skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tape provides linear access. The limits of AWS Glacier are probably a good place to start back of napkin latency calculations. https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/
The README is right at the top of the page ?
Let's do some XKCD what-if math because I love doing stuff like this.

An average truck can house anywhere between 20,000L to 40,000L [1]. Let's take an average 30,000L.

An average truck can also travel at anywhere in between 56 kph to 137 kph [2]. Let's take an average 100 kph.

The tape catridge in the image looks like it's about 4mm x 10cm x 6 cm. And it can store 330 TB.

Let's say we're transfering from New York to San Francisco. That's 4,678 km according to Google.

Total data transferred in one truck = 330 TB * ((30000 L / (1000 L / m^3)) / ((4 mm * 0.001 m/mm) * (10 cm * 0.01 cm/m) * (6 cm * 0.01 cm/m)) = 412500000 TB

Total time taken = (4678 km * (1000 m/km)) / (100 kph * (0.27 (m/s)/kph)) = 173259 s

Bandwidth = 412500000 TB / 173259 s = 2380 TB/sec = 19046 Tbps

For reference, 255 Tbps was the fastest single fibre [3]. This is a good 75 times faster.

Of course, all this comes with a network latency of 2 days.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_truck#Size_and_volume
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limits_in_the_United_Sta...
[3] https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/192929-255tbps-worlds-fa...
I'm kind of saddened that BSD jails never got this kind of attention. I wonder why? Is it tooling? There was ezjail and BSDploy. iocage seems to be doing some interesting stuff, especially with respect to configuration.
What you're describing is also an "A.I". It's called collaborative filtering, and your algorithm (picking top 3 of the 1000 most similar users) would give results heavily biased towards popular songs, there are better approaches in that field.
Freezing has nothing to do with meat quality. It's the source of beef that matters.
Stock grants let them push part of your compensation for work done today out to next year, or beyond. The money (stock) that's coming in the future keeps you at the company.

At least, that's why I thought it was done.
If you try the interactive examples on the main Readme page all the way to the end, you'll see there's a gradual, subtle shift from cutesy Logo to Clojure-style functional programming. But I owe more doc-writing along those lines, and they that would make that fuller & clearer.
Well when you give out salary or bonuses (or even a dividend) taxes are paid twice
(once by company, once by employee/investor).

By playing stock tricks (buying back shares, non voting shares) the company never pays taxes, just the employee/investor.

That's probably not the whole story, but part of it I think.
I think you're underestimating the stability that such practices provide for enterprise. This is what people pay Redhat for.

Not all upstreams are interested in doing release engineering. There are non zero costs to doing it. It can eat up time that can be spent on bug fixes and features, or even make it too costly to change direction if a certain approach to implementation is proving more difficult than it should be.

Look at the Linux kernel. The only reason there is a stable kernel series is because Greg K-H decided it was important enough. He was unable to convince any other developers to go along with it, and eventually the decision was "if you want to support it, then you can do it."

Do you consider the stable kernel series a fork of the codebase? Should everyone be running the newest kernel every release despite the plenty of regressions that appear?

Kernel developers are not interested in making every change in such a slow and controlled manner as to avoid any regressions. And it works for them. They get a lot of stuff done, and come back and fix the regressions later.
I feel this is going to annoy less people than the monetary change google made. So ISIS and Alt-right types/far right wing, are the only people who will care about this.
And again, it's a Corporation's platform, not ours. Their rules.
> I honestly don't think so, the UK isn't important enough globally for WhatsApp to risk losing everything

You are assuming there is no collusion between states. A big assumption in my opinion considering the UK is a part of the Five Eyes.
What is the dumb metaphor/analogy and why?
> You become adored, respected, have a lot of money and power.

These are very grandiose visions of what being a developer is like. The reality is much more mundane.
That's such a generalization that I can't believe I'm bothering to refute it, but:

1. I consider myself pretty nerdy and I love the Apple Watch. You now know me, at least through Hacker News. I made another comment in this thread extolling the Apple Watch, and there are others. It feels like you cherrypicked the negativity, because I actually see a lot of balanced feedback that is both positive and negative about the watch, many of which comes from fellow "nerds".

2. I don't want to put words in your mouth, but it seems like you're using your in-group as a signaling heuristic rather than for an empirical analysis here. What constitutes a "nerd" if you haven't found any nerds who like it and if you didn't notice the comments from fellow nerds who really enjoy it?

