skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comments generally tend to be insightful, but this one is downright terrible.

If there's a correlation between using surveillance-based email and income, it's likely positive - the well paid people are the most wed to the overarching power structure that surveillance supports, and the technically inclined ones are most likely to be directly working for the surveillance companies!

Yes, the surveillance industry takes advantage of disadvantaged people in the same manner that Bank of America does. That's not the topic of discussion or the focus of the OP.

"Privilege" pity parties accomplish nothing more than derailing whataboutism. Yes, not everybody is able to pay/host their own email. For the sake of everyone, especially those who cannot choose, you'd better hope those who can will spend the effort to stop supporting the surveillance companies.
> There's an interesting article that talks about how they initially created demand for diamonds as they weren't commonly associated with an engagement.

One of my favorite Priceonomics Articles - "Diamonds a re Bullshit" [0]. Previous discussions on HN [1,2]. Also, previous discussion on "Lab-Grown Diamonds" [3].

There are some cheap alternatives to diamonds like Moissanite. Here's a nice overview [4]. Also, discussed previously on HN [5].

[0] https://priceonomics.com/post/45768546804/diamonds-are-bulls...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5403988

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9251952

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11903409

[4] http://diamondssuck.com

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12944464
You are supposed to use it with emacsclient. You run spacemacs as a daemon the first time and just connect to it all the subsequent times.
A couple of specific issues include that email to multiple users is difficult to get right - googling for it results in a number of weird hacks, with Rails providing nothing itself, and the most obvious mechanism involving a lot of logic in your controllers - and Devise's invitations stuff is very inflexible, making a number of assumptions about what data should be stored (invitation timestamps being the major one). Given that a goal of this specific app is to store as little data as possible, that's unacceptable, and resulted in a fair bit of monkeypatching.

And that seems to be the core of it - monkeypatching things or depending on implementation details seems to be the norm when trying to get Rails and its supporting ecosystem to do something other than what it does by default, and that's difficult to maintain over the long term. And if you can't depend on Rails and co being flexible enough to do what you want, you might as well build on a less-opinionated framework from the start and skip the step of trying to bend Rails into shape.
You could rent a local AirBnb and use their wifi for a few days as a workaround?
Good recommendation...
There is no 'true' value of anything. The entire fundamentals of trade depend on the fact that everyone values things differently.

If I'm a rice farmer, maybe I want fish more because I have none, and likewise the fisher would want rice.

In this case, my 'data' has absolutely zero value to me. What am I going to do with it? It's anonymised, so it's not really a security concern. And for the most part it's innocuous stuff like "I like video games". But maybe Google can use it to tweak for better ads, so they see value in it.

On the otherhand, having a robust, availible, free magic box that answers any question I can possibly have (Google Search) has so much value to me.

If you don't agree with the exchange, for the most part there are alternatives like duckduckgo (search) with the trade off of slightly worse results (arguably), or ProtonMail (email) where it will cost $12 per month.

But for me, I consider it a fair trade.
This is a hilariously good suggestion.
There is some truth to the idea that you need a middle class income to afford middle class morality. Pretending that the poor are equally free to make the exact same choices as others ...well, that pretty well fits my definition of evil. It's simply not true and it conveniently blames people who are usually a victim of the system to some degree or another.
To add to the list: activity of restriction enzymes, especially specific ones.

Colistin has a pretty interesting mechanism of action, disrupting ionic balance in cell wall of lipopolysaccharide.

The mechanism of resistance may well be lucky upregulation of ionic balance and cell wall stabilization proteins in response to the attack. Same as for lysozyme.

This kind of ionic environment has wide ranging effects on cell metabolism so changes genre expression. In multiple generations, the resistance might get baked into the genome...
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I was not talking about "size" at all. I was referring to Google and Apple as examples/outliers of companies that put a huge emphasis on security in practice.
I think you're being silly, but I don't quite get it.
The article calls the invention a paver but it is a compactor (what everyone calls a steamroller).

This article is a little more sciency:

https://canada.constructconnect.com/dcn/news/Technology/2017...

The paver is the machine that catches the asphalt out of the dump truck and spreads it across the road.
Why do some founders choose to hire remote developers, while others are "in-house only"?
How do YC alumni hire remote and manage remote developers? Why is outsourcing considered drug-dealing by some?

This and more - in the exclusive interview of YC VP of Marketing Craig Cannon.
This is basically my environment - everyone keeps trying to convince me to use tmux - but I look at it, and for my use case, it includes no additional features, and I'd need to relearn keyboard shortcuts.
Is Stellar private by default, or do you have to add tumblers to gain some semblance of privacy?
> Rails is also great at being a big monolith with complex requirements, complete testing, and doing it all in one codebase.

