skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Density does matter.

In what way? You have yet to quantify this or the "ton of space" assertion. I'm not saying that density can't matter, just that it doesn't in the practical case. The only time I've heard otherwise is from vendors (hardware or datacenter) pushing a high-density product (which was never any cheaper than the less-dense alternative).

> And 12 individual disk will have a high failure rate than one disk because there is 12x electronics, 12x motors, 12x seals. Also the power needs for 12 disks is higher than 1. And you would need more raid cpu power to coordinate 12x disks.

Of course, but these are all calculable costs (although CPU cost for concatenation is de minimis). So, again, do you just not even perform that calculation?

> I feel like you are just arguing for arguing sake here.

I'm just trying to clarify what point you're making when you specify a particular solution, especially a RAID, which carries an associated cost, in the context of a dicussion about the economy of various options.

> If it was significantly cheaper and new sure. Ddr3 is just as expensive as ddr4 right now.

I maintain that new doesn't matter (see below). As for significantly cheaper, if it's recycled (be it already purchased but unused, spares, or working pulls), it would be a form of gratis-free. If a vendor has significant stock of now-undesirable lower-density or lower-speed memory modules (maybe even bare chips), that can result in a steep discount. It doesn't really matter if it's DDR3 or DDR4.

> No body running a professional data center wants the unpredictability of used parts unless they have had very consistent and tame histories. According to large scale studies ddr has increasing error rates as they age: https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub35162

Thanks for that study. I was unaware memory suffered from aging quite that much. That's further reason for disqualifying from recycling parts of unknown provenance (since they could be pulls due to a UE), but such parts would be disqualified anyway

Still, I fear that you're forgetting we're talking about swap here, not main memory. There's much more wiggle room for doing something like hot-sparing, even without otherwise having a RAID, since the performance of the backend storage (RAM) dwarfs the performance of the frontend (PCIe).

> Conclusion 3: The incidence of CEs increases with age, while the incidence of UEs decreases with age (due to re- placements).

This conclusion also suggests that there's a skew toward early mortality, so a pool of used, known-good DIMMs would actually be more reliable (and predictable, based on this study) than a pool of brand new ones.
I just get a page with the URL shown.
This seems like an exceptionally bad idea.

Even if if just used it for my blog, an attacker can craft a URL which renders obscene content ("Hitler did nothing wrong"), then scatter that link everywhere on the web and get it crawled. Eventually it shows up in searches, but it's definitely "on my domain."

Furthermore, it's like running a public anonymous FTP, it'll just get used as a malware hosting tool as soon as it's found.
Never understood the underpaying of highly qualified people in the govt. Making a sacrifice for your country in a high powered / representative position is one thing, but the rank and file? Billions are spent on defense contracts and old software, but when bringing on teams of people to revamp the system, they want these people to take more than a 50% pay cut. D.C. is an expensive place to live as well. If you think something is crucial for the country to advance and survive, don't be cheap about it.
There is no "OCaml middle end". Reason is parsed into the same AST as OCaml, and then passed through the rest of the OCaml compiler.
It's an ok device, just not for displaying 10 animated ads per page.
your first clue
The base HTML/javascript coming from the itty.bitty server does not make it smaller. As a matter of fact, it appears that the javascript provided by itty.bitty simply decompresses the URL fragment and then converts it into a data-URI and passes that to an iframe.

So it is smaller than a data URI - but only because it is compressed.
Of course they need to use JavaScript to fingerprint you to test JavaScript fingerprinting. As far as the whether they keep the information for themselves, since it’s client side, you could potentially audit that.
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yes, the main goal to read more books and learn faster, work with text information faster. Thanks for recommendations
Whoa! That had all the suspense of a Geraldo Rivera special. /s
What is the population difference though... Relativity is important
That is even less likely to work given how the system rewards sociopathy
The explanation I've heard is that he had servers in the US, he paid people in the US, he made money from customers in the US by breaking the law in the US and therefore the US government position is that he is a criminal in the US and should face penalities here. Whether he did anything illegal in NZ or whether he should be extradited is obviously a question for NZ legal authorities.

I've always felt conflicted about his case myself. On the one hand I have natural sympathies for people using software to share information. I also think American prisons are terrible places and it would be awful to be imprisoned in one.

On the other hand, MegaUpload did seem like it was brazenly profiting off of other people's intellectual property. Communications referenced in the original indictment made it seem like the Mega employees agreed that their business was based on copyright infringement. That would also match my common sense intuitions.