3. I haven't personally found any of the issues you're talking about, but I do believe you've had them if you say you have. I'd chalk that up to an "underspecified complaint", because I don't know what the context was that resulted in poor behavior from the device. In my daily usage I don't find those issues emerge. However, I'd also gently suggest your expectations might be miscalibrated here and that you could be nitpicking. The device is absolutely not perfect, but I'm surprised if you disagree that it's not empowering, even for your in-group. It may be that you don't want to take advantage of those features, but if that's the case it's really not fair to generalize to a blanket claim that Apple doesn't develop for nerds.

Again, speaking as a nerd, I feel Apple develops products that target me very well. I use Linux on a workstation as a daily driver, but I enjoy my MacBook Pro more than I enjoy any other machine. I had an Android phone for about a year and switched back to the latest iPhone because it's both more secure and has better integration. And being that I develop software, I can appreciate that Apple has developed very solid software and hardware even if it can't meet all expectations.
These are very likely long exposures that captured groundings over time. It'd look much less impressive in person, and more in line with what you've seen reproduced.
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This is addressed:

>Google had tremendous experience with containers (they introduced cgroups in Linux) but existing internal container and distributed computing tools like Borg were directly coupled to their infrastructure.
The density is the amount of plastic in an area or volume of water, rather than the density of a particular piece of plastic.

It's the difference between 1 bottle cap worth of plastic in kilometers of open ocean and kilograms of plastic in a few square meters.

It lets you quantify the problem, and actually measure the severity, knowing where it is a problem and if it gets worse over time.
What is your motivation for the career switch? Just looking for greener pasture or you found your calling here?
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> Facebook's algorithmic echo chamber got Trump elected.

The article he references talks extensively about how the campaign effectively used social media for fundraising and advertising instead of tv, not echo chambers for brainwashing people. After all this time people still can't admit that echo chambers are what propped up Clinton in every media outlet and poll.
The article is theoretically correct, but practically if you use mesos you will use marathon/aurora and you'll compare that to Kubernetes. I find Kubernetes' "cloud native" approach much more compelling for green-field projects.

BTW - the more I dove into Marathon the more I discovered how thin wrapper it is above mesos, that does most of the work including - container runtime, pulling resources, starting tasks, handling registries, and now even health checks!
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Maybe, but it's worst case scenario. AI can't prove, nor disprove, nor prove improvability of the conjecture, because shortest proof requires 10^200 terabytes.
I'd expect documentation-only-for-very-smart-people to be complete, correct, and rigorous, but lacking in examples, rationale, and perhaps organisation.

That's not at all what I see in the documentation for Google's public libraries and frameworks.
Perhaps one of the more accurate analysis of China, but I disagree with Communist party's position is cemented. Just like the US is having a Coasts vs Hinterland clash, China is having that clash on steroids. The whole silk road program is basically trying to move some of the coastal wealth to interior to placate the populations etc. Their wealth is certainly not going away, but it will contained in Coastal, added to that a trade war with USA is brewing and a real war in Korean peninsula, will certainly shock their system.
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If upstream releases were doing better release engineering in the way you mean then there would be no money to be made shipping RHEL as a product.
You can use interfaces as class wrappers if you want referenced-counted class instances in Delphi. All arrays and strings are automatically reference-counted, and records (structs) are values that can be passed around without allocating memory (Delphi supports variable parameters, or pass-by-reference, but without requiring pointers or address-of notation).

As a Delphi application developer, you will most likely not be manually allocating/freeing memory a lot. Delphi's visual component library has a component ownership model. For example, any components/controls that you drop on a form are automatically "owned" by the form and are created/destroyed for you.
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> but its so valuable to them that they can't afford the equivalent of one latte per month?

Ignoring the fact that the prices in the student café in Germany where I get my coffee specialties are much cheaper - which is why I find this comparison unsuitable:
All these equivalents of one latte per month sum up when concerning multiple services that think similarly. And these individual "one lattes" sum up over many years when they are recurring.
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Adding onto this comment because people are latching onto the wrong part.

It's a greedy search. Just because you optimize for your local best interests, doesn't mean the COMMUNITY will benefit overall and the ecosystem itself suffers.

Look at how slow, ad-filled, and error-prone websites are these days.

So yeah, companies and people should be at least _concerned_ with the disparity between "best for me" and "best for all of us." Otherwise, we get things like rampant pollution. Well, this is app pollution.
Most of this articles content, and because analogies don't usually represent meaningful understanding, they just fake it.
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Calling Apple the genitals because they're a luxury brand?

As soon as I saw that graphic I knew what quality of article I was in for.
Is it really likely that every developer working on a popular BigCorp app....

Not to mention, rarely does app size register to clients, PMs, bizdev in terms of a worthy task. Only when you end up at the top of the app sizes list is time given to optimize.

