skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About ~6 years ago, I was involved in a project where data would increase by 100gb per day and the database would also significantly change every day. I vaguely remember having some kind of cron bash script with mysqldump and rsync that would have a near identical offsite backup of data (also had daily, monthly snapshots). We also had a near identical staging setup of our original production application which we would use to restore our application from the near-realtime backup we had running. We had to test this setup every other month - it was an annoying thing to do at first. But we were exceedingly good at it over time. Thankfully we never had to use our backup, but we slept at night peacefully.

Backup is a bit of an art in itself, everyone has a different type of backup requirement for their application, some solutions might not be even financially feasible. You might never end up using your backup ever at all, but all it needs is one very bad day. And if your data is important enough, you will need to do everything possible to avoid that possible bad day.
I think part of the problem here is that most of the time, most of the people who are really good at this tend to have an intuitive approach, which makes it harder to formulate and teach, especially in a way that a less intuition-oriented person can understand and learn from. (Or at least that's my impression as a person in the latter category who has spent years trying to learn more about these things.)
This is a standard risk with any attempt to remain anonymous with a supplier. The supplier, since they don't know you, and therefore can't trust you, will not offer
much credit.

Cards get skimmed all the time. When a card gets skimmed, the issuer informs everyone who is making recurring purchases with that card "Hey, this card was skimmed, it's dead".

If someone has a recurring charge attached to that account, the recurring charge will go bad. If this is an appreciable number of cloud services which are billed by the second, this can happen very, very quickly and without you knowing. Remember, sometimes the issuer informs you that the card was skimmed, which you will receive after all the automated systems have been told.

So, the cloud provider gets the cancel, and terminates the card. It then looks around sees the recurring charge, takes a look at your servers racking up $$ they can't recoup and the system goes "we don't know this person, they buy stuff from us, but we haven't analysed their credit. Are they good for the debt? We've never given them credit before. Better cut them off until they get in touch."

If only they had signed an enterprise agreement and gotten credit terms. It could still be paid with a credit card, but the supplier would say "They're good for $X, let it ride and tell them they'll be cut off soon". They can even attach multiple methods of payment to the account, where, for example, a second card with a different bank is used as a backup. Having a single card is a single point of failure in the system!

In closing, imagine you're a cryptocoin miner who uses stolen cards to mine on cloud services. What does that look like to the cloud provider?

Yep, someone signs up for cloud services, starts racking up large bills and then the card is flagged as stolen.
Yes I agree with you. I've actually had Crunchyroll in mind when writing my post - many titles are not licensed for my country.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17424735
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I've never really understood this argument. Using vim locally with a bunch of plugins and then vanilla vim remotely is really the exact same thing as using any other editor locally and vanilla vim remotely.... especially if you are using vim bindings in said other editor!

In any event, I just mitigate this problem by not overriding a bunch of standard behaviour. Also, none of the many plugins I use modify any standard behaviour in any serious way, they just help speed up certain actions when working in a large code base. There is very minimal context switch for me when editing a file remotely.
A good eye. One of the biggest lessons taught in any advanced car control course is that the brakes/gas aren't just for stopping/going. By using them to modulate weight transfer you can change grip levels at F/R, adjust vehicle yaw (+/- turning radius), smooth out suspension undulations, etc.
Direct link to the entire series on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5-da3qGB5ICeMbQuqbbC...
Rimac’s Concept Two is a also a contender, I’ll be interested to see which ends up on top - the concept two beats the roadster 2 by a hair on 0-60 and 0-100 but lags behind in quarter mile.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rimac_C_Two
I would love to see how fast this can be done by a customized self driving car. (think: full knowledge of track geometries, of its own physical specifications, etc..)
You have to watch out for the "water dowser" effect. If you're in front of a group of people who have no ability to check your answers, it's very easy to convince them that you're always right. If a trusted person with good social skills came in and said, "don't work with him he's not earnest," how would the room ever find out whether he was or not? They'd be unlikely to trust him enough to end up in a situation where they'd be able to see for themselves.
Oh, exactly. I mean, we make jokes about how bad we are without coffee and no one says boo about how coffee should be banned.
Yes they have invoice-based billing that you can apply for: https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/invoiced-billin...
Quotes or pluses stopped working a while ago.

Even "Verbatim" isn't actually verbatim.

