skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Duplication halves the write speed (and only tell you the data is bad, at half the read speed). ECC would reduce RW speed somewhat still, but, at least, would allow one to correct the data and rewrite it.
If your threat model includes any sovereign state's intelligence agency then a warrant canary is worse than useless.
Given their other widely abused powers it is likely trivial to force a normal company to continue business as normal and make any statement.

I submit that warrant canaries are at best legally and politically naive virtue signalling and at worst deliberate obfuscation of the actual threat model.
Just playing devil's advocate...

"Why did you offer me a service that was unsustainable in the first place? I just want the keep paying the same for the same product you've sold me for the last x months."
Pipe a quine into a compiler, run the output.

Bow before my might simple mortals.

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For fun a while back I was playing with the concept of self modifying bash.

A bash script that duplicates and modifies a random character/ adds a character in a random location, or deletes a character.

Then running the output and the original file.

Obviously I got a lot of broken scripts, my point is self writing software is possible, automated, well thought out edits are a long way off.
> to be clear, silicon valley doesn't have a role to play here, aside from paying their taxes

I was with you up until there....what's the thinking behind that part?
...how? What was the game plan? Why would they do this?
The chart showing bankruptcies changes per age group make it seem like its the same generation constantly filing for bankruptcy.

Young people can't default on a mortgage if they can't afford to save enough for a deposit on a house in the first place.
This was a very succinct explanation that I have tried to explain to people many times myself. There is no universal point of reference, and thus no way to map where in time the earth was when you want to go. That's not to say there may not be an answer to that problem, but merely that the problem exists.

If you could see all of time outside of the 4th dimension, you might be able to place yourself where you want to be.
In my area, I've tried very hard to negotiate leases of less than a year-- they just don't do it, because of our East Coast version of NIMBYism.

Airbnb can be of dodgy quality sometimes, but it has filled most of the demand as you say. There are lots of property taxes and squatter-friendly laws in my area, so I guess thats why landlords feel the need to have very restrictive terms :/
I imagine it would be hosted (and funded and administrated) by the local business association, with tech support coming from a global foundation (same one developing the product).
It's also a negative side-effect of the improvement of software and automation in this space.

In ye olden times, there would be an grumpy DBA in this story terminating the query and yelling at the user. Many, many people are consuming databases without understanding how to approach SQL optimization, because nobody is forcing them to!
It ultimately boils down to who owns the signal.

You would love to have a system that scanned the world's photos and notified you automatically about people commenting on you. You don't necessarily want the government to have that same system.
Case in point, Aurora is a type of database within RDS. RDS and Aurora are not separate database apps.
the point is to enrich hc industry shareholders, same as everything else
I've never used my ISP provided email. Even before gmail, I used other gmail-ish ones (hotmail, yahoo &c.)
I do wonder what will happen when storage capacity greatly greatly exceeds network capacity. That is it will only be possible and cheaper to send large amounts of data by physically moving in and not using a digital network.
So Apple isn’t allowed the freedom to do as they want?

On a smaller scale, you couldn’t get your content posted on infowars if they didn’t like it. Does that mean infowars is stepping on your rights?

No, because freedom of speech isn’t the same thing as the right of being heard. You can say what you want, but I don’t have to listen to you.
I'd even argue that exploring ideas with per-planed intent is going to limit readers to concepts they already have.
Interesting...the simplicity of the language appeals to me. If the tooling and ecosysstem is as great as you say it is I'm in ;-)
I switched to Nook when they first came out and haven't bought a book since. I did change to Google Play books and standard tables/phones but there is no going back to real paper books (for me).

1) I always have my book with me. Have to wait 15 minutes in a waiting room, take out the phone. At home I have my nice large tablet.

2) Page sync works great. Read 10 pages on tablet and move to phone and it starts off on the correct page. Same when I switch back to the tablet.

3) Buying a new book is super simple and instant. (Note that if traveling internationally, be sure to buy/download extra books from home before you leave as Play may not sell you books if you are abroad. Reading always works.)

4) Free samples keep me from buying books I've already read or don't like.

5) You can import any books you already own and still get all of the above.

The only issue I have with standard tablets/phones is that full daylight reading kills batteries but you still get most of days usage so even this isn't that big of an issue. Not enough to switch back e-paper which is too single purpose for my wants/needs. Sure they are nice for reading by the pool but I can't look up were to eat lunch on it so I still need my phone with me which defeats the purpose.
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The model still makes no financial sense. This reduces their burn rate by pushing away their most costly customers, but it doesn't address the underlying problem. MoviePass isn't creating value. Subscribers might receive positive value from the service, but all that value is simply payments from investors to use the service.
Sandy Hook.
Pizza Gate.