We work to keep down app sizes and offer line item tasks for app size optimization on updates, noone finds it needed until they start to risk being near the top of the app list on a users device when they want to delete some apps.

In games, many toolkits/engines like Unity and Unreal in mobile also add quite a large chunk. Building your own engine is rarely an option anymore in terms of competitive launch. Many games built with Unity/Unreal even with moderate assets can reach 200-300MB easily and easily creep up further on updates.
For articles where the headline is a question, the answer is always "no".
I view it as a reference mainly. It's usually not very helpful for learning, unless the subject is trivial.
Ask HN: Looking for a coding buddy
I have a few hours a week I'd like to spend collaborating on something.

I was wondering how many other people are in a similar position where they also want to find someone to team up with.

I've recently started dabbling with Unity3D I have a couple of projects I’d be keen to find a coding buddy on

- A DB driven 2D Tower Defence

- 3D Block shooter

I'm based in New Zealand, skills wise I have >10 years as a full stack web developer (mainly ruby, mostly open source tech) and would be equally keen to hear from anyone thinking of starting something in that space.

If anyone else is in a similar position of finding someone please post in the comments -

If you are seeking someone for your project please list a brief project desc + ideal tech stack and your location / timezone.

If you are putting yourself out there please list your skills / interests and your location / timezone.

Disclaimer: In an ideal world this would be awesome and wouldn't get legally messy if a project ever took off but in the interest of actually finding someone and making something happen, I think thats a great problem for the future.
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Lovely :'D
If the SEC performs a particular action, Bitcoin can be deep-sixed, at least domestically, and since the US likes to export its laws (cf. copyright), probably worldwide in time.

Self-driving vehicles' practicality as a mass product, iirc, is currently dependent on not-yet-achieved processor hardware (ops per second, ops per watt, etc.) and battery energy density, without which they have insufficient visual-processing capabilities and range, respectively.

(Yes, those are hardware problems not political problems; still, not being an engineer in either of those fields I've no more agency over them than over political problems.)

Even after that, they will still be dependent on having not too many regulatory bottlenecks (cf. what the FAA has done to avionics for the past few decades) or legally-mandated misfeatures (cf. Cory Doctorow's Car Wars).
I'm curious about the environmental cost myself.
Right at this moment it's values at $717.00 per BCH vs $2694.42 for a BTC.

You'd argue it's better for me to have wait until the price stabilizes at 2% of BTC before I'm allowed to cash out?
People have money, especially $5-10 a month, I don't want to hear it. If you want to get your music out there, or you want to consume others music. Bands used to create demo tapes, and distribute them for FREE. I'm sure that costs more than $5 a month.

You can scrape together one hour of minimum wage. This is how the economy works. I'm tired of the freeloader generation ever since Napster. People need money to live, expecting everything free is nonsense.
Which benefits are those? Both synology and qnap have the ability to detect and correct bitrot doing btrfs on top of mdraid.
> Maybe the next Rails or Node can focus on making the cost of hosting infrastructure so inconsequential that sites don't have to make that choice.

Isn't the much larger cost driver the salaries of the employees than the infrastructure cost (serious question!)?
Maybe I'm cynical but does a connection exist between sudden renewed interest in Kacynski and a discovery channel docudrama being released?
We're down to just a majority, from pretty much everybody for pretty much all of human existence. Good work, folks! Let's not stop now.
Google should do this for regular Android APIs. The frequency you have to look up special-android-things is stunning –> disrupts your flow = very bad

There are way too many things you have to keep in your head on Android to get things right (https://developer.android.com/guide/components/images/activi...). The approach Google took here - do what ever you want, we won't tell/force you, is pure wrong (I'm a bit exaggerating, but still).

Developers wasted millions of hours of dev-time and therefor money to figuring out how to do basic things, like saving application state when the device is rotated or another app comes to foreground (testing state-changes is also complicated). There were complains about how state-saving is handled, but Google ignored them for many many years. Every platform has good and bad points, acknowledged, but not having a clear-line, a way how things should be done, is to me indecisive leadership and a very big mistake I would not have expected from Google.

Last AndroidIO things got better with the introduction of so called "Architecture Components" (among other things a SQLite ORM and guide how basic things should be done, finally). I wonder what took them so long.
[29] RadioLab (June 28, 2010). "Oops". http://www.radiolab.org/story/91721-oops/

[30] Jump up ^ Cockburn, Alexander (October 18, 1999). "CIA Shrinks & LSD". CounterPunch. Retrieved August 7, 2015. https://www.counterpunch.org/1999/10/18/cia-shrinks-lsd/

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski
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I thought we technically make enough food for everyone on earth? It's the distribution that's the hard part.
Taking this to its most ludicrous extreme, everyone should use Arch, and anyone who can't should... what? Not use Linux?
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For more information:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/06/harvard...
"every Web service that has ever existed is a REST API and the term is completely meaningless."

