skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's currently redundancy inside of Backblaze datacenters with our Vaults architecture (https://www.backblaze.com/blog/vault-cloud-storage-architect...). Georedundancy is on the roadmap for Backblaze B2, but not currently for the Computer Backup service.
I know doesn't answer your question exactly, but assuming your goal is to better show your experience as a developer - LinkedIn may not be the best way to show it. Why? It's hard to show your work on LinkedIn.

Well coincidentally I'm working on something that focuses on your work and not who you worked for or the name of your job title: https://theymadethat.com

Check out some sample profiles and compare it to LinkedIn

(When you click on what they worked on - it goes deeper)

Before
https://www.linkedin.com/in/avinashlakshman/

After
https://www.theymadethat.com/people/fvd58z/avinash-lakshman

Before
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregg-zehr-1b147/

After
https://www.theymadethat.com/people/16ee83/gregg-zehr

Before
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonyfadell/

After
https://www.theymadethat.com/people/rtk3hv/tony-fadell

Before
https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-tran-12159a18/

After
https://www.theymadethat.com/people/yx9sg/mathew-tran

Before
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nic-novak-00177250/ (this guy is really trying to show his work - but LinkedIn can only do so much)

After
https://www.theymadethat.com/people/9eni8t/nic-novak

Try out theymadethat, and let me know what you think especially what you think could be improved. I should warning you though, it's very buggy and barely beta
Stick to getting 1/3 of your calories from each one of 3 main groups: carbs, proteins and fat.
And while you're at it, stick to good carbs and good fat.
> What about the breakup of Ma Bell?

"AT&T was, at the time, the sole provider of telephone service throughout most of the United States. Furthermore, most telephonic equipment in the United States was produced by its subsidiary, Western Electric. This vertical integration led AT&T to have almost total control over communication technology in the country, which led to the antitrust case, United States v. AT&T. The plaintiff in the court complaint asked the court to order AT&T to divest ownership of Western Electric"

i.e. AT&T used its network monopoly to maintain control over hardware manufacture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System
VR is absolutely perfect for sim racing and I hope it doesn't go away. Even if it just becomes another niche device that sim racers spend way too much money on.
It rewards taking a risk on people with questionable credit histories?
In poor areas, there are often fewer dealers, because you have to deal with poor people who have less access to money. It's often more profitable to sell expensive items. If you do serve a poor area, you are very likely to be able to force terms that are onerous. On the second issue, what if you drove that car out for a hike and its cold and started raining, and now you can't get inside it? What if you need to drive someone to the hospital? Of course, they can just die, because they are poor.
I've never heard someone refer to a schizophrenic as "a schizoid". Schizophrenia and schizoid personality disorder are distinct disorders with different symptoms.
so what about the greedy white people that sell to newcomers at inflated prices in turn pricing out their "own"?
The comparison is East Germany vs West Germany, which did.
There are dozens of lenders out there for car loans, plus dealership financing arrangements, etc. It's an extremely competitive market. If market economics has any real world validity at all, it's to show that interest rates on marginal borrowers are appropriately priced.
If you read the article, the loan was paid off. They disabled it because the buyer refused to pay an undocumented $200 charge for removing the kill switch after the transaction.
> About my approach, what it solves is that you can do that for any resolution without finding a max length LFSR of the appropriate size.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear-feedback_shift_register...

We have LFSRs for ... well more than anyone could ever need.

EDIT: To be clear, I still think your article is really cool and useful for bringing up the topic of Feistel networks!
> but privacy needs to be a mainstream political issue

Honestly most people don't care and money talks... This is the new normal, better get used to it. This fight was lost a long time ago.
Remove the battery & the backup battery would mean the device is no longer phoning home. Flag any vehicles that haven't reported in over a 24-hour period.
> Just because people have accepted something doesn't mean they deem it "acceptable".

Actually, that is exactly, literally what it means. Perhaps you mean that just because we find something acceptable, we don't deem it moral, or optimal, or desirable. The distressing reality presented in the interview is that we accept non-benevolent, non-ideal options because they are good enough to be accepted, and not bad enough to be rejected. But accepting something, by definition, means you consider it accept-able, or, "able to be accepted."
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Thanks for sharing this. I found it very helpful. I haven't used karabiner before and I'm trying to understand how you're using karabiner but I'm having trouble doing so. Do you ever plan on writing something explaining your usage or do you have any resources that you recommend?
I don't know about go specifically, but in general if a compiler sees that the result of an expression is thrown away (like here: you don't use it anywhere), and there are no side effects to the expression, then it's okay to replace it with a noop. Usually it's better to write benchmarks in a way that the result of the mathematical expressions is used, like if you kept a running sum of `atan2(rand(), rand())` and then printed it.
I suspect self driving taxis/buses will solve this problem. If you don't have to pay drivers overtime, there's little reason not to run them all night.

