skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like English-speaking product design in general has not caught up with the idea that there is a substantial audience of very competent second language speakers. Most educated Continentals I know have similar complaints.
> Some customers already have datasets on the order of a petabyte, or 2^50 bytes. Thus the 64-bit capacity limit of 264 bytes is only 14 doublings away. Moore's Law
for storage predicts that capacity will continue to double every 9-12 months, which means we'll start to hit the 64-bit limit in about a decade. Storage systems tend to live for several decades, so it would be foolish to create a new one without anticipating the needs that will surely arise within its projected lifetime.

So exactly 14 years passed, does someone have 2^64 bytes for a single ZFS filesystem (or anything close to that)? I don't really feel like storage capacity (or 1/price) doubles every year.
Yeah. I'd say even more than double awesome. The falcon heavy launch was super important for Space-X, PR and investment wise. Trusting two used rockets for THAT launch shows real confidence in the re-usability of their rocket tech. Bravo.
Even if the exposure were for a year, if the amount of light being emitted is less than the hardware can perceive, it wouldn't register - hence the need for electron-microscopes and such. There's a story here about the size of the light being emitted that doesn't seem satisfactorily answered (not by you, the article and stuff in general).
Maurice Wilkes programmed from 1950 almost until his death in 2010, so something like a 60 year "service record".
hmmm I don't really look at facebook more than once every few months for like 2min. I have fb messenger to talk to my friends and I don't really care about what goes on on the real site
That's the intended purpose, yeah. Anything not related to the product should be flagged, and if what you're describing is accurate, these aren't related to the product. Google should remove them a week or so after being flagged.
> Why would the introduce such a radical break from traditional interviewing without testing to see if it works?

Has "traditional interviewing" undergone any scientific study for determining if it "works"?
We'll have to wait a while before we know for sure, but one loser might be technology startups, especially European ones. As much talk as there has been about the effects of GDPR on huge companies, the fact is, they're not too concerned: they have enough lawyers to throw at the legal issues and enough engineers to throw at the technical issues. Smaller companies without these resources are going to see their lives get harder.

This is a pattern you see across a lot of regulation, even when perfectly well-intentioned: it tends to favor giant companies over smaller ones, because the big ones can devote lots of manpower to the complicated legal and technical challenges the regulation sets up. That might be a worthwhile tradeoff, but it's not the same as saying "the winners are everyone".
There's still a distinction to be made. A rewrite usually means 'one day we will turn off this "legacy" system' and replace the whole thing at once', but a 'refactor from zero' can clearly involve running two systems at once for a while, slowly offloading functionality until you have replaced each part. The former is usually such a bad idea that it's worth clarifying that you're not doing it.
Wth is this? It looks like a review, plus massive inconsiderate spoiler of almost everything, minus the actual review.

First post I flagged on HN, as it brings negative value.
I think if they were located in the bay area they wouldn't be able to get away with treating their employees so poorly. It's all about the supply and demand for labor. Outside the bay area, the labor supply and demand are much more inbalance whereas the bay area has limited labor supply due to the housing crisis. On the penninsula there are 4 jobs for every 1 resident, this gives workers a much larger bargaining power.
I'm under the impression that empire is generally a collection of nations being administered collectively, generally under a single ruler called an emperor, rather than just being a term for a powerful nation. The British Empire ruled the UK and numerous colonies and the Holy Roman Empire ruled over a collection of Germanic states. Except for a few exceptions (e.g. Guam and Puerto Rico) the US is all one nation and governmentally not an empire
I don't agree but to each their own. Now with self checkout, 4 major supermarkets near me and I tend to go later at night.. I really don't see the problem
I've considered gradient descent for optimizing parameters on toy problems at university a few times. Never actually did it though, it's a lot of hassle for the advantage of less interaction at the cost of no longer building some intuition.
It is really hard to believe that instacart wants to be clear and transparent as possible (although I'm sure you do, personally).

If "service fee" was renamed "instacart fee", people would no longer assume it is the driver's tip. But instacart would never do that, would they?
My comment was civil, informed, and substantive. It includes an answer to the question, and seven supporting citations. It also refrains from any unnecessarily controversial aspects of the argument.

The comment very well could've been upvoted as the most useful reply. The other replies were terribly uniformed.

We'll never know because it was censored by a small number of users that didn't agree with the argument. An abuse of the flagging system that you've chosen to support and reinforce.
There are regions where people commute daily over the border, and even more where people commute weekly.

e.g. I have a colleague who lives in Malmö (Sweden) and commutes daily to Copenhagen (Denmark). Lots of people travel into Luxembourg every day.

