skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tapes can last for 50 years. They are the MOST stable and reliable form of storage we have.

We have also not even reached any kind of limit on density. Sony has tapes that hold hundreds of terabytes.

So, they last forever, are extremely reliable, and extremely data dense.

HDDs exploit the same concept (magnetic storage) but trade speed for reliability. NAND is more reliable but still has a shelf life, and it also relies on support chips to constitute the overall media. It's also expensive as hell.

Tape is tape. You could smash a cassette and respool the tape and read it. Its also cheap as hell per gb.

Tape will be around for decades if not centuries to come. NAND is not a challenger whatsoever.

A key piece of the puzzle here is that not only are tapes used for backup, but to free up space from data center HDDs in order to increase their shelf life.

Stop thinking of tape as archaic. Magnetic storage is the foundation of modern technology and computing, and in past decades we barely scratched the surface of its potential.

We aren't talking about audio cassettes with analog audio recorded to them. We are talking about a storage medium that is more data dense than HDD or NAND could ever be and we have yet to reach any sort of limit.

With tape you can achieve more and more space by manipulating the width and length of the tape, the tape heads, the angle at which tape is read, and the way that the data is read and stored. It's also just a plastic cassette with polyester tape coated with rust particles. It's inherently cheaper, requires no circuitry, power, or motors within the media itself, and will last 50 years.

Tape is the purest implementation of magnetic storage concepts. As such it is going to improve faster than HDDs because there are no other design factors like platters, motors, and heads. If an HDD dies, you might be able to recover the data through expensive and time consuming procedures. If your tape drive stops working, you buy another drive and still have an intact tape with all of your data.

Additionally, while SSDs are wonderful, they are a pretty backwards design when it comes to efficiency. You are essentially trying to model magnetic storage by using integrated circuits. You are storing values with digital logic in a physical state on a chip.

Its fast and more reliable than a spinning metal disk, but it's expensive and not data dense at all.

The only threat to tape is public perception of it being "old" when it's really the most robust and best engineered data format we have.
They finally learned with UWP.

Microsoft WinDev always seemed a bit strange versus everyone else.

Borland had very nice high level frameworks (still do as Codegear but alas), and then DevTools also had them as VB and later .NET.

But WinDev had always to make everything low level, and if it wasn't for them we would have had AFX instead of MFC.
> he's not the only one.

Too true:
https://github.com/search?q=spring.datasource.password%3D123...
That's a very wise advice swatcoder. Thank you very much
The original concept of Web 2.0.
It sounds like the k8s project has behaved as if it has infinite cloud resources at its disposal, and as such has made no effort to conserve usage.

If this really is a matter of giving the community a mountain of credits, they could probably make it last a whole lot longer with a quick housekeeping pass.
A first step is acknowledging the problem or being aware that there is room for improvement. Even if they just think about it, that's how trends start.

Headline: 'taking steps'
Study: 'said they are trying'
Strict building codes increase the cost of buildings but make them safe in case of earthquakes. You can see that as a form of tax for living in an earthquake-prone area.
It blocks the physical manifestations of stress - increased heartrate, sweating, etc that can form a feedback loop, and downregulates a bit of thyroid hormone production. How does one know they're stressed? The feeling of those symptoms.

I imagine it could help, and probably be better than therapy alone, but lessoning of the negative feelings around painful memories can be treated with opiates too (which are far more addictive than MDMA, despite MDMA being far more euphoric). The problem is PTSD, anxiety disorders and personality disorders are incredibly intractable with the tools we have - if a therapeutic session could have 10x efficacy and safely get someone to a healthier state in 1 year rather than 10, it should absolutely be looked into.
The same water has been flooding homes and destroying infrastructure all over the upper midwest for the last couple weeks.
Wouldn't surprise me. Code that works has a tendency to stick around longer than people think. There's a lot of institutional knowledge built into that codebase. It would be like firing an employee of 20 years who works for nothing and hiring someone for millions of dollars.
Jamba – A lightweight VST2/3 framework
Totally agree, and I think this is where so much discussion gets off track - few problems are ones that haven't been seen before in human history. But when something comes along that suddenly facilitates or exacerbates a problem in a uniquely powerful way, we need to really examine that.

I'm like full of weird analogies today, (see other posts on this thread) but, like, take the modern diet. It's not as though obesity, or diabetes, or heart failure, or whatever, never existed until now; but some things changed in how we create, package and distribute food over the past century: food processing and preservation, artificial flavors and fillers, pesticides and antibiotics, sugar... sugar EVERYWHERE. And yeah, all of these things have come with ENORMOUS benefits. But we're also starting to realize the cumulative effects these new processes are having on the public health.

