skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They used to talk about anti-selection (a/k/a "adverse selection"). For example, if a retail insurer has no reinsurance, it has to incorporate both the probability of claims and the distribution of payout sizes.

But if they have reinsurance, the payouts are 'clipped' at their deductible. This means that they have an incentive to take on clients that are less likely to have any sort of accident, even if when they do have an accident, it has catastrophic consequences.

This means that a reinsurance company cannot rely on the overall statistics for claims, because the insurance companies that buy reinsurance price their products with reinsurance in mind. The people unlikely to run into massive claims will end up in pools where the retail insurance company doesn't buy reinsurance.

So they have to carefully price the reinsurance to account for the fact that the insurance company is packaging their most reinsurance-sensitive pool of customers together.
Billions a year is their entire advertising budget, and a lot of it is print & TV advertising which is orders of magnitude more expensive than web. Not saying I agree with that either (I wish all advertising would just die in a fire), but it’s not as bad as the above.

The comment I was criticising claimed they were spending millions a month on FB & Insta only, which seems astronomical and raises some concerns about whether the product provides any value at all.
You say you have an air-gapped PC that supports XMPP and ICQ?
This reminds me of the first textbook I tried to learn C++ from. It was fun to read, because the authors seemed to put more energy into writing Limericks than explaining object-oriented design. I don't think it touched on inheritance, and things like, I don't know, inline functions or templates were not mentioned at all.

It did not even contain working example programs, let alone exercises. It was so bad, as the saying goes, it was not even wrong. I still have that book on my shelf as a reminder to not blindly buy the first/cheapest textbook I can find.
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VFD reminds me of growing up in the 80's when the only use for LCD was cheap solar calculators and Casio wrist watches.

Nixie tubes just make me feel warm and tingly.
or https://github.com/datawire/ambassador (which wraps envoy with a couple of extra (usability?) features)
You could probably use few more specific words to a greater effect. Such as self-model, world model, memory, information processing, directed action, responsiveness.
Consciousness is a bit too underdefined a word. It is probably not as much of a whole as a tree or human as an organism is - it is not even persistent nor stable - and leaves no persistent traces in the world.

You don't get a consciousness carcass left behind or a "monad" as some current theorists postulated. At least we haven't found any.
And I thought they were going to talk about cryptocurrencies... :)
You don't see the irony in that statement, as you toss in your low-effort criticism just to stoke the HN feeding frenzy?
> I've long had a theory (maybe it's not that revolutionary) that part of Instagram's success is it allowed people a free pass to be vain and show off-y.

It's a fact, not theory because facebook is where you are friends with mom, dad, grandma, and aunt suzie. IG is where you like hot women, fetishes, gucci bags, and whatever nonsense mom /dad/aut suzie might disapprove of. You keep up appearances on FB and get nasty on IG.
I'd argue that any such mapping of inputs and outputs, (fully mapping our mind) would equally describe to a system that is not conscious. In other words, the whole analysis could as well be describing a zombie that behaves like us but does not have experiences.

Put another way, it would fail to capture why that system (our brains) produce any experiences at all. I know this is disputed, of course. But I basically think the hard problem is a real thing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness
The parent gave a phonetic explanation that has nothing to do with writing but rather hearing and speaking about it. For a billion people they aren't one letter away from each other, they're ~ the same. That's the point.
The performance of EFS is horrible. I hope this is better. On paper, it seems more performant.
It sounded like it was one of the "mules" who dropped the card. Probably just some random guys hired cheaply so those in charge didn't have to go out in person; they probably weren't necessarily smart or careful.
Now you're making me think about my specification and verification professor from years ago. A lot of the exercises had us specify stuff with some formalism. Something like a finite state machine for a 3 digit combination lock, or pre- and post conditions of algorithms, loops and such.

The tutorials about these exercises were really cool, because we'd spend a short time wrapping up mistakes in the notation. But then he usually classified and grouped the different solutions according to the design decisions made and it would evolve into large discussions about tradeoffs of choices.

Someone might go "Well I figured the FSM would be smaller if I fail on the first wrong number, and it'd be user friendly because it fails early", and someone objects "But that's insecure!" and someone else figures "And also it'd be much easier to write up a control circuit that always expects three digits" and eventually everyone is confused if we're looking at the user input as a stream of tuples of three digits, instead of looking at the last three digits in a stream of digits.