I've never seen or heard of a large codebase in Rails that looks like that, unfortunately. But perhaps they do exist and I've just never come across anyone who works on one. All of the large codebases I've heard of amount to big frontends in front of a backend service which handles significant amounts of the logic, leaving the Rails app to be almost-CRUD.
What if, hear me out, we make basic education free for everyone, including those in prison?
In some cases, people do commit crimes to get free room and board, so it's not as far-fetched as you might think.
It's all about intention. Her intention was to set up and take down others. Her intention was to hurt, not heal. When it gets to this point, you're not a team player anymore. You are a saboteur. I've seen people get like this when the stress is way too high (which is common in the tech field).

Arguably, there is a time to not forgive, e.g. 'Three Billboards'. But that level of line in the sand stuff should only be used rarely, not on a regular basis.
Replying to myself with a conspiracy minded thought....

Now that I think of it, De Beers probably has a strong interest in "fraud" being a problem. If manufactured diamonds are sold as natural, this is fraud. There will be victims, trials, fraud prevention... All good reinforcement that these things, they're not really diamonds. Fake is debatable. Fraud is something that you can get a judge to say.

So, back toy initial question. What is this article talking about? Is this a new type of gem, or the ones that have already been available for decades. If not...
editing config files, writing shell scripts, editing some web stuff - nothing complex.
Remember Chesterton's Fence.

Here's the trick: Every weird architecture exists for a reason, good or bad. If it looks wrong to a newbie, maybe the newbie misunderstands it, or maybe the business can't afford to build something better (and it's good enough as is), or maybe it really is wrong but the people who built it like it, so what good will come of you you trying to change it? Your newbie ideas only help if the veterans want new ideas and also your newbie ideas are better than their veteran ideas. That's possible but rare.
This conflicts with what I think I know about the occurrence of diamonds. For the most part diamonds are formed just below the surface in melts rich in dissolved carbon dioxide. These materials rise through the crust through very narrow pipes and explode when the carbon dioxide comes out of solution at the surface.

These explosions form the bell shaped bodies that are mined for diamonds. Because of the phase behavior of carbon dioxide rich melts, and because the diamond grade just below the bell is very low, diamonds seem to be formed in the high pressure streams of carbon dioxide released when the temperature declines and the confining pressure is released at the surface.

Perhaps there are "seed" crystals formed much deeper and such a crystal formed the nucleus for this diamond. From this popular article it is not possible to determine at what depth the water crystal formed. Conceivably it could have formed in the stream of carbon dioxide at the surface.
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> CAs built their business on the idea that we needed to know that sears.com is Sears, Roebuck & Co., while sears.net is a family website. But it turns out that we don't really care: we care that google.com is google.com, and that's it.

Perhaps more critically, we've proven that even if we wanted to know that sears.com is Sears, Roebuck & Co., CAs can't be trusted to tell us that reliably.
Awesome typography
> They rewrote the site's code, they say, to log every user's password, rather than store them as encrypted hashes. They tweaked a feature designed to automatically encrypt messages with users' PGP keys, so that it secretly logged each message's full text before encrypting it, which in many cases allowed them to capture buyers' home addresses as they sent the information to sellers. The site had been set up to automatically removed metadata from photos of products uploaded to the site; they altered that function so that it first recorded a copy of the image with metadata intact.

Yeah, you probably should not do your PGP-encryption server-side...
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This is why a basic level of education that you can use to make a living should be free. It used to be. You used to be able to take shop in high school.

A better way of putting it should be that prisons should educate people to the level of high school or county college, something that should have been available to them but wasn't because of whatever factors. This way they get no handout not available to others and at the same time get a second chance at a life away from crime.
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What? I never seen worse road in my life than in LA..
Yeah, they won, but it still cost many millions ... I guess I mean the flaw is with the judicial system.

But you have a great point, the media conglomerates could with-hold cooperation which Google needed for Google Play, so Google needed to make them happy anyway ...
We turned a bunch of 2D images into 3D models, for viewing online. Back in 2000.

It partially failed due to the dot com collapse sucking all the oxygen out of the room.

It also failed because the technology wasn't good enough, and the resulting 3D was, frankly, pretty shitty.
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> You're starting to tell people what they "should" do and it's starting to smell of sour grapes because you didn't particularly like Rust nor achieved a productive level of familiarity. Which makes you a poor candidate for evaluating the strengths/weaknesses of Rust beyond your tastes.

I wrote a working Macho-o Parser in rust and I plan on continuing the symbolic execution engine I started in rust, so I'm not a complete beginner to rust. Also there is such a thing as the best tool for the job. And for web services I don't think rust is that tool of choice.

