skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had the same exact thing happen to me, 100% yes.

I had a severance package, savings, and unemployment. So I went 5 months without a job and it was amazing. Never in my adult life have I had so much energy than during that time.

That really got me into FI/RE (financial independence / early retirement) and I've seen been working towards early retirement since.
Here is a far more interesting thrips egg parasite than megaphragma mymaripenne.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adactylidium
What I've heard from a friend that supposedly knows a lot about chemistry and physics is that aspartame is very bad for your health. Unfortunately I have no other data point, but... Anyone else able to shed some light on whether aspartame is good or not?
It's both, depending on the segment. The vast majority of SSD controllers can easily saturate the SATA bus, so there's not really much room for differentiation in 2.5"/M.2 SATA drives. But when you've got a PCIe-3 x4 bus to work with, as is the case for the NVMe drives being compared in this article, it's a whole different ball game. There the bottleneck is the controller (and to a much lesser extent, the flash itself). For a while Samsung was really the only game in town, as far as high-end performance goes, but it seems like WD has finally got a worthy competitor. Now it just remains to be seen how well the drives hold up (bad controller firmware can put up high performance numbers at the expense of the longevity of the flash (aka your data)).
There's a little more than just that being alleged here:

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Backpage%20Report...
> In my (relatively limited) experience, most small medical offices pay for cloud-based EHRs on a subscription basis for this exact reason

That mostly increases the size of the bucket without much in terms of guarantees of the maintainers of that bucket getting it right.
Ars Technica's writeup: https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/01/the-curious-case-of-...

> By 2011, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that C. diff infected nearly half a million people in the US that year, killing approximately 29,000.

Nature's editorial: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-08775-4

> First, they showed that deleting treA in RT027 and thereby preventing trehalose metabolism markedly reduced the virulence of this strain in mice. Second, adding trehalose to the diet of mice infected with RT027 increased the animals’ risk of death.

> RT027 was first isolated in 1985, from a person infected with C. difficile. But this ribotype was not associated with hospital outbreaks, increased death rates or epidemics until the early 2000s... Why did these ribotypes suddenly emerge at epidemic levels only 15 years ago?

> Collins and colleagues propose a surprising answer. Before 1995, high production costs made trehalose untenable as a food additive. But manufacturing innovations reduced the cost of trehalose production more than 100-fold, and the US Food and Drug Administration and European agencies approved the sugar as a safe food additive in 2000 and 2001, respectively. Trehalose is now added to a variety of food products, including pasta, ice cream and minced beef. The authors provide a timeline (see Fig. 6 of the paper) to illustrate how supplementing the food supply with trehalose preceded the C. difficile outbreaks caused by RT027 and RT078. They therefore suggest that the addition of trehalose to the food supply might have increased the sugar in the human bowel to levels high enough to enable growth of these ribotypes.

> The study’s findings raise several avenues for future research... whether trehalose in the human colon, where disease occurs, reaches high enough levels to affect RT027 and RT078 virulence is also unknown.

Causality hasn't been proven yet, but this is tough to ignore.
> Nothing like working hard on a program only to hit the memory limit

Mine was a TI-99/4a. The "+" symbol was obtained by SHIFT =, as on most current US-layout keyboards. But if you hit the FCTN key instead of the SHIFT key, it immediately rebooted the machine. It was easy to do that because the FCTN key was immediately below the right SHIFT key. Was so frustrating to lose hours of work that way. First lesson in save early, save often. Of course saving was to cassette tape, which took several minutes, so you tended to delay doing it.

EDIT: Also, the quote (") was obtained as FCTN-P, which is very close to the = key. I think that might have been even more dangerous.

http://mainbyte.com/ti99/keyboard/keyboard.html
Did you read that part about the upside down pyramid? I‘m not sure this article is the best place to pitch your project...
1. You got to start somewhere.

