skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Likely have to agree to disagree on this one. It's a comedy piece for one, and it's an opinion at that, but what is the critique Bill Hicks is making in the Youtube link I shared? I think it's best summed up with "you are filling the world with bile and garbage".

And honest about what they do? That seems wildly inaccurate. Like any profession, there are honest advertisers & marketers and there are dishonest ones, but the incentive of advertising is to influence purchasing decisions, and marketing to promote awareness, encourage consumption, and/or generate new revenue.

What would you have (had) Rage Against the Machine do? Stop making music that people enjoy and relate to? Or, should they do what the KLF did and (allegedly) burn a million dollars in cash one night and renounce all future songwriting and performance royalties? What would that achieve apart from an artistic statement?

Lastly, by your definition, aren't Rage Against the Machines just good at marketing? Or is licencing one's music to a large music label perhaps the most effective method of advertising their beliefs and opinions? Playing to larger audiences or making coin from their trade, doesn't necessarily mean they are hypocrites.

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This is per-user, not per-entire-app-user-base, AFAIK
Good point, however, may as well just use Netlify if we're just talking about static assets. Anyway, the 600M always free VM instance is a pretty awesome freebie for sure. There's plenty you can do with it, even if you have to end up paying some cents for BW.
The translation of this is: We're trying even harder to kill any and all 3rd party applications. 300 tweets per 3 hours global rate limit is bonkers. My favorite twitter app for android is probably dead after this.
I don't know. Perception is a funny thing. The high resolution of the screen made it seem more like paper than any other computer of the time. The Amiga always struck me as "janky". Sure it had color and games, but some kind of magic was missing.
Every time I see this I crack up at: "With Echoz.sed, we were able to reduce our XMPP Echo server costs by 90% compared to our previous TeX-based solution. — Leon"
List of companies incorporated with Stripe Atlas
http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Den_Den_Mushi
That seems pretty irrelevant as such standalone numbers. The "average" speeds are more than fast enough for useful services, don't delay video preload or pages unnecessarily, ... The interesting aspects aren't captured in such averages:

how do they handle bad connectivity?

latency?

CPU + GPU + OS + apps turning the incoming data into user interaction.
This is what I am trying to figure out too. Is Knative standalone, or is it running inside your K8 cluster, or do you build a K8 cluster and run this in it exclusively?
> Christ you are ignorant about this kind of stuff.

Dude, I'm TRYING to have a discussion here. And frankly, I'm not fully convinced about the arguments that a lot of people are making here. Lobbing personal attacks is not cool, no matter the subject matter.

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So hypothetically, you're saying a man-in-the-middle attack is going to change the content of my files. I understand.

Now tell me: how does HTTPS secure against that if Comodo certificates (or other poor-security certificate authorities) continue to exist?

A SINGLE bad certificate authority trusted by any of the major vendors would allow the attack you so described happen over HTTPS.

I have seen these things happen. HTTPS is not a magic cure-all, not while globally trusted bad CAs exist. Bad actors can still MITM HTTPS sites with a fake cert.

ISPs typically have some degree of HTTP proxying and caching available btw. You don't benefit from HTTP proxies / caches if you encrypt everything. So there's a reason. And if the bad actors can attack HTTPS with a MITM attack anyway, there's not much to gain from HTTPS from my viewpoint.
No, this is per app.
It's definitely a belief that's out there. I've argued with people about it before. For example, jdavis703 and
Reason077 seem to believe that material sent to the landfill will end up in the ocean. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17410483
Feel free to add companies you know off that are incorporated with Stripe Atlas.
> But forget the USB-sticks.

> E.g.: Borg to local RAID every 2 hours, sync RAID with cloud every 24 hours.

The problem with a fully online (non-append only) backup system is that if everything is working properly then an accidental 'rm -rf /' will propagate throughout all your supposed backups and destroy them as well. The USB drives are for that type of "Oh shit!" moment as a (possibly stale but better than nothing) backup of last resort
Bad title. It's not free, and after 12 months it's even very expensive compared to alternatives, considering what one gets for the price.