Hopefully the NZ courts will reach a wise conclusion.
Same here -- it's not too noisy, and it is really useful to overhear someone having an issue and then jumping in to help. Only on relatively few occasions is it a problem, specifically when one of my team members who speaks English as a second language is having trouble with HP support, he tends to get a bit louder and more excited. At that point I just take a quick tea break.
I agree with you. Most discussions I see on reddit are dumb. Maybe it's because it's popularity means more uneducated people are going to the site, resulting in lower quality of discussion. Also anonymity means people aren't as afraid to sound dumb in their comments compared to facebook. I see better discussion on facebook probably because most of my friends have gone through higher education.
This is what happens where I work as well.
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Ah... It's a common problem: http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Double-slit_me...
I've been pondering starting a consulting business to help small companies maintain or migrate old apps written in stuff that's not supported any more, because I suspect this might be a good business opportunity ("where there's muck, there's brass"), with not too much competition, since people tend to prefer focusing on new technologies. I personally have no issue with using old languages, tools and platforms.

Is anyone doing something similar? My main fear would be failure to deliver, since there is more uncertainty in the process; you have to make sure you have the source code from the client, and that you can find not just the development tools (eBay, etc.) but also the manuals and the OS to run them, and so on.
> 1. If you're that paranoid, don't plug stuff in to your USB ports EVER.

If you''re that paranoid then is any consumer hardware safe these days? Almost undetectable hardware could be slipped into to just about any device and they're mostly manufactured in a country hostile to personal freedom or countries under their influence.

The future is probably riscv style open hardware but that will need to be combined with local fabrication facilities.
Important and desirable media is almost always available from more than one source. If not, then Sometimes, it's as simple as asking the producer to upload to your preferred streaming endpoint.
> Game developers by and large don't give a shit if the musician's work is preserved. If they don't make an effort then as far as I'm concerned they're forfeiting their right to take issue with the morality of downloading their game's music.

That's a very slanted view of the situation. The game developers may not have rights to distribute all of the music as a soundtrack (they would have to have rights to distribute in the context of the game).
I think it has potential, but I can see where if there are two players, they could "trade horses" and still keep on gerrymandering. Still, I think it potentially could work and would be worth trying out.
I've spent 2 years in Shanghai as an exchange student, and I think whether you get the impression that the "younger generation" no longer speaks Shanghainese depends a lot on whether you focus on people born in Shanghai to parents both speaking Shanghainese, or all inhabitants of Shanghai in that age group.

The former are likely to speak at least a little Shanghainese, but limited due to only using it at home and with some of their friends. The latter don't really have a need to learn Shanghainese, because Mandarin is the language used in school and for all kinds of business.

Personally, I only know one native Shanghainese speaker. Because my friends are university students from all over the country, the actual proportions are likely not as extreme, but I still think that Shanghainese speakers are a minority by now.
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It's called vaping because the carrier liquid (propylene glycol) is being vaporized. There isn't supposed to be any smoke - if so, something is wrong.
It's a pretty extensive list: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/tree/master/youtube_dl/ext...
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If we assume for the moment that there are no ulterior motives:

Cryptography is the keeping of secrets. Obscurity is just another layer of a defense in depth strategy. Problems occur when security is expected to arise solely from obscurity.
Exciting to see an elegant algorithm proposed for a complicated real-world political problem.
I'm not surprised people on HN don't know popular fashion brands or German used-car matketplaces, but if you are not sure they are big, check their revenues. Zalando is bigger than AirBnB or Instagram, Auto1 and Asos earn more than Dropbox. Brand recognition is not the only sign of success.
Oh, nice one!
If you hold down shift, you can drag-and-drop youtube links into a running mpv instance to add those links to the current playlist.
That’s... not true. On every level.
Ah, it's by Nicholas Jitkoff, of mac Quicksilver fame. More elegant design.

Edit: Oh, a bit more googling and he was lead designer for Material Design.
The largest portion of our taxes does not go to defense spending. It goes to entitlements.
> If that's the case, why doesn't the NSA publish Suite A algorithms?

The math on whether you find the vulnerability before somebody else does is very different when you employ as many cryptographers as the NSA.

They also have concerns other than security vulnerabilities. It's not just that they don't want someone to break their ciphers, they also don't want others to use them. For example, some of their secret algorithms are probably very high performance, which encourages widespread use, which goes against their role in signals intelligence. Which was more of a concern when the Suite A / Suite B distinction was originally created, back when people were bucking use of SSL/TLS because it used too many cycles on their contemporary servers. That's basically dead now that modern servers have AES-NI and "encrypt all the things" is the new normal, but the decision was made before all that, and bureaucracies are slow to change.

None of which really generalizes to anyone who isn't the NSA.

