skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
would love to see other examples of persuasive presentations, you guys have come across.
Oh, I must've misunderstood this mail[1] and thought they had actually gone through with #ifdef-ing out the raid56 creation code in btrfs-progs.

My bad.

[1]: https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org/msg...
Yep, it totally is. So the person running it has to act more as a "cache" vs dropshiping. I look at it as time arbitrage because people are happy to pay more to wait less.

I think there's some interesting detail in optimizing against the market for how much higher cost and shorter delivery time people value, kind of like a convenience store.
Once I worked for roof window re-seller. They claimed that their competitor Fakro (fakro.com) is as good as Velux but has better quality/price balance.
It IS an effective argument when public accepts solutions like Energiewende - ignore age of nuclear plants and decomisdion them all while building coal capacity.

Guess why so many people like nuclear when observing such stupidity.
seems almost comically reductive just to get to the 'all of them' zinger.
To be fair, Recurecur said:

> New reactor designs completely eliminate the possibility of meltdown.

not necessarily of any failure, to which they were willing to accept that things can fail in novel ways, just not meltdowns in their view.
Dammit! Just been hit with this. I've disabled it. But in the 2 hours it was running, it had a lot of permissions. Any damage it could have done?

This has shaken my faith in browser extensions, and I (IMHO) an example of why we need iOS style sandboxing.
> so a hacker can hijack your packages just by obtaining your npm credentials.

Couldn't they 'just' steal your GPG key as well? If someone can trivially steal a strong password from you, I'd worry about key material as well.

> That's crypto 101 and you can't tell the difference?

Please reconsider sentences like these.
no - they're just not doing anything with it.
What about just using LVM for snapshots? Considering that there default partition schemes include LVM maybe that's what they bank on in most use cases?
I wasn't really aware that "taupe"[1] was a colour until some Windows theme used that name. Similarly "coral" until it became an HTML colour -- it just wasn't common usage. I suspect a lot of these names originated in the art/fashion world, and entered computing via desktop publishing / UI design pros.

[1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=taupe
How am I acting like that?

How do you recommend Apple goes about terminating its relationship with China? Do you think it would have comparable costs and disruption to their business that Google's did?
And Coinbase was pretty good about getting pretty much all of the massive exodus of coins out of their system and out of cold storage in time.

And they were pretty explicit that they wouldn't be supporting the BCC chain. I get it people are upset about possibly missing out on money, but Coinbase handled this about as good as they could.
Does anyone know any exchanges that are selling BCC/BCH?
Hahaha.
You try this as any supplier of any service advertising custody of anything: "We will grab what would otherwise be yours, but as a result of our custody can be made to be ours. Because $WORDS"
https://www.SkipTheDrive.com only focuses on remote jobs as well.
Dunkirk
The reason I see as more simple, PCs were just more accessible due to cost and were easy enough for players to use, Microsoft invested in the tech so they’d perform well. So most gaming dev tech has a late 90s feel about it to this day.
You seem to have a handle on every aspect of this situation except what the actual attack we're discussing was.

It was typo squatting.
It's relevant, in that the HN crowd should be reminded to be self skeptical about their own groupthink. (I know I'm preaching to the choir here.)
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Neat. Here's two more on that topic that go further:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.459....

http://matryoshka.gforge.inria.fr/pubs/sat_sister.pdf
Not unless they deleted the keys holding the original, which would be unutterably stupid. They just havent credited their customers. They could do so at any time.
i dont think vulkan will take over, but implementations of this API might. Vulkan is a bit to broad and complicated for direct replacement of DirectX, but i think once people develop some wrappers / libraries against it it will be immensly powerfull and easy to use (like directX has been). Projects like GLFW have already integrated it, and i'd like to see that be developed further to assist game developers in easily hooking into vulkan.
Vulkan is very different from the others, and it requires a bit more in-depth knowledge to use than gl and directX as you are more directly managing resources, which was taken care for you in much cases in gl and directX.

Another avenue which will make vulkan powerful is that it's incoprorated already into a lot of popular engines, which makes it atleast easy to use for users of these engines. (unreal, unity etc.)
This was posted on HN yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14903229), but there was more discussion on /r/programming: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6qrbeo/why_do_...
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin-cash/#markets
>>> This announcement from Red Hat is purely a reflection of Red Hat's engineering expertise and the way they ship kernels, and not an indictment of Btrfs itself.

