skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The list in the middle of the article (Applications of the formula) is the original list from John Pavley's talk, the ones at the end are just the author of the blog post trying to give his own examples. But yeah I agree about WhatsApp, that's not a very good example. And MS Word isn't really social software.
Readable as simple list: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16560720
So now they have two cloud storage products, called Cloud Firestore and Cloud Filestore? Their branding team is on top of their game, as always.
Probably the best tech acquisition of all time.

It's either that or YouTube. I guess you could argue for Apple acquiring NeXT, but that's an acquisition that isn't really able to be measured in the same way.
A starting point (at least it was for me) might be to unfollow (not unfriend) everyone. That way, your feed is empty and you'll get bored opening facebook after a while. You'll still get event invites and direct messages, so you're missing very little of substance.
I don't quite understand why plastic cutlery for takeout food is necessary. Maybe if you're bringing it back to your office for lunch where you don't have access to cutlery (although you could always bring your own). I see families taking out food for home where they have cutlery and yet they take the plastic cutlery from the restaurants. It's ridiculous and it just highlights how humans value the convenience of just eating with plastic cutlery and throwing it away after eating, over the environment
Yeh it's just garbage javascript somewhere on the page.
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You do realize that they are booking billions in ad revenue, right? All that user attention is hella valuable space.
Firestore is a NoSQL database, Filestore is a file storage system.

If you can discern between "now" and "not" then you can deal with "Firestore" and "Filestore"...
To be fair, the whole thing could still prove to be the mother of all bubbles.

For one: we still don't really really understand network effects. There's huge value to being Facebook (you're forced to be there because all your friends are there and most nowhere else), but people also switch platforms for reasons that are not excellently understood. And when I say bubble I don't mean this or that company -- Silly Valley big money is basically all bet on network effects.

(I.e. Instagram is worth $100B under the premise that I can't build an Instagram killer (that actually kills it) in a short period of time. And jeez, it's not fundamentally different from Geocities + Frontpage, just has better UX)
Millenials are 30 or pushing 30 now, aka adults
I like the concept of foot pedals as a form of computer input but I then I'm reminded of this story (fake or not) about why you probably shouldn't use foot pedals as a push-to-talk button in games.

https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/3q88s5/tifu_by_using_...
A lot of good questions until the very end. Save a draft and read later before you submit an angry post
To expand, the fact that the pictures are imperfect quality pretty much is the whole point. The inability to really zoom in, all of the filters that adjust the hue/sharpness, etc are all things that help you hide away imperfections in your photo and draw attention to the broader gist of "look at what I'm eating/where I'm traveling/what I'm doing/how pretty I am!"

The point of Instagram isn't to be able to see the wrinkles in that model's face. The point of Instagram is that you can't see the wrinkles in that model's face.
I extrapolated my last year's info (which was true for about 6 years by then)
SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING,create Pages,groups,events, Blogs,market, and More
This is also what EDA/ASIC design tools need to move to the cloud.
Well that's some high end advice, "learn to think better".
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Most of those (1) couldn’t speak French, (2) had contacts in the UK and a desperate human need for strong social connection, (3) believed, rightly or wrongly, that any contact with French authorities would result in their applications being rejected and them being forcibly returned to Syria/Afghanistan/wherever.

Source: Girlfriend did supply runs to The Jungle. She also found the place shocking in comparison to a literal slum in Nairobi.

But also: compare the size of that camp (~6500) to the ~million (at peak) who had asylum in Germany.
If you only have a paper filter that won't help at all.
Paul Wilson gave a talk at DEF CON 20[1] - he said something that stuck with me (which I'm paraphrasing now):

"The way you spot a mark is to look for the person who thinks they can't be taken. They're the greenest grass to a con man."

I'm sure it's in the video somewhere :-)

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkz1ItKLAvk
Interesting question! I'll give my take on it, which ties the answer to a 1942 wartime court case called Wickard v. Filburn.

The Tenth Amendment states the powers not delegated to the federal government by the Constitution are reserved to the States or to the people. The existence of some federal agencies may contradict the 10th Amendment, but the US Gov. has good reason to set policies on nuclear material regulation (Dept. of Energy), or airspace rules (FAA), and many other policy areas which could not have been foreseen at the time of the Constitution. The Framers of the Constitution could have written a clause allowing the government to regulate alcohol, cannabis, or any of the intoxicating drugs that existed at the time (opium?), but they didn't, so what is the basis for the 1970's Controlled Substances Act?

The specific precedent utilized by the CSA is based a very, very loose interpretation of the Interstate Commerce Clause, which states the Federal Government has power "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes". This clause is important to prevent States from placing taxes and tariffs on goods from other States, but in a 1942 wartime decision the Supreme Court greatly expanded the interpretation of this clause, giving power to the federal government to regulate or prohibit any economic activity (including economic activity involving drugs).