Yes, the term is completely meaningless. In the strictest sense that some people insist on there appears to be 0 "real" REST APIs in the world. In the loose sense, as you say, everything is a REST API. I've really never seen a definition of "REST API" that usefully splits the world of HTTP-based APIs into "REST" and "not REST" that anyone is willing to stick with; the term seems to beg for people to start a purity spiral that ends with whatever supposed REST API was being held up as an example of a REST API turning out to violate some tenant or other of "real REST".
For internal/experimental/exploratory use, I like Jupyter [0].

0: https://jupyter.org/
Why do you say he didn't realize? Maybe he just thought those others didn't give enough weight to those risks?
YouTube is the audio version of YouTube, people listen to a TON of music on there. SoundCloud is minuscule in comparison.

YouTube is also making zero money, so if that is what they were trying to be, they've succeeded. Difference is, they don't have Google backing them.
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Wow! This is awesome. This definitely motivates me to learn Eta.
I'm overlooking the easy "It's easy for me so it's easy for everyone" because I'm interested what phone you use?
> Again, do some fucking research before making claims that you know nothing about.

You might want to learn instead. My point was that BUILDING Hybrids/EVs cause pollution. Not that gas powered cars as less polluting. What you are doing right now is building a straw man.

> He drives a Prius, a Tesla Roadster, and a Fisker Karma. Big houses don't produce more CO2 unless they use more electricity, and he has solar. Flying produces less CO2 than driving, and is required for his job, so he can spend money on things that globally reduce CO2

Everything you listed produced CO2. You need fossil fuel to BUILD prius, Tesla, etc. The housing material was made via producing carbon. The trucks/etc used to transport and build the mansions used carbon.

I can't believe you used di caprio's resort as an example of being "green". Wonder how much pollution is generated just to visit the resort.

> 2: Try to convince everyone else to pay just a little more for cars and electricity, because a small sacrifice will totally avert global warming. Your suffering is small, and more likely to attract others to do the same.

I thought we aren't using that word "global warming" and using "climate change"? Also, I thought alarmists have said it is already too late.

>Right... could you link me to some proof? Because I already linked a 5000 page report of proof

You haven't link anything other than a straw man and a silly PR piece about dicaprio.

> The carbon/energy cycle is under centralized control, because it's attached to the grid.

You can't be like this. That's not what I mean by "centralized control".

> My computer, running 24/365, uses 1,300 kWh, about as much as a car driving 1500 miles. The average American drives ten times that. If I can convince one person every six years that they should buy an electric car, I've made up for using my computer.

No you haven't. The pollution is STILL there.

It's funny how you alarmist can't even get your stories straight. "It's too late". "It's not too late". "We need a complete overhaul". "We can do this incrementally". "We need to reduce carbon emissions". "We just need to maintain it at this level".

Listen. I know you "googled" and want to push your agenda. I get that people like you need a religion and it's difficult to accept old religions like christianity. So you cling to "climate change" and it's "revelations" and end of the world nonsense.

Your religion isn't any more valid than christianity. I know you are going to be upset because the truth hurts. I used to be exactly like you. A global warming fanatic. But I eventually matured and left my teenage years behind me.

So worship Elon, pray to him everyday and read the scriptures of the climate change bible. Life will go on. And you will grow out of this silly phase.

Fanaticism isn't a good thing.
I always wonder why the whole "facebook internet" isn't brought up more by pro net-neutrality folks. I think there's only one article that's been written about a particularly worrisome consequence it has as well [1].

While I think it'd take a very long time for Americans to actually be convinced of this, the reason why this is happening (because facebook might as well be THE internet for these users) is a lot more worrisome. Particularly when Mark himself is running soon.

(1)https://qz.com/333313/milliions-of-facebook-users-have-no-id...
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I quoted it in my first comment:

> Scores should be normalized by income, stability of household, then holistic factors such as extraneous circumstances, health, etc.

Did you want to refer to hypothetical admission scores? There used to be US colleges that admitted on a points system (and some very low-prestige ones still do), but they've stopped doing that since giving objective points based on race was ruled illegal for public schools.
You have your facts wrong.

Fukushima didn't kill even ten people, let alone hundreds.
The region got so small radiation dose it is already basically harmless ... Decontamination efforts will make it pass even irrational radiation safety levels within 10-20 years. "hundreds" of years is therefore stupid hyperbole.

Public has not accepted nuclear risks because it is ridiculously misinformed. Don't spread pointless fearmongering, please.