skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand how you could have possibly gotten that, particularly given that I very explicitly finished with "that ZFS or the like are far better primitives for a data storage scheme then older FS". Primitives. Other components are still important. But backups in no way whatsoever inherently provide integrity, that's not the threat scenario they deal with. A non-verifying backup (quite typical, especially historically) will cheerfully and unquestioningly backup corrupted data, and can become corrupted itself over time. When you're considering data maintenance over the course of not just years but decades, "oh just backup" isn't at all enough without an integrity story to go with it.

Now of course it is possible to build levels of verification higher up the stack, but the problem with a lot of the ones available to general user is that they either leave holes in various places or they're just plain too much of a PITA (and "PITA" here includes a significant enough level of slow down) or both. It's much easier to do a good job if the FS itself is reasonably trustable and has verification and basic repair built in. FWIW I do use tools like par2 for cold or cool backups of ZFS dumps to targets like tape or Glacier now, but it's still a big help to my sanity to have as much of that dealt with at a low, automated level for hot/warm systems where convenience is critical.
"Clean" only if you ignore all those not-clean-no-matter-how-much-you-spin-it steps in manufacturing of solar panels ..
We've already entered into a period of symbiosis, where software controls human bodies. It seems unlikely that machines can ever do better than a human hand (but can do better almost everywhere else!)
I paid good money to Apple so something like that would not happen, so yeah I’d be villifying them. You bet!
> FastMail is a provider you can trust

Really? I mean who writes such a thing literally. It has to be indirect!
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Neither unitary or hermitian means that operators are there own inverse. Unitary here means that the inverse is the same as the complex transpose - which means that there is an inverse and it is easy to find. This is important as quantum circuits must be composed of unitaries, i.e. the circuit is reversable. Hermitian operators have no particular special property with respect to inverses.
It hasn't existed since 10 april 1998 therefore "decades" is inaccurate. Furthermore, since it wasn't publicly available from 10 april 2003 (who cares how long it was in development) if you round fairly, then its accurate to say "more than a decade" but "decades" is inaccurate. Because "decades" means "more than 1 decade". It denotes "at least 20 years".

That's regardless of the subject we discuss or how good it is etc.

Anyway, the original parent admitted their mistake (thank you) so I'm done with that discussion.
I think you may be conflating vegans in general with extremist vegans. Perhaps most normal vegans simply don't create YouTube content.
Also (edit: some) women tend to be worried about weights work making them 'too big' (despite this being much less of a risk) while men often enjoy weights more than cardio.
We still figuring things out with the product before we open it out to all countries. We also offer grocery delivery to paid users who follow our nutritional programs so as we're a small team we wouldn't be able to manage that well at the moment.
We already have Quorn burgers and they're great. The problem with going vegan isn't burgers; it's decent cheese, and milk to put in my tea. And something to replace eggs in cake. And something to make boots out of if veganism is to go beyond food. I hope these problems will be solved one day.

We can't stop animals from getting harmed. They harm each other in the wild in terrible ways. All we can do is keep our own hands and mouths clean and avoid trashing the environment with livestock farming on an industrial scale.
This is what I just don't understand. Why isn't it commonplace to use MACsec on all long haul fiber? Compared to the cost of the cable itself the added cost of encrypting that traffic is barely enough to register as a rounding error. The fact that tapping into fiber is possible is a shame as there's plenty of commercially available hardware that would make that a practical impossibility.
Not sure, but I think I read recently (maybe in the Rebol docs) that it is also a homoiconic language. And I think I also read that Rebol programs can interpret chunks of Rebol code passed to them.
I really like this quote by Steve Yegge:

> But I'll argue that Accessibility is actually more important than Security because dialing Accessibility to zero means you have no product at all, whereas dialing Security to zero can still get you a reasonably successful product such as the Playstation Network.

He means "usability" when he says "accessibility".
Okey so I say I am interested in "Keto" and it just prints me a cookie-cutter keto diet to follow? I think I am very much interested in looking at the app screenshot after the initial phase. In any way this is a very nice idea and I'm glad that there are people who are pushing healthy apps.

Also, to anyone that wants to lose weight - just count calories, eat same thing every day for couple of months and do cardio/hiit. It's not a rocket science.
How did you eventually solve this?
> Reverse IP doesn't necessarily tell you much

Yeah, but put some strong emphasis on "necessarily" there.

I don't buy this argument. There are too many situations in which it doesn't apply. It offers a false sense of security.
How is subscribing to HBO inconvenient?