2. Data is valuable.

3. You can't. As you built more capabilities to process the data it becomes more valuable. Incidentally that is why I think Facebook is so valuable. Cambridge Analytica managed to affect U.S. elections with a small subset of this data.
Status quo it is then.
I think that read as a bad joke, explaining the downvotes. That said, your question about what is going on is legitimate and you can find more background on them here:

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Backpage%20Report...
These are the allegations. The prosecutor's motive is to throw up all possible allegations without necessarily being proven, accurate or true. It is up to the courts to decide whenever guilty or not. I wouldn't use that document as proof of what they actually did. Anyhow, thanks for the link.
If we're talking about road cycling, UCI rules already have a lower limit on bike weight so there are no more gains to be had there. Anyone with money can buy a stock 6.8kg carbon fiber bike off the shelf without swapping parts. To increase power/weight ratio further the rider has to lose fat.

Triathlon bike rules are looser, but most triathlon courses have less climbing so aerodynamics take precedence over minimizing weight.
As a side note, WD bought SanDisk. While they had bought STEC before this, SanDisk brought scale and much larger engineering force. WD had a great brand, and these two things may work together for them.
Going through same feelings. I enjoyed Quora so much, now suddenly I see ads, now more ads than content, on top of that quality of content going so low. Everybody wants to show off writing skill and end up posting motivational quotes, pictures and what now. It ruined a genuinely good platform.
dPOS for full decentralization.

Any form of Proof of Stake isn't really decentralized, often as a result of a single or small group of users who have minted the entire supply. Other users are then expected to purchase the supply rather than generate it themselves. The sale price on exchanges is often spoofed due to the nature of the low liquidity and ease of wash trading.
Fromn the early 2000s until they left the HDD market, Samsung (then still a bit of an underdog) drives were among the best: most quiet, no performance degradation over time (others had that), high reliability. I had a few of them.
> That's a really interesting approach.

... isn't this just basic copy-on-write ? that's something you learn to implement in first year of comp-sci. Old C++ types used to work like this - and some still do, for instance Qt's collection types are all COW.
So honestly they probably do. This is useful whenever you want to share and optionally modify some data (especially if it's large).

Eg. in a multi-threaded video game, for each frame, you probably have some big block of state, which some threads will mutate. Instead of making a copy of the data for every thread, you could pass around a big immutable data structure and only make copies when writing. Each thread can own their own data, so there won't be lock contention, and when all the threads are done, a quick merge operation can recombine the modified pieces back into a single block of state for the next frame.
As a native speaker, I grew up in an area where the boundaries of three American dialects were within about 25 miles, so I did the same. For example, it doesn't bother me at all to pronounce 'creek' as 'creek' or 'crick,' or 'wash' as 'wash' or 'warsh.' We all figured out where people in our little town came from by the way they pronounced a few different words. ('Roof' is another that tells something about you, for example.)
Chrome and Safari on iOS have a “view desktop site” that, IIRC, work by sending a desktop User-Agent
It has stabilized into a modest margin business for the few big companies that dominate it. Very similar to how the HDD market did. Based on the margins Western Digital has been seeing lately, I'd say it's even more lucrative.

Western Digital almost has 20% operating income margins at this point, that's a notch below where Intel is typically at (25%-30%) and comparable to Cisco. Their latest two quarters saw them generate $1.85 billion in operating income on $10.5 billion in sales. Not bad.
Ask the Pirate Bay how well that jurisdictional arbitrage works out.
I’m glad you enjoyed the piece. I agree that there’s a lot of work pre-release in validating an idea to mitigate some of the risk.
Yes this article confirms that professional cyclists in the Tour de France are under 6% and hungry all the time. But they have to be careful not to go too low or they run the risk of getting sick and dropping out of the race.