It was a very instructive class.
"Typical" availability number is both low and wishy-washy.
Looks like you're right - from Wikipedia:

Two-letter .com domain names were never reserved. It was possible for anyone to register them in the very early years of the Internet (from 1985 to 1998). The first company to own an active Two Letter Domain is Hewlett-Packard. Since 1998 all permutations of the 26 × 26 = 676 .com domains have been registered and (barring the very unlikely event of a lapse in registration) they can only be obtained by buying them from the previous owner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-letter_second-level_dom...
The conclusion of the podcast was "If you spend $800 you're probably safe, below that it's hard to know if it's good or awful. Above $1500 is too much."
Judging by pricing and performance, it's mostly likely using their existing Persistent Disks offering and wrapping it in a managed NFS layer.

https://cloud.google.com/persistent-disk/
>> Someone had sent emails to the bank’s employees with Microsoft Word attachments, purporting to be from suppliers such as ATM manufacturers. It was a classic spear-phishing gambit.

Microsoft Windows + Outlook Email + Attached word document = the Drake equation for internet security. No matter how secure each of these things are individually, when added together infection becomes inevitable.

Why does outlook have to pass such documents to Word? Why does Word have to open and run macros so willingly? Why does Windows allow word to talk to the internet so easily? I just don't understand the use case these links are meant to address. Are there really so people out there installing software via links inside word documents? That this has to be a seamless user experience? There are so many opportunities to limit such such infections. Why do we still tolerate this?
You seem to simply prefer effectively permanent waste over energy use. Many do not.
It should be noted this case took place in Federal court, where judges are appointed, not elected. It should also be noted that you can waive the right to a jury trial and get a bench trial instead.
Speaking of liberty to take risk and live TV, the film "Hot Rod" (2007) may provide some insight into what's going on in the mind of a person who is taking unnecessary risks for: acceptance (oxytocin) and excitement (adrenaline); though it doesn't provide any guidance as to how to avoid counterproductively reinforcing risky behaviors.

Keep in mind that these are all paid actors just following orders.

Is substance abuse intentional self-harm (suicide is legal) or a maybe-misguided attempt to pursue Happiness and end suffering?

How would you help Rod make better decisions? If Rod is not infringing rights, is Rod committing a crime by performing dangerous stunts?

Stunting is generally not medically useful.
Amazon EFS bills for usage while Google bills for provisioned capacity.

So unless you run GCP at a very high % of provisioned capacity, it's more expensive.

I'm pretty confident EFS can't match GCP's 700 MB/s and 30,000 IOPS though.
This was a big scam on the Gold Coast in Australia in the 80s and 90s, and my parents milked it.

First thing you need to know is that any major contract in Australia had a "72 hour cooling off period" in which you could cancel it with no redress or regress.

Want a cheap holiday? Bring your kids to the Gold Coast, look up the best time share resort, Friday morning,sit through the spiel, sign on the line that is dotted.

Through the weekend you have access to all the resort amenities, kayaks, jet skis, pools, etc. All comped.

Monday morning, when you were about to head to the airport? Drop off a letter at the front desk with the contract, canceling it.

Ethical? Probably no less so than they were, so hard to find sympathy.
Sensing pain is not a prerequisite for consciousness. We do not even know if having any senses is - though complete lack thereof will cause problems with detecting consciousness. Due to lack of response.

The intriguing part here is to consider if a person in a sensory deprivation apparatus is actually conscious.
Good catch.

Either it's a misstatement from the author, or law enforcement don't want to reveal how they actually caught them.
Let's look at a traditional bus route in an urban area:

Scheduled set of stops between basically two places.

Each of those stops rely on people walking a couple blocks or more to a stop for the route.

Basically, you deconstruct and make on-demand the route. As people register for a trip, you combine a set of origination and destination points into closely grouped numbers, pick up a set of people in close proximity, and drop off them off.

At high density times, there will be opportunities for substantial "rideshare" efficiencies.

At less high density times, you save overhead of the busses with a couple riders.

If you've ever taken the cheaper alternative airport -> city hotel van that goes to all the hotels in a downtown from an airport, that is basically the idea. It isn't as convenient as 1:1 taxi transport, but it's a lot better than the vagaries of train/bus hopping.

It seems strange that with all the graph and NP-complete interview-ready people on this site that this isn't completely obvious. Self-driving vehicles will obviate all but the highest density mass transport.

And then if you get self-flying drones going...
> snprintf (C99+)

It's been years since I have written C professionally (and I only did it for two years), but I felt that snprintf was the single biggest improvement that C99 brought to the table, at least for people that had to deal with strings. ;-)
As convenient as this seems, there are good reason that many shops prohibit the use of NFS in production.

There’s nothing to prevent any application from doing full error checks on every disk i/o call, dealing with timeouts, etc. Except that nobody wrote that stuff into software designed for local disk.
There are many successful open source projects that are well-known and well-used.