It's a combination of price and convenience. There's some upper limit to the monthly price you (and everyone else) is willing to pay for content.
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Despacito: Most watched YouTube video ever 'deleted' in apparent hack
Where do you suggest recovered file data (when metadata has been lost) should be put in the event of repair after a file system driver bug?
100% renewable energy by purchasing and funding renewable energy is an outstanding acheivement.

Is there another statistic for measuring how many KWhr or MWhr are sourced directly from renewable energy sources (or, more logically, 'directly' from batteries + hemp supercapacitors between use and generation)?
Why would there be nearly perfect acoustic isolation? Spacecraft have jitter from spinning reaction wheels or CMGs.
Ask HN: Are there websites that use the Pay What You Like model?
Hi, are there any SaaS / websites that have a Pay as you feel model for pricing?

I'm running a free service and want to implement some kind of sustainability if not income. Donation links generally don't work, Patreon seems good but is more about the person, rather than the service. Crowdfunding works but is about short term goals and rewards. I'm not thinking of making my service freemium - all users would have the same features. Perhaps donors could have more space for data and a badge. To me, a pay as you feel model would mean that each user would have to consciously specify some kind of value, even if it's zero, to use the system. I'm also keen on mandating that users should be able to pay nothing to use it.

So I'm wondering if there are other sites out there that run a kind of Pay As You Feel, even zero model? Does it work and how?
There is also the holochain-based Twitter alternative, Clutter:

https://github.com/holochain/clutter

Holochain is a blockchain alternative designed to avoid blockchain’s scalability and energy consumption issues.
Everything is connected, so if you follow your passion then you will be able to provide expertise on that in a related domain or industry.

You are also better off taking risks and starving as a young person before you have dependents (aging parents and children) rather than suffering a mid-life crisis later on.
For Game of Thrones it's not such an issue, but I do feel bad if there's e.g. an old BBC film I want to watch, but there's no way to get it legally, sometimes at all. Other times it's £20 for a DVD. No way I'm paying three months of Netflix subscription (or a large fraction of a license fee) for that.

The BBC has such an extensive and amazing back catalogue of content they wholly own. Why they don't chuck it on iPlayer is beyond me. I know they have it all on a digital platform internally already, format is not an issue.
Backups have three characteristics: redundancy, versioning and distribution. ZFS only fulfils two.

If ZFS is your backup target, then you're making more sense.
This is an outlandish argument to make. Prop 13 contributes to shortage of housing stock. Shortage of housing stock causes prices to rise. In the event of any sale (existing property or new), the price will be higher than it would have been without Prop 13 in place. The same marginal tax rate on the new (or transferred) home now amounts to a larger amount than it would have otherwise.
You lost me on the timing. We are looking for small black rocks way past geostationary, and it's 100% at or inside that. Being a point source is what I want (since they all are). If it's in orbit, the speed bounds are already known, it's somewhere between 0 and as slow as practical, the lower the faster; faster is worse for an earth pointing platform. Once you know something is there, isn't that all you really need? Why does the speed matter for detection? An adversary can (presumably) almost immediately target that location if they are willing to admit they saw it. I don't feel like I'm saying anything non-obvious. It's way easier to hide in the atmosphere than outside of it.

If Zuma made it, and it's not found by the people looking with the right tools, wow. But I doubt it. It's too hard to hide with standard assumptions.

I would love to see the function for magnitude vs optical cross section, no doubt one can calculate that from first principals. It's just observable star density.
I find it an interesting concept, but as with so many of these solutions I don't really see why you have to have Bitcoin Cash to make it work.
They could charge your credit card for upvotes and pay you in fiat like Patreon does, and the functionality will be exactly the same from the end user's perspective.
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I have to be honest, I read the GP as a political statement. Maybe conflated with the GGP.
I've seen WorldView-3 in person before it launched. The optics are enormous relative to the size of the also large bus. You couldn't hide that. Plus the changing attitude would point to an Earth observing mission.
> Temin avoids mentioning Asians, who have a higher average income than whites, despite many being relative newcomers to the country. That would undermine the narrative of a static class structure.

The fact that educated, middle-class Asian immigrants become educated, middle-class Asian-Americans does not undermine the narrative of a static class structure at all.
Beyond separate compilation, incremental compilation can go a far way here in minimizing what has to be recompiled on a change. You can even be incremental at tree level for really aggressive change latency reductions (though batch becomes lower because of memoization overhead, not to mention memory consumption concerns).
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A minor note about marketing — it took me a while to find the link to the app in the post. I was about to give up but ended up finding it just before so I got to the App Store.

