skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
honestly, im not exactly sure how that would work since the GH license does allow them complete nontransferrable ownership of code you keep there.

it'd certainly be one for the courts to decide. that is, if this little stunt doesn't kill this repo and this branch.
Over the years, the few times I’d go on Facebook is when someone would respond to one of my cross-posted tweets. I set the feature up years ago, and naturally stopped interacting with Facebook, except again when someone would respond to my very active twitter through this feature.

I probably will basically not use Facebook now. I’m not super mad about it or annoyed, so hopefully this doesn’t come off that way - I’m pretty nuetral about it. I am perhaps abstractly annoyed that a comment someone made on my wall is now gone maybe. But to directly answer your question, I think at least with me, this was a very useful feature for Facebook. Again, I don’t care that I won’t be using Facebook anymore now, so just one instance of this being useful for Facebook and neither here nor there for the person.
Oh okay, yeah I definitely didn't find the minimum. Maybe I'll give it a try another time-- the stuff is cheap and natural and whatnot.
Wow, that's absolutely insane. How did people think that was a good idea?
so far, the opposite is happening in the "cellphone"/pocket pc space... it is getting hard to get a phone that you can root without having to resort to "holes" that can get patched at any time...
> There are two main things I find myself needing it for: Location based queries, Google will always prioritize UK based results, and often London based results for me.

As I'm German, that's actually where DDG has the advantage over Google. Most of my searches are in English, but sometimes I want to search for something here, with DDG that's just a single press of a button and I get German results. With Google I'd have to do multiple clicks.
Yes from what I can see in my feed, Facebook is rapidly imploding. A lot of my friends, family, etc. have stopped engaging with it completely. Younger people are simply not on it at all. Long time active posters have gone silent one by one. As a consequence my feed is now completely dominated by just a handful of people that are still actively using it for whatever reason. It's less relevant to me now than at any point in the 11 or so years I've been on it.
Empirically, this seems not to have happened with my account.
Before everyone starts overreacting, please read the article first. There is no formal announcement from FB for this. Few users noticed their tweeted posts getting deleted and they suddenly arrived at conclusion that this is FB’s new policy. The article itself says this might be some bug that could have occurred due to recent API related changes.

Having said that, I really hope this is not the new policy from FB. Not only posts gets deleted but the conversation around it are also getting deleted. Many high profile people have setup FB accounts so everything is cross posted from Twitter. If this is new policy, it’s going to be the most boneheaded one so far from FB. So let’s hope this is just a bug.
Someday, preferably soon, we need to cut GHG emissions by 80% or more. That future is not compatible with widespread natural gas heating.
Thee need to own your own data is clear - only you should have the right to redact your posts for any reason. We should adopt systems that are fundamentally amoral, non-censoring, and non-competitive for our data being on their platform. Systems where we can profit from the success of our content. Can anyone think of some examples?
Is this facetious

Even if it's not, this

> I wonder if there's something about your cats' diet that renders their excretions too incompatible with what the robots are designed for.

Is strangely funny and backwards, in my opinion
5 couriers also meant hyper-aggressive behavior in the laning stage, because regen is so easy to come by.

If I had to guess, they started out with the 5-courier setup because otherwise the bots would end up fighting over the courier -- just like a typical pub team. :)
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What Im against is these morons that think they're entitled to a space to excercise their bigotry despite the obvious capital costs of it.

It's not a question of privilege it's a question of what is your value system. Do you believe in organizational power of free markets? If so you are by definition for these types of tolerance programs. Corporate social responsibility isn't charity; it's just good business sense. Unless you're a conman preying on fear, bigotry is categorically bad for business.
https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/

Looks like tape as a service.
Centralized social media isn't long for this world IMO, look at what is happening to Twitter (userbase erosion) & Reddit (people are flooding there from Facebook, hurting site quality). Meanwhile notable figures have moved on from both sites, in part due to bans or purely due to the degradation of their former social home.
The problem seems to be that people like templates for solving problems (not that there is one).
Original study:

http://www.pewinternet.org/2018/08/22/how-teens-and-parents-...
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Especially when game theory or whatnot is involved. Being the first person in your group of friends to get off Facebook might just make you the one person that never gets invited to anything anymore. Even the thought of that is probably a deterrent to discontinue playing.
> Now compare with the number of people killed by the police in 2017 by race [2]. The math is left as an exercise for the reader...

Your point is obviously that the percentage is higher for black people. But the percentage is higher for black people for a wide variety of causes of death, like exposure to toxic substances (due to living in high risk areas), which actually kill more people. So why is this one in particular the subject of a national campaign?

> ignoring 50+ years of biases and stereotypes

The "tech industry" (meaning the likes of Google) wasn't possible before the internet was a thing used by the majority of the population. It hasn't even existed for 50+ years.