A lot of the Suite A algorithms have also been used for decades to encrypt information which is still secret and for which adversaries still have copies of the ciphertext. Meanwhile AES is now approved for Top Secret information and most of everything is using that now. So publishing the old algorithms has little benefit, because increasingly less is being encrypted with them that could benefit from an improvement, but has potentially high cost because if anyone breaks it now they can decrypt decades of stored ciphertext. It's a bit of a catch 22 in that you want the algorithms you use going forward to be published so you find flaws early before you use them too much, while you would prefer what you used in the past to be secret because you can't do anything about it anymore, and the arrow of time inconveniently goes in the opposite direction. But in this case the algorithms were never published originally so the government has little incentive to publish them now. Especially because they weren't publicly vetted before being comprehensively deployed, making it more likely that there are undiscovered vulnerabilities in them.
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I think the GP is confusing smoke with vapor.
I initially thought this was satire based on 3rd party apps reading your email
Youtube-dl works with nearly everything. It's incredibly versatile.
> If you absolutely have to store 12TB of data and not spend another dollar, more drives are less reliable. In most situations having more drives makes it a lot easier to protect your data, because you can use parity.

I think what we're talking about is aggregates, so think about 120 1TB drives versus 10 12TB drives, if that's helpful.

If the failure rate per drive is comparable, then the failure rate per TB is 12 times higher for the the smaller drives. Arranging them in a RAID doesn't change this calculation.

> A very small CPU cost; the drives are only doing 100 IOPS. And in return you get 4x-10x the throughput.

I did stipulate to ignoring any performance difference, so we can assume that those 12 drives are concatenated rather than RAIDed, which I believe is an immesurable amount of difference in CPU load.
We use ChatOps extensively for a team of 15-20 and it's been fantastic. It makes life easier for devs and devops, and empowers QA and customer support to perform various tasks that they would otherwise need dev or devops assistance with.

We use it for deployment, building, getting status information from various environments, a few escalated customer support tasks, as well as security and monitoring alerts. Security and monitoring alerts above a certain severity level also get delivered other ways.

We're running an old version of Hubot that talks to Slack. It crashes frequently so we have a script that restarts it. It's ugly, but it works. I'm planning an overhaul.

I can't really think of any cons, other than people constantly asking for more plugins/scripts.

One thing that bears mentioning is that our team is Slack-heavy so this is a natural cultural fit for us.
The creators of the Fortnite craze have crossed an ethical line
I do something similar in a bookmarklet to give myself a nice looking notepad. It's essentially a padded content editable div, with a prepopulated H1. This lets me print it out or save it as a document when needed. Which is never.
Just be careful about XSS: https://itty.bitty.site/#/?XQAAAAIhAAAAAAAAAAAeHMhnVbtj2LI97...
That's steam, no combustion happens
oh hi

(I will say I'm disappointed that it wasn't a technique to make circular URLs.)
We're not constitutionally a two party country, so the solution as described in the article does not seem to apply.
If by "elephant in the room" you mean "something nobody gives a single shit about." Seriously, why should I care?

Should File->Save Page As... be considered the "elephant in the room" when Firefox is discussed?
Nothing. I used to work in a gear shop. These are/were done with a broach, no skill required.
When I tried using aria2 to work around the throttling you mentioned, I noticed that simply using aria2 at all (no parallelism with -j/-s) fixed the download rate. The primary difference was the User-Agent header; the standard youtube-dl User-Agent[1] was throttled, but "aria2/1.30.0" was full speed.

The throttling also seemed to depend on which server was sending the file; a bunch of recent uploads were throttled, while an obscure video from 8 years ago with <100 views only had the usual small slow-start delay that was common with videos that probably needed to be fetched completely uncached from from a remote data center.

The throttling problem seemed to go away after a few weeks, and returned again for a few hours a . Is it possible the "throttling" was actually some type of bug or configuration error in Google's network and/or data archives?

[1] https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_dl/uti...
It's 9XX bytes, is the extra from TLS?
--user-agent "" --no-mtime
Global education: 7 slide decks with key charts on progress and challenges
Eh, look at it as a filter for true believers. Mercenaries are dangerous, because they have a price.
Reminds of the rock-hewn churches of Ethiopia[1] or the underground cities of Cappadocia.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lalibela
"Each church was carved from a single piece of rock"
I like JDownloader, but it comes with adware and other things in its installer.
Those are two different things.
The agency of his actions, which he exercised using his free-will as his own free-agency is orthogonal to the impetus that kicked-off his desire to engage that agency.
If you're using this in your site as it stands, you are opening up XSS attacks as it does not appear to sanitise user input.
That's what it started out as, I was going to look at making a quine but then quickly gave up as I am tired
I'd also point out that this is a strange optimisation to choose to pick on, because the only time it's potentially problematic is when a NULL pointer dereference doesn't necessarily trap, which certainly not the usual case on the platforms where common compilers enable it by default (and for the unusual cases, like kernels, the compiler option to disable it is there).
It's not steam, it's a vapor composed of propylene glycol and vegetable glycerin (plus optional flavorings and nicotine). It's not "water vapor" as many seem to be spouting.
If You’re Not Writing a Program, Don't Use a Programming Language
Going out on a limb here to bet that whatever website they did develop doesn't fare well on accessibility standards...
Only if you do something silly like serve cookies on that domain
Turkey's population: 79.51 million (2016)
ASOS is my Amazon for cheap fashion. I've heard of Zalando (and have used them once) but they sort of compete for the same audience, and I just gravitate to what I'm used to.