It's a clear indicator that RedHat doesn't want or can't support btrfs.

Which is a reflection of btrfs AND RedHat: the effort required to maintain it, the lack of usage in RHEL paying customers, the immaturity/fast development of the filesystem.
> the size of pool of elite is also shrinking.

China has a bench of hundreds of millions of people they can call on. With their track record, I don't think Chinese leadership needs to take advice on how to develop a country from anyone.
I used to think cabs were terrible drivers, but most of them (especially in heavily regulated markets) are very experienced drivers and simply disregard rules of the road that are inconvenient for them.

In contrast, 'ride sharing' drivers seem to have no sense of direction, and are genuinely oblivious to the rules of the road.

In short, when in either type of car, I fear for my life.
I found myself having my BTC assets copied to BCH on kraken.com, which I think is the best thing ever.
i presumed this would be something at least... quasi-intellectual, but this is just a slimy letter from a terrorist harassing a (soon to be?) victim.

kind of gross.
They still have the control over their clients' BCH, just not moving it. They didn't burn anything.
Sorry but what exactly is Bitcoin Cash? It seems like it's a fork in the BTC blockchain, but what prompted it and what gives it any sort of value, let alone a $12*10^9? Is it somehow technically superior? Is the move going to be to have BTC and BTC Cash exist side by side? Or are they going to fight for the market?
In the PB range, current tape technology is very competitive with HDD depending on access patterns and other factors.
Where have they explicitly contractually commited to this?
In some cases you can forget bad input, though, can't you? It's a rather wasteful example, but if (like you say, having established trust beforehand) every element of a grow-only set is a signed message, you can reject any messages that don't validate against their signature when merging. On one hand, this breaks idempotence. On the other, if we regard that set as a subset of the set of validly signed messages, it could not have been there in the first place, so to speak, so I wouldn't immediately think it breaks any guarantees. As far as I can tell, any properly functioning machine will only ever see correct state this way, unless it receives some state and doesn't merge it with anything, for example when initially starting to participate. However, that's easily fixed by always having some state, for example by starting with the empty set in this case.
This stackoverflow question have some good points (notably, the accepted answer, and the bit about limitations - the CDDL section 6.2, for example revokes the CDDL in case of patent infringement, something that might be considered an "extra limitation" under the GPL (you're not allowed to add additional limitations to either the GPL or the CDDL). As such, the CDDL might be incompatible with the GPL up to and including v2 - while GPL3 might also be incompatible with the CDDL):

https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/2094/are-cddl...

https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/blob/master/OPENSOLARIS.LI...

Also, the SO answer mentions consumer protection laws - but AFAIK they generally only apply to consumers - not businesses. So the GPL 0 clause might be void in many jurisdictions for individuals but still valid for businesses.
There's nobody grabbing anything, if you find evidence that Coinbase is transacting BCC with customers' funds when they said they simply were not supporting the fork, please share with the group!
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Most US remote jobs I've seen advertised don't want remote workers that are non-US based. I'd be interested to understand if workers can stray from their timezone once they're embedded in a business though?
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As someone about to take the plunge into mobile development (and slightly leaning towards iOS over Android), I'd love to hear some elaboration on your experiences.
200 TB is not a lot, though, for a single pass validity check today. A core does roughly a billion operations per second and we have tools now for easy provisioning of computation power and distribution of work.
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> But nested mirrors still suffer from the same issue of losing a drive and you lose everything.

Are you referring to mirroring a volume or dataset on a single disk? Why would you want to do that instead of mirroring among multiple drives?
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Coinbase did the right thing by warning their users beforehand that they wouldn't work with BCH.

They could have simply ignored it altogether and continue business as usual like nothing had ever happened.

Now after the fork, if people want to convert BTC to BCH, they have to go through a intermediary currency, just like many banks won't convert USD to $unknown_currency sometimes.

