skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Danger ahead! Pivots quite strongly from somewhat reasonable market discussion to advocating communism/socialism. Reminds me of college...
The story goes much the same way as the others I suspect, only this one could draw high res images very fast. I learned the maths behind a dozen or so fractal types and various colouring strategies, made some very pretty pictures.

Unfortunately as it was on client time and equipment I couldn't take it with me and it lives on only as a piece of sample code attached to the client's distributed processing framework!

But damn - drawing 38400 x 21600 resolution sets in record time was fun :)
Krikalev has a good article on Wikipedia on him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Krikalev
And there are a million stories of startups who build the wrong thing, don't achieve product-market fit, etc.

You can't dot every I, cross every t and also build a compelling product as a 2 person shop.
I thought Fortune 500 companies (at least the enterprise companies I dealt with) that had checklists for their SAAS vendors that had to check off things like Disaster Recovery Readiness, etc.

At the very least this company learned a hard lesson about Disaster Recovery best practices. Hopefully all the up and coming companies reading this story learns as well. Also please remember that a backup that isn't tested IS NOT A BACKUP! I've been in so many situations where backups were corrupted, so part of the disaster recovery is to test the backups and make sure you can really recover.

There are a million different scenarios where their data could be lost and it not be Digital Ocean's fault. It's the company's responsibility to have protected their customers from this.

I worked at a company with no real Disaster Recovery plan. I was told that "we can get the servers up and running within 18 hrs if we had an outage", which not only was absurdly slow but probably an underestimate. Only by the grace of God did we not suffer a real outage but if we did, it was totally the VP's fault for not addressing my concerns.
United for Alice: Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed
>The "main" mastodon.social instance

mastodon.social isn't even the largest mastodon instance[0]. Even aside from that The majority of active accounts are hosted on small or personal instances, especially for English speaking accounts.

>extreme in their views on moderation

IIRC instance admins had an issue with the purism instance not actively going against hate-speech. I'd hardly call that extremist.

[0]From https://instances.social/list

Instance Users

DOWN pawoo.net 549417

DOWN mastodon.social 321500

DOWN mstdn.jp 191718

UP switter.at 118232
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> In any case, it's also probably too much infrastructure cost for a 2-man company.

keeping your production and your backups in the same cloud provider is the equivalent of keeping your backup tapes right next to the computer they're backing up. you're exposing them both to strongly correlated risks. you've just changed those risks from "fire, water, theft" to "provider, incompetence, security breach"
Why Software Sucks
The problem is that after those 10 years new technology could differ so much that all efforts put in optimization would be pointless.

Things like that already happened - for example slow HDDs are now replaced by very fast SSDs. There is Intel Optane that is only 1 order of magnitude slower than RAM and Intel Opate DIMM is closing gap even further.
That was the LISA Pathfinder mission (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LISA_Pathfinder), the preparatory step for a gravitational wave detector in space. And yes something like that could work eventually. Right now we are doing science on that concept. It takes a decade or three to get the technology mature enough that you can do astronomy with it.
>spend the money and benefit people or ecosystems

I think the kind of people buying $13 million cars often neither know nor care about the state of the world outside their bubble of luxury.
There have been so many stories of AWS accounts being “hacked” (actually they weren’t. someone posted their keys to a public github repo), the person panicking, then sending a ticket to AWS and then getting a refund. AWS support is excellent - especially on the business tier and above.

I will gladly pay the extra money for AWS than to even think about DO or even GCP for a money making project.

But more on topic: with Aurora/MySQL you can have an on-site hosted read replica from an AWS hosted database. That would be a cheap, easy real time backup solution if I were really worried about AWS screwing me over.
Don’t know who he is. Don’t care.
Agreed, but it's not like the original poster had a huge platform, he just posted about it on Twitter. I may despise Twitter for a bunch of different reasons, but I can't deny it's a great tool for raising issues to companies.
No intention to flame, I genuinely find this case fascinating.

So Devils advocate - the dnc was polarized before assange leaked anything. It was straight up controlled by Hillarys camp. If Hillary were some grassroots candidate or hell, if the dnc had just not deliberately sided with one specific candidate when their bylaws are crystal clear that that is wrong (not to mention common sense agreeing) - then yeah I'd say assange was playing presidential chess (though we don't know his actual impact) and that's bad. But that said - the dnc was corrupt as hell. I see assange having a metric fuck ton of moral wiggle room here. Personally it didn't matter what candidate did what Hillary got away with in that election - whoever it was deserved to be exposed and too bad if other incriminating shit came out too. My two cents.

Further, what I've seen is that ppl who dislike assange seem to base it on "well he did something illegal" (giving Manning instructions for hacking). Well, Manning then chose to hack and was pardoned after way less than assange has been through, so how can assange possibly be so bad?