I don't think Google could've been built in Europe, but as a European I certainly would love more European products in tech: one advantage is that Europeans think in localisation by default, and some American products start our being very USA centric.
As somebody learning Bahasa Malaysia (or Bahasa Melayu, or whatever it is now), do you have any references on this, particularly the standardisation part of Bahasa Baku? For example, I'd always assumed "lelaki" just meant "male", which probably means saying "dia lelaki" is a little bit off ;) (and is probably why I shouldn't pick up BM from street signs...)
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It feels like there's a premeditated process, here, in terms of timing.

1. Tobacco Cigarettes emerge as public health scare in the late 1990's.

2. McDonaldsization of Coffee via Starbucks in the late 1990's.

3. Cigarettes taxed and regulated with punishing costs and counter-media-manipulation.

4. Bindings introduced to market coffee with free wi-fi, boosting high-end coffee's incidental exposure to novice internet users at a time when caffeine is very-nearly required to negotiate the ever-expanding terrain of new technologies. (it's just good business, of course)

5. Millions of former nicotine addicts herded away from nicotine to expensive, premium high dose caffeine alternatives, serving as stimulant to wean many down off of nicotine cravings with new habits.

6. 20 years later, with ordinary tobacco cigarettes habits all-but-destroyed, across two generations of former users, and new technologies now well established, coffee habits can wind down. A mild campaign against coffee is introduced. See: acrylamide, poor stock performance, racial sensitivity incidents in liminal zones of large franchise chain restaurants.

7. Emerging technologies, now ready for maturity may be re-introduced with new players. These entities work to re-normalize a newly engineered and tested concept in managed synthetic addiction, with status symbol oriented marketing plays.

Why vaping is anything is beyond me, but I feel like this represents the fundamentals of a broader subversive program to phase out agricultural-plantation-oriented modes of daily-use otc psychoactives that play vital roles in common universal social norms that cut across a wide array of global cultural customs.
I think youtube-dl/archiver tools present some ethical problems.

If you're publishing something for commercial, do you have a right to one day revoke that item you've published? I think many would say that no, you don't have that right. Fair use and all that.

But if you're publishing your diary or some other personal items about your life, not for something commercial, then I think many would argue that yes, you should have that right. To have the right to make all data about you disappear.

I'm pretty sure RMS explored these ethics before in some of his writings.

Personally, I'm a user of youtube-dl and have written some tools based on cloud tech that helps me automate archival of all media I come across that I find valuable. But I'm not so sure it's completely ethical in all cases.
Youtube-dl can convert to mp3 and add cover-art from the Youtube thumbnail, not real cover-art, but in most cases that is fine:

$ youtube-dl --extract-audio --add-metadata --xattrs --embed-thumbnail --audio-quality 0 --audio-format mp3 URL
Being anti-organic seems so weird to me. What is the reason?
So from Content Lengths [0]... You've tested on Chrome, and IE, but not Firefox?

[0] https://itty.bitty.site/#Content_Lengths/XQAAAAIXAwAAAAAAAAA...
I dunno, that's pretty badass. I have clay soils so it's out for me, though.
Well if you are looking for a huge dataset, I would suggest stack overflow.

https://archive.org/details/stackexchange

I remember I wrote a node script to download all question and dump into my Postgres instance. It was fun, Postgres with an index could able to fetch results super fast

How many answers for this question?

How many questions are unanswered?

With gin index, I could do a free text search as well.
Absolutely. 62% of the budget goes to social security, Medicare, and Medicaid. The rest is discretionary spending and a bit more than half of that goes to “defense”.

Source: https://www.thebalance.com/u-s-federal-budget-breakdown-3305...
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I think people named Adolph still have a hard time.
The margin was not "substantial". She didn't even get a majority of the vote.
Very cool product! Will follow this and I hope it is successful.
Nice job, Brad
To be honest I've only seen pot vapes. And I do see smoke, not vapor.