It doesn't surprise me there are talks about lawsuits, cryptocurrencies will have a hard time shaking off all the speculators and scammers.
With a service like that, it helps to have scene detection capabilities as well - so you don't end up having to look at lots of very similar looking thumbnails. So - as opposed to extracting frames at pre-set intervals, extract them when things sufficiently change in the video. That also lets you vary extraction interval between fast action and static talking head-type scenes.

We've done a lot of similar work, will be happy to compare notes.

https://twitter.com/iTrendTV/status/814543110399229952
> Like sibling says, doxxing implies that you'll post their personal info online.

It's unfortunate that so many people don't know what the word means, because now we're redefining the word to a very specific and malicious definition that makes communication about nuances around the intersection of rights here more difficult.

> there is a high risk that you THINK you've identified who the bad actor is but actually the person you decide to "retaliate" against had nothing to do with what was done to you.

I mean, you'll know their IP address, login, email, ISP and whatnot at a minimum. If the target is a comprimised computer, notifying them is the bare minimum you should do. So I'm sort of confused what kind of final consequence you're imagining here.

I think folks just see the word "doxxing" and their pattern matching misfires.
Couldn't you view the output of the last layer of the convnet used as the embedding in this case? Yes, this was a different approach than leveraging user preferences, but I don't see why this is inherently the wrong approach.
I think there are ethical ways to publicize vulnerabilities in a system ala Google's Project Zero, and then there's public shaming through trickery. Not to say how the administration reacted may be overblown, but "ends justify the means" is a slippery slope I find unpalatable.
Recent generation LTO tapes (LTO-6) can be had for like $25 a pop easily, low volume, just check Amazon or wherever. The LTO-7 are more expensive but that's what you get for latest and greatest.
"Microsoft's Software is Malware"

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/malware-microsoft.html
> Western companies are desperate to tap into China to keep their growth numbers

Yes they are, and China isn't stupid enough to allow that, and there's nothing the west can do about it without sinking the ship they are in. With the west being a democracy with most major decisions being made by individual corporations, to me it looks like a near certain checkmate for China, provided they don't have something like a major financial crisis.
Did you switch any of the companies you worked for remotely to clients? Or did you start from scratch?
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People keep saying this, but it's easy to imagine that the malicious code in a maven-included package only works when it detects it's being invoked in a unit test, which puts it in build time easily.

It's true it doesn't immediately build on site, but it sure could run in the developer's machine.
I mean, I was able get mine from Coinbase 3 hours before their deadline, and it only took a few minutes for it to pop up, and another 20 minutes to get the confirmations. I was considering just leaving them on there, but decided against it at the last minute, so I'm glad the '12 hour delays for Coinbase withdrawals' wasn't true.

I do regret not informing others I know about the fork, though. They most likely still have their coins on Coinbase.
Like the story of the 40 thieves, maybe the answer is to hide in plain sight. Throw so much data at them that they can't meaningfully process all of it. Fuck! This subthread is making me angry/ier.
>this and causes migraines and other heart issues

Until you can provide a shred of evidence for that I will assume you're just adding a layer of legitimate-sounding abstraction to the same superstition. Toxic precursors =/= toxic end products. This is chemistry, not alchemy.
snowdenbot?
This strikes me as the wrong way to think about citations.

Citations to a finalized version of a published, peer-reviewed article are "best", both in terms of assigning credit (this is what the authors are supposed to be producing) and as a pointer to more information for the reader (the article has been reviewed[0], it won't change, and there's a stable location for it). Work that isn't peer reviewed shouldn't be outright banned or ignored, but the citation should carry a lot less weight. It hasn't been reviewed, it's subject to change, etc. Since these are essentially someone's musings on a topic, when you cite paper to "prove something" (e.g., you write "The work of XYZ et al. (2017) shows that <some confound> is not a problem"), people will give it correspondingly less weight.

There is a long tradition, predating arXiv by decades, of citing technical reports or "white papers". These are usually written up like a journal article, but might be difficult to publish (all negative results) or contain more details than a typical journal publication would allow. If there is a "journal" version and a "tech report" version, it would probably be better to cite journal version, but I would be shocked if someone actively objected to including a tech report.

(In some disciples, the white papers are also the only thing available. The World Bank and Federal Reserve, for example, often release white papers containing their own data. They rarely bother to publish them in a journal though).

