, and I wish I was back to a state where I could just hear the world without the constant accompaniment of a high-pitched 'eeeeeeeeeeee'.
I'm imagining that other OS will be able to interop better with Windows increasing the value of Windows and improving experience of Windows by other OS users?

What were you implying?
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Perhaps a dumb question, but in this case, could the core game mechanic have been testable by external players/users with minimal development to see if it is fun or not?

And a second question.... if it's too hard why not make it easier and launch again?
I've stated this before in a previous thread, but I had previously used backblaze on a few computers but found it was taking up almost 8GB of space on my laptop for the backup list of files. This seemed very odd to me so i reached out to backblaze and the response was to make a new account to re-upload everything. Given the time it takes to re-upload everything (i didn't quite have 13 TB, but i had enough) i just terminated my account.
I think the key word is "repeated." Approaching someone is allowed. Repeatedly approaching them after they tell you know is not.
When I was involved with Mono we avoided reflecting .NET for much the same reason as elaborated by the poster who you (pretty jerkishly) dismiss. It's very easy to say that other people should undertake extreme personal risk.
Did you mean to say there's not a power imbalance between VCs and entrepreneurs? Because you clearly don't understand the situation if you believe that's true.
Blogspam version of this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14622608
Here's a good companion piece that focuses on CPU features rather than memory: "What's new in CPUs since the 80s and how does it affect programmers?"[0]

[0]: https://danluu.com/new-cpu-features/
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There is just so much wrong with your statement. You're not a comcast rep by chance are you?
You can try to create one on infogalactic.com. I doubt they would object.
It's not really. Too often we anthropomorphizing out pets and even if they are not that different from us on the social-emotional level you cant blame for doing this - they have no concept of moral wrong of doing it. Historically, consider some human cultures not that long ago where cannibalizing your close ones was a honorable way to show them admiration (and also get the prion disease).
Louder music sounds better if you have shitty speakers. When I bought my set of studio monitors, I realized that I (unconsciously) listened at a much lower volume, simply because the clarity was already close to perfect at that volume.
SET ROLE "user"

The biggest issue with this is roles are identifiers, which means you can't use parameters for them.
I think he meant it in the context required by law. Power imbalance shows itself in every human (maybe animal?) interaction, whether money is involved or not.
Hiya - I wrote the article. What's happened is that the Beta Archive folks have now deleted (or in the process of deleting) the private material that was uploaded to the BA FTP. There most definitely was non-officially-released internal Microsoft files in the archive, regardless of BA's intentions, such as the Shared Source Kit, the ARM64 Windows Server build, the Mobile Adaption Kit, and various prerelease versions of Windows.

We've updated the story to explain why things aren't what they seem. Essentially, the files at the heart of the matter were there (we screenshotted them and saved copies of the forum posts) at time of writing, and they were removed later on Friday.

In terms of the 32TB: that's the full decompressed dump of Windows files uploaded to BA. From what I understand, Microsoft hasn't released 32TB of public Insider material, so obviously there's extra sauce in the mix.

That includes, yes, copies of officially released Insider builds plus confidential private stuff that should never have left Microsoft, let alone turned up in BA. We make this clear in the story - I'm starting to feel the headline could have been better to make this clearer rather than grabbing the biggest figure. I am beginning to regret this.

BA can twist and complain all it likes - but stuff that was confidential within Microsoft ended up in their FTP archive (and some is still in there, such as the ARM64 stuff). The next stage of this story will be to uncover how exactly did this material escape Redmond.

C.
because that seems absurd even for 1978.

At that time memory could be at nearly the same speed or even faster than the CPU; in fact the CISCs which were popular left the memory bus mostly idle while they executed instructions internally, which is what let the relatively memory-bandwidth-consuming RISCs become viable.

In fact I'd almost bet that, had memory always been slower than the CPU, RISC would've never been invented.
I'm really surprised by how many people think 17tB is a lot of data. It's what...<$400 in storage? [1]

Crap, just between the main drives on computers in my house I easily have 20-30tB of raw disk space.

It might be a lot to transfer...yeah. At 50Mbps that's what...a month of sustained transfer? But how valuable is your data?

1 - https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1682217...
My argument is that there are tradeoffs. There may be a way to do it but it has been thoroughly out competed by the make children and die strategy that dominates the planet.
I loved React Native Express for being such a concise and useful tutorial to learn with so I'm super glad you made a React version. Really looking forward to going through this when I have the time, looks like an outstanding job.
Yeah, but if you are using a wrapper similar to this, you can easily prevent that while still using the underlying DB security mechanisms.
I have read in some places that everyone hears that "eeee" to some degree or another. I distinctly remember being able to perceive that sound even when I was a child, and I have read anecdotal reports from many others. (I did some research on this when I was going through some kind of pseudo-hypochondriac attack.) I don't know how true this is, but it might offer you some comfort.

Like pain becoming more acute when you think about it, this sound always seems louder to me when I'm stressing about the health of my hearing. I notice retrospectively that I never notice it when engaged in any other activity, even if it's very quiet about.
It's more like your accountant preparing your tax return for free in exchange for aggregating data about your receipts and offering you goods and services you may be interested in.

Hmm. I could actually see that working, as a spinoff of concierge services offered by companies like American Express.
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People (or more specifically, their clothes). Its even worse in most club environments as you lack the acoustic absorbsrtion that you get from furniture in a seated venue.

https://www.prosoundtraining.com/2014/10/16/model-audience-a...
For a use case like in the article would it make more sense to use beautifulsoup or is there an advantage to scrapy?
This was a hot enough landing that they used a 3-engine hover-slam to reduce fuel usage. Their last attempt at a 3-engine landing burn was also their last landing failure. When a landing goes slightly wrong, the crush core is the first thing to go... and this time it successfully did its job.