In 1942 the US Government had placed quotas on wheat production to stabilize prices during wartime (side note, the government no longer uses quotas to accomplish price stabilization, but instead the USDA will buy crops directly when surpluses develop). Filburn had grown more wheat than his allotted quota and was fined for producing too much. Filburn argued that because he never sold the extra grain and grew it for use on his farm (animal feed), the quota did not apply because it would not enter the market. The case made it up to the Supreme Court, which ruled against Filburn on the basis that no production is strictly local because any surplus on Filburn's part would affect the amount of grain he bought, which would percolate through the market in aggregate. You can read more about the Wickard v. Filburn case on Wikipedia. That decision ultimately gave the US Government the power to regulate any economic activity.
The difference between a $200 mattress and the best in the world is way less than 1h per night.
Extreme "Just my two cents" mode: user problems may be similar, but needs and solutions remain unique.

Any one group trying to build a solution to serve all needs is likely in line for complication, which is why great partners and options continue to be a wise choice.

(Gonna duck out of this thread, etc. now since this isn't my release and I assume people who work in storage can go a lot deeper.)
I've seen restaurants where they serve most of their food in plastic containers even for dine in customers. Most poke places for example always use a plastic bowl that patrons just throw away after they're done, along with plastic cutlery. Some restaurants serve water in cups with a plastic straw, which is also totally unnecessary.
You're feeding the adtech privacy-invading world which has tons of negatives for society. As an analogy: "I shop at Walmart and find products I actually appreciate. What's wrong with that?" The answer isn't simple, and shaming individual consumers isn't a solution anyway.

Among the biggest problems with ads are that when they are the primary economic model for these services, they will tweak everything to favor paid ads as much as they can get away with. That means everything from conflicts-of-interest around serving the needs of the biggest advertisers to undermining organic (non-paid-ads) discovery of products and services…
I wonder how this can be legal. I’ve seen the “free vacation” scams inside malls and it’s really disturbing to see their practices
The price is more attractive (read cheaper) than AWS, but it is still on the pricey side considering the storage sizes people work with these days.

Using persistent storage with Google sets me back a little over $175 per TB of SSD, per month, without networking factored in.

At $0.20, time a thousand for a TB, Cloud Filestore comes to $200. Let's see how the performance goes.
Nothing. It's a win-win. Consumers get personalized, tailored ads. Businesses reach audiences that actually want their products.

What annoys me are ads for products I've already purchased (amazon is terrible about this), or the same ad plastered 20 times across multiple sites.

Instagram handles ads pretty well IMO. They are non-intrusive, easy to digest, and highly relevant.

Facebook OTOH, has become one giant scrolling, auto-playing, clickbait/video ad. There is essentially 90% junk to 10% information (posts/photos/etc). IG has the same ratio but in reverse.

People love to bemoan the horrors of internet advertising, but tbh I find it way less intrusive than other forms of ad placements (TV, radio, billboards).

Except autoplay vids w/ audio. Those should be banned flat out.
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Hi Guys,

Go has been growing popularly for the past few years and I learnt to write Go some few years ago, I love the way it makes concurrency natural and very suited for server side programming. I'll like to get some thoughts and ideas on the best applications suited to be developed in Go. I think this might also help other newbie developers thinking of switching their projects to Go. Will love to know your thoughts.

Cheers!
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You can already buy bags made from plant material (tuber and tapioca is popular). The fact that they are 3x the price and less durable than petroleum-based bags is probably because they have seen less research and mass production. This can change. I use them to chuck out the cat litter.
Debian is using Firefox ESR as a compromise to stability since it is not possible to keep older versions while fixing security bugs. Rust is an issue also for Firefox ESR too (when upgrading from 52 to 60).
How would you monetize it without ads?

Instagram would have died an early death if you had to pay for it, and hiding certain features behind a pay wall would alienate 90% of the users.
That's not what makes a breach "sensitive" for HIBP, it's about breaches that only can be checked if you authenticated your e-mail address or domain, so that not everyone can check if you've used the site.
Many hackers have a dismissive attitude towards design.

It gets worse when they seem to be proud of it too.

Just checkout any GNU project or other "hardcore hacker" projects like OpenBSD.

You can spot their design feel from a thousand miles away.

