skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have that strong of a reaction, but realized fairly recently that I also get a lot of anxiety from writing on demand.

What works for me is not starting from scratch. If I do, I'll either never get it done or procrastinate until the last minute (while building up an incredible amount of anxiety in the interim).

Instead, I try one of two things:

1) Repurpose something else I have. As long as I have a seed to build off of or skeleton to frame against, I'm able to tackle it fine. If I have no frame of reference, I'll try to find one. In your self-evaluation case, I'd ask for an anonymous example from your boss or HR to understand the expectations.

Or, 2) Ask a trusted friend or colleague to check it over. My work context switches from C-level client management to architecture and analytics-related dev work. While I can articulate a matter to any audience, that also means I can completely miss the mark if I misjudge an audience/recipient I haven't addressed before. So I'll brain dump a bunch of stuff, then ask someone who's closer to the target audience or more familiar with them. They'll help act as a sanity check whether I'm on the right page, and I use their feedback to refine things.

I'm not sure if either of those coping strategies will help for you, but I wanted to mention them just in case!
It was a very interesting design, and I'm sad to see any space company go, but stratolaunch was honestly not a great idea for larger launch vehicles. The drag penalty reduction was most useful for smaller launch vehicles.
I'll throw in Prgmr.com. One of their owners, Alyn Post, is on Lobsters with us. They even donate hosting to the site. He's been a super-nice guy over the years. Given how cost-competitive market is, they mainly differentiate on straight-forward offerings with good service. So, I tell folks about them if concerned about good service or more ethical providers.

https://prgmr.com/xen/

Main, potential caveat is they're Xen-based hosting. That may or may not matter depending on what one wants to run. They support the major Linux's.
On the other other hand it literally takes 30 seconds to change your bank credentials so...
>the Earth is fairly overdue (statistically as I understand it) for a major asteroid hit.

What does this mean? Wouldn't the distribution of asteroid hits be essentially memoryless? That is, the fact that we have not had one in recent history has almost zero bearing on the probability of one happening in the future.
> If Google/Oracle cannot copyright APIS, then they're free to use their market positions to snuff out upstarts by copying / re-implementing their programs.

Do you have examples of this? I’m having a hard time thinking of types of programs that are susceptible.

I’d argue that the small businesses have much more to lose by APIS being copyrightable as you then are locked out of ecosystems. You’d have to pay to play to build compatible or replacement products. If this was the rule of the land in the 70s+ would we have had GNU tools or BSDs?
User finds crypto miner in “free” 3D modeling software
>the support on Linode is way, way, way better than DO's.

Can't comment about support, but DO's tutorials on linux server random task 101 are fantastic.

I was surprised how much of my ubuntu server setup googling ended up on DO pages.
You’re right that number of blocks until transaction is considered safe is arbitrary but you can’t just arbitrarily raise this number to compensate for lower difficulty because interval between blocks is 10 minutes and so in effect you’re reducing usefulness (and value) of the whole transaction system.

High difficulty is certainly non trivial value proposition of bitcoin, among many others.
I'm a slow starter :) 20 million have watched me online and growing everyday. I struggled with the simplest of stuff but excelled beyond some of the most educated in my tortoise type way. I paid more in taxes last year than most people make.
...so it was happening before 2018. And therefore has nothing to do with that bill because it was never law?
My guess is that the whole story is trash considering I found out about it via promoted tweet. Someone paid to put that on my feed. Noise.
Haven’t seen this before - nice writeup. Thanks
Quoting:

little blurb about it on the CEO's linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/rafael-lima-ab97a860/de

We are creating the first decentralized computing network, distributing professional free software and monetizing it through crypto mining and blockchain Technology.
Having been on the receiving end of terribly broken "pipelines" at startups wanting to hammer away at my resources, the right response is terminate first discuss later.