> Like someone hijacking Haskell discussion because they didn't grasp functional programming and don't see how anyone else could.

I understand why rust exist and it makes sense, a safe low level systems programing language. What I don't get is why one would use rust for the vast majority of microservices. There are easier more productive tools available.

> I'm writing most of my new code in Rust that I would've written in Node or Go. Sometimes it makes more sense to use something else. So what?

So you acknowledge that there are better tools for building microservices but your defense for using rust is "so what"? I mean that's fine for personal projects but when your putting things in production you should be using the best tools available.

> Maybe it's time to leave the theater so others can enjoy the show. Your "me no likey" posts have kinda overstayed their welcome without advancing the discussion.

Lol, so only positive opinions of rust are allowed here? But seriously, steveklabnik responded to one of my post with so much useful and awesome information that your, I need to leave post is ridiculous.
That sounds distinctly less awful than most other codegen solutions, I'll give you that. =) Codegen will forever and always make me uncomfortable but that's a better model for sure.

> It's kind of clever to generate the OpenAPI document from the service that's implementing it, but how do you handle multiple parallel implementations of the same service?

I don't. Like, emphatically I don't. I don't view an OpenAPI document as a standard to code against (though that idea is interesting)--I view OpenAPI documents as an easy way to document an API and to generate clients.
People that do that have essentially be rejected from society already -- very often largely due to lack of education and opportunity.
Looks ok again.
https://www.wired.com/2014/03/tyranny-flatness/

refers to the 1972 essay The Tyranny of Structurelessness by Jo Freeman. http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm

Nothing new under the sun.
> it's about code manageability.

I've worked on plenty of large rails codebases, and many times I can just dive right in and start contributing. Any codebase can grow to be unwieldy, but once you understand rails and other code organization techniques in ruby it's not an issue if you take the time to groom things. Code manageability in rails is a highlight.

> the point that there is a lot of negativity

But there isn't a lot. there are a few people who dislike it, and often their points are just because they prefer something different. It's well tested, performant, and has a large community - and been around for over 10 years.
The books are "Have Fun at Work" and "Friends in High Places," both by William L. Livingston
This is why I think Proof of Stake is destined to outcompete Proof of Work. The costs are drastically lower in both electricity and hardware; and in practice, PoW is basically PoS with extra steps.
That Wikipedia article is great. I love the introduction paragraph.

> By 1969 the popular press had taken notice and sparked fears of a "polywater gap" in the USA.

I find it illuminating to understand that "journalists," or the "popular press," were ratcheting up the "fear sells" / fake news bullshit at least as far back as 1969 (and I'm sure it goes back much further). If you were ignorant, and I certainly am, you would think that this is a wholly new phenomenon. I mean, that is what the same "popular press" is telling us today, right?
If you think Twitter is a mess in America, it’s worse for the rest of the world
Yev from Backblaze here -> very good points! We find that some folks even use us along WITH S3 or Azure as not only a different "region" but specifically because we're a different "vendor" - for greater diversification. It's easy enough to fork data over to B2 and with the low costs, it make it an easy sell for IT folks.
It's 'super.'
money is a medium of exchange, a unit of account, and a store of value. a loan is an obligation. its a value with negative valence.

> So what happened when the risk is the lowest possible? The interest rates goes to zero or even negative. Makes sense?

the risk premium is not the same as the interest paid the lender by the debtor for the privilege of having something now and paying it back later. in this case, the interest rate is the price of money, denominated in money, arbitraged over time.

look at it another way, why would anyone make a loan if they didn't stand to gain anything? why would I loan you $5 in order to get $5 back at a later date? I already have $5. now if you give me $5.05 back tomorrow, then I have gained 1% for my sacrifice of letting you hold the money for a day.
use aws to send your disk then upload elsewhere

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/send-us-that-data/

https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/
Where and what are you streaming? I clicked through to your profile and there wasn’t a link there.
There are multiple cases where people commit crimes so they can get free prison medical care, so yes the incentives are out of wack.
Absolutely. Another 10yr Rails dev here. I believe that rails is untouchable as far is it comes to the ecosystem of gems and getting something quickly built and online, however I’m now moving all future apps to Django/ flask in python to take more advantage of the serverless ecosystem, and all of the data processing libraries out there. I’ll miss you Ruby
Vi is modal in a different way to EMACS. EMACS is not a modal text editor.
Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age examines, among other topics, the socio-economic impact of cheap plentiful diamonds produced by molecular nanotech.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age
At a previous job I had to turn people away that had felonies. Some of them just had drug related ones. Felt terrible about it.