A couple of cheap VPSs would be cheeper and have way more headroom for the price.
It's pretty trivial to disable all of the telemetry in windows 10. I'm not saying microsoft should get a pass for such nonsense but it's a little over the top to act like windows 10 is DOA botnet.
Karan from the GKE On-Prem eng team here.

In the Alpha, we are supporting vSphere 6.5. Which part of infra are you most curious about knowing?
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So the war for enterprise on-prem Kubernetes just intensified :) RedHat vs Google? :] I wonder how is Rancher doing? I guess life will be harder too?

Timing seems to be important, just before OpenShift finishes absorbing Tectonic (or maybe Tectonic is absorbing OpenShift) with their installer, UI and billing services. I guess there's still time for Google to land some big deals :)
The issue with such software is that it's mission-critical. In other terms, it needs to be zero-downtime, bullet-proof, audited and certified by external actors and to be supported for the next 30-50 years.

Historically, all those limitations make the "move quickly and break things" approach popular in the current wave of startups impossible and the code with this kind of requirements has historically been implemented by large corporation already working in the industrial domain.

If anything, this feels a domain where GE and large contractors will be chosen to write mission-critical code over startups.
I never worked in food service. I worked in retail (sales and stocking), delivery services, freight (un)load, construction trades and the military. Every one of those still exists, is not going away any time soon and qualifies as entry-level.
I'm not sure this is akin to that. This is, for lack of a better term at the moment, more of an enterprise Kubernetes distribution.
What's the rest mass of a photon? What's the electric charge of a neutrino? What's the spin of a Higgs boson?
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You claim to be a "poweruser", but then go and speak out of pure ignorance when it comes to Linux.
You say "Apple hardware is beyond superior", when in reality Apple glorifies form over function with soldered, unserviceable parts (and actively lobbies against self-repair), and removal of ports (very anti-poweruser, if you ask me), all of which turn their laptops into disposable gadgets meant for the consumer demographic first and foremost. I'll say Apple displays are great, though.
Your comment about "just works" betrays your preference for abstraction (once again, not a very "poweruser" sentiment), and shows ignorance (Wi-fi: macOS maintains a whitelist of wifi adapters, to the annoyance of "hackintosh" builders, and has far less wifi support than any Linux distribution. Backups: Why would you ever want to abstract this to some software interface? There's too many tools to name which you can levy for your needs on Linux, e.g. rsync, tar. Sharing: SSH).

"Poweruser"? No, I feel the more accurate term would be power-consumer.
a bit off topic, i think this 'serverless' thing certainly will create lot of jobs, what a messy architecture, good for ibm, : )
I'm a bit surprised not to see Excedrin mentioned anywhere. Perhaps it's because it has caffeine and reading some of the comments seems that caffeine (dependence) may be a trigger?

I'm not entirely sure if I get headaches or migraines, but whatever they are, they shut me down for hours and sometimes even a nights sleep doesn't clear them. Depending on the severity, 2-4 Excedrin will clear me up in about 30 minutes.
With DO and Linode adding things like block storage volumes, object storage, and load balancing, they're becoming more than just simple VPS providers.

They definitely don't offer anywhere near as many services as Google, MS, Amazon, or even Alibaba's cloud offerings. But they're becoming pretty decent 'cloud lite' providers who cover what's needed for plenty of folks and companies.
These lenticular autostereoscopic displays have been around for a long time and never quite took off. There have been even 3D TVs (Philips) using this idea. I am not quite sure what is "new" apart of yet again abusing the "holographic" term (hint, it has zero to do with holograms or holography).

The major issues with these are the limited viewing angles and the enormous bandwidth needed to both render the individual points of view and to actually transfer them to the screen. Heck, a lot of computer games have problems to generate stereoscopic (i.e. 2 images) content at 60 or 90fps required by the VR helmets such as Rift or Vive these days. And these guys want to push 45 distinct images at 60fps?