Your question seems to assume that a prerequisite for a successful project is there being some sort of overlord that runs it.

That's not the only project management style. Many open source projects are instead run by collections of people who are capable of acting professionally to one another and to contributors. We don't hear about those individuals because they are happy to share credit for the project with all of the participants.

If "success" is measured on a personal level, then sure: bullies are often successful by marginalizing others for their own benefit.

Linux is an example of a successful project run by a bully. Here are some projects you may have heard of that have different management styles but are still, by my measure, successful _as projects_ in spite of that success not being attributed entirely to one figurehead individual:

- Python

- NodeJS

- Mozilla Firefox

- Apache HTTPD

- nginx

- Busybox

- Debian
What was so special about the name that it was even worth the debate? Why not avoid the problem?
All this is ridiculously silly compared to making it a useful site in the first place, notably by removing ads and using a chronological timeline. To make myself a broken record, I would certainly pay for such a useful social network. Facebook is not that, and had shown little inclination in providing this value to their users.
I thought the recent work on multi-process stuff would have gotten rid of that? The browser chrome not being affected by in-page issues seems like a fairly important goal there...
Wow! That "ARTICLE" is 80% ad by scrollbar length. How did we ever get here on the web? :(
If you have a mesh, and you fake a longer distance on some edge, and there are enough links, the discrepancy shows up.
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Nobody saw a value in domain names. People didn't think we'd run out of domains. People didn't think that the internet would become mainstream, or that it would continue to exist in that form for a long time.
Nice! This was my number one issue with Firefox as well. 400% cpu usage with about 40 tabs compared to safari was getting to be too much.

Yes I'm one of "those" people. I hoard tabs like they're going out of style.
Got to say -- the latest releases have been a return to the dark ages of firefox. Constant crashes, tab reloads that crash the browser, distorted graphics, high cpu usage, etc...

I'd use almost anything else at this point.
In Indonesia tipping is not common, and I am glad that it is not. Mostly because I see that everyone here seems to be confused too on how much we should tip. Most restaurant here would have you choose your own table, then the waiter will give you the menu and leave you to choose, then you call them again to submit your menu, then the menu will be delivered to your table. (Other restaurant is like McDonalds I suppose, you go to the counter, choose and pay and got table number, sit and have the food delivered to you). It is a standard work that of course they were paid to do, and I dont think tipping is healthy, why would they hate me if i didnt tip them? Why would I tip them for doing their already paid job? Why would my colleague got better tip than me when im serving them? It ended up with so many speculations on people, which is not healthy (my opinion). If i want to tip, i usually just let them take the changes.
Everyone's brain works differently. :) I find division towards smaller numbers easier than multiplication towards larger numbers.
I'd call it waxing poetic. How do you know if your senses and modeling is not actually getting the data for the symphony from advanced oscilloscope?

Good old brain-in-a-jar experiment applies.
I left freelancing and took a job in a new industry (commercial real estate). It wasn't long before I found my SaaS opportunity and began building the MVP
This is also my way of thinking. Don't worry about engergy, worry about waste and chemicals instead.

Solve all problems through more and more green energy (recycling, reusing, cleaning etc.) and smarter and smarter robots (cleaning, separating, mechanical solutions instead of chemicals).
I use instagram almost entirely to showcase my photography:https://www.instagram.com/imjustjk/. It's certainly not a perfect platform but it's good enough (and better than most). It's a mobile first platform that's simple, intuitive, and has huge adoption. It also has great loading speed for the amount of content and even the quality of images. I'm not sure what you expect on a mobile app? Do you want to be able to load full 42 megapixels images of mine on your phone?
There was some nominal fee, it wasn't much. Frankly the idea of squatting on names and such just didn't enter people's minds until the early 90s.
Sorry, mixing my pronouns. Pidgin as downloaded from the internet today still supports those protocols.

My air-gapped PC supports the Windows XP tour and erm Hover! and that's about it.
trivial thing I noticed: eff.org predates fsf.org by ~3 months. must have been a fun time to be at the genesis of so much.
Yeah, but 7 engineers at that growth rate means your entire team is just going to be devoted to beating all of the scaling fires. That leaves little time for other product improvements that might enable more growth.

FB was pretty slow to monetize Instagram, and they still had hired 100s of people pretty quickly after the acquisition.
There probably was no notion that domain names would become valuable and scarce.
Maybe you should shadow ban me if the downvotes are not enough...
I appreciate what they're trying to do, and it may improve the status quo, but we've learned that the push away from implicit SSL/TLS and towards STARTTLS was wrong. Using one insecure aspect (DNS) to note that you SHOULD be able to do TLS with my mail server isn't a great solution.