We already KNOW there are massive negative side effects of Social Media use for individuals - especially with depression and bullying, and unhealthy self-image. And collectively we're starting to see the effects of such a singularly huge network with no accountability or oversight and how that can shape public opinion and knowledge. All this noise about Social Media is just us as a society trying to figure out just what to do about it all.
...the demand for a response is wired in to most undamaged wetware...
...willing compliance is a phenomenal leverage point...
being social creatures the whole tribe is in chaos if we dont comply or come to consensus of group action, thus blind faith in authorities of all types exist as a conditioned response
It’s too late now. All existing roles are now filled with Google people, and therefore the project culture has become the Google culture. No non-Google newcomers can individually change that culture.
I believe in AR/VR. I don't work in that space but I feel they should start with specialized use cases such as mental health and show value and be nimble about bringing it mainstream. Otherwise it will be a pie in the sky.....
> being told that once the kid comes out thousands of years of evolution magically hit you in the back of the head

This is true, there are studies out there that have shown men go through physiological changes in the brain, similar to what happens to women, both during their partners pregnancy and after the child is born.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_exa...
Indeed negotiating a line of credit often requires a model.
One common thought under the influence of MDMA is:

The world could end now. Everything is perfectly fine.
Axe's cast time (also called cast point) is 400ms. Source: https://liquipedia.net/dota2/Axe

This means that Dota 2 was balanced around the expectation that human's best reaction would be at least 400ms, because I've never seen Axe's blink calls being dodged unless the player had vision of Axe before the blink and thus was expecting it.
What stops someone from forking it and re-sublicensing it back to vanilla MIT?
Looks like New Orleans area ports export about 1/3 of the US agricultural products, which is 8 times more than any other US port[1]. Shipping down river is by far the cheapest way to move bulk products like grain and New Orleans is where the Mississippi meets the ocean.

[1]https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/Port%20Pr...
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Sometimes Google doesn't personalize search results enough for me. I do some academic stuff in $FIELD, and sometimes (can't think of an example off the top of my head, sorry) the keywords for a $FIELD-related search happen to namespace-collide with something completely unrelated that I don't even think of until I try to Google the keywords and get a faceful of crap about vacations to Disneyworld or divorce lawyers or caring for your pet lizard.

Never happens with tech jargon though.
Does the OP support merging? I didn’t see that.
Not only writing, his talks are also quite interesting to follow.
I think the idea is that wet areas are getting wetter, while dry areas are getting drier as the climate becomes more extreme.
I'm getting the feeling lately that the freedom in speech and action that is the foundation of the United States doesn't mean freedom from consequences.

Florida has a rather right leaning/libertarian persuasion, which as the article pointed out, allowed the Miami Drum Services Inc. superfund site and Lake Belt limestone mine to cause contamination of drinking water as recently as 1997.

I'm from Idaho and am well aware of the environmental impacts from superfund sites and mining. The corporations go in and make their millions, then taxpayers are on the hook for the cleanup. Now we can't even fish many rivers and lakes here because mine tailings have contaminated the water with mercury (from gold mining) and other nastiness.

Due to a long history of this short term thinking where profits are privatized and externalities are socialized, Miami is going to have to come to terms with losing its drinking water and either pipe it in from far away or move to desalinization. It's going to be expensive and unfortunate, but I wonder if it will be enough for people to shift their politics. Judging by the political stalemate in my state, I'm guessing not.
It seems like it would be hard for a parent or the community to monitor kids' social media use in a way that's appropriately hands-off. Maybe mandate that users under 18 have parental consent and give the parent access to something limited, like a graph of contacts with their frequency of interaction.

That would be akin to a parent's ability to see who their kid is hanging out with in real life, without the extent of listening to every word they say.
Bitcoin-like block chains don’t merge.
Yeah, I can’t see how Github can host Lerna with this license, since Github is clearly “any
subsidiary thereof”.
I don't have experience in either. More like aws (lambdas, sqs, dynamodb, ecs, emr, kinesis, etc...) and reactjs or vuejs
It's honestly not that difficult
The Unity Game Studio Report 2018
The difference between current demand, and the increased demand that would exist at a lower price.

I just mean, there are lots of people that would move to SF if they could afford it. This mass of potential immigrants will counter an attempt to just build your way out.

Unless you mean a real substantive change to the city e.g. building 30,000 apartments/year.
Google Cloud grants $9M in credits for the operation of the Kubernetes project
Do you ever think it would be a bad idea for a couple to take that trip together?
MFW people don't realize where MSNBC came from
I think demos should be more of an "average performance" rather than "best performance" kinda deal in a lot of situations.