I'm still awaiting more details. I have no problems changing my views. But as everything stands now, I cannot help but think this whole anti assange business is fueled by the exact same propaganda machines that were running on behalf of Hillary in 2016. The ones that mysteriously shut off or slowed down the moment she lost. The ones that insisted that she didn't receive debate questions ahead of time. The ones that convinced so many that there was no server hacking. The ones that made trump look like an incompetent loser with no chance of winning.
As a startup, generally your secondary backup could literally be an external hard drive from best buy, or an infrequent access S3 bucket (or hell, even Glacier). No excuse, especially when "dealing with Fortune 500 companies".
They should borrow the Dragnet one
Up and Running with Gatsby #8: Writing CSS-in-JS in a Gatsby Project [video]
The valley Zeeman effect in inter- and intra-valley trions in monolayer WSe2
They literally put all their eggs in the same basket by having the backup and the production environment at the same provider.

Not saying this shouldn't have happened, and hopefully they have learned from this experience.
Another practical difference: When AWS goes down, it makes the news outside the tech bubble too. Customers are much more likely to forgive you, if you send a link to NY Times that says "Amazon is suffering a global outage, affecting tens of thousands of companies"
I work in medical devices and without off label use by doctors it would be really hard and expensive to innovate and explore new indications. Maybe there should be some registry and published information but I don’t see an alternative.
That seems reasonable. Launching security-bug-ridden software seems dangerous, so mounting to a VPS so you can copy the important files seems an entirely reasonable access method.
Full tweet and screenshot text below:

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@oleg008:

"Wow, @Medium pressured @freeCodeCamp to put articles behind the firewall:

'They have pressured us to put our articles behind their paywalls. We refused. So they tried to buy us... We refused. Then they started threatening us with a lawyer.'

Can't believe this is real."

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Hi Oleg,

Thanks again for publishing on freeCodeCamp's Medium publication.

freeCodeCamp is the biggest publication on Medium. Our open source community sends Medium about 5% of their total traffic.

But over the past year, Medium has become more aggressive toward us. They have pressured us to put our articles behind their paywalls. We refused. So they tried to buy us. (Which makes no sense. We're a public charity.) We refused. Then they started
threatening us with a lawyer.

It's not just us. They are doing this to a lot of publications. And a lot of high profile people from the developer community are leaving Medium as a result.

Medium is a corporation founded by a billionaire who also accepted $132 million in venture capital.

freeCodeCamp is just a tiny donor-supported nonprofit.

I tell you this not because I want you to be angry. I'm not angry. I just want to help people learn to code.

So together, the community made plans to leave Medium. We built freeCodeCamp News as fast as we could.

freeCodeCamp News is a place where you can share your blog articles. It's free, it doesn't have ads, and it's open source. There are no "sign in" popups or paywalled articles. According to Google's own Lighthouse Score, freeCodeCamp News is faster than Medium, has better SEO than Medium, and is more accessible than Medium.

And in just the past 48 hours, hundreds of thousands of people have read articles on freeCodeCamp News. So we have a growing audience for your articles.

This said, all of your articles are still on Medium where they were before.

The articles you submitted - which we edited then published in freeCodeCamp's Medium publication - are now on freeCodeCamp News, too.

You can read more about freeCodeCamp News - including my detailed FAQ - here: https://www.freecodecamp.org/forum/t/279929

On a personal note, I wrote more than 500 articles on Medium. I built up a following of 155,000 people on Medium over the years. It was hard to leave Medium. But I have no doubt that it was the right thing to do.

I'm optimistic that all of us in the developer community can start our own blogs on the open web, then use community tools like freeCodeCamp News to raise awareness of them.

I'm looking forward to reading more of your writing in the future.

Best,

Quincy Larson
The teacher who founded freeCodeCamp.org

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Former UK PM David Cameron Takes Job with US Artificial Intelligence Firm
This race to the bottom has reached a point that it's harming customers. It's okay to be more expensive than the competition if you provide a better service.
All that versus a vector<int> , unordered_map<string, Foo> :)
Scientists develop polariton nano-laser operating at room temperature
If it makes you feel better: they're hardly ever being driven...
It’s not your decision to tell people what to spend their money on. I’d rather one beautiful super car is made than 20 million $5 cups of useless Starbucks coffee. Why not make a cup at home and save the paper and plastic garbage that ends up in landfills?

You start playing the game of “this is an insane decadence that means the world is broken!” and the logic falls apart quickly.
Has this worked out in practice, say with cookie warnings? Or do most of us click Accept and move on?
Dare I say you're both right and missing each others point?

Doing a good job at everything you do personally and professionally is (like you say) integrity and drives self-respect.

