skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Annecdata, but I would gladly pay iff they were a zero-knowledge company (they should never see cleartext), but they aren't and I must assume that will limit enterprise adoption as well.

I have _literally_ looked for an alternative for more than a decade, but nobody can touch Dropbox on a really wide range of metrics and the trend amount competitors seems to move away from the hyper-simple file system abstraction.

I think I have tried most commercial options and practically all open source alternatives. I had high hopes for Syncthing, but I found high load and erratic syncing (was testing with 320 GB). Also no iOS client and no partial sync :(
(An aside: do terms like "mainframe" and "microcomputer" have any meaning any more, when a Raspberry Pi Zero has orders of magnitude greater RAM and power than a '70s piece of "big iron"?)
> And we all use them just to rant at each other about political things that we in reality are totally misinformed about ... and otherwise just waste our lives.

So if I decide to use the device that I have bought and invested in, to "rant" about something (to connect to other people through it, essentially), or even just connect to my loved ones sending "meaningless" information (as many I'm sure would call it), or if I choose to use it for anything else, who is to say that it's "wasting my life"? You? Why do you decide what is wasteful and what is not? Maybe all those people want to do those things?

You can't say that this technology is wasted or is not used properly without also implicitly assuming moral and philosophical authority about what people should choose and not to choose with their time and other resources, including the money used to buy such devices and resources spend on developing them. Why do you assume that you can be such an authority?

Of course, looking at this in another way, you definitely have the ultimate authority in this area in this one regard: where it applies to your own life. Which I guess is another way of saying that what you wrote says more about your outlook on life than on the underlying technology and its social ramifications.
At Fanout we are working on a generalized version of #2. Essentially low-level long-lived connection handling at the edge, to be used for arbitrary high level protocols.

Just the other day, we built a chat demo using Fly.io as the FaaS backend. Maybe you find it interesting:

http://flychat.fanoutapp.com/ (code: https://github.com/fanout/flychat)

The chat demo uses SSE. In theory the same architecture could be used to create a GraphQL service with subscriptions.
Incentives are different. Life insurance companies have an incentive for you to not die. Health insurance companies have an incentive for you to not live (e.g. you don't that organ $$$$$$ transplant you need to live).

Health insurance is cheaper when more people are in it, not fewer. If you start offering discounts to the healthiest people, it gets more expensive for unhealthy people. So let's say the sickest people no longer have insurance. Now there's a new group of unhealthy people in the insurance pool. So you raise prices for them, and they get kicked out, too. Eventually you get to the point where insurance is not useful, because nobody needs it at all, as the insured people don't get sick. Until they do get sick, at which point they get kicked off the insurance plan. Health insurance that doesn't insure is basically fraud.

If you want to drive down the health related costs of healthcare, reduce the things that make people sick.
Glad you like it + appreciate the kind words.
I only really comment on the economy seat because my cover included £2,000 of curtailment cover, but they weren't even giving me that. They were offering me a cheap seat out of goodwill. If I had accepted that, I was accepting that I had no claim.
That's more to start the release and get the idea of releasing hostages into the kidnappers heads. Once they have released one it sets the stage they can release them.
It depends on what sort of data broker you're talking about. For companies like Lexis, I'm pretty sure the answer is no. You can't just blindly buy a giant batch of data (this may have to do with regulatory requirements governing access to certain data points).

However, you could totally do that with a marketing/"lifestyle" data broker like Acxiom, BlueKai, Epsilon, etc. I once directly asked a sales rep if they would sell me, say, all of the data they have on everyone in San Francisco County. Their answer was yes, with the caveat that it would be really expensive.

Edit to answer:

>Just trying to get a sense of how extensively their data might be getting repackaged and sold by others.

Reselling is certainly not prohibited, provided the broker understands and approves of the purpose of the resale. I would guess that most consumer-facing background check tools are really just reselling data from one of the big public records brokers (Lexis, WestLaw, TLO, etc.). Some will just charge you higher monthly minimums for the privilege of reselling. The marketing/"lifestyle" data brokers are much stricter about prohibiting resale.
I heard seasonal thermal energy storage is underrated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_thermal_energy_storag...

Solar power is mostly available in summer, but heating is mostly necessary in the winter. How do you store the energy for half a year? Apparently a big water tank underground is a great solution. It is also boring, non-sexy, and cheap. Thus there is little interest to commercialize it.
> Sites bemoan ad blockers but then take no responsibility fo the ads that are show. That needs to change - it’s not like print advertising.

It has been changing and improving for years.

Your statement is true for the ad content for sure. (Though sites do take flack for inappropriate ad content, just like print publications have.)

This is irrelevant to the OP’s link, though, since it’s not a keylogger and keyloggers aren’t actually possible.