When I lived in the UK, the director's family lived on a pretty island in Spain, and he went every Friday for the weekend. Not exactly good for his CO₂ emissions, but people do this kind of thing.
Eurostar is definitely convenient. Took from London to Paris and return a couple of years ago. 2 hours from downtown to downtown. Much less time for ground transportation or check-in or anything like that than taking a flight. Personally prefer this than flying between London/Paris.
When the privacy settings are hidden away in some non-obvious, hard to find place, you can guess Facebook tried really hard to prevent you to actually change them.

When the privacy settings reset to "allow almost everything" at every update, you can guess Facebook tried really hard to make your changes ineffective.

Privacy settings only exist for plausible deniability. And that plausibility is dwindling every year.
That's true. Until there are viable desktop and server CPU competitors, it'll just mean increased costs for European consumers.
There is a difference between looking at the first EU country in a list and the EU as a whole.

It's not a market you can decide to leave on a whim if you're a serious business.
Majestic Mondays – Feb. 12, 2018 – What Our Unicorns Are Grateful For
At the risk of inexpertly offering bad advice, you could try blackout curtains?

I'm 33, definitely more of a night owl but if it's sunny out I'm pretty likely to be wide awake at 6am after going to bed at 1. Black out curtains made all the difference for me.
Some of Knuth's early programming exploits (from his undergraduate days) are described in “Stories about the B5000 And People Who Were There” by Richard Waychoff (see section III, “The Summer Of 1960 (Time Spent with don knuth)”): http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/B5000-AlgolRWaychoff.html#7

At the other end, he said recently that he still writes two or three programs a week, mostly in CWEB. (If you're not familiar with CWEB, it is his own invention: it's basically C, with preprocessors (ctangle and cweave) that enable literate programming.)

Some of his programs he puts up here: https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/programs.html — the most recent is from December 2017. (They are in .w format; if you don't have the patience to install CWEB and run cweave+tex on them, I've typeset them here: https://github.com/shreevatsa/knuth-literate-programs/tree/m... — last updated September; needs another update.)
How the rise of market power in the US may explain some macroeconomic puzzles
If you go back in time by six months, the earth is on the other side of the sun so you die without air - unless the flat earth is the center of the universe, then you would be OK.
Last I checked the ZFS 128 bit values were not byte offsets, but block numbers. So the justification requires over 2^64 blocks, not 2^64 bytes.

I calculated it at some point and it was several years of the entire earths manufacturing capacity for disks in a single filesystem.

[added the missed "several years of"]
This is my experience as well. The readings never matched what the text books said. Whenever the graph didn't match everyone told me that equipment was old or not calibrated. But it happened in all the equipment and at different labs. Fortunately I never cared about physics and simply started doing computer science.
To me, torrenting has become the new SMS. When Hangout, whatsapp, imo, and whatnot fail, I always resort to SMS which simply work.

I have access to netflix, amazon, and Youtube, but when they fail, in the most ridiculous ways, there is always the guarantee of torrents in the highest possible quality.
Facebook can't even guess my name on emails I receive weekly about what my “friends” are up to. They think my name is Martin Salum.
ps: never used facebook.
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People do form weird perceptions, especially from short trips to places they don't know well, but your numbers are wrong.

137/152 are the number of days w/ precipitation, not sunny days. ie, Seattle has less rain, but more days of precipitation. This is typical comparing Seattle with many other cities: less rain total, but spread over more days.

Those more days are concentrated in winter, more so than in is typical in other parts of the country. If you look at the "hours of sunshine" stat over a whole year in your links, the typical seasonal change people complain about in the PNW is right there: Apr - Sep are similar, but Nov - Feb Seattle gets half as much hours of sun.

The concentration of gloomy drizzly days in winter is quite real.
To help out: in the most of Hollywood movies spoken Russian is usually beyond unnatural with a heavy accent... to a point computer synthesized voice acting would be an improvement.
These are from the Wikipedia article in the comment you replied to:

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> In 1964, a Moroccan-born Israeli double agent named Mordechai Ben Masoud Louk (also known as Josef Dahan) was drugged, bound, and placed in a diplomatic mailing crate at the Egyptian Embassy in Rome, but was rescued by Italian authorities.[4] The box that he had been sealed into "had almost certainly been used before for human cargo,"[5] including possibly for an Egyptian military official who had defected to Italy several years before but then disappeared without a trace before reappearing under Egyptian custody and facing trial.

> In the 1984 Dikko Affair, a former Nigerian government minister, Umaru Dikko, was kidnapped and placed in a shipping crate in an attempt to transport him from the United Kingdom back to Nigeria for trial.[4] However, it was not marked as a diplomatic bag, which allowed British customs to open it.[4]

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The Egyptian diplomatic box "almost certainly" worked as intended, and it is quite believable that the Nigerian diplomatic crate would have worked without the obvious omission.
It's already happening. Netflix and Amazon have both got into the content-production game, and one of their stated reasons is that when they make their own content they don't have to deal with region-specific licensing issues.
Ask HN: Do you use emails as a source to time keep?
Do you check sent mails or Inbox to check where you spent time ?
While it's healthy to understand these stats, consider that some people knowingly move to places which are not thoroughly served by broadband providers, and some of them don't really care.