We can all laugh about "gay frogs" but the guy is dangerous.

Let's just agree to disagree. I read your comment history. There's no point in debating you.
What's even the point of health insurance when it only covers the young and healthy apparently.

The point of insurance is to make a profit for the insurance company.
What's the purpose of an old person if they can't contribute to economic activity?

Their domain expertise is out of date. Their body prevents them from doing strenuous activity. Their health prevents them from working long hours. They need medical checkups more often, and need more time off of work. More of their peers die, thus needing more time off work for funerals.

Clearly, old people just suck off the resources of the young, and are worthless from every economic standpoint. Gotta love capitalism!

/sarcasm
If I pay $10 a month and see 3 movies that are normally $11 apiece (local tickets are $10.75), that's a pretty clear value proposition. How can you ask what the service is with a straight face? Are you honestly implying that if I have to think at all, a 200% return on my money isn't good enough?

I don't really understand anyone who would even care that much about this change. I can barely find time to go to the theater 3 times a month let alone more. The changes that limit the most popular movies were much worse, honestly.

I don't think they are going to last, because even with this reduced offering I don't see how an outlay of $33 for a $10 subscription works. As long as I see at least one movie a month using the service I more than break even though, so I'll stay subscribed month to month until they go under.
The 615 got a lot of bad press and much of it was not deserved. There was that apocryphal claim it took an "eternity" to mode-switch, but while the penalty was non-trivial (a pipeline spill), it was definitely faster than claimed. This was probably no small amount of FUD on Microsoft's part so that they wouldn't have to support it.

The real irony was the existence and support of Windows NT on PowerPC (up to the W2K betas), so Microsoft actually didn't have much of a beef with supporting the architecture in general after all; they just didn't think doing the engineering on the 615 specifically was worth the cost.
Is there a simple way to calculate the total amount spent?
>It has terrible naming too: a lot of services are acronyms, it makes them difficult to understand for outsiders.

I almost think this was a deliberate choice. Makes the services sound more important than what they are. At any rate, many engineers I know love to smugly use this acronym soup.
The (small) Fermat Theorem says:

* If p is a prime number then for every a, we have that ^p ≅ a [mod p].

* If p is not a prime number, the we don't know. Perhaps yes, perhaps no, we don't know.

For example, see the Carmichael numbers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmichael_number . They satisfy a variant of the congruence relation, in spite they are not primes. But the (small) Fermat theorems doesn't say that the non primes don't satisfy the relation.
Legitimate question: will there be a point where we speak about this war in the past tense, as in `The world lost the war against climate change'? How do we determine that turning point?
That does not make sense. Even if he lost his union provided healthcare insurance, the magic age for retirement in the US is 65 because after that age you are covered by Medicare.

Medicare, if you were not aware, is available to everyone who is a US citizen over the age of 65.
They've been tweaking the UI of the AWS console recently at least, but, they still have a loooong way to go.
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You just explained why time to market is so important, which really does justify discussions about languages that focus on developer productivity.
> but that people agree it's at least an attempt at a structured argument based on actual facts

This is far easier said than done. Just for starters, which "people" get to decide, and that's not even getting into the messy details at analyzing any arguments or facts.
I mean, is there anywhere in the console where you select/identify a service by its icon alone, without the name next to it? I don't remember any such place.

If not... who cares? They're not branded consumer products that need recognition, just a bunch of services and it's not like I'd have any even remotely good ideas for most of these jargony things anyways... :P
Given Intel's struggles around their process shrink, AMD may have come up with the perfect product at the perfect time. You can already see their effect with Intel finally adding more cores to their chips to try and stay competitive.

I do think that Intel will manage to get silicon out a bit earlier then their current end of CY19, but if they don't, TR and Ryzen may be the default go-to for manufacturers.
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While they're removing most of the most negative changes ('peak pricing' and the pointless 'take a picture of your ticket stub') for people who remain subscribed (pray they don't alter it any further), they're keeping their arbitrary blackouts of popular movies, which kills it for me. If I have to drive to the theatre to then get there and discover that MoviePass has decided I'm not allowed to see Movie X then I'm going to stop using it.

Currently they implement these blackouts either nationwide (you can't see Mission Impossible on MoviePass at all) or regionally, with showtimes vanishing from the app without warning after too many people elsewhere in your region buy tickets to the movie in question.

The problem with the service is inconsistency and never knowing if you'll actually be able to see a movie or not.

Also, if you were foolish enough to buy an annual subscription, then you don't get the limitation but you still have had your deal altered with movie blackouts and stub verification.
True.

That is always a risk when someone does something in the public interest. But doing stuff for the betterment of others at risk of your own lifestyle is a noble endeavour that many have undertaken despite these reasons.
I'm not sure the comparison to the actual canary in a coal mine is particularly relevant here. Clearly that inspired the name, but beyond that...