At the same time, the work you're doing can be menial/meaningless to you and thus may take time from tasks that have greater meaning, or it may even be mentally unhealthy (stress) or impact your relationships (long hours) that is sometimes required TO do a good job.

Not everything we do in life is going to matter, I'm not arguing we need to have meaning in everything. However there is a point I think where people do need some sort of personal meaning/connection to some of what they're doing. For many people its family, others charity, volunteering or working in fields where they are passionate and connected to or any/all of the above/other.

Too often people take the admirable approach of trying to do the best job they can at everything, and burn themselves out on tasks and jobs that don't provide them personal benefit in their lives otherwise in my opinion, its a cultural issue that seems to be getting worse.
Which also is to point out that UWP is sort of expanding into cross-platform almost directly with the increased communication/sharing between the WinUI controls library team and the Fabric UI teams. Which also seems to underscore how wrong the article is here in that UWP isn't dead, it's just evolving, including going more cross-platform, getting better at running on more versions of Windows (instead of being tied to specific versions of Windows, new changes are increasingly moving to NuGet package updates, especially with the upcoming WinUI 3.0 moving almost the full UWP rendering stack into Open Source C++ libraries rather than baked into Windows), and working in many more scenarios (plug UWP/WinUI controls into an old WinForms app or an old MFC app with no problems, mix and match to your ancient app's needs).
I'm with you and I will probably never have a roommate again because of negative experiences.

However, I've always felt something is deeply wrong with the way zoning works right now. I live in a suburb type residential neighbourhood and the nearest corner store is a 20 minute walk away -- that seems silly. At some point we strictly divided residential and commercial and we all suffer because of it.

Zoning is also one of the prime factors in the car culture problem that is eating up the world's resources and boiling the frog called humanity.
Why did they have no choice but to use the reactors for the next 14 years?
What Fortune 500 company is doing business with 2-man shops that aren’t?
Ditto, but late 1990s instead of 1970s. I survived (so far) as well :)
Since you are looking at a warm planet you will never get your camera down to 7 K nor do you need to as all sources are close by and bright compared to the astronomical targets for JWST. So the shielding issue is somewhat different. Having Earth, Moon and Sun in the same direction so you can block all of them with a single heat shield is actually one of the reasons why JWST is going to the L2 Lagrange point.
We do tax them! We tax the value of the factory, we tax the company's profits, and we tax the goods the robots when they are sold. The robots were also taxed when they were purchased.

As I understand it, the human work probably wasn't directly taxed. I'm guessing that what was taxed as the incomes of the humans. This may seem like a meaningless distinction, but the humans have other opportunities to earn taxable incomes.

All that said, you seem to be getting at the notion of a Universal Basic Income. It's an increasingly popular idea in some political circles.
They only process 500 complaints a year. This is not a serious problem at the scale described in the article, so local governments do not allocate resources to it.
Fortunately, many of us live in free countries and are free to spend our money as we choose. At the least, the money going to bugatti with benefit the people who helped design and build the cars. Maybe those aren't the people you think should be helped, but after all we are free.
So pretend they had offsite backups. That's a separate issue from an entire contingency plan. The ability to adapt is not the same thing. This company could certainly adapt to a new host if they had an extra backup.
Caps or quotas are a better way to achieve this IMO. Random shutdowns do not make it sound as if DO is ready for production.
You can pay teenagers in the Phillipines a few dollars a day to solve any kind of captchas for you. Maybe I have a different concept of a targeted attack, but that seems certainly in the realm of what a criminal enterpise or nation state would expend on a high value target.
All-you-can-eat buffets
If you built and sold it to someone (presumably an extremely private, wealthy individual), you could also presumably stay on retainer for life as the only person who could fix it.
Are these apps open source? I'm curious to see if they changed mastodon in any meaningful way.
It’s Time to Unbundle Facebook
That extension is deprecated.
I'm not aware of any formal process that automatically does this (at least in the US); lack of open free to implement standards for medical records and poor separation of patient identifying information from medical efficacy information combine poorly with the well meaning parts of HIPPA and the lack of a central authority to submit de-identified data to.

Much of that would be addressed by having a single-payer healthcare system, which could mandate record standards and submission of specific portions of the data in ways that do not unduly risk identifying patients.
Wait for the new CSS version over which our team had a watch. Wont require JS after it comes out. ;D