I’d suggest adding a “get on App Store” link somewhere prominent so others don’t give up before at least seeing the app.
I assure you I am not creative.
When you say "synthesize them into something useful", what do you mean? What's something useful that's resulted from this habit?
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But you would have to adjust for cost of living right? Electricity bills can easily go over 200euro for a family of 3 in the winter, median wage is probably around 1k...
Yes. In fact, the biggest dam in Portugal (Alqueva) has probably had a negative impact on multiple species of land carnivores, including endangered species like the Iberian lynx, due to its large extension of flooded land.
Car and oil corporations, and not just advertising: lots of lots of lobbying, too.
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They said a while ago they will be using Daala as a developmental testbed.
MPEG is, for purposes of this discussion, a system that member companies have learned how to game. It is so thoroughly gamed that it has become dysfunctional and an impediment to progress. The open/RF development strategy is now consistently beating it despite MPEG having a consistent royalty revenue stream and a massive patent war chest. At this point, MPEG, as a self-interested system, is only trying to slow things down and keep control.

No, it's not monolithic inside, but the worst actors have solid control and it warps the behavior of the entire organization.

We saw that coming a long, long time ago and yet barely in time.
For whom? A representative democracy could raise (or low) taxes 20x as easily. A non-democratic state, even more easily.
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And yet, you'll be astonished to learn how many times each video is lossy-lossy re-encoded on its way from camera to end viewer.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't? Pun intended.
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Well for me, in my jurisdiction HBO just simply isn't available. That's hands down about as inconvenient as you can get.

In jurisdictions where it is available it's often only available as a part of a larger cable package. If you're signed up with another provider that's pretty inconvenient also.

There is a well worn cartoon on this topic that sums up the position of many quite well [0]

[0] http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones
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How are you going to power said satellite? Those massive solar arrays are going to reflect emag across the spectrum (radar returns and solar returns).
Surprised that there is no mention of Brave and BAT in the article and in the comments so far.
You can self learn it, but at some point you will like to have some guidance. I had been studying for a couple of years and really helps to have a teacher.
If it’s slowing? Intel says it is. And Moore said dying in next decade.

Wikipedia:

Moore's law is an observation and projection of an historical trend and not a physical or natural law. Although the rate held steady from 1975 until around 2012, the rate was faster during the first decade. In general, it is not logically sound to extrapolate from the historical growth rate into the indefinite future. For example, the 2010 update to the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors, predicted that growth would slow around 2013, and in 2015 Gordon Moore foresaw that the rate of progress would reach saturation: "I see Moore's law dying here in the next decade or so."

Intel stated in 2015 that the pace of advancement has slowed, starting at the 22 nm feature width around 2012, and continuing at 14 nm. Brian Krzanich, CEO of Intel, announced, "Our cadence today is closer to two and a half years than two." Intel is expected to reach the 10 nm node in 2018, a three-year cadence. He cited Moore's 1975 revision as a precedent for the current deceleration, which results from technical challenges and is "a natural part of the history of Moore's law."

More background in recent article here on 40 years of processor performance:

https://www.eejournal.com/article/fifty-or-sixty-years-of-pr...

HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16750733
How many left-lane slowpokes have been fined under new Va. law?
"it takes at least 938.8 moves on average to win"

60% of the time it works every time.
Ask HN: Primary contractor wants me to stay on a contract I cannot complete
Hi guys, I'm a subcontractor for a very large company (let's call them a client), via a primary contractor which is basically an IT staffing agency (in the Midwest). I worked with the client for over 2 years, however, due to budget cuts, I was assigned to a completely different project. The project seemed like an "ok" fit based on my resume. however, I have since realized I'm way out of my depth and will fail to provide the best service I can provide. The product we're working on has a release date in May, which means deadlines are super tight, and losing a team member will result in a bit of a chaos. The primary contractor told me to stick it out. How do I proceed, I'd rather leave on my own terms than being let go because of my subpar performance, but there is the pressure that I stay since it'll make the primary contractor look bad if I leave. Any advice, what to do?
>Important keys are unlikely to be leaked.

The more important the key, the more sought after it will be by hackers, especially one which could theoretically decrypt an entire countries communications. It's only a matter of time.
From what I can tell, they weren't ended, just suspended pending the reply of the EU about whether they don't break the rules regarding public financing of the energy sector.

Source (Portuguese): https://dre.pt/web/guest/home/-/dre/114949214/details/maximi...
The youth buzz has nothing to do with engineering potential.

Young people tend to be more free of external responsibilities: marriage, children, job contracts, consumer debt, professional associations, expensive educational entanglements, and so forth. This makes young people more available to take giant risks with less apprehension (they have less to lose).