I am amused that people are only now realizing just how awful Google has got compared to 2000s.
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Horrible. This reminds me of travels in 3rd world countries where sometimes the electricity just dropped out. Ha, never would have thought that the one Google would occasionally become like this...
I just graduated. My favorite form of course, and the one that was seemed to be preferred in discussions with friends and peers, was something like the following:
- Homework is between 10/20% of the grade. Collaboration must be allowed. Even allow copying, and allow one or two drops instead of accepting late assignments.
- Weekly quizzes account for ~20% of the grade in total. At my university, we have a computer based testing facility where students can schedule quizzes at times best for them. Plus, the grading is automatic :). Quizzes should be a little more difficult than the homework, and maybe more expansive/general.
- The rest is exams. Exams should test conceptual knowledge over practical problem solving or particular algorithms/definitions, in my opinion. Also, as I'm sure you're aware, try to avoid subjective or ambiguous questions. Unfortunately, I had my fair share of both.
- Having students write out code on an exam is probably the only way to make sure they understand how to program what is taught. Many people will cheat on homeworks or programming assignments. If you don't have a secure testing facility, they will do anything in their power to cheat on quizzes and tests, too. I worked as a TA and saw some of their techniques first hand.

With that out of the way, try to make homework online & automatically graded. PLEASE, record your lectures and allow students to watch. A auxiliary youtube channel with videos explaining the concepts is a huge plus. Please, try to recommend texts instead of requiring them UNLESS the text is actually used in the course. It has to be used substantially to warrant requiring it. However, please have a few texts listed regardless. It will help supplement what you teach. Maybe link to some good sites or references if you know of any.

Our generation isn't all that different; perhaps we prefer more things online!

Competitive programming assignments were very enjoyable for me, by the way.

Thank you for reading my rambling post. Good luck.
Yes. Unless somehow they are getting to a top speed of 370mph and seem to be engine rpm limited at that.
If you want a "file drawer" that is always open, nerdtree ain't great, but furthermore, the whole "file drawer" concept doesn't really work in vim. I personally prefer nerdtree to the builtin netrw but the "killer setting" for me is "close nerdtree after opening a file". nerdtree is super useful as a tree explorer but you'll have a much better time if you don't treat it as a "drawer".
One thing you may consider is, if you aren't already, interspersing a real-world motivation.

So take the current material and make it slightly more relatable via anecdote about why one may need to use the current technique or motivations behind it's creation.
Perhaps part of the issue with people keeping silent about their private research is the world today is full of very vocal quacks and cranks. The last thing you want is to be taken for a crackpot.
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Same as what you do with the degree, say, in physics. You become a software engineer.
Every young person I know and see around me in general is using snapchat as a primary means of communication. The real user base is not boomers, gen-xers, and perhaps not even millennials but rather gen z. As such, it will take some time for them to grow into their full earning potential as a generation. If snap continues to innovate and meet the needs of this user base, they could do very well in the future.

This also assumes snap hires people who know how to run a successful tech business. They may need to move their HQ and primary strategic operations away from LA and up to SV or SF to take advantage of the concentration of tech talent (not just devs but execs, sales, product mgmt, devops, marketing, etc).
This seems basically the same as an ion engine without the need to BYO ions, relying on the existing ion/electron mix in plasma being sufficient and suitable. Which makes it seem fairly credible. Potential for much higher efficiency than ion engines too if a plentiful supply meant you could sacrifice thrust/ion.

Cathode Ray tube comparison below isn't entirely valid, as the goal of a CRT isn't to generate net thrust.
That's a good scheme. Note how things like GCP make it harder rather than easier to set something like that up, you'd almost have to stream your data in real time to two locations rather than to bring it in to GCP first and then to stream it back out to your backup location.

> Backup is a bit of an art in itself

Fully agreed on that, and what is also an art is to spot those nasty little single points of failure that can kill an otherwise viable business. Just thinking about contingency planning makes you look at a business with different eyes.
I really find Mastodon really empty. I had a look and the first things that popped up into my federated feed were escorts.
Looks similar to Ionocraft[0], but only for low density plasma instead of an air.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionocraft
> Sure it may be nice to see your file structure sometimes

And you can just use the built in :Ex for that
Maybe he doesn't want to move the market too much. It could go either way. FUD brigade would jump on the "Satoshi will dump" narrative.
Jeez, how painful to think that she has to explain her role regularly just because she is a woman. My wife and I are both software developers, and recently moved from Helsinki to Berlin, with two kids. If you could see the faces when we tell people how we moved here, "with _her_ job" :D First they look at her, like "does she look the part", and then looking at me, like "what does he really do?" It's actually fun, and more of "our thing" to watch those reactions than a pain, but in the bigger scheme of things what a waste that we are scared of all those wonderful women who could work with us, but don't.
Yikes, it does appear Google stopped showing your page in most results for that keyword. (Hey, at least they've confirmed it!)