If we are going to expect felons to reform and get a job and support themselves using legal means, well we have to make sure they have at least some opportunity at doing so.

Seems we could have thousands MOOCs available on non internet connected computers. These inmates should spend their time reflecting, studying, and working.

Who wants to spent another $35k a year when they get locked up again, instead providing them with near free education that might help them not come back to prison?
article makes 0 mention of this (not even one sentence); the only 'proposed delta' is prison education.. critique is fair in this context imho...

which doesn't mean lowering the overall barrier to education is not a good idea and probably would reduce incarceration in the first place...
That would be cool to read a take down story about that instead of drugs.

That makes me curious though, it sounds like in the drug takedown the users are largely spared but the dealers are targeted. Is it the same for child porn/trafficking? I would prefer they go after everyone in those rings..
terrible name though..
A lot of their money is/will be coming from SDN, virtualization and security, so they are definitely not limited to big metal boxes. But that's what they specialize in, and that's what most of the whales rely on.
The OP says that the genome sequence hasn't changed. So in order to have that persistent upregulation without any change in the genome sequence, you (most likely) need an epigenetic mechanism to explain it.
Nuclear burden-sharing dictates that Germany acquire the F-35
Grab is acquiring Uber's SE Asia business
If you run Emacs daemon it will start up fast anytime you need to use it.
Mullvad. Read through their FAQ to understand exactly what kind of company they are. Great company ethos, plenty of international servers to choose from, wireguard integration, multiple crypto payment options... pretty nice.
Exactly, and I'd add that not all meaning is relatable. It could take you back to a feeling you had, like sights and sounds and smells can.

Just a few of my tattoos have meaning, the rest don't. But they all take me down memory lane and remind me of various times of my life.
Well... We have been engineering better roads. Compared to brick or packed earth, asphalt is high tech. New materials and mixes are researched and tried. Some recent roads seem to have lighter finish than traditional blacktop. You are right though, it is a cost vs durability issue.
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you can find edge cases for nearly anything. Is there any evidence more than a handful of people do this?
You might be surprised to learn this, but incarceration isn't just about punishment. The idea is to rehabilitate inmates so that when they get out of prison they have skills they can employ onto something productive thus avoiding recidivism.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/08/us/prison-reform-north-dakota...
4chan’s videogames board is going nuts about this, and the alt-right double think there is strong.
TL;DR: a one liner source file tells the compiler to set main as a 4GB array; in the process the compiler might run out of memory.
not really. one you setup your tripod there, you are already focusing on the light house... and then when a wave is crashing in, you just hold down the shutter for a few burst shots... very easy to replicate the same shot...

say if it was a photo group... then the chance of same shot being outputted is even greater
Regardless of what you think about the current state of Google's evilness, becoming a military defense contractor is not going to do anything good for their corporate morality. Both in the broad, "killing people is bad mmkay" sense and in the narrower sense of occasionally standing up to the US government for its users, becoming a defense contractor is bad.
Poor people often cannot afford privacy on quite a lot of levels.

When I was homeless, one of the places I could get a free shower had an open bay of 8 showerheads where I could shower with up to 7 strangers. I could get showered or I could protect my privacy and dignity. I could not do both. I needed a shower more than I needed to make sure total strangers never saw me naked.

Maybe you have heard the expression Beggars can't be choosers?

I did everything in my power to make judicious choices under extremely difficult circumstances. But the most charitable read I can give of your question is that you are so privileged, you honestly don't get it. There are people who are doing everything in their power to fight the good fight in spite of poverty and myriad other burdens. And at some point, you have to make compromises. Maybe you get the free option. Or maybe you become a criminal because it pays better than the legal gigs you can find. Or you make some other compromise because there simply aren't the above board good options available to you that you wish there were. Period.
Is this the norm for online retailers in the UK, or is it exceptional?
Looks good for perpetual foot-tappers, too.

Would be good if it could generate power...maybe charge up a device a bit in the process.
Basecamp, for one. DHH is actually doing some tours of the codebase and talking about tradeoffs made and coding style.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdx5Dk3EWTe2i8YDA7bfl6g

But there are plenty out there; github, shopify, hulu to name a few off the top of my head.

To be fair, I've also done a lot of rescue projects where the previous developers were clearly coming from some other background, and doing things in non-rails ways and causing lots of pain for it.
That's wrong, Asia (and large parts of Africa and Latin-America) are treating drugs more harshly than the US nowadays.
My point is, there will always be somebody willing to mine it unprofitably. The only reason that hasn't happened now is because the price has increased too quickly for capacity to keep up.
Are Backblaze planning on offering solutions for europeans?