Transit will ultimately become a ubiquitous utility like running water.
It's good pay for an easy job that requires no skills and offers perfect flexibility. The alternatives are a lot shittier.
> I'd definitely give a dirty look to anyone who laughed at it.

Perhaps that would be appropriate before said person had taken a digital communications class and aced a test on it. After that, however, I think a wry chuckle is very much appropriate.
I think discord has better potential to be the next social media juggernaut, I know most of my social media interaction goes through discord. As our lives move more and more online discord seems to be the digital equivalent of the roman forums and I appreciate the ability to jump into a conversation with my friends in the same way I would IRL.

Mostly I appreciate the ability to be parts of different groups, the ease with which you can join groups, and the fact that you can host your own friend group. I realize this isn't Discord's mission statement or intent but it is a position they find themselves in.
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Ultimately it's a question of whether the contract allowed them to demand the fee, and disable the vehicle for non payment.

Nobody involved in writing this article seems to have consulted this particular contract, but I wouldn't find the existence of such a contract unbelievable, nor the terms particularly unreasonable.
Thats more of a conjecture but as NK sends between 50 and 150K forced laborers abroad each year primarily to the Russian evergreen it wouldn't surprise me if at least just as many of them defect as those who defect across a fairly well guarded border into SK.
> I'm sorry, could you clarify what you mean by "eliminate" here.

Most compilers will eliminate code if they can tell the results of a calculation are never used. Benchmarks typically call some function and discard the result. If you aren't careful, the compiler can often optimize away your entire benchmark down to nothing.

This is why you often see benchmarks that look like:

int average(a, b) {
return (a + b) / 2;
}

main() {
int sum;
for (int i = 0; i < 100000; i++) {
for (int j = 0; j < 100000; j++) {
sum += average(i, j);
}
}

if (sum != 123) printf("!");
}

Instead of:

int average(a, b) {
return (a + b) / 2;
}

main() {
for (int i = 0; i < 100000; i++) {
for (int j = 0; j < 100000; j++) {
average(i, j);
}
}
}
That test was accurate in pinning what I do believe my political leanings are, but the questions were awful and loaded. In the surrounding exposition and in the questions themselves the authors demonstrate what I believe to be a staunch leftist / progressive leaning. A lot of questions I read thinking "just because of how they worded this I have to say X because they are making an absolutionist statement on something I'm not absolutionist about".
I'm not terribly familiar with the ZFS/DTrace side of things but Solaris 11.2 added Kernel Zones [1] and Solaris 11.3 added more features [2].

We have Unified Archives as a way to create either a golden image of a system (all configuration and other host-specific data) or a "clone" image (the software payload minus host-specific data) which can be used to install metal, LDOMs, kernel zones, or branded zones and allow P2P, V2V, P2V, or V2P. [3]

We've had Boot Environments since 11.0 [4] which allows me infinite flexibility to upgrade or even try out random things. If things go south, I can roll back to a safe BE in 30 seconds with no issue.

[1] http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01/html/E37629/gnzfn.html

[2] http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E53394_01/html/E54847/virt.html#sc...

[3] https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01/html/E38524/index.html

[4] https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/E21801/index.html
Some (not all) of these attitudes were religion-based.

A reason I don't respect people's faith (superstition) because legitimized magical thinking still has an outsized effect on elections, laws, and policy, with many examples during our lifetimes.
I was poor and unbanked for a while, and yes it is.

When you are poor, you generally can't take advantage of buying in bulk, even things like toilet paper. I save a substantial amount of money (and time) now that I can buy larger quantities of things.

Now that I have a car again, I'm able to save a tremendous amount of time which I can use towards leisure or making more money.

Having access to credit now allows me to get 1.5% cash back on all my purchases, this adds up to a fair amount of money over a year.

There's a lot more, but these are a few examples I've experienced personally.
No, it can be against the law merely to have (and keep) a monopoly.

It is against the law to acquire, or to perpetuate, a monopoly by any combination or conspiracy in restraint of trade.

Although you're quite right that the move into the browser market was a big part of the case against Microsoft, there were other pieces to that case. There was a whole bunch of work around APIs/ABIs and in particular, denying other parties access to secret or privileged APIs in order to cripple potential challengers to the existing OS market (e.g. Java/Sun).

(Notwithstanding that the Microsoft strategic work around the browser stuff was a very correct reading that the browser was destined to become the de facto OS.)

Yes, it's complicated and there's a whole century+ of interesting jurisprudence. But it's not sufficient to just declare it's OK to have a monopoly -- you can be at risk of antitrust suits even just 1. having a de facto monopoly and 2. doing the "normal" smart business things to hang onto it.