If you now click where it says Average Position, you'll get a purple chart of your average position/ranking for that specific keyword over time. (You can actually click on each of those boxes to turn the graphs on & off.) In my case, some of my keywords have a very obvious & sharp drop in ranking beginning around March 7 / 9. My guess is you'll see something similar.

If I'm right about the March Google update, then there isn't anything wrong with your site. It's just that people aren't clicking on your site when they search for "polygraph" (0.3% CTR is rather low, as you can see compared to your other keywords) or Google feels your page isn't the most relevant to their query. You could try making a page on your site focused specifically on that keyword, but you'd be fighting against Wikipedia & Merriam-Webster for the niche.
While true. I was specifically referring to this part:

> What if the card holder is on leave and is unreachable for three days? We would have lost everything — years of work — millions of dollars in lost revenue.

The comment suggests they are using personal GCP account instead of enterprise account.

Millions of dollars worth of work + imply no backup + non-enterprise account (but expecting enterprise support) + not having multiple forms of payment available.

Combining all these together, it seems like all sorts of things are going wrong here.

I have never used GCP (or any of the big three cloud providers), so I don't know how they are in general, but in this specific case there seems to be faulty planning on the user end.
Actually it was pirates who did that in the late 90s/early 2000s. Nobody was showing Naruto except kazaa. But noone ever gives them credit.
And? Businesses should get even better support.
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"Work said Google's participation could have saved lives"

That has been the justification for pretty much every military project. That's the calculus which says that dropping nuclear weapons on Japan saved the lives of the many more which would have died during a land invasion. That's the calculus which says that mass bombings of cities is good because it shortens the war, which says that it's better to take out a bakery than a trench, because the will to fight will disappear and result in peace.

But, maybe developing chemical weapons would save lives. Shall we do more of that? Or biological weapons? How many more tens of billions will we spend on ineffective (and IMO likely worthless) anti-ballistic missile systems which "could save lives"?

How many lives have we saved already?

How many have we killed?

Why not just declare the war won and go home?

When do we, in the words of Mitchell and Webb, become the baddies?

"to help the military to stay on the right side of ethical lines"

When have the top leadership of the US military been on the right side of ethical lines?

I don't think they were on right side when we were involved in the secret wars in Asia. I certainly don't think they were on the right side during the Indian Wars. So, when did they get on the right side, and how did that happen?

Did the military listen to Oppenheimer to help guide their ethics? Or did they prefer to listen to Teller and Herman Kahn? If they didn't listen to Oppenheimer, why would they listen to Google AI researchers?

"doesn't mean Silicon Valley will shy away from military contracts — it hasn't, and it won't"

Of course it won't. Silicon Valley exists because of military contracts. https://steveblank.com/secret-history/ .
I believe most mathematicians are well aware of constructive mathematics. What makes you think that they aren't?

> Basically, proof by contradiction is not a good idea.

Based on what?
Makes sense but you would think someone at AWS would handle it... more systematically.
> The UK has until recently been trying to follow a policy of reduced public spending

Um, what? [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_the_United_Kingdom
It has occurred to me that the Foundation and Dune series actually deal with the same philosophical material, regarding the predictability of human actions and the danger of subjugating humanity to the will of an individual. And there's parallels in how they deal with the topic, yet they're also very different takes on the matter - in both series, centralization of power is seen as a bad thing, but in Foundation predictability is a good thing, while in Dune it's the very means by which humanity is subjugated. A quick recap:

In the Foundation series, while an individual is unpredictable, humanity's actions as a whole are predictable at a macroscopic level through a science called psychohistory (like how an individual quantum mechanical effect is unpredictable, but can be aggregated to a higher level into Newtonian mechanics, which are very predictable). This allows the inventor of the science to predict the downfall of our galactic civilization, but also to create a cache of advice to be released over time to help shorten the following dark age before the next renaissance. However, eventually a single individual (a mutant) develops the power to influence minds en masse and starts conquering the galaxy, thus bending humanity to the will of a single individual, which then also effectively makes humanity unpredictable again. Which is a bad thing since it causes the plan to help us out of the dark age to go askew. It takes another individual with the power to change minds to undo the damage by manipulating the conqueror to give up his plan.

In the Dune series, all of humanity's actions are predictable by a single person (the result of a millennia long selective breeding program combined with a psychotropic drug to trigger the ability), which is a bad thing since it also gives that one person unprecedented control over humanity's destiny by using his knowledge of the future to manipulate events - effectively ending "free will" for everyone and putting all our eggs in one basket. It takes another millennia long breeding program (based on a tyrannical empire providing evolutionary pressure) to undo the damage by breeding true unpredictability into humanity again.