"Ugly and proud of it!"
> not actually true

a concept which requires agreement from the federal courts themselves, who have never upheld a single argument related to this concept.

not actually what?
Also, it allocates ints x and y, saves a value to y, copies it to x, and only uses x from then on. y is entirely redundant.
And you can self host it, which was what convinced me to switch from lastpass.

https://github.com/mprasil/bitwarden_rs

This is a 3rd party implementation of the bitwarden api, which gives me more confidence in the 1st party product.
I am a bit embarrassed, but I had to read your comment twice to see that you mentioned two different products in your first sentence. So for me at least, GP comment is accurate.
At $enterprise-dayjob we've ended up using EFS in AWS after migrating an application that was using NFS. One of the main obstacles to adopting this was perceived lack of security as EFS didn't support encryption of NFS connections between EC2 instances and EFS mount targets. AWS EFS released support for encrypting the NFS connections earlier this year, using Stunnel.

What's the corresponding story re security for cloud filestore?
At least in India and for me, it is exactly opposite. I never saw Instagram open on anybody's mobile. It is always facebook and whatsapp. Sometimes Twitter but never Instagram.
Hannibal? He fought the Romans in Spain and then took the elephants over the Italian Alps and attacks Rome from the North. That is the greatest military feat for me.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/apr/03/where-muck-h...
It looks like the article has been fixed; it now reads:

> a human hair is 80,000 to 100,000 nanometers in diameter
That's when I started using the word "instagram" as shorthand for "billion dollars". A while ago, Facebook bought Oculus for two instagrams. (It kind of makes sense: one for each eye in their VR headsets.)
Make one

Use twilio.com. Make a database of phone #s. Record an automated message. Tell them to press 1 if their ok. Wait say 10 seconds. No response? Fire off a text message to yourself. Wrap the whole thing in a cron job to fire off every day at midnight lol (probably a more reasonable 10am) and profit!
Very nice, and I think the ADALM-PLUTO is a very accessible SDR that is a step up from the RTL sticks that most folks start with.
I know a lot of telemarketers can not hang up a phone themselves or require a manager to do it for them. Not hanging up is a great method if you want to annoy them
it's slow as well on my laptop :/
The bar is getting ordinary people to be concerned about the possibility for America to turn into dystopia. While yours is a laudable goal, it's well within the ability of our existing political-economic system to ratchet closer to over time.
I found a story about it, if anyone is curious

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1993/04/18/Chicago-Bulls-Millio...
The docs linked from product page are 404ing. Ex: https://cloud.google.com/filestore/docs/quickstart-gcloud
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Wait, you’re against jury trials?
Migrating Messenger storage to optimize performance
It's easier if you consider that you and the whole galaxy are moving around the universe at 10% of light speed and that it's not exactly you who moves, but the space bending around us, just like time.

On yet another point, you might imagine time as a projection of the space. We like to think of time as the domain often enough, but perhaps it's the opposite. After all, some event needs to takes place, for a time step to be noticeable.
That's excellent. It's surprising even high-end specialty stores in the US (e.g. Whole Foods) don't do more of this.
I seems to me the way forward to understand consciousness scientifically is making computer simulation of parts of conscious awareness and comparing with how it works in real brains until the results are similar. "What I cannot create, I do not understand" as Feynman had on his blackboard. https://www.quora.com/What-did-Richard-Feynman-mean-when-he-...

Neural scene representation and rendering (deepmind.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17313937

seems a step in that direction.
An anecdote is a logically valid response to "This isn't happening". "Yes it is, because here's a case where it did" is a valid counter. It doesn't prove that it's happening systematically, but it does prove it has happened, and from there it is valid to discuss whether it might happen again.
I just found out that the piece in software is being rewritten from scratch (since the original vendor has gone out of business long ago). And since the new version is written by a contractor on behalf of the customer, it will not require a dongle or anything like that.
> or do you want supply and demand? You can't have both

There's tons of examples where supply-and-demand gets balanced with other considerations. It doesn't have to be all-or-nothing.
Should be possible, but I don't get what's to like so much in unnecessary animations sucking your battery and making the whole experience awful on underpowered hardware.

I have Intel GPU with hidpi screen - Stripe's menu drops frames and spins up the fans.
It's because of the amazing data Facebook and Instagram have to create anonymous targeting audiences with. Source: I spend millions on FB and IG ads per month.
World Poverty Clock
Whoever "rj" is I'm "WWWWWWW...." and laughing so hard at our eternal battle
Yes the Romans had elephant idea probably from Hannibal, the article references the Punic wars.
Also https://sdr.hu/

I have a KiwiSDR here:

http://64.136.200.36:8073
I wonder how much of Tor usage is for illegal activities, including black markets, compared to legal activities? And doesn't it seem fickle that the same action may or may not be legal depending upon how many people use Tor for legal vs illegal activities? What happens if last year it was primarily for legal purposes but this year some new black market site took off and people are primary using it for that now?
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Between Cloud Storage, Cloud Datastore, Cloud Firestore and now Cloud Filestore the naming of these services is frustratingly confusing. Oh and of course there are also BigQuery and BigTable, which do not really give any clearer picture of the actual service. I've used GCP extensively for more than a year now and I still get confused about the different storage services way too often.
Unrelated, but what do people do on twitch? I worry about getting out of touch with my children.
> there is zero evidence that it has an impact on the FDA’s independence

This is a strong claim. Do you have any proof? Has anyone studied this?
Page shot is fantastic btw. No nonsense clipping in Linux (I use onenote on Windows and would love if shots could be exported outside as easily as they are created)
>Determinism in math is countered with randomness

What randomness? Where would the source of randomness be in the universe?
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>if they are already rich by half a million.. unless you are trying to climb the Forbes leaderboard.