Assuming it is a good comparison - if you are the one in the coal mine and the carnary keels over, are you going to start trying to figure out the exact cause of death or just hurry up and get the hell out of the mine?
Are you a mechanic? It's only straightforward when everything goes according to the book, which is a welcome surprise, but certainly not the norm.
I love how oblivious (blissfully ignorant?) the "How will you earn money?" section is.

> The application is decentralized so we just need money for the developers, the lawyers and the advertisers, we don’t have to build and maintain a huge and expansive network infrastructure. So we’ll just earn money from advertisement, but it will not be specific for you, because we want your data to be yours, and we will accept to advertise only local products.

Just need money for developers, lawyers, and advertisers huh? Just earn money from advertisement!

A utopian marketplace that runs on ad revenue makes little sense to me. I would've liked to see the "decentralized system" part replaced with a boring "centralized system", and the boring "advertising revenue" replaced with something else.
In most cases, the icons are more closely related to the service than the names are, even if they are pretty abstract. Aurora? Fargate? Kinesis? Snowmobile? Sumerian? Obelisk? Gravelbean?

(Ok, I made the last two up, but I bet you would've had to look ...)
> to be clear, silicon valley doesn't have a role to play here, aside from paying their taxes.

1) SV companies are some of the biggest tax dodgers

2) SV companies are also some of the biggest drivers of economic inequity and tearing down these social safety nets that generations before us fought tooth-and-nail for

3) SV companies, like Facebook, are also the biggest drivers of our cultural decay, which feeds and accelerates these disturbing macro societal trends
Lessons learned moving from web to voice development
I agree with both parts of this. My biggest frustration is that even after I looked at the answers, I couldn't explain many of the logos.

There's a clear attempt to create logical connections: 'directory' manages to evoke a bunch of cards in a file, EMR is a solid reduce block above a bunch of map blocks, and so on. The MediaFoo family is actually quite good - I swapped Package and Store, but otherwise got them all right despite never using the service. The family color scheming is genuinely very good, despite the weird outliers like grey.

But then there's all the rest. Kinesis and Cloudwatch are each a bar graph with a base, but Kinesis is rotated, and has 2 layers of floating base instead of 1 joined layer, so that totally clears things up. (And Athena is 1 layer floating base, with bars going both directions, to help confuse the existing two.)

ELBs and ECS are both multiple full-size layers on the left with a 4-rectangle split layer on the right, but ELB is 3 filled layers and a flat split layer. ECS is hollow layers and a 'long' split layer. Memorable!

Database Migration Service is a mix of Direct Connect and RDS theming, which actually makes sense, but also Elasticache is a disjoint version of Direct Connect in database coloring?

(I had a hell of a time looking these up to check, because about half the guides on Google Images are simply wrong about some services. Check out Elastic IP, which is listed with the icons of 3 other services!)
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We have companies taking responsibility for what happens on their pitch.

They aren't stopping him. He can still publish his brand of crazy elsewhere. This seems okay.

If anything it's "our" fault for giving Facebook, Apple et al the unreserved omnipresence they have.
I don't think I would consider those "start-ups"
I commented over there, so I won't repeat myself, but I can relate to this.
Geocodio launches HIPAA-compliant geocoding
> covered by Medicare
Universal Sentence Encoder for Chatbot Intent Classification (NLP)
This is only tangentially related but it seems that many of the shapes are built in some sort of 3d program and then exported to svg. If you inspect the official released svgs you can see tons of artifacts in most of the shapes[1]. You would think that Amazon would have the resources to release very optimized icons for its public facing documentation.

[1] https://preview.ibb.co/dd86RK/aws_dms_inspected.png
The issue is scale and inability to escape. So, while your group would know about “thief”, another group would not, allowing this “thief” to decide to reform with this group, or just as likely to yet burn another bridge. But at least this “thief” had an opportunity to reform.

You will see this in history when say a lawyer or whoever else from that time got recorded in history, moves to a new town to escape a bad rep., often unfairly cast due to personal dispute.
Amazon would never care about this stuff unless someone independently did enough unpaid work on the project proving it they could determine an economic value to changing it... so congrats?
It's insurance, not a payment plan.

Anyone at any time can get sick, get hit by a car, etc. That's why everyone needs it.

Technically, the utility of health insurance is greatest when you are youngest and least when you are oldest. Saving an 8-year-olds life could mean allowing them to live to 80. A 72-year-old that can't get medical care will have at least lived to 72.