Ads are subject to the security rules imposed by the browser, and for the most part every abuse that ads have attempted have been shut down. Sometimes not as fast as we’d like, I admit, but for the most part I think the system is working.

Ads can no longer play audio, they can’t see data passing between me and the site they’re embedded into, they can’t abuse popups anymore, etc., etc.. Every time an advertiser comes up with some new annoying way to try and get extra attention, the good folks designing the web and making the browsers patch the hole.

I like that the web standards and browsers, and laws to some extent, are where the responsibility lies, and I wouldn’t want to have individual sites taking responsibility for the security of ads.

As for bemoaning ad blockers, at least keep in mind the ads in ad-supported free content is their revenue stream, and that the majority of ads aren’t malicious. Personally, I’d love to see a better free business model than ad-supported free content. In the mean time, paying directly for ad-free content, and putting up with ads are our main options.
And yet, no much complains about lost GMail letters in internet because of disc failures.. And GMail is likely stores much more than 10 trln objects and 100TB of data.
Question:

Why superfluid 4He is not quantum-entangled? What differentiates macroscopic many-body quantum states from many-body quantum entanglement?
is the website down?
> However all recent Sony and Nintendo consoles have been broken wide open with purely software exploits.

WebKit has a lot to do with that. It's not that it's particularly bad or insecure code... it's just a much larger attack surface than had previously been available on most consoles, and the console manufacturers haven't always been very good at keeping it up to date.
Also, there are only 3 hard drive manufacturers left. If one of them have a bug that affects across their product line, that can take out 1/3 of all hard drives.
Is your comment meant to argue your quote? I cannot parse what you are trying to say. Beepbbooop
Cool! Before FF 57 I used Vimperator, so I might give Tridactyl a try.
If something isn't done, the next populist demagogue will make Trump look like a kitten.
I'll try white vinegar for the next batch, thanks.
The main thing to realize is that this is primarily a people-based challenge, not a technical challenge. There's actually a good chance that some of the team members know better practices but feel like they don't have time to implement them.

I would start by having one-on-one conversations with each member of the team to understand what they think the current problems are, what they think solutions might be, and what they think the team's current strengths are.

Then if you want to implement a solution, you can speak to things team members specifically told you. For example, if several people complain that they feel like they don't know what changes other people are making – that's a great time for code reviews.

The root causes for those problems can come from other teams as well. I once led a team that had a terrible codebase. Upon talking to the engineers, they had a pretty good idea of how to write good code, but were stuck with a legacy codebase and management would never let them take time to refactor. So I went to the CEO with a description of refactoring projects, how long I expected them to take, and how much time I expected them to save. Translating it into dollar terms made it much easier to get his agreement.

Above all, remember your employees are smart and probably have good ideas for any "obvious" problems – so you'll have to dig a bit to find the non-obvious root issues.
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I've never worked with Vue on a full scale project but I loved the simplicity and the great documentation. would love to use it soon.
Focus on results. I'm leading a team that wasn't delivering for quite some months. We had couple of sessions on why we didn't achieve our results. We used the 5 why method to find the root cause of problems. Once we tracked the root of the issue, long pull requests became more manageable, we started communicating better. We focussed on what we produce and eventually were able to achieve our goals. Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams[1] is a good book to read. His white paper is a shorter read with similar topics: https://www.csu.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/917018/Ei...

1. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16305347-smart-leaders-s...
>You just made the same mistake you're criticizing

Yes. Even if you take it into account, the vast majority of customers will see data loss, assuming random (but not even) shard distribution.

I rounded and approximated to avoid explaining too many probability rules... As you can see, it gives the same result at the end.
In my case, my opinion is based on:

- All (newish) thinkpads having spill-resistant keyboards.

- The best-selling ones (X & T series) meeting the Mil-SPEC 810G standard.

I use a Mac though, because I got tired of fighting to get Linux properly running on my thinkpad

edit:format
For the vast majority of people, this is all the healthcare they need, and an efficient system should/could run that way!

I think you misunderstood something I said, however. A "risk pool"'s rates can only be decided by non-preventable risk factors of that pool. The examples you give don't reflect that well: some cancers are preventable, Alzheimer's cause and treatments are not well understood, and most heart disease is preventable.