I know of a company that explicitly had a "call us to discuss first" clause in their contract with a smaller cloud provider. Everyone was on holiday and not answering the phones while their hacked account was being used to spin up dozens of boxes launching a DoS attack against a crypto scam site. Guess who had to eat the bill on that one?
Disabling != deleting.
If you think that carbon credits by their nature can't accomplish what is needed, then what do you think would?
I'm fortunate that my own company (Rackspace) at least has a level head about this sort of thing. My direct manager looks at my numbers (~60-80 interactions per month) and my colleagues (many hundreds of interactions per month) and correctly observes that we have different strengths, and that's the end of the discussion. I have a tendency to take my time and go deep on issues, and my coworkers will send me tickets that need that sort of investigative troubleshooting. My coworker meanwhile will rapidly run through the queue and look for simple tickets to knock out. He sweeps the quick-fix work away, but also knows his limits and will escalate the stuff he's not familiar with.

Let me stress here, this is not nearly as easy of a problem to solve as it appears to be on the surface. We're struggling as a company right now because after our recent merge, a lot of our good talent has left and we're having to rebuild a lot of our teams. Even so, I'm still happy with our general approach. Management understands that employees will often have wildly different problem solving approaches and matching metrics, and that's perfectly OK as long as folks aren't genuinely slacking off and we as a team are still getting our customers taken care of. I think that's important to keep in mind no matter how big or small your support floor gets.
> Wait, a whole distributed computing sub-system to make a 1s process faster?

I think OP means 1s per row, so 138 hours.
The same could be said about 95% of SV hackers. At least Bugatti employees do honest work for living and do not make the world a worse place.
It seems like the "In Soviet Russia" jokes could now be applied to California (in the sense of regulations, I'm not claiming that California abuses humm rights as much as Soviet Russia did)
The problem is that when the oceans absorb carbon, they become more acidic.
So about 14 smartphones of 2019
Maybe he meant 1s per row? i.e. 500k seconds or 139 hours.
Åhh yeah, you noticed a subtle but important detail
There is precedent because fb switched to https everywhere. That's just an example of users wanting privacy once they learned people could spy on them via firesheep because fb allowed it. Unfortunately, there isn't a straight forward technology that can keep things private, that would require fb to make something that keeps privacy protected.
Building a Low-Power, High-Performance Ryzen Homelab Server to Host VMs (2017)
capital gains tax is paid on capital gains (you've made money!!!). If a gain hasn't been made, theres no tax to pay. And anyway assuming you plan on spending your money some time before you die you're not going to be able to avoid the tax so why should it put you off spending that bitcoin?

Plus in my jurisdiction I get a capital gains allowance, so its better to spend the bitcoin now and make full use of each years allowance, than save it up for whenever.
I live in Hawai'i and confirm that many people cook on simple gas stoves and grill.
Can you point to any present carbon credit programs that are working well?
You’re correct, but how reproducible you’re builds end up being depends on how you use it, and how reproducible you need them to be depends on your use case. Maybe a particular use case wouldn’t fit in very well, maybe it would be better served by using something like packer, maybe your dependency management requirements mean you should use something like artifactory. No technology is going to be suitable for everybody’s needs, but Docker provides enough value to enough people that it’s found a place in the market. If it Docker dies, I’d imagine it would be because it was replaced by something better, not because people suddenly realized that they weren’t getting any value out of it.
Kinda obvious. What isn't - some people are possessed and do really believe. Never Mind.
Yes. Abridgement of speech in any form is censorship. In this case, the speech of people who want to discuss activities the US government deems illegal is being censored.

Censorship can be (and in the most heinous cases, is) compelled by a government, and can even arguably serve the public good, as is often argued with hate speech laws, or (less controversially) with laws against libel and slander. But as far as free speech is concerned, all censorship is equally dangerous.

