skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
N=1

Linode backups start to fail when you have more then 3 million files on a drive.

When debugging this, they told me the reason, I did a snapshot that worked, and then they turned off backups because they were failing. They didn’t highlight that backups were now off.

Restores on the larger machines can take 5+ hours, and they will often report that the restore failed if you are restoring a drive that contains docker’s pipe files.

Ymmv, but I’m trying to get off linode.
It seems to be Brazilian Ju-Jitsu, judging by the lack of any other expansions of the acronym in the first page of DuckDuckGo's results.
It's easier to meet your basic survival needs as an individual, and thus you have more disposable income for nonsense commodities. Everybody I know who is single and has a good job buys tons of junk they don't need (or often even want). It's the norm.
Anyone know of a "how will Stadia perform on my ISP" check (all I see is a bandwidth check, which is not the same)? I'm not expecting anything (I'm on average 50ms ping to servers, 120ms ping if you include processing on the remote end), but it would be good to have confirmation.

I'm also disappointed by the dramatic extension of the "you don't own the games you buy", since there's not even an option to download the titles and play offline. It gets more worrisome based on Google's demonstrated "go to HN" form of customer support.
Its Brazilian Ju Jitsu, for those wondering.
This. Remember to love and invest in yourself for your own sake -- it will make you a better partner too.
For me that's an immediate 'nah', because I entirely expect it to suddenly shut down at some point in the future (because, you know, Google).
It's not a problem for you, and therefore not a problem, amiright?
I have some ideas but pretty sure they are wrong.

Seconded on request for clarification.
> If he was a pastor, he probably believed in an afterlife, hoping to be together with Sarah again?

Only if he thought she was in hell. A pastor would know that you can't commit suicide and enter heaven.
Is this a workaround for the POTUS to "send troops the border" after staff told him he couldn't just do that at will?
The word "beginning" is contextualized to the concept of time, and time is an abstraction that exists within the universe. To say that the universe has a beginning is to say that time has a beginning. But that is nonsensical; something only has a beginning if its existence is preceded in time by other existence. The existence of time can't be preceded in time by the existence of something else. For that to have meaning we need some "meta-time". "Meta-time" can only exist in a "meta-universe": a larger, imaginary universe in which we are embedding "our" universe. Well, did that larger one have a beginning, and why would we even consider it a separate universe at all?
How so? There are very common aimbots based on computer vision that will work just fine on a PC with Chrome running Stadia games.

Sample naive algo:

-Get a color range (RBG) of the enemy model's head.

-Take screenshot of screen and scan for pixel in that range.

-If match, get the x,y pos of that pixel.

-Set mouse(or controller) pos to that x,y pos.

-Click

E.g https://github.com/Dewep/POC-AimBot-Overwatch

The sample code worked well enough for Blizzard to forcibly take it off the internet.
I started with a ruby/rails project in 2007 and after 3 days of fighting my work issued windows machine I just went out and bought a white macbook and things were up in running in an hour or two. I've never looked back.
i think these are fair game and in the long term are going to be an issue for google. once their core business stops working and/or gets serious competition they’re going to be in trouble.
Lots of choices are toxic and most people underutilise free will. Society will have to pay the cost in terms of poor mental health and related issues. Some people thrives alone while someone else in groups. Both should co-exist for functional society.
Because we are limited by our perceptions of time (and causality as well) doesn't mean we shouldn't wonder what could have been before the start of the universe. Maybe time started when universe started, or maybe time always existed and was super slow or literally paused at singularity - the gravity is so high (way more than the gravity of a super massive black hole) that time had paused. So maybe there was something before the big bang and I don't think 'talking about that makes no sense' should stop us from talking about it :)

I am also confused a tad about the point I wanted to make though, lol. Maybe causality and time is perceived differently in higher or other dimensions that we do not perceive as of now in our human level of evolution. So the assumption of causality exists only due to time being present could be something relative to our perceptions and not true
So you are saying that children "have a massive impact on climate change" ?