For someone with a childhood disease, for instance, they could possibly fit into a certain risk pool, but they likely won't. Any "risk pool" based insurer will not have the funds to cover them anyway, and forcing them to cover the extreme cases has shown to leave more people without healthcare. [Take the case in Iowa, where a single person caused 30,000 individuals to lose their insurance. That is not an acceptable outcome!]. Right now, the best answer on how you handle these extreme cases will have to be a combination of Medicare and Charity, as they are the only organizations with a pool of money big enough to help them.
Take that more as a challenge and a caution to avoid overhype.
Memory is a funny thing - that's much more recent than I thought!
Smashing mag is running static. :) https://www.netlify.com/blog/2017/03/16/smashing-magazine-ju...
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Be careful of not generalizing, I have lived in several "developing" countries and at least half your points wouldnt make sense there. I would say treat them as you treat an american team with some allowance for language/culture differences.But that's it.
This was an interesting read as someone unfamiliar with this space - there were mentions of researcher's trying to prove things about P and it's relationship to other problem classes. Are there any examples of what actual research is being performed or how they're experimenting or trying to tackle these things? Is there practical work involved or is it more about mathematical proof from theory?
Also, if they didn't get it to work they would surely keep it secret.
Oblig NASA factoid: The guidance computer on Apollo that got as to the moon had 4096 bytes of RAM and about 72K of ROM.
> I think the point parent is making is that there's (nominally/supposed to be) smoothing across people too. The uncharitable description is that "healthy people are subsidizing sick people"

That's a common refrain, but it's wrong and misleading. It's why people talk about young and healthy people being "necessary" to balance out the costs of the older and sick under the ACA. That's describing a redistribution scheme, not insurance.

> But the insurance also has price proportionate to the chance she will need it.

No, they don't. They price based on age, sex, zipcode, income, and smoking status. That's only very loosely related to the chance that she will need it. It's nowhere near enough to provide precise pricing.

> The more finely the chance it'll be needeed is known, the more closely individual prices will match the probability, and thus less smoothing will take place.

No, that's another common misconception. The price is not determined by the ability of the insurer to predict the probability of the risk; that's what determines the insurer's profit margins. Under a free insurance market, the price is determined by the relative demand and supply of patients and insurers.
So, it's kind of like closures in JavaScript?

"A Bell test experiment or Bell's inequality experiment, also simply a Bell test, is a real-world physics experiment designed to test the theory of quantum mechanics in relation to two other concepts: the principle of locality and Einstein's concept of "local realism". The experiments test whether or not the real world satisfies local realism, which requires the presence of some additional local variables (called "hidden" because they are not a feature of quantum theory) to explain the behavior of particles like photons and electrons. According to Bell's theorem, if nature actually operates in accord with any theory of local hidden variables, then the results of a Bell test will be constrained in a particular, quantifiable way. If a Bell test is performed in a laboratory and the results are not thus constrained, then they are inconsistent with the hypothesis that local hidden variables exist."

Spooky private method scope is spooky.
"A study from McKinsey & Co. last summer found the continued energy storage cost declines present a growing threat of disruption for utility business models. Recent bids for utility-scale solar-plus-storage projects may also give a glimpse where the industry is heading.

An Xcel Energy resource solicitation received more than 400 individual proposals last month, including what may be record-low prices for renewable energy paired with energy storage. The median price bid for wind-plus-storage projects in Xcel's all-source solicitation was $21/MWh, and the median bid for solar-plus-storage was $36/MWh. Previously, the lowest known bid for similar solar resources was $45/MWh in Arizona." [1]

(By comparison, the lowest cost conventional technologies were gas combined cycle technologies, averaging $74 per megawatt-hour, and coal plants, averaging $109) [2]

"An acceleration of the 70% cost reduction seen in lithium-ion prices since 2012 will drive global uptake of energy storage over the next few years, finds a new report by IHS Markit.

The analysts forecast prices for lithium-ion battery modules to tumble below $200/kWh by 2019, enabling previously “uneconomical applications” such as the colocation of battery storage and solar PV to surge.

This sharp and sustained cost reduction will help cement lithium-ion as the battery chemistry of choice in all energy storage markets, including grid-scale behind-the-meter storage, residential storage, and micro-grids.

By 2025, the world’s base of cumulative installed storage capacity will reach 52 GW, IHS Markit says, up from around 4 GW today. Last year, 1.3 GW of grid-connected storage was deployed globally, and this rate is poised to accelerate to 4.7 GW a year by 2020, and 8.8 GW annually by 2025." [3]

[1] https://www.utilitydive.com/news/eia-700-mw-of-utility-scale...

[2] http://energyinnovation.org/2015/02/07/levelized-cost-of-ene...

[3] https://www.pv-magazine.com/2017/08/03/lithium-ion-batteries...
> the US spends more than any country on their education

From a general review, it appears we're in the top of spending. There's a good reason why: government services have been privatized and contracted out. So when the govt could have did it for X$, the for-profit private entity charges 2*X$. And this happens across the government at all scales.

I work in a regulated industry and have called three letter agencies over computing issues. 95% of the time, I end up getting another contractor.

> but we dont produce the smartest students.