And the predecessor industries you would have to include to get back that far had a much less skewed gender balance.

Whatever this is, it doesn't have a 50+ year history.

> on top of open sexual and moral harassment that created a toxic environment for women

Studies have shown that the degree of sexual harassment in gender balanced industries like medicine is atrocious -- significantly worse than it is in tech. Attempting to use that as an explanation for the gender balance fails because the relative difference is in the opposite direction.

> then you're helping to increase the gender divide.

...unless you're wrong about the causes, in which case we need to understand the real ones in order to do something about it. And for that we need to be able to talk about them without slamming the door in the face of anyone who questions the prevailing narrative.

And Damore was clearly wrong about some things. But if you don't allow people to speak at the risk of being wrong then they'll say nothing even when they're right. When someone is wrong you don't eject them from the community, you explain why and have the debate.
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I only received an "Additional Materials for Week 1" email on Aug 23rd for Startup School.

Is this right?

Seems weird since the email says course kickoff was Monday Aug 27th. There's also a typo in the email saying "first session will be available online starting Wednesday, August 28" which is a Tuesday.
When you use Nifi usually you are not in a budget constrained environment. Because CPU wise it takes its toll too and you need more than one core to be comfy, so micro instances are out anyway.
> This won't result in more poor people being released. It will simply result in a higher percentage of middle and upper class people being extorted into guilty pleas that they would not otherwise take, under the threat of losing their careers and families as a result of many months, and in a large number of cases, years, of pretrial detention.

Uhh, sounds like they will be treated the same as a poor person is currently treated then.

I don't see what's wrong with everyone being treated equally regardless of ability to pay.
Yeah, I used it for a while (lived there for half a year), but the base data was just too wrong for it to be much fun.
How does your engineering team make decisions?
Perhaps the silver lining would be the more people exposed to the screwed up legal system the sooner it really gets fixed ?
This assumes that the software engineering market is so strapped for hires that it needs neo-Nazis. I don't buy that.

But more to the point: the contradiction isn't economic, it's linguistic. See the comment thread below.
GitHub absolutely does not require that. If GitHub required you to grant them nontransferrable ownership of code hosted there, that would be insane and nobody would use it. Thankfully it's much more reasonable. :)

Here's what GitHub actually says:

> We need the legal right to do things like host Your Content, publish it, and share it. You grant us and our legal successors the right to store, parse, and display Your Content, and make incidental copies as necessary to render the Website and provide the Service. This includes the right to do things like copy it to our database and make backups; show it to you and other users; parse it into a search index or otherwise analyze it on our servers; share it with other users; and perform it, in case Your Content is something like music or video.

> This license does not grant GitHub the right to sell Your Content or otherwise distribute or use it outside of our provision of the Service.
They said the OP misused it largely because the documentation was insufficient, which is a reasonable response. There are different types of error object, and the one used was a poor fit for common, expected errors.

What would you have wanted them to do instead?
I'm actually surprised how often I search in ddg and think , wow maybe google has better results? then I do !g and find that Google's results are worse! Then I hit the back button and browse ddg results.
TLDR;

Today, a modern tape cartridge can hold 15 terabytes. And a single robotic tape library can contain up to 278 petabytes of data.
No, the "trick" is not simply to befriend them. That is an incredibly simplistic and naive way to interpret hate, and it shows you haven't had to deal with racism strongly impacting your life. Not all bigotry is based in innocent misunderstanding. Sometimes it's intentionally strongly held convictions of derision and superiority.

The answer isn't to spew hate back at them, but it certainly isn't to make friends.
Were not detractors of books usually unlearned people; people who didn't base their opinions on studies of the effects, but rather based on their feels? On the other hand studies can be flawed and can be purposefully biased, so we have to watch for that. But if we have credible studies indicating harm from all the ways content producers and other want to retain eyeballs, then that's different, I think.
Uhhhh... what?

This particular survey featured interviews with 1,058 parents who belong to the panel and have a teen ages 13 to 17, as well as interviews with 743 teens

Link: http://www.pewinternet.org/2018/08/22/teens-and-screen-time-...

I get that surveys are really hard, but.... 743 seems like a ridiculously low number.

Looks like the surveys are through the "NORC AmeriSpeak panel".

Pew links to this about AmeriSpeak:

http://www.norc.org/PDFs/AmeriSpeak%20Technical%20Overview%2...

I don't know.... maybe someone who understands surveying & statistics can validate these numbers & their significance better than me?
> Is this facetious

It is not.

> backwards, in my opinion

What would be the forwards way to express the same concept?
I hope they enable it with a bang straight up

! this is exactly what I want

then a way to keep it enabled by default
> What does that even mean? [...] Free market baby, get fucking used to it.