[0] For whatever peer review's worth :-/
You can read up on it all over. But the short answer is Bitcoin Cash forked Bitcoin and has 8MB blocks, which would have eliminated congestion and lowered fees on Bitcoin during the past year.

Both sides (small Vs big) have economic incentives behind them, making the argument extra vitriolic. But larger blocks allow on chain growth, keeping it peer to peer without requiring any 3rd parties. (And the answer that 8x more bandwidth and storage makes it infeasible for enough people to run nodes rings false.)
Reading a textbook is not the same activity as editing code instructions for a computer character-by-character.
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It’s voluntary. If it becomes unprofitable, drivers leave. If they lose money, they won’t do it.

They give a share to Uber because Uber is their lead generation. Many businesses give a share of their money to Google because Google brings them business.

An Uber driver can market their own business and keep all the money if they want just like a business could go out and market without using AdWords.

If you are unhappy with the pay Uber drivers make, you are welcome to pay whatever you want. It’s called a tip. Hand the driver cash for whatever amount you think compensates for the “exploitation” you imply (and are enabling by your own admission.) Otherwise, choose another transportation option and the market will respond.

I rarely hear anti-Uber people demand that supermarkets charge more for tomatoes despite those that pick tomatoes working in extremely tough conditions for low pay. I used to drive a taxi for a summer and I know it’s a non-stop hustle and not the best job, but I was at least in an air conditioned car listening to the radio all day and not out in the fields picking fruits and vegetables. It ended up being a low profit pursuit, so I ended up moving on to something else.

I have a hard time feeling sorry for people that do jobs like Uber because they, with some moderate ambition, could improve their lot – they already own a car, they could make deals with local companies that send lots of people to airports, for example. They could work on building an actual business while they pay the bills with their Uber income – just as an example. Still other drivers might start a mobile car wash service for other Uber drivers, etc. There are plenty of ways to evolve past depending on Uber as one’s sole income. But most people aren’t ambitious at all – they just want to just do what they’re told and collect a check no matter how meager. Other drivers use Uber for extra income or it’s a transitional job.

Any driver thinking they will make a career out of Uber is a fool. If they don’t like the conditions, they should be working hard and to create something of their own. It doesn’t take much money, but it takes ambition.
I did not create this account as a throwaway. I just don't have the inclination to comment on HN much and was lurking for a long time until recently. As proof I point you to my Reddit account of the same name which has a great deal of activity and which is reasonably well recognised and regarded in certain communities. I say this to demonstrate that I am not creating burner personas for the sole purpose of starting flame wars - but I did think it was worth stating in this discussion that Zed has succeeded in discrediting himself in some programming circles.
It's not clear. Human moderators are not the magic pill that fixes everything. Google has taken enough flak for injecting far too much liberal bias into their system and human moderators will only outrage more people. You may see it as righteous when opinions you don't like are swept off of websites you use. Everything is neat, tidy, and non-challenging to you. It's a bit Orwellian to me.
You are right and I am sorry. "Withholding" sounded somehow less poetic, I guess.
Don't need to do much research. Just read the Uber driver fora. They talk about it openly.

Still, even with a huge surge, Uber is 1/2 to 1/10th the price of a cab in my city.
You might consider registering a profile with Freelancer sites (e.g. PeoplePerHour, Upwork, etc.) and bidding for one-off jobs. This is a good way to gain experience, develop skills and build a portfolio of work.
Too bad malls are on the decline.
Yes and it was quite a bit more work to integrate. Stripe hit the sweet spot of being easy as possible and integrated into your site.
>Many ran the idea that the scripture account was proven wrong when in fact if they did a 2 minute search of the word Canaanites and see they were never wiped out or destroyed.

God ordered all Canaanites exterminated in Deuteronomy and Joshua tells the story of that extermination. Their reappearance in the following book proves scripture wrong without any help from scientists.

>But the use of Homer and his writings makes it difficult to see how human catalog of color missed out blue.

The human catalog didn't, the Greeks of Homer's time probably did. If you put the Iliad as being written in the 8th century, indigo dye wasn't being produced in India yet, and Egyptian Blue would have been incredibly scarce given the state of Egypt at the time.
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My bad, thanks. I was looking at median time instead of timestamp.