It's hypocrisy for defenders of Gab to complain about platform owners and businesses de-platforming them, while accepting Gab doing the same.
WebAssembly on the Server: How System Calls Work
Well also the existence of inflation creates the need for the middle class to participate in low buy-in/aggregatable liquid inflation-proof asset classes. This has largely been fulfilled with stocks and stock-backed mutual funds, which means that inflation drives the middle class to finance the risky business adventures of the wealthy.
Yes! My college roommate was shutdown in Las Vegas after eating for 3 hours. That was thirty years ago and I still can't stop laughing after witnessing such a debacle.
People will build tools fine on Xcode for Ios or whatever, and you will have a unix app or something that gives you access to tools. Not want you want? I doubt apple gives a shit.
A stolen kiss isn't necessarily unwanted, just unexpected. But for the record in all my future tribunals, yes, stealing other people's stuff or giving them unwanted kisses is bad.
I don't like the dismissiveness towards cooking or having kitchen space, but I replaced my stove with two Instant Pots and I'm really satisfied. I don't stir fry (oil free cooking) - just rotate cooking soups, grains and beans.
Seems like u are engaging in much that you are aware is unnecessary bullshit.

I personally wouldnt be happy doing that. I value intellectual honesty extremely highly for some reason.

Have you read this? I like it.

http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html

Its an Enchiridion for Stoicism. Literally a handbook designed to be carried around and consulted as situations arise.
Even CubeSats today still use the SPARC (LEON) since it's easy to implement on a FPGA as a soft core. I'm personally not fan of SPARC though.
I agree, but I don't think that was the issue being discussed.
But when do we move on? When most browsers implement something the same way, or when all do? What about polyfills? What do you do when you need a new API to better support a user's device with a new form factor, interaction model, wide colour gamut, resolution, background threads, etc.? Tell them to not upgrade? Stop the world? It seems impractical to suggest "target a standard: job done, go home..."
They’re working on that and were sending out surveys a couple of weeks ago whether customers would be interested. They had a slightly higher minimum amount in mind for premier support

You already get bumped to a higher tier of support once you hit 500/month spend for no additional fees but that just gives you promises for lower response times
Anyone know if there's a longer version of this chart which goes back farther in time?

https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzMwNzU1Ng.jpeg
Profit-seeking “unicorns” turn to side hustles
> A lot of these pieces, including the Elgin Marbles, weren't part of an ancient theft. Many of them weren't stolen until the 18th, 19th, or 20th centuries.

I'll grant that it's getting into terminological quibbles, but I'd call the 18th century (or the early 19th, as for the Elgin marbles) probably about as ancient as a theft can be while still allowing us to have some reasonable idea of who the 'true' owners are. Farther back than that, I imagine one gets into the mists of increasingly inaccurate histories, not to mention of mutually conflicting but equally viable claims on who is the rightful owner and who the thief.
>the Earth is fairly overdue (statistically as I understand it) for a major asteroid hit.

I thought that as the solar system ages these sorts of event become much less frequent, as orbits of these bodies decay and huge gravity wells (like Jupiter) suck them up?
Ambitious open-access Plan S delayed to let research community adapt
The way Digital Ocean handled this, I am willing to bet the OP never has trouble with his DO relationship again.
If you can't afford it, a happy accident should become a happy abortion.

I came from about as broken a home as you can imagine. I dropped out of high school. I lived on the streets. I went back to college to try and escape my situation. I spent 8 hours a day in the computer lab, working on my skills. I slept in tents and on couches so I could focus on my education and get ahead. Don't talk to me about privilege.

People have the ability to be strong. Coddling and enabling keep them weak. We should help people when they are hit by random, extreme circumstances. We should mostly let them struggle when they're dealing with basic life shit.
Anybody listed “NONE” and run into issues? One might also delete accounts or add caveats that they are not your personal accounts?

Also yet another reason to stop engaging in these networks. This is actually using them for surveillance and network analysis and you have no insight into what’s happening. The companies are allowing it.