I know and talk to enough people who knew, in advance of making a choice to move, that they were moving somewhere with absolutely no home terrestrial broadband, and did so anyway. Often mobile (or even satellite, which is generally quite limited in terms of upstream bandwidth and latency) internet is enough for them, or the pros of living there outweigh that con; many could arrange to bridge to a neighbour fairly cheaply through directional radio but neglect to because, again, it doesn't bother them all that much.

Home terrestrial broadband is a commodity, not a right, nor even a necessity (though some may like to frame it as such). It is more important to be employed, out of prison, fed, and housed, than it is to binge watch the last remaining bottom-of-the-barrel content on Netflix. As improvements to codecs roll out, even more people on the same slower connections will have access to high quality video (and the ability to share it), which is the major strain on those connections in the first place, and it won't take people forcing others to give a damn about broadband.
> Isn't that more socially useful than giving everyone the right to watch Snow White on YouTube for free?

Why stop there. Wouldn't it be ever more socially useful to hire vandals to break windows and graffiti houses so the government can collect the taxes on the repairs. See also: war.

Just because something generates economic activity, doesn't mean it's a net benefit to society.
I don't think Moore's Law held up for much since then, but it would've been hard to know for sure. That being said, ZFS filesystems can span multiple disks, since it does volume management of its own. I don't know if that means we're going to see zettabyte volumes any time soon, though. After all, 2^64 bytes wouldn't be enough to overflow: it would need to be 2^64 blocks...
I'm curious why you think 25 mbps is what you'd need for a family of four? Is there some sort of data out there for this?

Netflix states you need 3.5 mbps for SD, 5.0 mbps for HD.[0] With a family of four, does this means everyone could be watching HD Netflix, and do various other browsing simultaneously, and still be under 25mbps? If so, wouldn't 25mbps be far above what a family of four would need "without being bandwidth crunched all the time"? (Assuming that HD video would be the most data-intensive thing) Especially since, likely more often than not, everyone in the house will not be streaming HD video simultaneously.

The reason why I state this is because, while I get more speed is always better, we seem to often state X mbps is the bare minimum that should be achieved, but never say why. It makes it seem we are letting the perfect, or great, be the enemy of the good in some scenarios. For instance, if 10, 15, or 20 mbps is perfectly fine for most households, then shouldn't we use those numbers instead?

[0]: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/306
> or if exceptions were crucial

Although KJ style prefers exceptions, the library is carefully written (and tested) to work with -fno-exceptions. KJ_ASSERT/KJ_REQUIRE invocations (which normally throw exceptions) can define a fallback path to use in the case that exceptions are disabled, usually involving returning some sort of dummy value. You can also register a per-thread exception callback which will be called on all exceptions before the fallback starts (or before aborting, if there is no fallback).
> the GDPR seems fine, as well as quite defensible.

So, that's the thing. Either, it's fine and defensible, and the Facebooks of the world will just comply, and so won't be a trade barrier, or it's not. It can't be both.

And also, don't wish for a "trade barrier" for this purpose, import substitution has been demonstrated over and over again to be really just awful policy.
In browser editing would be awesome.
Sketch was awesome, but Figma changed the way I work. I work both in Windows and Mac, and it is unbelievable how far browser based tools have come
I have Haiku at home on Mac (beta tester) and now on Windows at work.... Browser support would be perfect for continuing where I left off regardless of the machine I am on.
My kids who are 19 and 15 barely care about Facebook. My oldest uses Messenger, but that's about it.

Twitter OTOH seems to appeal to both of them, still.
Actually...the payload was put on the wrong trajectory, so OP's argument still stands.

"Elon Musk’s cherry red Tesla sports car and its dummy test pilot Starman were on a new course hurtling towards the asteroid belt on Wednesday after overshooting their planned trajectory."

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/07/elon-musk-sp...
Looks like something that would benefit more from a string_view type abstraction.
Germany have a valid point. Actually, only country in EU, who ask about this data collection..
The simplest and in my opinion, the likeliest explanation, is that it gives large employers who can afford to offer 401k another advantage over smaller employers. Just like being able to offer tax exempt health insurance.

It gets even stupider when you realize that IRAs have limits on deductibility when your spouse has access to 401k, but you don't.
You made me curious about the show, so I went to the NBC page.

It says: "Sorry, this video is not available from your location."
It's the same amount of relights - boostback burn, re-entry burn, and landing burn. It's possible the re-entry burn used more TEA-TEB than usual because of the high speed, but it's also possible that non-boostback GTO missions re-entered at higher speeds (this is the case at least in flightclub.io's model of the mission). Remember that this wasn't a particularly challenging flight profile for Falcon Heavy, which allowed it to boost back to reduce speed and landing distance from shore.