Good luck with that, especially for that ridiculous price for a tiny screen.

These guys offer a 4k, 50" screen:
http://www.ultra-d.com/
I thought about country restrictions as well. I noticed most of the offending websites were in China. Wondering is having SSL there is not allowed or something.
He's plead guilty to wire fraud since then, which may have a substantial prison sentence.
In my opinion, no. I'm on the AT&T "Unlimited Choice" plan, which is artificially capped at 3mbps and it's been totally fine for me. I can do everything I want to - check email, browse the web, check Twitter, use maps, stream music and podcasts, etc. Also, the bandwidth cap helps me avoid hitting the 22GB monthly transfer cap and getting throttled to the very noticeably terrible 128Kbps.

In an ideal world I wouldn't have to worry about bandwidth or transfer caps, but I mention this to provide my experience that for me 3mbps is plenty. Some people might need more, but I think that once you get up above 20-30mbps, most people wouldn't notice or care about the difference.
What is the value prop then, for someone who already runs open source Kubernetes on-prem? Why should he pay extra for GKE on-prem?
> Most of human history has involved treating bodies of water like magical devices that teleport waste away forever.

For much of human history, bodies of water effectively did magically dispose of any waste. If you're a small family group or a small tribe, you can pretty much dump anything down a river with no ill consequences.

It was only once extremely large populations gathered around bodies of water for many generations while creating much more and much more toxic waste did it become a problem.
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even more so for shares as is much harder to use physical share certificates
The US Federal Government started migrating to using "security keys" almost 15 years ago for this reason.

Thanks George W. Bush !

https://www.dhs.gov/homeland-security-presidential-directive...
We could reduce our risk a lot using a combo of technology that isolates executions to certain deprivileged memory ranges with tech that blocks code injections in general. Think a separation kernel running a desktop OS in one partition and in another a PDF viewer written in Rust. The general tech for stuff like that was being sold commercially far back as 2005, minus Rust of course. They did have Ada runtimes, though. The NSA and military ended up retiring the concept because there was too much complexity in PC hardware they thought would lead to attacks bypassing the VM boundaries. They did.

The old approach, which I used, was to use a mix of desktop and embedded boards physically separated with a KVM switch plus controlled, sharing mechanism. Just keep the untrustworthy stuff on their own machines. It's klunky but a greater chance of working securely.
I feel exactly the same. The only smartphones I ever owned were Android (and a single Windows phone), but my experience with the S6 was the same as with your S7 - and the loss of the headphone jack didn't matter to me, since the one in my S6 ceased to work consistently about a month after my warranty ended. The X feels like a device at the cutting edge, FaceID is the closest I feel to "intuitive computing" outside mixed reality devices - there is almost no tangible barrier between you and the connected digital environment. But it's also stable, fast, and as you said "out of the way." I miss some aspects of Android's action tray and notifications, but have been far more impressed by the ways iOS is leaps and bounds ahead as a general daily user experience. And I say all this as a .NET developer who daily drives Windows on my desktop and laptop!

I suppose that was a bit off the subject at hand, but I was really surprised at how much better the iPhone experience feels than Android. More on topic, I really don't think this kind of crowing over technical details will help the platform any more than flexing about camera megapixel resolution or processor clock speed does. Android needs to make strides in its user experience as a daily computing device to replace iOS for me now, and I also haven't noticed any issues with the speed of the web. I suspect if there were any differences, the rest of the experience would make them unnoticeable to me.
I am sure this is not something you can notice but it doesn’t matter. Samsung is going to do an ad push using it.
React Render Props: Not hard, super useful
Pretty sure if I paid $1000 for a phone I would want it to be the fastest.
That's a recipe for losing data even more frequently...
The responses to this are genuinely some of the funniest posts I've seen on this website. The amount of gymnastics people are doing to avoid mentioning that these large companies have gotten millions/billions of handouts from the state and city and are therefore in a different class/category of business than your average brick and mortar shop.