https://www.outsideonline.com/2099881/how-skinny-are-top-tou...
What do you think of this site? https://vipfavours.com/ Looks like no pimps involved.
The NAND industry went into a severe shortage (as NAND goes) along with DRAM. However, NAND shortage happened due to 2D to 3D. While 3D allows for high cell density, it also made Capex go from about 8B to around 25B as an industry. One of the reason Lam stock price has been on a tear. NAND spot pricing went up somewhere between 200-300% for like on like technology. Margins exploded, and the industry grew larger than any forecasts. There is a big debate on if the margins will stay high. While DRAM is still edging up, we may have seen some lowering of NAND pricing. So cost reduction is coming from mixing to MLC and TLC with better architectures in the same package.
I've been conducting an informal science experiment with my family for the past 20 years. My wife, my older son (19), my younger son (15) and I have ONLY drink carbonated water. Period. Every drink, every meal.

My kids have no cavities / perfect teeth. My wife and I, by that age range, had tons of cavities.
So what happens when the women (the vast majority of which are choosing this lifestyle to make money to feed their kids), start posting ads in the for sale section, the jobs wanted section, etc? They should remove every news paper, every web site that allows users to post messages, basically every web site on the internet.
Good works. And appreciate all those comments about solving other people’s need. As said someone has been a great IT guy even though he was laughed at by bill gate that he do not know programming. He and his firm now is trying to solve problem which in many cases many do not even know that they have. Even though not everyone like this close ecology but ...

Pain point sells.
I'm so upset by this. I had many friends on Polyvore, and now they're gone. And I have no idea who they are, so I'll never see them again. They helped me through so much in my life. I created characters from things I loved, made so many friends, expressed myself. Now, it's all gone thanks to greedy corporate companies.
You are comparing Iridium decade-old service to SpaceX's future service. A better comparison would be to the "Iridium Next" satellites, which are currently being deployed, will be available before SpaceX's service, and will increase bandwidth by more than two orders of magnitude (512 kbps).

http://www.outfittersatellite.com/blog/iridium-next/whats-ir...
To be honest, at this point, nix is not for non-technical people. There's little benefit, and the design space hasn't been explored. That being said, nix would make a fantastic basis for a more end-user-oriented system, but the work would need to be put in.
I would never use constraints ever again. Period.
Billions of rows of data to POCs.
It's interesting to note that AMZ data largely runs without constraints (the largest systems). Working in Southern California, where tenures run a few years before you end up somewhere else, everyone comes to a consensus in a decade. It's obvious to me that embedding business logic in SQL along with the server app and whatever presents data to third parties, is just making everything harder. Then you run into the inevitable of data changes and fighting the existing constraints. It's a waste of effort, but an obvious path-to-job-security for DBs.

> And of course you can get quite clever and fun here....create a function that checks if a function is a fibonacci number

The fact this is presented as a reasonable (trivial!) thing to embed in the DB screams, this is a terrible place to work.
The existing system, a question that is closed as a duplicate automatically redirects users who aren't logged in (most users are anonymous google users) to the question that is the duplicate target. All of the questions that target that duplicate or mention it in another post are listed in the 'linked questions' on the sidebar.

If it truly is not a duplicate question, then it should not be closed as a duplicate. However, many people asking new questions either don't search or are unaware that their question actually is that other question.

Leaving a question open doesn't help any of the google users and instead makes it harder to find the canonical answer to the question as little tidbits of information are scattered around.

If the canonical duplicate target is insufficient in answering the question, add an answer to it that does a better job than the other answers.
Programming Best Practices to Name Variables, Methods, and Classes
So, tooth enamel can be removed mechanically (overbrushing, injury...), but more typically it’s demineralized and breaks down. In the first case you’re shit out of luck, you’re unable to make new enamel. The good news is that deminerlized enamel can be restored if it’s not too far gone, which is what fluoride is trying to do in your toothpaste.