The U.S. health care system has it backwards. We should at least be giving heath insurance to the young. You could argue that it is moral to provide for health insurance for retirees, even if they spend way more on health insurance than everyone else and won't get much additional utility from it, but the idea that you would only give guaranteed health insurance to the oldest (and wealthiest age bracket) makes no sense.
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If you can get a 50% reduction in costs by going to India, people would be doing it.
> But, I guess I don’t understand why this convo isn’t articulated.

In part, because the political “dialogue” in this country isn't a dialogue, it's a propaganda battle where on every issue it is a battle to control the framing, largely with the aim of mobilizing each sides base while alienating the other, not coming to some kind of common consensus.

In part, because the left viewpoint on the economics is not the dominant view of either major party; the (still, arguably barely) dominant faction of the Democratic Party is economically center-right.

> But for some reason people on the left seem to act like this contention doesn’t exist. They just talk about how terrible the border and ICE is; both of which have been awful for many years

Even given the preceding, that's not really true: the left (and Democrats more broadly) do offer much more specific policy criticisms than that, and those didn't all originate under this President. (Though under the immediate preceding one, those positions were often shared with the President though not the Congressional majority, see DACA/DREAM Act.) Obviously, they've become more intense and higher priority with a hostile administration engaging in policy more hostile to their desires.

> It’s nice that people care all of a sudden

People on the left don't care “all of a sudden”, though obviously the policy context has changed all of a sudden which has shifted the tone and focus of criticisms.

> but name-calling doesn’t address these rational claims of the opposition.

Electoral politics largely isn't about rational debate, and trying to make it so is often counterproductive, even if you are winning with the people that are listening for rational debate.

> It sounds like if we can just actually take the economics seriously for once then it would eliminate any decent ground to defend the immigration enforcements.

The left isn't against immigration enforcement so much as it is against the particular policies being enforced and the methods of enforcement.

But “decent ground” isn't, even if it should be, often what wins policy debates.
"fast sql database," "fast nosql database," "redis cache nosql database," "graph database," "rds (is actually named right lol)," "big analytics SQL database."
Explosive facelift left star looking much younger than its true age
Prisons are enabled by the people, you decide what should go on in there if you live in an democracy. AFAIK the prison/jail system in the US is administered on county/state/federal level and there are also private versions. From what I've heard it's pretty bad in all of them.

Here in Sweden we have some pretty crappy habits too regarding jails, so I understand the issue with getting the people to unite for prisoners rights.
Study Finds Increased Incarceration Has Marginal-To-Zero Impact on Crime
> true for everyone.

See, I read something like this and I think of the Dunning Kruger effect that causes stupid people to think they're smart and smart people to think that they're stupid.
Why did you sign up to an unsustainable service in the first place? It's not a big deal if they change the price. Pay up or leave, I don't see any problem here at all. In the UK phone companies are allowed to raise prices during the duration of a fixed price fixed duration contract.
Aren't many of the services in the quiz unrelated, so a user wouldn't have occasion to have seen the icon in context?
Something overlooked, but which I have a lot of respect for is properly incrementing version numbers. It's rare to see semantic versioning properly work. Good job TB team.
In just a few minutes I was able to start identifying the difference between synced audio and a 5 ms delay. That's about my limit. I wasn't able to get the 2ms delay correct more than you would expect from guessing.
Great news! I wonder when it will make it into the Ubuntu repos?
I like their description of r0 as "limited use." There was some parody Twitter account with "new PowerPC instructions," one of which was mscdfr0 -- Means Something Completely Different For Register 0. See https://twitter.com/ppcinstructions for others (I'm not the author).

For those who don't get the joke, certain instructions like addi r0,r0,1 (encoded as addi 0,0,1) actually get turned into addi r0,0,1 -- instead of adding one to the contents of r0, they add one to zero, putting one in r0. This is to facilitate loading immediates, so a typical "load32" does an addis (same r0 limitation) to load the upper 16 bits followed by an ori (doesn't) to load the bottom.

This is maddening if you don't watch what you're doing, which is why RISC architectures that make a register explicitly always zero are sometimes less obnoxious (MIPS).

The article is, however, disingenuous about branching. Virtually any PPC (dis)assembler worth its salt will use extended mnemonics for the bc instructions the author complains about. Plus, you can branch on arbitrary bits in the condition register fields, which the bzero32 routine in Mac OS X uses to great effect (mtcrf 0x01,r4 puts the lower four bits into the condition field, and then it just tests each individual bit with a bf branch -- no compares needed!).
Thanks for sharing this! I was able to subscribe to a podcast with an otherwise-hidden RSS feed.
Indeed. Could be that having a legacy rocket programme is if anything a hindrance in this new world of reusability - Ariane in particular seems to be in danger of becoming mainly an employment scheme that builds rockets on the side. For fairness I guess I should say SLS isn't looking too clever at this point either.