The excessive TEA-TEB use may have been caused by an unrelated engine issue. In any case, Musk reported the fix is 'obvious'.
EU need to questioning facebook's reasons for this
DuckDuckGo is really good - maybe where Google was a year ago but without the user tracking. Also, bangs are awesome.
Companies like IBM or Intel are international, not "US-american" in any meaningful sense.
There is an environmental downside to septics too. Where I grew up there was a sandy aquifer that caused nitrogen loading from septic run off in ponds and marshes. This attributed to algea growth, oxygen depletion and marine species die-off. There is now an extensive effort to sewer the region.
With a properly a-centered network, I'd only share information directly to my contacts. Voluntarily.
If you accept the default 128k ZFS block size then it's 2,361,183,241,434,822,606,848 bytes, or 2,097,152 PB

Or, exactly 2 Zettabytes.
I guess I get it - but how do you measure when the toxicity level falls low enough?

What is the LD50 of a social network?
Ask HN: Camera and wifi effective and cheap
There are a ton of applications that open up when you attach a little intelligence to a camera.
So here's a question: what's the cheapest way to take a picture every x minutes and upload it to a website? Ideally, this would be something one could set and forget. So a power cord trumps batteries, for example.
He was given an intro listen before the device came out. Meanwhile he ordered one for himself, promising to post measurements after he received it.
Can anyone who has read the Three-Body trilogy in Chinese say whether it is worth reading in the original? I could do it but with a lot of extra effort...
Since its entirely user provided, I don't think its going to ever be.
The product sucking and the product being popular aren't exactly mutually exclusive. Something could make all of the people who use it miserable but still be addictive enough to become and stay popular.

(I don't think it's solely this. I figure it's a mix of this and both things you said.)
The point is without a European corporate presence the EU loses its ability to enforce GDPR.
I think the largest file systems in the world are Amazon's S3, and maybe Glacier. I guess Google's internal system used for YouTube and Gmail probably outrank it but there are no numbers for it. But I doubt that they are in a single address space on a single file system.

So basically we moved away from singular large unified file systems and built swarms of little file systems.
Instacart's biggest issue is not knowing real-time inventory. Amazon will never have this issue, because they just bought Whole Foods. Instacart, on the other hand, relies on crowdsourced shopper data to manage this.

The results is basically a hit and miss experience. My guess is they hope to get this inventory data direct from the stores one day, but who knows if they will.
Sorry, I'm done with responding to people who didn't read the article. It's a cool article, with some worthwhile points to make. Nothing too profound, but worth a few minutes' surfing. Go read it.
Here's the whole list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spacecraft_in_the_Cult...

My all-time favorite is "Ultimate Ship the Second".
Come on, tell me your problems snowflake. Must be awful when you're trying to play victim and someone else steals he spotlight by claiming that their lives matter. Damn those minorities, they have it so easy to be victims!

I think I've finally nailed the essence of "all lives matter" people. They're just people who are upset because they're losing the victimization olympics. What an amazing insight.
"Unfortunately for this central value proposition of blockchain, there is no lack of trusted enough intermediaries in the financial/accounting sector."

I've read that over 3 billion people don't currently have access to banks. Is that not true?
Gimmeproxy is exactly what I was looking for. No need to search now!
Well, for a considerable number of consumer deployments, it appears that internal reflection is the main source of latency.

https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2018/01/20/network-latencies-a...
Creator of this app here.

Thank you for the comments :)

This is currently merely a side project alpha, we are trying to secure funding to take it further.

Glad people having fun though :)
Oh did Microsoft stop having users and stop making insane profits?
Exactly right. I've gotten around this by using "Facebook Purity" a chrome extension which let's me filter what is shown on the news feed in detail: I only really want to see posts and photos the friends I haven't hidden from the news feed post - not their likes, the events they're going to etc. This is addition to "hide trending" and ublock makes facebook a bit broken but overall usable, not really worth checking in more than once a week though.

Instagram works better for getting a feel for your friends, especially with the temporary "snaps" people post and actually fun creative overlays.
It looks like "Flash for the web". There's been a number of those over the years. How is Haiku different?

Looking at the Github page, it seems to me that the answer would be that Haiku-created animation assets are stored in JavaScript objects so that it's easy to edit and store them as part of code. Is that the right impression?

How much does the Haiku Core player weigh on a webpage? Just curious to know. (I like following this space and it's always great to see new entrants!)
i live on the other side of the mountains, its usually nice an sunny over here for most of winter, but much colder. We also have much hotter summers and forest fires in the late summer, but hey, no grey gloom.
>The movie company sold the rights to show that movie in the UK to some other company instead of Netflix, probably for more money than Netflix offered them.

This is being actively addressed by the EU:

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/copyright