So I'll clarify 90% of the detractors comments here: "To the people of San Francisco: Fuck you, got mine. The fact that i lied about the nature and value of our economic contribution to the community and you bought it puts you at fault. I won my ivory tower through any means necessary, and therefore it's immoral to suggest that I in any demonstrable way cooperate to improve anything outside if it. Again. Fuck you. Got mine. "

You can skip all the comments now! :)
Yes and no. The connection is needed to show your workloads and other cluster information in GCP Console (similar to what was shown in the keynote). However, if the connection goes down, your cluster will not stop working.
You’d only render angles from which anyone was looking though? So with a single observer it’s only 2 angles (one per eye) just like VR. This of course assumes perfect tracking of the eyes of any observer
>But any new 3rd party twitter client is pretty much toast

Unless they take the time to go through the review process and get a rate limit increase, in which case this theoretically should improve the app quality overtime as only those willing to put in the work will make it through.
Something I experienced is that a form of anger toward life is good when you're in mental pain. Not destructive anger but more proactive anger. It refocus your mind out of whatever clogs it and release 'energy' (simplest sense, you're a lot more able to act) as you feel less pain too.
Which IaaS vendors are supported?
Is it even worth living a life where it takes more than 10 minutes to stuff your phone full of ISOs for every major version of Ubuntu that has ever been released?
Yes, I'm aware of MITM attacks and I'm also aware that fake certificates can be used to MITM even HTTPS sessions.

So I'm not convinced that HTTPS is the solution for that hypothetical attack. Not while untrustworthy certificate authorities are default-enabled on most clients anyway. At best, HTTPS complicates the attack but it doesn't make you immune to it.

A hypothetical MITM attacker can just get a fake certificate from a low-security vendor (ex: Comodo), and serve that to get a nice "trusted" version of the fake webpage. If you control the network, you control the certs that are eventually served to the users.

https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2014/02/12/fake-ssl-certi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiNotar
It's a rather insignificant fact. Sure, if those numbers meant some real-world thing, then it would be good to know, but in this case, it's going to be hard to find a normal user that actually cares.

On top of that, location, networking and movement matter, so you could easily simply uncover living habits of users instead of the actual device's speeds. If (and this is unlikely, but bear with) all iPhone users would live outside of extremely well covered areas then they would get different LTE speeds. Doesn't say much about the phone, chipset or provider, just about location.

While the article touts Ookla as a good idea because it's real-world speeds, they should also have mentioned that it has no real-world meaning either, as well as having real-world numbers not meaning much in comparison between providers, phones, and locations.

At the same time, if the manufacturers of phones use different modems and one is slightly faster than the other, good on them, but who cares?
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Yes, Russians Hacked U.S. Electric Companies, Homeland Security Confirms
Ah yes, the totally factual and 100% accuracy of Venmo transactions. Like the $62 a co-worker with a dark sense of humor paid me for "cunnilingus".
Yes, math can model "continuous quantities", but is the idea of "quantity" anything more than a human abstraction? How do you define quantity, and can you do it without the notion of counting and discrete objects?
There are a _LOT_ of services that treat the URL as a secret. If you're leaving these URLs in your browser history on a public computer other people can access them. For example, the images served up by Google Photos, that have the form lh3.googleusercontent.com/[kilobytes of base64-encoded spew], can be accessed by anybody having the URL. So if you use a public computer to access these, even though you need to be authenticated to browse Google Photos, and despite the fact that you conscientiously logged out, anybody with access to the history can still look at your photos. This is not be any means the only such example.
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On the plus side, signal to noise is about to skyrocket on Twitter.
The three body problem:

I found this book fascinating how the cultural revolution was weaved in to the story. It really highlighted my ignorance of recent Chinese history, and many times found myself turning to Wikipedia to learn more of the specific events mentioned. The English translation also includes several lengthy footnotes and see-also's when historical characters or events are mentioned, as I'm sure many western readers are less familiar with the details of the events and historical characters.