Just have to hope your ex high school girlfriend isn’t an anarchist or has a friend of a friend that “liked” a terrorist video I guess?
"Surely you could just not use the sites and services that evade your consent then?"

No, really, you cannot.

FB maintains shadow profles, even for nonusers.

Google tracks virtually all Web traffic. And most email.

Amazon backs or provisions a tremendous amount on online sevices.

Comcast, TimeWarner, AT&T, and Verizon have absolute local, and effective national, monopolies on point-of-presence service across the US. Indigenous telco monopolies operate similarly elsewhere.

Cloudfront, Limelight, Akamai. and other CDN, DNS, and interconnectivity providers see requests and traffic aggregated across huge opulations.

Visa and Mastercard see a huge fraction of financial activity.

And this doesn't even start to touch the vast B2B data services markets in advertising, marketing, finance, credit, risk, tol collection, healthcare (denial) systems, licence plate scanner, retail backends, payments processing, debt collection, and more.

There really is no effective possibility of opting out. Even with denying yourself an effective role in modern society.
Have you talked to people worked for LinkedIn marketing or sales solution?
Kiwibots win fans at UC Berkeley as they deliver fast food at slow speeds
Communal Harm-Reduction Norms
You're missing the point.

Americans believe we can and that belief allows the mental and emotional energy to try

No one is guaranteed success. But if you never believe you even could you would be much less inclined to even try.
People with narcolepsy process humor differently
Oh, the asteroids, they remember. They remember and they do not forgive!
He is funding another one for 2020 election. The stealth startup is crating a new campaign tool and only sells to one side of political spectrum.
Not working on Firefox (Linux) either.
Wow I'll have to check that place out. The Boeing Air & Space Museum is also a great one to visit - they also have an SR-71, which believe you me satisfied every childhood dream I had about that aircraft.
The Case Against Grit
I’m along the same opinions, if there was a language as complex as Haskell that gave more consideration to beginners above terseness [naming concepts better] I’d be able to accept more of it. The guy next to me is determined to hatchet in all of the functional paradigms into Typescript and he gets to decide this. I can’t help think you’re average JS dev is going to look at Maybe.may2 and be completely bemused...
Also, digitalocean has a hard droplet (VMs) limit that requires a ticket to raise. You would expect them to be okay with you staying in that limit..

(And you cant just start 10 hugely expensive VMs either, the larger sizes are initially locked too)
> and I'm not sure I'll have as much clout as Nicolas here to get your attention.

It's occurring to me now that while I've successfully ignored twitter for years, I should probably rectify that just so I have somewhere to type my hopes and prayers when this eventually happens to me, and hope for a miracle. It sure seems like the only place they're listened to.
Surprisingly, that's how I thought about it.
Doesn't look much like a "Yacht" to me . . . .
You've got an additional problem though, which is that this tells us you have two support channels: one that doesn't work (i.e. yours, the one you built), and one that does (Twitter-shaming). The first channel represents how you act when no one's watching; the second, how you act when they are. Most people prefer to deal with people for whom those two are the same.
Logging at Box: More efficient and more cost effective
You said "not in my experience they don't" and then literally describe in detail how they did exactly what I was saying they do.
Photonic Ising Machines Go Big
I'm not quite following the article. Why can't people build a duplex like that today? Which part of it is illegal? I think it has something to do with a zoning law, but I'm not very familiar with the concept. (I live in Tokyo.)
I agree. Who are all these people that pull backups, that maybe GBs or TBs in size for offline storage? How does that even work in practical terms in disaster scenarios like this where resolution times are expected within hours and not days?
This is a 2 person startup, one of them was enroute to portugal on holiday.
He did mention Redis, so I assume some sort of message queueing was in play.
Poor and broke are two different things. When people say "poor cities" they mean "broke" because while the cities may not be poor by global standards they're broke because they don't have enough $$ to pay for what they're supposed to pay for.
Bankruptcy is a good way to deal with crushing medical debt.