That would be half a _billion_ and, generally, I don't "feel bad" for people who don't attain their dream of climbing the Forbes leader board (assuming that is even a goal for these two.)
Great job mimicking the menu with just pure CSS! You even got the fade/slide down effect mostly there.

From a UX perspective there's a reason they used Javascript. For example, if you hover over "Politics" and want to click on "2018 Women Candidates" naturally you move your mouse at an angle. Which causes you to lose the menu when it mouses over "Technology". This is solved by tracking the mouse movement and holding the current menu open if the movement is at a specific angle

I'd like to read your write up if you do it :)
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Socialism never had a single main ideology.

If you go by person-years of ruled population, Socialism does have a predominant type of regime, which generally branded itself as "Marxist," was mostly totalitarian, and accounted for about 100 million deaths in the past century.
It's the difference between watching audio waveforms on an oscilloscope and listening to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. These are not equivalent experiences, no matter how accurately the oscilloscope reproduces the waveform.
I wish they would add a setting for minimum zoom or remember my zoom levels after clearing caches. As it is, it does neither and the many add-ons that claim to do either don't work properly. It's fine to remove or not add functionality that's well supported by add-ons but this isn't by any add-on I've tried. The other major thing is the cpu usage while playing videos is simply unacceptable. A 2013 rmbp can't play one video these days? It can in Chrome without issues like skipping so this is just shit work by the ff team. Other than that I'm impressed by the browser. Dev tools are far superior to chrome especially the console. But after six months or so with ff, I've switched back to chromium. At least with chromium I know exactly which videos will play and which won't (drm). With ff, it depends on how ff feels that day. That is simply unacceptable for such a major browser.
It's an example which people can understand. It's an impossible situation to escape from. They chose the slightly better scenario. People who commit suicide also chose the slightly better scenario (in their mind) for them.
I'd love to switch to FF. But does anyone know why the JavaScript debugger is so painfully slow? It makes debugging certain problems super frustrating as compared to Chrome. Is it doing more than Chrome is? Any chance this might be resolved one day?
First of all. Its not a false analogy at all. Meteors have struck before and eradicated almost all life. Climate have been hotter than it is right now and didn't have the same effect.

Second of all I didn't mention anything about not doing anything I specifically have stated the opposite. The fact that you will straight out lie about what I said shows your true colors.

Have a good day.
Author of book is a Markov chain?
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Hows it compare (pricing / performance) to using Cloud Storage, for non web accessible files.

Example use case, screenshots of websites where instances both request and write / overwrite them.
Yeah I've had to build a similar menu, it's simple solution but makes a huge usability difference.
I am sure you do.
The State is extremely punitive, especially when inconvenienced. So many people are happy about handing power to these institutions, but get in the way of them, inconvenience them, and they'll stomp you out of existence. They have a myriad of legal weapons, which will only grow over time, so even if you think you're complying with the law, there's probably something you missed, or some loophole they can use.

> Curtis Crow and Cesar Bonilla Montiel, the men at the top of the organization, received sentences half that length.

The sentence length shows how punitive this was. They wanted to make an example out of Alfred because he made their jobs harder.
A key difference is that diesel can “recharge” a bus in a matter of minutes, so buses simply queue up at a pump and then drive off. With electric, it takes a few hours overnight, so they had to install a long line of charging points right down the middle of the garage.

... Anyone here know why swappable batteries haven't taken off for fleets?
a) Generally, you pay the taxes in the country where you reside or the country where you perform the work (if not the same country). Despite popular belief, most major countries tax individuals on their worldwide income (US, China, France, Germany, off the top of my head)...however, most of these countries exempt the first $xxx thousands of income from tax (or from certain types of taxes, like payroll taxes) or certain types of income from tax.

b) Depends on your legal risk profile. If you are a contractor, an entity may shield you legally but will incur greater tax and compliance costs.

If you are a dependent worker (i.e., an "employee"), you shouldn't need to ask these questions because your employer will take care of the tax withholding for you as generally most countries require foreign companies to register for payroll withholding once they hire employees locally.
Why on earth should we sacrifice people who may not have had exposure to financial literacy to allow these scammers to keep going?