I find it fascinating how two great sci-fi series deal with the same philosophical question in a way that is so similar yet also so different.
I guess the pitfall is that it assumes the presence of a plasma, in which case the question is: can we really call it "space"? But from a practical point of view, that may not matter much, of course.
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Unless Tesla can get the weight down of the Roadster 2 it doesn't have a chance beating the GT2-RS or the Huracan Perfomante.
Pretty much my plan, except I'm not going to work in finance and it's going to take more than a few years... All I need, really, is enough to pay my mortgage for a few years.
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Thoughts on https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRedPill/?
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...because?
There are people who don't care about it and have good reasons for it. See a good semi-serious discussion here: http://n-gate.com/software/2017/07/12/0/
Having owned all three of these; I grew up in an IBM house hold but later on I had two different Tandy 1000 series PCs (EX and the bastardized TX which had an 80286 on a XT board). We had a PC from early days complete with the large hard bound manuals, single sided diskettes, and text only.

Now the regardless of processor the PCjr was seriously impacted in that that the keyboard interrupt was not there but actually had to be handled by the processor. See https://www.brutman.com/PCjr/pcjr_keyboard_handling.html for a good description of what this incurred.

(now for the rambling part)
The Tandy was great for their 16 color hack and better sound which made games so much more enjoyable. (star flight being my favorite game ever and it used two 360k diskettes for a persistent environment)

fwiw, even before dedicated graphics we had cool games. Even Wizardry which I had on my Apple was available for the PC and I played it with the ASCII character set being used to create the halls in 3D (think plus sign, bars, and minus signs). All the text based games many reminisce about are from this era
Your sarcasm is misplaced. Big companies don’t get special treatment from the USPTO.
Agreed, that wasn't smart. But, to their defense, this is how these things start out, small enough to be useful, and by the time they get business critical nobody realizes the silly credit card is all that stands between them and unemployment.
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Yeah I couldn't get my head around this bit:

> What if the card holder is on leave and is unreachable for three days? We would have lost everything — years of work — millions of dollars in lost revenue.
Since <space> is some peoples' leader key (not mine, but I see it a lot), just throwing it out there that `Q` is a fine alternative for that mapping too. It's also a nice semantic companion to `qq`! ...unless you are a heavy ex-mode user, of course :)
Mathematicians know about constructivism, they just tend to rightfully reject statements like "proof by contradiction is not a good idea" as crackpottery. Mathematics will continue to be done, constructivists and finitists be damned.
I find this hard to believe (I'm not doubting you, your experiences are valid)

Snapchat used to be where gen-z were, but now with Instagram "adopting" the story format it became easy for all those folks to post stories on IG itself.
And dogs are supposed to be our best friends.
AWS has acquired Cloud9 for in browser for desktop environment/ SSH, it inherits account credentials. You should check it out.
Afghan veteran here.. The only thing that's worked for me for dealing with PTSD was talking about it with people who share similar experiences.

So this post is a great first step to fix it for you.
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The Netherlands, the public broadcaster NOS:

https://nos.nl/teletekst
Maybe they feel you didn't rigorously prove your case.
Which part do you disagree with? Are you commonly blocked by Clojure errors where you have to stop and spend a material amount of time deciphering them?

Nowhere have I said that if you see an error message you don't know how to program.

I face errors every day, but I don't face errors that are so cryptic that they block my productivity. We agree errors are useful even if we disagree that Clojure's errors are bad.

I did find the errors very confusing when I was getting started, but I think that was because the errors use Clojure terminology that I had not yet learned.
I just finished taking the DB course here, and am waiting for exam results. Our lecturer was of Greek origin, and as such had an accent. Further his delivery could be a bit monotone. Those two things, which aren't really big deciders of whether a course is good or bad, drowned out any legitimate issues with the course.

Because he was monotone students started calling him "slow" whenever he tried to collect his thoughts and present things us students obviously hadn't quite grasped yet. He would take 5 seconds about 7 times per lecture to look at the slides to do this.

The point is, you would think CS students were a more logically inclined bunch. Here, at least, that is not the case. They are horrible and vindictive if they get the chance to be so. Even people writing longer, well-structured response to evaluations might be completely off-base on what is happening, or be swept up in the meme (used in the academic sense here).
Until they lock your account even if you know the password...

Some people are OK with giving their PII like phone numbers to them, then Google is a good choice for them.

For me, it is not. Their schizophrenic registration system that SOMETIMES demands your phone number was the last straw.
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Well there's the driverless race series that they've been promising for a while so hopefully will know fairly soon.