For further reading, start with https://www.justice.gov/atr/us-v-microsoft-courts-findings-f...
Most people have a low understanding of how financial products work. The lender, on the other hand, does this for a living. Most buyers are at a huge disadvantage.
It is not too complicated. Eliminate or significantly reduce, bread, potatoes, rice, skim milk, sugary stuff, and cereals from your diet and you will be healthier.

At our household we just got rid of bread and starch/carb sides and serve more vegetables to make up for it.
Detroit's tiny houses are giving low-income earners a shot at homeownership
> The CE version is fine for me, especially if it's hosted on gitlab.com, but then if something goes wrong I'm working on the basis that paid plan holders have a higher priority for getting fixed.

The basic GitLab.com plan is free and runs their EE version, and yeah, it looks like you can get 4-hour support with their Silver plan [1].

(I haven't been keeping track of GitLab.com's features lately, but I'm glad they're charging for features that aren't essential to indie developers like me.)

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/
Not really that true anymore. Especially in cities like NY and London there are practically no public spaces not under 24/7 CCTV surveillance and all that video is cheap to preserve forever.
You should have a look at Void Linux[1] (if you ever wanted to give Linux another shot). It uses runit for init instead of systemd and offers musl as an actively supported alternative to glibc. Its package manager is similar to the one in Arch in that it provides both rolling-release binary packages as well as a ports-style build system. Void also incorporates OpenBSD's LibreSSL by default. Everything else is kept as minimal and simple as possible.

1) https://www.voidlinux.eu/
If you read the Red Notice by Bill Browder, you will know this to be true about Russia: It's a lost cause.

It's a lost cause because the good people in Russia are killed and eliminated with impunity by thugocracy.

You can't have a future when everyone in power is stealing from their own people.

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It helps that they only backup local storage - no NAS or network drive support. Obviously anyone storing 1Pb of data in Amazon isn't exactly uploading that from the drive(s) in their laptops...
...and a police force with arrest powers, and corporate compliance offices that follow the letter of the law, and federal investigators that try and parse code...

And once you get big, you can't get any more revenue.

And I want to be king.
Being poor is expensive
You're assuming the only way to make it a viable living is via advertising.

I pay for the Economist, Bloomberg Businessweek, National Geographic and others. I would pay more for them, sans adverts.

If you can't produce content that people want to pay for, what are you actually doing?
Eh, I think it is more a problem with "broad umbrellas" and simple labels being inherently incapable of accurately describing something as complex as ones own politics, rather than lack of self judgement. I know precisely what my politics are but the right/left dichotomy is to simple for me to even pick a side for example, both tribes have ideals that I very much agree with.
Do I think the price of mobile data should fluctuate before the company releases a data product on the market...no.

You can claim it's the same reason anything fluctuates, but point me to other products/goods/services with prelaunch fluctuating pricing.
Which is completely irrelevant if the buyer owns the car outright? Want your fees? Take it up in small claims. They have no rights over your property.
because you get lots of market power when have zillions of users.
At $20/mo in DigitalOcean services that are only required if you're running on a chromebook, why not just run on an inexpensive PC? It's seemingly long-term more expensive to do it this way.
>Short of not saying anything to anyone, it's hard to keep it secret

To add to this, many people are doing just that on their social networks. Now that there is a precedent for potential employers to "Facebook Stalk" applicants, and we all know that the major world governments have under the table agreements with all the major social networks for data, our profiles are just another carefully curated facade of our lives.

See also: https://www.socialcooling.com/
> they would have done so

What actually happened proves that this would have been unnecessary.
Creditors do not care a bit about your reputation.

And no credit history is almost as bad as poor credit. If you have no credit history, you should expect to overpay when financing anything.
Where I work, we'll ask each other to be our "talking duck". Usually just talking through the problem, with no response from the person playing the "duck", is enough to figure out what's wrong.
Tell that to the President
I switched my Western diet to strictly vegetarian Korean dishes a decade ago and feel so much better.

Basically, what I learned is that Western diet is designed to kill you. There's just no way all that carb and sugar is healthy.
Thats exactly what many in the food industry intended. It is the same plan as the tobacco industry, as seen in the famous "Doubt is our product" memo: http://www.kevinhabits.com/doubt-is-our-product-fascinating-...
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Brian from Backblaze here.

> Part of it might be because they don't support Linux

Backblaze DOES support Linux through the B2 product line and third party applications. There is a list of applications that support Linux here: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/integrations.html (scroll down and look for pictures of Penguins).

Supported applications include Dupicity which ships inside of several Linux distributions such as Ubuntu and Debian. So you may already have your local client application pre-installed on your linux computer ready to backup to Backblaze!
I will take a look. Thank you!
> Also, unless there is data, I don't believe a company would disable a car in a manner that would be unsafe for anyone

Looking past the fact that I already gave you one example, how would they know? The GPS device knows where the vehicle is, what it's running state is, and that's it. They don't know if the vehicle is stopped helping another person on the side of the highway. It doesn't know if the driver just ran inside to get their kid from daycare. It doesn't know if the owner is at a doctor's appointment 40 miles from home.