There is also giant marketing buzz when an uneducated 18 year old female creates something vaguely interesting, but nobody cares when a 45 year old man creates something absolutely revolutionary until they old it in their hands. Case in point: Elizabeth Holmes.
Which often leads to calls to censor the platform altogether. Further down the stack then you do have centralisation, e.g. ISP, where this censorship can occur. We've seen this with various torrent sites in the last few years.
Everything is relative. One of the reasons I turned down a couple of job offers in Silicon Valley in the 1990s was because the cost of living was relatively high compared to the Northeast.
Hydro generation can happen even without rain, that's what reservoirs are for. The problem is if this drought extends beyond that, as it did last year.
Anything to do with company formation to protect yourself from arbitration you should talk to legal counsel.

Other considerations would be GDPR if doing anything within the EU.
I note that "juvenile" and "toucher" are present.
There is some interesting Q&A at the end of Pascal's talk. My schoolboy French is not fast enough to do a proper translation unfortunately. He was asked about parallel (software) decoding and I think the gist was he thought it would be a bit difficult because of the dependencies between region images.

https://parisvideotech.com/pvt-4-les-formats-et-codecs-du-fu...
>As much as I love subvolumes and snapshotting, I feel like CoW probably adds too much complexity to make it (easily) reliable.

Despite this bug, ZFS still seems reliable and does everything you ask. And any reliability you feel is gained by dropped CoW is offset by the reliability lost by being susceptible to power outages corrupting data.
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Also early supporter here. For the great product/service I even voluntarily increaced my subscription rate, because $2 (what it started with) a month seemed way too cheap to me, especially for a heavy user like me. Still love it.
> we'll see authorities shutting down blogs and websites using GDPR as their tool

If they're shutting down blogs, there's 2 possible reasons for it:

1. The blog is using a non-compliant commenting system. This may be hand-rolled or 3rd-party: in either case, disabling comments is a common-sense measure to stay up. No legal complexity of any document should obscure the simplicity of this solution.

2. The hosting company hosting the blogging platform is non-compliant and gets shut down completely. In this case, your argument re: the company being small and not understanding legalese hopefully shouldn't apply.

If they're shutting down websites, those websites are offering a user-oriented service of some kind, and should get their act together w.r.t. understanding the legal implications of doing this, no matter how small they are.

If you're not processing user data, you're not a target. Exercising free speech does not require processing user data.
This helps me, but free only for 30 days
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16800756
The problem with that average probably is that the countries for which it's more difficult to reach these goals usually are also those countries that account for most of the energy consumption.

If Portugal reaches 27% of energy consumption from renewable sources that's not nearly as significant in terms of absolute energy consumption than when say France or Germany reaches that goal.

Both of these countries don't have a lot of naturally occurring phenomena or places that lend themselves to hydroelectric or geothermal energy production. So, they have to resort to ways that work everywhere but are comparatively more expensive or difficult to implement.

So, while countries like Portugal or Iceland reaching such goals certainly is commendable the 'battle' will be won elsewhere.
Having faith in the security of the hash that has been leaked was always a ticking clock. Better to just rotate any password you know to have been compromised.
It's fine to write that if you then explain why you can/should be trusted.
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>AV1 is basically funded by Google as a quasi-charitable endeavor

Nothing charitable about it. They want to make money. So do a bunch of other companies. And they've realized the way to win that game is to relinquish control over the fundamental/infrastructural pieces.

That also has some beneficial aspects beyond 'a rising tide lifts all boats', but I feel more comfortable appealing to reliable motivations. The benefits to others aren't an accident, and they're important to e.g. us at Xiph, but let's not ascribe industry interest to anything more charitable than 'enlightened self-interest'.
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I started working on recording meetings and converting the recordings to meeting minutes with actionable items. Not a trivial task. My idea was to build an iPhone app with ML in the cloud. I did some initial market survey and found no takers for this idea. I spoke to startups, mid-enterprises and even law firms. I got one positive response from a VC who said this could be useful in tracking the meetings he has with founders as most of them go untracked but I was not too convinced (perhaps I was wrong).
So dropped that idea and tried on some ideas around computer vision, prompted by the problems some of the customers were elucidating to while validating the above idea. "We don't really care about meetings but can you use machine learning to monitor people ? I am not a big fan of surveillance.
After this I have drifted quite a bit around the last year or so.
Current situation - no direction. Just having a side thought on doing something around high definition maps. Looked for a job to fill up some savings, but boy the interviewing phenomenon is nuts. I haven't interviewed in like 15 years. So got back to doing leetcode and Hackerrank.
Maybe I'm biased towards FastMail, but I'm kinda glad they made it obvious it was an ad (small lead up as to why, then they hit you with a "use our product instead").

I wouldn't say it's worth linking on HN (except maybe to spark a conversation), but here we are.

Admittedly, actually using the phrase "____ is a ____ you can trust" is pretty tacky at this point.