So no, there is a rebuilding process, but the kind of damage done by acidic substances (including the excretions of bacteria) can sometimes be reversed to some extent. The trend is usually erosion however, and moderate intake of something like seltzer or soda is at least an order of magnitude less than straight water. In addition, while water toxicity is a thing, you’d have to overcome a pretty strong urge to vomit. Short of that, water is doing you no harm, and will never contribute to the erosion of your dental enamel.
Interesting, if you check the leadership at WD, virtually all of them came from HGST. (President, CFO, COO, etc.) This was a case where the acquiring company became the acquired, and they moved their headquarters from SoCal to NorCal, the ultimate signal of who won the internal war. Once they bought SanDisk, a lot of the SanDisk people moved to Micron. Finally, some key notable players from WD moved to Seagate. The industry has been musical chairs.
Many of the things you've listed are not important for a wide class of projects that MySQL is used for. Facebook, Google, and Yahoo must be fools for using MySQL - clearly don't know what they're doing /s.

> What is one advantage that mysql has that outweighs

Replication & performance for most workloads. I've found it helpful to think of MySQL as less of a relational database, and more of a KV database with secondary index support and a SQL api.
Stop getting the news. I don't know how our generation turned to be so news hungry. 99% of the news is junk and you will do fine without it.
This was incredibly informative and I just wanted to say thank you for providing a lot of perspective on this because a single upvote wasn't enough.
I think losteric was proposing a confidentiality rule that would only apply to the government, not to private citizens.
Because this isn't about being a sex worker. The goal is to profit off the exploitation of others. Thats why this isn't on a blockchain.
What About “The Breakfast Club”? - Molly Ringwald
Reading this thread makes it feel like stackoverflow has become the new PHP. You can't even say something positive about it before hell breaks loose.

It is really really useful. Actually it is indispensable. It got so many things right, just think about the world before Stackoverflow.

But the few things it gets wrong, people make it seems like it breaks everything else. Yes, it sucks. Most of the time I can't find an answer, I am frustrated. When i ask on Stackoverflow and the question gets closed or just marked as duplicate, i get even more frustrated.

Does it mean it sucks as a whole? Hell no. We gotta be grateful for the good part, and help fix the bad parts.
Yep, precisely! And if I'm having peer discovery issues with just two nodes, I can't imagine what you guys are having to go through. :/

For the curious: you'd run `ipfs id` on the nodes to get their addresses. Then you'd run `ipfs config edit` on them and add the other node's address to the bootstrap section. https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/blob/master/docs/config.md#b...

But yeah... They'd still mysteriously not connect to each other at times.
Check constraints and foreign key constraints will save your bacon.

I don't like triggers though, as a rule. Not that they are always the wrong thing, but its easy to kill performance with them, and just generally having "behind the scenes" side-effects triggered by other operations can be surprising, to say the least.
> Apple Activation servers are accessed via Akamai, which means sensitive data may be cached by Akamai and its’ peering partners' which includes many global ISPs and IXPs

Wouldn't this be devastating to about 10000 other businesses as well?
Their specific question was if you had evidence of apple violating their own privacy policy. I'd agree that what they're doing is unethical, but it's not done secretly, and I'd expect that in China their privacy policy makes this clear.

Do you have evidence of Apple violating their privacy policy?
when the classifieds sites like craigslist took the erotic section down, people just post ads in the for sale section, the jobs wanted section, the small business section, the services section, basically any other section...
Why not? Why do you assume that is an immediate threat?
Stange about this house idea. In many cases like this ide I guess it may work. But in many cases we want to build something that is more like a movie. A dream.

Most of us in the “soft”ware precisely not like hardware (like house or even computer as hardware). Even it hardware I bet most of us are working on the firmware at most but the manufacturing part.

Somethings we cannot see.
Something we have to feel a way trough.

Imagine the x-windows, mac and windows’s gui part.

That is hard part.

Even network is hard. But not as concrete as house.