Please don't take HN threads further into the flamewar style. It's possible to disagree without doing that, and on this site, necessary.

You needn't look far for good examples: you replied to one, and it was replying to another. Please be like them and not like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Even if it's "just a bug", it's not over-reacting to be horrified at the loss of content. Even if it gets restored, it's a wake-up call for who decides what gets kept and what doesn't.
I've heard good things. They even sponsor GreatScott! :D
When has this ever worked at scale? All major social change to end oppression has been associated with large scale disruption and unrest.

How nice it must be to be in a group with power, where even if you are an unrepentant asshole and deny the humanity of others, those other people are obligated to be nice to you.
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Well, that's a slightly different question.

If the article is on Trump claiming that Google politically biases search results, Google having a history of returning suboptimal results in a way that is "stereotypically liberal" would be some decent supporting evidence - someone having done something before increases the prior probability of them having done so again. If that's actually accurate, of course.

Now, it seems pretty clear to me that this was a bug (and one I see in other, non-political search results) and that lowers the credibility of the criticism. I'd still rather have both sides make their strongest arguments though, and that includes pointing out prior occurrences that might suggest a pattern.
Seems pretty terrible considering that a tape has crazy more surface area (100 to 1000s of feet x 1" or so) and a 14TB disk is just a few square inches of usable area (2 inch^2 or so per platter).
Something like this, any sample size 300 or above (assuming it was drawn in a representative way) is generally regarded as legit.

Source: I run and analyze surveys for a living
Uhh, sounds like they will be treated the same as a poor person is currently treated then.

I agree that judges should have the discretion to release poor people that cannot make bail. That part of the system needed to be changed. I don't agree that they should have limitless discretion to arbitrarily hold anyone without bail. That is a gaping and dangerous hole to open up.
The upcoming Amazon production of the Tolkien series is an obvious attempt to ride the GoT coattails. I'm putting the coattail credit to GoT rather than the Jackson trilogy.
I see nobody has mentioned the "Freedom Funds," so, I will do so now. One of the better known ones: http://www.thebronxfreedomfund.org/

What these are revolving, non-profit bail funds. They screen those who require bail as to maximize the recovery of the money, choosing those that are thought to have good prospects in showing up to court. They seem to be quite effective at this, so I think there is a reasonable chance the law's "commissions" can also enjoy some accuracy. It also lends some ideas as to how such commissions can be held accountable, benchmarked, or enjoy some internal competition.
>Do you have pointers to literature about this in the context of RAID?

URE Rate is documented in most handbooks or manuals on harddisks, it's usually about 10^-12, though this is a worst case error rate and -13 or -14 is more realistic. At that rate you means your harddrive will return a read error every terabyte to every hundred terabytes.

A URE can cause the raid controller to think the HDD is defective and crash the array if no parity is left to compensate.

>Of course, my question wasn't really "why bother" so much as asking if that architecture isn't far more wasteful than, say, RAID1 (or even just RAID6/RAIDZ3) intra-node and less node-level redundancy.

Depends on your use case.

>I'm pretty sure best practices are the opposite of this.

Best practise is to test your failover regularly, correct, but this doesn't mean you shouldn't minimize your actual failover rate.

>What's the risk of a second and third drive failure in 300 hours (1/10th the maximum rebuild rate)?

It's not that low, especially since a lot of arrays contain similar enough harddrives that concurrent failure is possible (although you can make it less likely by avoiding similar batches). And again, that URE rate has a risk of marking of your array as dead if you get unlucky.
or do you? At least there would then be an excuse for Jersey ;-)
This is a point I hadn't considered.
Even being in a car these damn things are a problem. I would prefer a refund sedan as my next car, but because your visibility gets negatively impact when sitting in a low cat like that with all the SUVs around you, it will likely have to be a higher car like a Rav4 again.
Would be like headline reading "cars exploding when bumped" rather than "ford pintos exploding when bumped"
Since this subthread went into generic ideology, we've detached it from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17864539 and marked it off-topic.
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I'm no longer to cross-Tweet to Facebook anymore, but my old Tweets still appear. I added the Twitter integration back in 2009-10- maybe it's from a version of the API too old to be removed.
You would not only get very drunk from that, you could damage your skin and/or catch fire, if there is a source of ignition.