I don't have any statistics that can either confirm or dispute that assertion. But I will gladly ban SUV and Cruise s in favor of whatever climate impact children can have.
Any data to cite on this claim?
Yes we probably lie close to Superset and Mode than we do to Tableau but I believe the data transformations, access level (sharing) and deep integration put us apart from those. Tableau's quite bit more mature than we are but we already support self hosted service, OAuth based auth integration, sophisticated user access level based sharing for all resources (reports, connections, users, dashboards, visualizations, product features, etc). We don't cost an arm and a leg either.
> Is your point that, for an object to be curved, there must be something for it to curve into? For example, in order for a 2D surface (like the latex in the balloon) to be curved, it necessarily must be in a 3D (or higher) space?

Given the context I'm guessing you asked this rhetorically, but if not: it is not true in general that a curved n-dimensional object must be embedded in a n + k-dimensional space. Curvature can be intrinsic.
I would think that it can still short out and overheat, but the material the battery is made of does not combust or have any exothermic chemical reaction. The energetic failure mode would be- "sparks and gets really really hot."
If you are visiting Berlin you'll likely enjoy a visit to the Technology Museum (https://sdtb.de/) - there's a a great Zuse exhibit (and the trains!)
Oh come on, how can you say that with a straight face in a thread about India? In India, 57% can speak Hindi, in Russia 99.4% can speak Russian. Less than 10% of Russians have a non Russian native language.

People in this thread say: "The diversity in general in India is mind boggling which most of Indians take for granted. Be it terrain, climate, language, culture, food, etc., And all the above change noticeably every 200KM or so"

In Russia, you can travel 2000km in any direction from the center, and see no noticeable difference in terms of people, culture, food, or language. There can a be a slight accent in some regions, but nothing as dramatic as say accents in US.
whynotboth.gif. illumos can continue in purity while the full-time team interacts with others. That is the best way to see the principles can be successfully grafted in -- show that they have practical and immediate utility in the real world, even if they can't be implemented wholesale overnight. A pure textbook implementation is great as far as it goes, but it only goes so far, especially in today's highly-competitive internal engineering environments.
> In fact, she adds, up to a point, rising temperatures only increase the electrolyte’s performance.

This is the case for normal lithium-ion batteries as well; they perform better at 120°F than at 70°F (and lose significant performance at even lower temperatures).
For ’tis the sport to have the enginer

Hoist with his own petard¹

1: Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoist_with_his_own_petard)
Sorry, it was supposed to be rhetorical. It's a borrowing from Portuguese, so by the standards yumraj seems to be employing it shouldn't count as Hindi.

Likewise, निश्चित certainly isn't Hindi in this narrow sense. It's a direct borrowing from Sanskrit, not a native, inherited word of the language.

And Hindi (हिन्दी) itself isn't a Hindi word; it's Persian (likewise Hindu).
Nothing would hold a candle to what it means to have one though. No kids? You will not understand.

None of this matters anyway. Enjoy life.
On the other hand 10mb is not a lot of images. If I'm using a paid mobile app for note-taking, I probably want to be able to quickly snap a photo and maybe write a few bullet points or sentences.

According to https://inkdrop.app/pricing the free plan includes 1 GB storage, and the basic plan ($5/mo) includes 10 GB storage.

I agree with sibling comments that a limit based on number of notes would be preferable to losing access after a specified time. Maybe adjust the free tier storage allocation down, or limit the number of images/attachments.
This headline is misleading.

The $130 is for the "Founders Edition", which is an early access with additional hardware (controller + 4k chromecast).

The $10 a month is for 4k access (instead of the default 1080p) and free games (ala Xbox live gold).

You may use an existing controller (or keyboard/mouse) connected to a PC if you want.

Without the subscription, games access is by-purchase (like steam).
Seriously. The only reason I could justify having kids would be if I looked around, thought to myself "gee, there seems to be a shortage of people", and then I would replicate. Justifying replication for the sake of one's happiness is such a logical folly that it makes me die inside.
The title is sort of misleading. Stadia Founder's Edition is $129 for 2 three month subscriptions (one for a friend I guess?), a Stadia controller, and a Chromecast Ultra.