This demos tells me upfront that I can expect some OCR issue when I write an e like the euro symbol :P
What does that tell us about banks loans as a signal of investment security?

> Not just the banks, the borrowers

I don't think the banks need defending, and I don't think we can compare the financial decisions made by professionals who are legal and moral custodians of the financial system with ordinary people. It would be like comparing the medical decisions of hospitals and ordinary people - 'it's not just the hospitals that offered this treatment as a cure, it's the patients who participated in it.' or 'It's not just the developers who made this highly insecure, malware-ridden software, it's the users who downloaded it.'
Half of your “red” coastline consists of Florida—the vast majority of the coastal population of which is blue (see any 2016 electoral map).
Miami lies on an outcropping of rock that is very close to sea level. On the inland side of that ridge is their aquifer. In a 6' scenario, most developed ground near Miami will literally be underwater, and the aquifer will be no longer be viable. Underwater isn't that melodramatic.

Considering that almost all projections have undershot global warming and sea level rise, and recent empirical observations have supported accelerating increases, we should be looking at worse that RCP8.5 scenarios which is already a full meter by 2080-2100.

Sea level rises by 2100 that are only 1"/.3m all rely on huge decreases in CO2 emission and global policy responses, which is unlikely based on existing evidence.

edit: https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/70189089 (saline intrusion in Biscayne aquifer, access via referrer https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/07/06/global-warmin... and free access)

edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_Concentration_P... (nomenclature for future climate scenarios)

edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPCC_Fifth_Assessment_Report (assessments and risks under future climate scenarios)

edit: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-018-0146-0 (evidence that projections are below current observed rates and overly conservative, even in some worst cases)
true that. Not even mentioning the insane amount of telemetry data they are "sending home" on regular basis. You think social network is bad? Well take a look on your AV...
Then that is a problem with that instance of state juvenile care, America's. Hard to draw conclusions about such a wide reaching topic as the role of the state in raising children about one example, in America no less, where the incentives seem to be always so fucked up backwards.
figuring out how to be a good partner to my boyfriend who just admitted he was molested as a child. he says he doesn't want to talk about it but he's also the one who's brought it up on multiple occasions. we both have very bad past experiences with counseling and medication, so it is unlikely he'd be very receptive to going down that road again. he's the most loving and beautiful person i've ever known & i want nothing more than to show him that he can still be loved by not treating him any differently than i would otherwise but is that really and different from repression? there's also the fear that he's becoming very dependent upon me while my own mental illness is still very much unresolved. he still lives with his abuser and i really want to get him out of that situation but if i take him in, it'll create a situation where he is both emotionally and financially reliant.
any advice would be deeply appreciated
Sorry if you feel that way. I try to be fairly objective, while disclosing my obvious bias.

Fwiw, I like HN, precisely because the community rewards healthy dialogue. My good comments are upvoted and the shitty ones are down voted. I worry about whether or not my comments are getting upvoted by lots of Googlers, but I sort of trust the HN moderators to have built in defenses against that in the voting ring detector. I also don't go asking anyone to upvote my comments or submissions, and I actively remind people of the same.
I find Sam Altman's advice on startup completely and utterly useless. They're akin to the "How to become a millionaire" books. I've said this in the past [1] that providing generic advice doesn't work for startups. Every company is unique and they have unique challenges. Instead, Sam should be focusing on bringing stories of various startups in light, interview their founders and have a focused discourse on what worked and what didn't for that __particular__ startup.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17309725
Storj launches program for open source companies to earn revenue in the cloud
You can do case-insensitive columns by enabling the "citext" module, which is included but not enabled by default: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/citext.html
> Innocence doesn't mean that you didn't use the service.

Assuring appearance of the accused is a service government provides to taxpayers (EDIT: more correctly, the public at large); doing it with the minimum necessary and efficient interference with the liberty of the accused is a matter of basic human rights, not a service to the accused.

Therefore, there is no service to the accused being consumed, and no basis for a payment by the accused. The service being provided is to the public by the State at a cost to the liberty of the accused, and should be paid for out of public revenues, not out of the pocket of the person whose liberty is being curtailed.

EDIT:

> Should the taxpayers foot the bill?

Yes, clearly.

> Perhaps but good luck politically.