Without giving away anything, I also found the Egyptian scene truly awesome.
Yes, I do. I have a CRT for Smash Bros: Melee, a 144hz monitor for FPSs (at 1080p), and then my comically big 4k TV at 60hz for stuff like Witcher or other casual AAA titles. The TV is coming over Steam Link anyway, performance is dropped in favor of sheer visual beauty.
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."

Again and again we find the greed of the corporation violates the spirit of why we've got any form copyright or patent. The Author and the Inventors don't own anything, the wealthy do.
The Lisa had a very bad start, but by the time it had become the Macintosh XL it was way more competitive. The fact that you needed one if you wanted to develop for the Macintosh initially made it sure it couldn't be a complete failure.

But whenever Jobs is involved, you have to take into account personal motives as well as business and technical ones. He was still angry about having been kicked out of the Lisa project due to his age (the board decided that it was the most important Apple project and needed someone more experienced to run it). When a company reorganization brought the Lisa (now Macintosh XL) under his control, he used old sales numbers to stop the purchase of new parts and then when they ran out "unexpectedly" due to rising sales he simply cancelled the product, which was now possible as native development on the Macintosh had arrived.

By the way, I have no idea how the story I just described fits in with a large number of Lisas being destroyed and buried. I think these were older models.
This will be hosted at either Brookhaven National Lab (NY) or Jefferson Lab (Virginia). Unfortunately, National Labs need to find new large construction projects to justify their continued existence, and there aren't enough big science projects to go around. The European model of sharing a single facility (CERN) is much more sensible in that it decouples scientific prioritization and the issue of local jobs.
or use those physical devices that google hands out as well as training.
I've done exactly that to a couple of transcend usb sticks and managed to kill one when deleting some files while the rsync was running (to free up enough space for the rsync to finish). I think the controllers on the sticks are just not as good as SSDs. At least it was an obvious problem (drive completely unresponsive after that), but I wouldn't make that your only copy.

The main thing I have been doing is using old hard drives, each in an inexpensive case[0] that can easily be attached to a usb to SATA/IDE adaptor[1] (there are others to consider if you don't have IDE drives, but that one seems to work well and not all of them do; for SATA only look at UASP). You might think that old drives are more likely to die randomly, but I haven't had that happen once yet (good to keep a couple of copies of stuff you care about).

[0] https://www.fasttech.com/p/1645000
[1] https://www.fasttech.com/p/8292100

I sometimes use rsync but also have an archive script that a) runs mtree with sha512 per file and leaves the file in the directory being archived, b) creates a .tar.xz with SHA256 checksum in the xz (except for already compressed stuff, then I either rsync or use gzip with a seperate SHA256 sum), and c) encrypts most things via scrypt -t 5 before hitting unencrypted external disk (ext2 with limited features for maximum portability). Not exactly push a button level convenience but it works ok for me.

If you just use basic rsync you can end up copying corrupted files from your system over the backup before noticing that they are corrupted. I think there are various ways to avoid this, so far I just have multiple copies that I update at different times but there are likely better ways.

Tarsnap seems like a good option for stuff you wouldn't want to loose in a fire, but I haven't used it so far.
Well, speaking broadly, computers became big business. No longer was it going to be engineers creating the product for engineers.
So Android manufacturers, led by Samsung, have decided to harp on modem speed because they know they are years behind Apple on processor speed with little they can do about it, and the tech press has decided to carry their water for them. In my lifetime I have never heard anyone complain about, or even discuss, download speeds on their phone.

What's next? "The new Galaxy S12 can reach ignition temperature within 5 seconds of power on. Beat that, Apple!"
When you're browser is making 500 requests to load a bloated web page, overall download speed doesn't matter. You know what does? Single core performance for processing all that javascript.