Stadia Pro, what they're calling their subscription model, is $10/month which is independent of everything else and all you technically need to play games on Stadia using your Chrome browser, phone, etc.
Boltzmann brains may not occur after all [0], which is reassuring [2]. See De Sitter Space Without Dynamical Quantum Fluctuations [1].

[0] http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2014/05/05/squelchi...

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.0298

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.00850
> Everyone has to deal with the particular voices in their head.

The "voices in their head" that are other people's voices?
android is both a success and a failure. i used to be a huge android fannoi before switching to iphone. even for a highly technical person, maintaining an android phone is too much.
Agreed. A large part of american culture has been engineered consciously or unconsciously to be some sort of productivity/materialistic porno. It is completely unbalanced. The american values nowadays all go towards trying to create an "Übermensch".
It's the cost not the kids:

> Having children makes people happier—if they can afford it.

* https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/02/cost-rais...
It suggests that "children leads to unhappiness" is a property of how society is currently set up and not a universal truth.
I'll believe it when I can buy a cellphone with one.

Miracle batteries are like Alzheimer's cures and memristor computers: they show promise in the lab but fall down hard when used to develop products people actually use.
That is something Bryan has done.
I agree, Terminal is great. But I prefer iTerm because it supports split panes (including saving/restoring a particular configuration) without tmux.
U.S. home flippers are cashing out before profits get slimmer
>I think the society has (wrongly) evolved towards an individualist model at the expenses of families.

that's a wrong dichotomy. There's no fundamental reason why 35 year olds don't socialize, or why our education system stops at 25, why we have no communal institutions, and so on.

The alternative isn't just between individualism and the family, what is needed is building out communities in ways that gives people the ability to connect in new ways that reflect our changes in work and living arrangements.

As the article mentions the UK has introduced a minister for the problem of loneliness. What we need is to put policies into place that develop new modes of social life and to expand the public sphere.

The nuclear family isn't really that attractive any more for a reason, so just asking to go back isn't really a great idea. People like the freedom that comes with having no or fewer children, being able to move, and being financially independent.
A high-demand religion I would guess would be some sort of fringe cult? If so within every one of the modern religions/ideologies there are similar fringe cults that are hate-filled with dogma for everyone else not in line with their ideology. Some feminists hate all men, some communists hate all Capitalists and everything must be done according to Communist dogma even when it's clear that it does not work... etc. The mainstream is usually not what the experience of a fringe cult within that ideology is.
edit: That seems a little extreme and defeatist IMO.
America's rural radio stations are vanishing
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14 Patterns to Ace Any Coding Interview Question
> Satoshi disappeared at about the same time Le Roux was really kicking his criminal conspiracy into gear.

Not only that but Le Roux has been in custody since 2012 which is the first credible theory at least I know of about why Satoshi never touched his treasure.

What I don't get why this article blew up now when a month ago https://news.bitcoin.com/satoshi-nakamoto-could-be-criminal-... it was already on bitcoin.com itself.
on the long term probably, the idea (I have heard from diverse sources) is that only nuclear power can ensure the transition from carbon to sustainable energy in order to avoid to avoid a catastrophic++ climate change
The CPU allocations on Lightsail are anemic compared to DO.
I'm not even sure why they tried to brand a conglomerate holding company anyway.
I think the intention is a quote rather than a scare quote.

It's a little awkward to quote a single word like that. In that circumstance the following words "... you're referring to" serve the same function. But it does highlight the notion of "you were looking for science, here is science".
Forget your feelings and stick to the key question - does the world need more people, less people, or do we have exactly the right amount? I think we have too many, practically every day I see people in my own city that I will never see again in the future. It's chaotic.
No paywall:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/06/jp-morgan-scraps-mobile-bank...
Fly a kite that powers a generator
==I took care of my brother and sisters a lot as a child and it made it very clear that I never wanted children.==

Being a parent is not the same as taking care of your siblings. Using the experience of one to justify your decisions in another is short-sighted.