And more to the point, it's not as if these solved a problem. Cars were repossessed aplenty before they were invented, the only difference is it used to be expensive, so a bank would work with the borrower to attempt to salvage the loan or at the very least, have to repossess the vehicle when the borrower was at home or at work. Now it's cheap to repo the car, so why bother? Why even notify the person other than with a text message, the Lender now has no reason to even attempt it, just repo the car, get it back on the lot and sell it to the next poor bastard who's desperate for a car.
all this time we thought acid would make you crazy
The real crime is the $14,000 pricetag for a lease on a KIA.

What the fuck.
>I'd imagine there is some sort of phone-home that indicates the device is still connected, and any tampering of the device could result in heavy penalties--including forfeiting the vehicle.

There is patchy cell service in many parts of Canada. People would be very angry and dealers wouldn't do this if they went on vacation for a week and their car didn't work when they came back. It's far more likely that it pings a server when it gets connectivity and takes action based on the response. A dead man's switch type system would be very hard to implement with a sufficiently low false positive rate for this type of thing.

For a vehicle you own (like in OP's story) there should be no problem.

In most jurisdictions you're somewhat free to do what you want with property you own but is under a lien (e.g. you can put a new porch on your house even if you haven't paid the loan off yet).

The installation can't be too involved because then the manufacturers would have to do more work modifying installation instructions and kits to work on more vehicles. The more involved it get the more man hours installation takes the less likely a dealership is to install these.

Anyone who's going to try to remove one of these is probably just gonna dive into the job and keep going until it's done. Making it more involved won't stop a huge number of attempted removals. A very small percent of people will even attempt removal in the first place.

These systems are subject to most of the same design considerations and trade-offs as aftermarket car alarms and padlocks. The best bang for your buck is the minimum required to keep honest people honest.
It probably varies by state in the US, I know that where I live, the primary lienholder is in possession of the title and releases it when the loan is paid in full. I can't think of a scenario where I could own a vehicle and physically hold the title, yet have an auto lender's lien on it.
What would have blockchain solved in this case? IMO, nothing.

If people don't read contracts written in English, how do you expect them to read and understand a smart contract that would contain the same clauses as the original contract but coded in a language they don't understand?
I think if one really wanted to put effort into a Care Bear style NPO, one possible solution is to buy up a fleet of used toyota corollas and finance them to poorer buyers using similar style methods (e.g. keep the immobilizer and repossessions) but using non-predatory pricing schemes. As part of the deal, you provide all maintenance at your shops to keep the cars in good condition, but because you only deal with a single car type you can keep costs down, similar to how Ryanair maintains a homogeneous fleet of A330's. You might even be able to provide a group insurance plan.

Of course this would require a true Care Bear to execute, since you could probably make a lot of money if you just left in the predatory pricing. And the problem would have never existed if decent public transport existed in the first place, which self driving cars may eventually provide some semblance of.
Exactly.

Being able to do fast things using typical procedural idioms, and being able to implement new, fast routines without dropping to a different, lower-level language are huge wins.

Python is a nice language syntactically, it's just too bad that fundamental design decisions made it intrinsically slow.
1. Since Dodd Frank banks/dealerships found a way to sell a big purchase to a desperate, gullible consumer, and make their "nut".

2. My biggest gripe is a vechicle is more than an asset to many people. People use it for shelter. People use it for safety. (Imagine the first person who is trying to flee a dangerious situation and the vechicle won't start). They use it for safety. They use it to get them to that lousy job.

I think we need to put some in some Dodd frank like automotive prohibitory regulations. Remotely disabling a persons vechicle, or towing should be that very last option. The customer should always be well informed of the exact time, and location of any lockout.

(I'm looking to by a new car, and the pressure to finance is rediculious. They offer incentives to finance. I'm going to buy with cash, but I haven't found a vechicle I even like, in my price range. It's still the slimiest industry, on so many levels. If the car wasen't for an elderly relative, I'd by a low mileage used vechicle, or a classic car in the secondary market.)
Why are Twitter threads so common? What makes them better than a real and accessible blog post? I don't condemn threads, but the user interface and reading experience is so awful that I cannot like them as they currently are.

It's difficult to navigate forward or backward in a thread, specially when there are a lot of tweets, as every few tweets it has to load more. Plus, every tweet can have its own replies, so it's hard to read comments or reactions.

The only thing I find useful in threads is that, since every sentence is a separate tweet, it's easy to share a particular point in a conversation by sharing the URL for that particular tweet.
Maybe once we get self driving buses. Self driving taxis don't help unless costs plummet. Poor people don't take taxis a lot due to having no money.