Also we know many exploits to bypass noscript if we wanted to (yes I know there are bounties for this, but we were paid much higher then any public bounty for this stuff)
I have mixed feelings on this. On one hand, I like most things that involve moving away from the publish or perish culture in academia. On the other hand, this doesn't seem to be a productive way to do that. This seems to be trying to attack poor quality publishers through an indirect method which likely will not solve the problem - people are still incentivized to publish in other ways and the root cause needs to be hit to make any real progress. I also think that having at least one publication during an entire PHD is not an unreasonable request - ending publish or perish shouldn't be pursued by trying to curtail the importance of publishing overall since it is still a critical part of the scientific process. There need to be good journals that accept null results and in progress results and replication studies so scientists can continue to be incentivized to share their work without forcing them to build their life around achieving something "publishable" in the current paradigm.
7 tireless hours of work (with lunch break) 15 minutes to Listen, understand and resolve an issue, assuming perfect knowledge, a lot of luck and normal human speed, that would still amount to less than 30 resolutions a day.
Thanks for your insights. I used google suite only as an example, there are a great variety of other services available for email, etc, some with much better privacy features. My main point was that maintaining your own infrastructure is much more expensive than using off-the-shelf services, so the price argument further up the thread isn't really justified.
Which sounds exactly like having a proper package manager...
At the very least grab the URL and title of the frontmost tab. Firefox can’t even do that without finicky GUI automation (i.e. faking key presses).
Reid Hoffman apologizes for funding a group that allegedly spread misinformation in Alabama Senate race

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/26/reid-hoffman-apologizes-for-...
> If the system is subject to false positives, students will figure out a way to exploit that, e.g. marked as present when absent via 'masks', Mission Impossible-style.

I can assure you, the teams of PhDs from Stanford and MIT will address those cases. Just like how Google knows if you're clicking random ads.
That's security by obscurity and in the computing world this strategy has shown to fail. In other areas of life obscurity gives you advantages like in military conflict, but not here.

Furthermore, an OS with only one or only few users would have to go through a lot of extra testing compared to the free testing that "popular software" companies are getting.

But your comment made me think about why there isn't much going on in luxury computing. As in: where are the raytraced photorealistic nvidia DGX games. Probably too small of a market but I don't know. Do rich people play a lot of games? Or do they rather prefer real life because they have the resources?
These TPMS sensors do add a significant price increase on the tires, which most people I know about choose to avoid at the expense of this "lights on".

We do have to swap our tires for winter tires up north, so I'm not getting tires with the sensors.
A more complicated process has worked multiple times in orbit already, look up the Orion program and Mentor sats.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_(satellite)
Luckily, you don't have to be super wealthy to do this! If you have ~$7k in your bank account you were planning on spending on things beside food and shelter, you can easily save a life in the developing world instead.

https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities
You somehow missed bothe the last 15 years or so, and the most important bits of my response.

The world is increasingly online. Banks are closing down branches because most things can be done online. Schools are sending school reports and teacher communications via email. Job applications for high(er) paying jobs are becoming almost exclusively done via online forms. Ongoing communication with recruiters is being done via email. Doctors increasingly communicate through email.

More importantly, classes and courses, distance learning, tutors (that is all the things you need to educate yourself and get a better job) are almost exclusively online now (and once online, available and affordable to anyone).

But yeah. If you are a 12-year-old paper delivery boy, you will not need a smart phone and internet.

Edit: your hypocrisy is especially rich considering that you're applying to YC Winter 2019 [1]. You're sending them via a fixed landline from Little Ceasars where you biked, right?

[1] https://www.ryanmercer.com/ryansthoughts/2018/10/30/an-open-...

(Your site is in your profile).
You're giving Plaid and your average user way too much credit.

If the inherit trust is so obvious, then why would Plaid not include a very common step in authentication flows like FB and Google to explicitly tell users what they are agreeing to share with XYZ developer before submitting their credentials (which may be just a bank account number, but might also be transaction history, personal information, account balance, etc.)? They've purposefully omitted this step because conversion would almost certainly tank.
Well it's mostly a fluff/bs term that people bestow on themselves to influence people into paying them anyway.
"Le meilleur des mondes possibles."
>Fortunately, many of us live in free countries and are free to spend our money as we choose.

Fortunately for who? Not the world. Maybe not even for the selfish creeps themselves... they still have to live with themself.
> We need to end off label use.

How would you propose doing that? Under the current system, we would simply be redirecting people to on-label prescriptions, which are higher priced but not better.

> Saying a drug is approved for one diagnosis and then allowing it for any other diagnosis is, in the modern age, simply crazy.

That's not what off-label is. Off-label just means that it's not an approved indication for the drug. The approved indications are what the drug companies are allowed to market / recommend.

> One might as well not have fda approval.

This is a fairly absurd comment to make, so I'm not even sure how to respond to it. Surely you are already aware that the FDA approval process requires studying the safety, contraindications, etc for a medication, and that these do not need to be redone from scratch for new applications?

Off-label use is just cutting through a small bit of regulatory box-ticking, box-ticking that doesn't add much value. Off-label use is common and standard of care often involves off-label use.

There are simply not enough resources to research the combination of every drug with every indication, not enough to provide the level of care that we can provide with off-label use.