You can go to a community college for next to nothing, while sharing a room with several other people, and eating ramen and microwave burritos, then cover a good portion of the costs with a Pell grant, food stamps and some needs based scholarships. After a few years, you can transfer to a 4 year university for a profitable major, take out student loans and complete your degree (this should be doable for 16-24 grand). You might have to work part time to pull this off but not more than 1-2 days a week.

I don't think there are many valid excuses for being unsuccessful beyond your early 30s.

I am ok with the death and suffering of children if it avoids more death and suffering later.
Thank you!

I know it is now too late for me as FB already have my contact list, but will do (and advertise) that for now on.
For a while I was convinced this project was actually a cover along the lines of the Howard Hughes Glomar Explorer. Maybe for deploying a variant of the X-37 to be able to launch/retrieve/bug satellites undetected. I guess that wasn't actually the case.

More about the Glomar Explorer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Azorian
You might like the additional followup standard, RFC 6919: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6919

> RFC 2119 defines a standard set of key words for describing requirements of a specification. Many IETF documents have found that these words cannot accurately capture the nuanced requirements of their specification. This document defines additional key words that can be used to address alternative requirements scenarios. Authors who follow these guidelines should incorporate this phrase near the beginning of their document:

> The key words "MUST (BUT WE KNOW YOU WON'T)", "SHOULD CONSIDER", "REALLY SHOULD NOT", "OUGHT TO", "WOULD PROBABLY", "MAY WISH TO", "COULD", "POSSIBLE", and "MIGHT" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 6919.

(Spoiler: this is an April 1st RFC. That said, I have wanted to use or used "OUGHT TO" so many times…)
But, isn’t hiring all over the world exactly because it is cheaper for the same kind of talent. I’m sure the company doesn’t do it out of the goodness of their heart.

Then of course, there is no guarantee these people speak and understand english perfectly.
I regard 3-6 months as pretty good for journals. In CS competitive journals can take a year to reject something. Even if a paper is accepted, and the period of time from submission to publication can sometimes take close to 2 years.

CS conferences are nice though. Only 6-8 weeks!
> Back in the day, we used to talk a lot about how RAID is not a backup strategy. The modern version of that is that S3 is not a backup strategy.

This is not remotely the same thing. A RAID offers no protection against logical corruption from an erroneous script or even something as simple as running a truncate on the wrong table. Having a backup of your database in a different storage medium on the same cloud provider protects from vastly more failure modes.

> Who the hell doesn't have offsite backups?

No one. But S3 is already storing your data in three different data centers even if you have a single bucket in one region, and you also have SQL log replication to another region. Multi-region is as easy as enabling replication but that is only available within a single cloud provider (I can't replicate RDS to Google Cloud SQL, only to another RDS region). I would guess that a lot of people use that rather than using a different cloud provider.
Your comment about 100 followers immediately made me think of the 1,000 True Fans essay by Kevin Kelly [1].

[1] https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/
It's similar to a problem i had a few years ago when signing up for Airbnb. At the time I didn't use social networks, so there was no way for me to verify my identity except for a baroque, unoptimized process in which i sent a scan of my ID, and even then i wasn't successful. At what point will it become recommended and then inevitably required that people applying for US visas have active profiles from one of the accepted providers?
>That said, any company, especially one working with Fortune 500's, should have DB backups in at least two places.

They should have, at the very least, one DR site on a different provider in a different region that is replicated in real-time and ready to go live after an outage is confirmed by the IT Operations team (or automatically depending on what services are being run).
Yikes. I'd rather work manual labor vs hit 80-120/day ticket targets!
Unless you're declared an enemy combatant, or terrorist, whatever those things mean. Cf: everybody tortured or just waiting for disposition at Guantanamo since 2002. Oh and that's for citizens too.

See sec 501 - https://www.aclu.org/other/aclu-fact-sheet-patriot-act-ii