But we create rich companies who suck on the public teet.
Trackpads are capacitive, and that’s much too slow anyway. Often your menu will be hidden, or inaccessible until all of your processes have resumed
Highly encourage practicing with interviewing.io

I'm not affiliated with them, just really like what they are doing.
What does "High Growth" mean? Based on the kindle preview this is a book containing startup advice which includes how to scale up your business in terms of hiring and acquisitions but not in terms of growing revenue and profits.

In a way this advice optimises large portions of Silicon Valley where large companies in terms of employees and venture capital funding produce very little profit. A case in point being Stripe itself. Stripe employees can't tell you how to grow into a profitable company because they haven't achieved that yet. But they can tell you how to grow your HR department and how to acquire other companies because Stripe has done that.
The major problem with that is there is no price transparency. If I go see a doctor, I have no idea if I will end up with a $40, $400, $4000, or $40,000 bill until the bill comes months later and I have to pay it.

I’m relying on insurance because going to the doctor is such a financially risky gamble.
I think this video deserves much more attention by HN readers, it's truly great introduction into quantum computing.
In certain ways touchpads can be more precise. With a good mouse with very high DPI, movement will be better, but when it comes to stuff like, pinch zoom, or fine scrolling, then touchpads are much better.

Also with gestures you have way more stuff you can do with a touchpad then just moving a mouse and clicking stuff.

And let's not forget the smaller travel distance of your hand when you go from keyboard to touchpad, as when you go from keyboard to mouse, or back.

I have a Logitech MX Anywhere 2. I love that mouse. It is fantastic and when I'm working on my home laptop I use it every day, if I'm in desktop mode that is. And I prefer it over the touchpad.

But when I work on the 'work' Macbook Pro (2015), then I use the touchpad all the way. It's just so much better and intuitive compared to using a regular mouse.
Over 5M U.S. consumers will cut the cord in 2018, survey says
But pcie bus is shared with other cards. So 8 dimms is 8x faster than 8 pcie cards.
How the Whole Earth Catalog brought together freaks and prototypers in 1968
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Federal Reserve chair says decline in workers' share of profits 'very troubling'
Yea, you have to explain this. It made no sense when I first read it, and it still makes no sense.

Here is how radar works: You shine a flashlight somewhere. If there is an object within range, some of the light is reflected back at you and you know there is an object. This is literally what radar does.

So, what part of this, and how, does this "quantum" magic affect?
Lenovo Superfish was incompetently malicious. The ME allows Intel to competently pull off far more nefarious activities than blindly forwarding all browsing data and easily evade detection.

Superfish was removable. The ME is far from it.

There are alternatives to using Lenovo software or hardware, thus Superfish is even completely avoidable. The ME and its AMD equivalent are not.

Both are worrisome. Backdoor-in-hardware is far more worrisome.
> Reading some of the other comments makes me think I’m just another mug who doesn’t read his insurance policies. But I still think that offering “£5,000,000 in medical cover” without qualifying that it really means "£5,000,000 in medical cover, only if we absolutely can't get you home and get the NHS to do it for free", borders on deliberately misleading.

I agree with your sentiment and believe this is just a shitty fly-by-night fake "insurance" company that collects premiums and dispenses plane tickets, but insurers aren't obligated to pay top dollar for whatever course of treatment you deem necessary without any opportunity for negotiation. If they're footing your bill, they get to have a say in the matter of when and how the job gets done.

He paid pennies for the "coverage." With that being the case and his being a British citizen, their treatment plan for everything is likely to fly patients back to the UK whenever possible. You don't become a billion-pound company charging 200 pounds at a time while also reimbursing first-world medical claims for travelers who aren't paralyzed in an ICU. I doubt they offer similar coverage to non-Brits for the same price, if at all.

We have similar plans wrt auto insurance in the US. You can either get proper insurance and pay a fair amount or the legal bare minimum for pennies, and when you get in your first at-fault accident you quickly learn what it is you have (or haven't) been paying for.
I'm not sure how anyone, in their disaster recovery plans, ever expect anything less than 100% failure of a data center. The scenario is: a tornado hits the data center.

Your power outage causing 3% of drives to fail is just a subset of that.
>What I don't understand about Twitch is how anyone has time to consume this content.

My impression is that most people are just having it on in the background while they do other stuff. If this sort of thing was around back when I was in college I can definitely imagine myself streaming something on Twitch while I studied.

The overall vibe seems to be analogous to having someone keeping you company while you work. Not that different from talk radio shows, only more interactive.
It’s also worth noting that as of 2015[0], this has been experimentally verified.

We’ve made real-world measurements here that correlate with measurements made at the exact same time over there in a way that mathematically cannot be accounted for without some species of intuition-violating spookiness. It’s all very real.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_test_experiments#Hensen_e...