Movie and dream. Please. And spec is hard to fix.
> Especially since iOS10, and the “differential privacy” (dprivacyd) concept, which Apple pushed, and which this author feels essentially boils down to “let’s collect even more data without giving a real reason and spin it as a privacy improvement because we remove certain metadata, after all none of our users understand or care anyway”

This is too misleading and dismissive. Differential privacy collection requires that the device will send back data which doesn't contain enough information to tell anything significant about the individual, but does allow for population-level statistics to be computed from many samples (eg. the old private-survey trick of flip a coin and answer truthfully if it's heads or randomly if it's tails). If they're collecting more data with this system, then it's supposed to mean that they don't know more about you.

Almost all tech companies collect extensive usage data; Apple seems to have made a genuine and rare attempt to improve the privacy of their users (admittedly without damaging their ability to make informed product decisions). Given the popularity of AI tech and the huge amounts of data it requires, systems like this are probably the only plausible way to improve user privacy without getting left-behind in the AI and product-development race.
This happens even if found innocent- it happened to a friend of mine. Devastating.
This is a common question in law enforcement: once you discover a facilitator or illegal activity, how long do you monitor it before attacking? You can learn a lot by watching, but eventually you have to Do Something or you become complicit.

It’s a challenging strategic issue.
Yup, it's hard to get rid of spinning rust unless you want to spend 10x the cost. While we don't have a good future in the sport car market (SSDs), we are truly the good guys are storing lots of stuff cheap on a cent/GB level. Basically we're semi-truck and our future is the cloud. An overview of the hard drive mission and tech we're working on presented at OCP by your's truly and my roadmap buddy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTngxWv64fI&t=624s
Look at the OP's profile. Manager at Pinterest. Theres no doubt the attack is disgenuous because said individual have skin in the game.

I usually don't mind if they disclose it upfront. But to hide it and present an argument as neutral is dishonest.
How do you rate limit your API's?

One of the approaches is to assign a unique token(has based on IP, time, TTL etc) for every new session. Implement this on a front layer before hitting your API servers.
The problem isn’t that the content exists- it’s that google surfaces it.
Not to beat a dead horse here (ok, fine I will) but this is some basic stuff. If they don't even have this covered, the more advanced solutions are likely way beyond them.

Considering that there was a hack at Sony for example that exposed plaintext passwords as well via SQL injection (among many other things of this nature) they can't claim ignorance of the problem.

It was a yuuuuuuge shitstorm for Sony at the time.
As a native English speaker, this is also helpful with learning Vietnamese, which also uses the Latin alphabet.
A lot of things that are really, really good ideas for most applications might not apply at Amazon scale. Most of us don't work at Amazon scale.

I agree on the fib constraint, though. Fun, but nothing you'd ever really do.

> embedding business logic in SQL along with the server app and whatever presents data to third parties, is just making everything harder

Not in many cases. In the past 15-20 years, think about how many application stacks have come and gone. We've had Postgres that whole time, and plsql. Core business logic in the DB never needs to be rewritten, no matter how many different front-end rewrites you go through.
Because someone has to. We can't have a world where I can just declare any search result violates my privacy, and Google isn't allowed to say I'm wrong.
spoken like a person with no history. Imagine youre in college and everyone sees you according to the construct of who you "appeared" in grammar school, or for that matter High school. It's like that. You should have the right to have to dumb stuff you did in college,or high school to not follow you forever. If you're not an adult already (30+ years)then you'll understand this eventually. We see the world and others as a mirror of ourselves. It's also telling that the first place you went to was the land of criminal intent. By the way child molesters are a legal situation different from Google's search engine. They HAVE TO BY LAW announce themselves when moving to a new location. They HAVE TO BY LAW appear on child molester website list. Those are separate from Google's search engine. You will still be able to go to www.lawwebsite.com and "find a pedo". sheesh.
Did you drink well or city water as a child? The fluoride in the water could be a factor as well.
I didn't mean to suggest you do this for every chapter. Just something in the vein of, "In case you haven't been following along already, since I last blogged, I've completed several chapters of Crafting Interpreters."