There are a few liquids that would work. One example is the refrigerant HCFC-124. However, all of these liquids are chlorofluorocarbons, and cause much more damage to the atmosphere than any amount of A/C usage. Pretty much all volatile organic compounds fall into at least one of three categories: flammable, toxic, highly potent greenhouse gas.
That’s the problem of addiction. Changing established behavior is really hard and takes a ton of self-discipline and self-control.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17864539 and marked it off-topic.
>remember the 70s and 80s, when TV and video games were supposed to turn us all into zombies? What happened? We eventually learned

Did we? A third of teens haven't read a book in the last year. And we "binge" on TV shows now which didn't really exist in the 70s.
When every function call uses "check", we end up with the same control flow as exceptions, which is almost always what I want. You only get different behavior where you don't use it.
Agreed that “excess abstraction entering the Go ecosystem” is probably the main danger, but even still, I’m not too worried. The Go community is all about simplicity, and I don’t see that changing. It’s not going to suddenly become the Enterprise Java community. Libraries with crazy abstract APIs won’t become popular.

I expect it’ll be similar to Python, which supports generics, very powerful reflection, many programming paradigms, etc., but the popular libraries tend to have simple, easy to understand APIs, because that’s just the culture of the community.
This is why we need federated social media. I can port all my data to any platform and keep a copy of my own. then when facebook does this, I can just jump to another platform with almost no friction. EG a git repo of all my data/post and linked media that I can move from github -> gitlab
Consumer Reports does excellent research, I recently discovered, not only their own original research on products but they provide the background literature too:

https://www.consumerreports.org/head-injuries/wear-a-helmet-...

The majority of serious injuries from cycling have one thing in common, says Fred Rivara, M.D., M.P.H., a professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington. “Two thirds of hospitalizations and three quarters of deaths from bicycle injuries are due to head injuries,” he says. “The most effective way to prevent that from occurring is to wear a helmet.”

Indeed, extensive research has demonstrated that a helmet is the best way[0] riders can protect themselves against head injuries—especially those that are potentially fatal.[1]

https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/bike-helmets/buying-guid...

Statistics bear it out: According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, in the majority of bicyclist deaths the most serious injuries are to the head, highlighting the importance of wearing a bicycle helmet. Helmet use has been estimated to reduce the odds of head injury by 50 percent and the odds of head, face, or neck injury by 33 percent.

Tangentially, here's how they test bike helmets:

In our tests we strap helmets onto head forms and use an apparatus that drops the helmets at about 14 mph onto a flat anvil to find out how well they withstand impact. An electronic sensor inside the head form monitors the force that would be transmitted to a rider’s skull in an accident.

We also test the strength of helmet chinstraps, attachment points, and buckles. We drop an 8 3⁄4-pound weight 2 feet so that it yanks on the straps to simulate the force that might occur in a crash.

EDIT: Add a paragraph and footnotes

[0] http://www.cochrane.org/CD001855/INJ_wearing-a-helmet-dramat...

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27450862
Dunno, had a room with 120 tapes and 100 spinning disks or so. The room hit 110F or so during an AC failure. 120 tapes died, zero disks. Actually I tried only 10 or so, before giving up. Tapes do seem much more sensitive, the storage temperature (non-operating) was the same as the operating temp of the disks.

Don't tapes have issues with print through and adhesion if not regularly used? I seem to recall best practices including something like annual seek to the end and seek to the beginning. Seems pretty similar to spinning disks.

I'm less sure of flash drives on a shelf.
We've banned this account for violating the site guidelines right after we asked you to stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
As much as you're trying to help, the truth is, small projects don't have the resources to do stuff like this. Now they have to devote time (probably someone's limited after work time) to bringing you onboard, getting you setup, etc. Then, you set everything up and let's say you disappear. Now they have this custom setup that only one person knows how to operate. At the end of the day, Slack works. They're already using it. No one has to get trained on new software. You don't need new accounts and passwords and admins and teams. The list goes on. This is a big issue with small projects - everyone wants to join and change some thing that's not part of the core mission.
Thanks for correcting! Good to know!

AmeriSpeak seems to have national representation, so I can only assume it was drawn randomly throughout the nation.
How often are you moving a bed? How many people are moving beds on a daily basis. You might as well say you can't bike to China.
Gremlins sound like a Nightmare at 20,000 Feet.
Iran-based political influence operation – bigger, persistent, global
I've been working a bit on https://baculus.co which has some overlap with that use case. Super early hacking, mainly built on scuttlebutt and other services on rpi3s, all in backpacks.
Make the window smaller. Seriously, I had the same problem and now I have room on my screen.
Huh. I guess Facebook’s move away from including someone’s update or message in their notification emails had to do with more than getting you to go to their site...
I think "Omega" is a current brand of one of these.

The Litter Robot is essentially an automated/motorized version of this. Interestingly, according to a friend of mine who ran experiments with his cats, the robot version was noticeably more efficient in terms of litter consumed (and this prompted him to replace the manual versions with the robots on a faster schedule, since clumping litter is a non-zero expense).