It's been the policy, and a fairly uncontroversial one, in the nation's capital (despite the fact that for much of that time, a Congress of the opposing major party from the D.C. local government has had veto power over D.C. policy) for years, and a national political movement has now coalesced around it, with polls showing strong national public support for it, and it was just approved by both political branches of the government of the largest state. So, yeah, it seems to be doing just fine, politically.
The COM side rant is still relevant today. All of the UWP framework for "modern Windows Store apps" is built on top of COM. It's like a time warp. The JavaScript and .NET SDKs for UWP apps are just wrappers around what is really a COM API. Often you are dealing with low level `COMException` exceptions (in .NET land) for things that the .NET SDK hasn't got a contingency for.
Is it politics when human rights are violated? I don't think it's "politics" to oppose children separated from their parents.
> Your work should tell a story

No, that's nonsense. Tons of art throughout history told no story and was still compelling. Pollock, Balanchine, Schoenberg, etc. did abstract works that tell no story. (In fact, Balanchine specifically made it a point to not have a story.)
Yeah the title is misleading, makes it sound like Google is abandoning the project
What's weird? The landlocked Czech Republic has different water level trends than coastal Miami?
In my experience, anyone under age 40, for sure.
It's amazing how much going to work feels like play time to me now that I've had children! You can generally take a break, go to the bathroom, etc whenever you feel like it, but depending on the age of the child(ren) at home, such activities often seem like luxuries to squeeze in whenever you finally have a moment to do so. I've generally felt like the most difficult challenges at work are easier than some of the problems when caring for kids, but the joys of children far outshine the best jobs I've ever had.
Even if it's faked, it still has a net positive effect.
One day it was returning only German results for me despite my region being set to US and language to English. Every search, didn't matter what the keywords were.

I was in my office (my geoIP was still US) where dozens, maybe hundreds, of Germans work. I wonder if that had anything to do with it but I'm not sure how.
They either:

- don’t pay

- don’t pay on time

- want to low ball you on bids

- don’t follow your advice

- get upset when the pain you told them would happen if they ignore your advice, happens

- are verbally abusive or manipulative

- anything else that makes you unhappy working for them

Bottom line my mentor taught me to take work from the troublesome clients but to make sure their rate was sufficiently high so that I was always happy to work for them. They can be jerks but I would smile because I knew I was getting a fat check from them. Experience has shown me however crap loads of cash aren’t always enough.
A Model-Based Tool for the Analysis and Design of Gene Regulatory Networks
To massively simplify, you are focused entirely on the negative effects which can be mitigated especially in a clinical setting.

What you're describing as a "bad" thing is that all the chemicals get released at once - what that does is create the perfect mental environment to deal with issues or trauma that would be literally too painful to access otherwise. Often times the benefit of getting through or starting a journey of healing of some long-standing problem will hugely outweigh the minor downregulation of neurochemicals afterwards (you will feel a little slow).
Adding a NOT NULL column with a default value as an online DDL operation is in fact an Enterprise Edition feature.
If I ran an English business in 1968, I probably wouldn't hire an Enoch Powell supporter.

I'm fine if an employee disagrees with me over how high income tax should be, or whether or not healthcare should be privatized. People are allowed to have different views. However if I think someone is intolerant, I don't want to help them. That kind of tolerance is tolerance in name only.

I wouldn't want to associate my business with, or financially support, an employee who, say, spends the weekends rallying to kick West Indians out of the country. Whether such rallies draw sparse, or teeming crowds, doesn't make a difference to me.
Came here to say that. How come no other tutorial or MOOC on pandas mentions that? It's so useful.
> Barring a stupendous reversal in greenhouse gas emissions, the rising Atlantic will cover much of Miami by the end of this century.

Note that your home does not need to be permanently underwater to have it destroyed by a storm. Not even a hurricane-type thing; there are parts of Miami that require permanent water pumps today to stay dry. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/...
> Start worrying when the banks stop offering mortgages to people trying to buy property in south beach.

Florida is a recourse state, isn't it? That might make whether or not banks offer mortgages a trailing indicator rather than a leading indicator of how risky it is there.

In a non-recourse state (Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Washington), if the borrower stops paying their mortgage the bank can foreclose and sell the property, and that ends the borrower's obligation. If the proceeds from the foreclosure were less then what was owed too bad for the bank. That's all the get.

In a recourse state, it starts out the same. The bank forecloses and sells the property. But in a recourse state, that only ends the borrower's obligation if the proceeds are enough to pay the remaining debt. If they fall short, the borrower still owes the difference. The bank can go after assets other than the property, or can go for wage garnishment, or both.
What I'm trying to do to get experience working on other people's code is get the people I know who are trying to build their portfolios to farm issues and so on out to each other. I know a guy who's working on an RSS feed reader and ran into a bug he doesn't feel like fixing, I have a Rails app that needs styling, we work on each other's projects.

It's probably worse than finding big open-source projects to contribute to, but that's intimidating enough that none of us have done it.