We need to revisit the STARTTLS vs implicit TLS debate in light of the obvious vulnerability and overhead of starting with plain TCP connections and then hopefully signalling towards security. HTTPS is obviously implicit TLS and it works great. We know STARTTLS has issues. Can we not keep going down the STARTTLS road for email, while going down the implicit TLS road for other things?
I mean all of the following in the best possible way:

Perhaps also worth looking at the screenshot in the blogpost.

You have in there:

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Datastore

Storage

Filestore

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So, datastore is not storage, nor is filestore. What is it storage storing if not data or files? Why are files not data? I have no idea what should go where.

> We know folks need to create, read and write large files with low latency. We also know that film studios and production shops are always looking to render movies and create CGI images faster and more efficiently. So alongside our LA region launch,

So I couldn't create, read or write before without low latency? I thought this was already a feature of your other products

> we’re pleased to enable these creative projects by bringing file storage capabilities to GCP for the first time with Cloud Filestore.

For the first time? I couldn't store files before?

I'm not trying to be an arse, but I really don't get from this what the key difference is from everything else you offer.
You're looking at it with hindsight; at the time very few people had even heard of domain names, let alone why they should register a domain name, or that they would - eventually - be worth some money.

I'm fairly sure if you extended the list to idk, 1000 or 10.000 you'd see all two/three letter domains being taken. Same with e.g. Twitter accounts. You might still have a chance with your local Slack team though.
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Not to mention that I have taken some pretty rockin' naps in hammocks of various sizes, the cheapest of which was $4.99, and packed down into a twist of netting smaller than my fist. But to be fair, the two appropriately-spaced trees required for that one were not included.

The mattress is by no means the only way to get a complete and restful night of sleep, and past a certain materials threshold, you can't get longer or better quality sleep with any amount of upgrades to your mattress. The marginal cost is likely better spent by buying light bulbs that phase out blue light in your evenings, or by taking melatonin supplements, or with a therapy device for sleep apnea, or blackout curtains, or any number of other supposedly sleep-improving products. At a certain cost point, you might as well climb into a spa-grade float tank, or dangle from your back-piercings, or sleep in a bounce castle.

I think that there is probably a bigger difference in sleep quality between a $300 mattress and a $500 mattress than between the $500 mattress and a $3000 mattress. Once the specific concerns that typically interrupt sleep are addressed, the returns diminish fast. There is no way I am losing an hour of sleep every night just because my mattress isn't good enough.
Between Cloud Storage, Cloud Firestore, and Cloud Filestore, I can't make heads or tails of the situation without diving into the docs.

I was confused when they introduced Cloud Firestore to compete with their Realtime Database (https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/rtdb-vs-firestore). Now it seems like they're doing it again with Storage vs Filestore, not to mention the horrendous choice of names.
NFS in general seems to struggle with that scenario. Do you get better performance with your own NFS server with that type of workload?
i am also struggling with the same feelings for years.
Earlier this month i stumbled across the "discipline beats motivation" trend ( https://iheartintelligence.com/2016/11/17/discipline-beats-m... ).
So i elected a problem i (kind of) want to solve, blocked my calendar 2 hours every night ( when i usually would be surfing netflix ) and been coding. Right now, my progress is still too slow and too "painful", but i just hope to keep going and finish this... let's see... feels like the first month on gym.
They all nominally do the same thing but they all have their pros and cons.

It’s like choosing which car to buy. They all get you from A to B, but there are still many options to choose from. ;)
This deserves way more attention.

I thought this would be blowing up HN, but eh, tumbleweed here!

Is there some reason the HN community isn't too gung-ho about this? Is it because it's in the browser or is it javascript or that it's too high level (vs low level details). I'm completely Stumped by this response.
Absolutely nothing is wrong with that. That's the ideal of how it's supposed to work.

Lots of poor advertising methods have tainted the industry unfortunately but marketing is directly responsible for the success of every single corporation and the immense amount of content and information we all get to enjoy.
They do say a lot of theft cash ended up converted to Bitcoin. So, at least a measurable chunk of the liquidity in the market is down to this...
I like to point out that if your hardware is compromise then it doesn't matter what you run on top of it. If you are being actively targeted by state actors(fbi,nsa,cia,etc) then your computer is more than likely compromised.
... or the Russian FSB officer forgetting all about VPN and logging on from his office. [1]

People make stupid mistakes.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16653671
To be fair, I think “Filestore” in itself is a pretty descriptive name, and the real problem is the name “Firestore”. I can imagine the internal discussion when a bit like that as well, and here we have the result.
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