How many parents have you ever heard say, "I wish I didn't have kids"?
I just don't see how they are going to compete with Microsoft on this, or Sony for that matter. I can't help but think this will be killed off in the next 2-3 years due to low adoption. Microsoft and Sony already have their foot in the door, and xCloud is supposedly going to be an E3 topic...and I'm sure they will bundle it with existing Xbox Live services for a bump in price.

Google has proven me wrong in the past, but they've also killed a lot of products like this.
Big pharma already does a lot of contracting out to varying degrees.

Probably nobody makes their own excipients/binders or capsules. Others contract out API manufacture, and others the whole product.

Shareholders want lowered costs while maintaining revenues, and contracting out manufacturing is one way to do it.

Especially when you revealed all your secrets in your patents anyway.
you need to put things in perspective. I could argue that the above are not successful and I would also like to see how many acquisitions total were made and what percentage actually end up not straight-up dying.
Thank you for your comments, they're continually a joy to read.
Just another anecdote for the pile but I’ve had the same experience with generic Adderall being significantly less potent. After a decade+ on the generic my insurance company switched me to brand name and it was utterly shocking how different it was. I had previously belived that generics were literally identical and figured I was experiencing a placebo effect.

To try to understand what was going on I recapped 7 generics and 7 brand name pills so that I couldn’t identify which was which and had my wife give me one at random each day for 14 days with her keeping track of which was given when.

After 14 days I had 100% accuracy identifying the generic vs brand name. Not good.
> And yet, native Seattleites will still accuse me of ruining "their" city.

If you listen to them, their complaints are likely not that "there's too much dog poop" and "kids these days just don't know enough cs" but rather "money is making the city unlivable for those not connected to tech".

> I doubt that most of these people make a fraction of the amount of effort that I do to contribute to the community. They just sit on their asses and complain on social media.

You're literally doing the same thing you're accusing them of. Besides, effort is a really poor metric for measuring the effect you have on the world.
Ask HN: What Is Docker Creator Solomon Hykes Doing Now?
What is the Creator of Docker, Solomon Hykes, doing now? I thought he'd retired from working at Docker, Inc., but he's still listed as CTO.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/solomonhykes/
which is why i'm asking him where he lives...
Please get help.
Are you crazy? Increasing the number of humans on the planet is the number one thing you can do to worsen climate change. You forget that we are nothing but an organism, we all produce waste and contribute hardly nothing beneficial to the environment.
The question for me is whether someone who has learned to draw some animal in this way will then be able to draw the same animal in a different pose, from a different angle, in a different style, etc.

My intution is that- no. These sort of techniques literally teach you were to place your lines. And that's the lines of a set of very specific drawings, and only those drawings, ever. It's like the difference between learning a lookup table relating numbers from 1 to n to their sums, versus learning an algorithm to sum arbitrary numbers. The kinds of learning become equivalent as the size of the lookup table approaches infinity... but since here we're talking about images of complex forms it would really have to approach infinity before it's very useful at all.

I'm also a bit concerned that this is meant to be used to teach primary school students how to draw animals. Does this sort of instruction really serve to help a child understand how to represent an animal?

And, I guess, is it really a good idea to take human beings at the very time in their lives when their relation with the world is at its most fluid and try to teach them that, no, you don't need imagination to be creative, there's this one simple trick that you can use to always get the adults to pat you on your head and say how talented you are?
The problem is, as far as the causes go, everyone is right and no one thinks they're wrong. My experience of the world has taught me that people shy away from complexity in favor of simple explanations. So if everyone mentioning a possible cause is, to a degree, correct, then we need to figure out what underlying systems are connecting and driving those causes.
> Men used to inherit their families business or work in the same town.

Few men got to inherit a business but if your father worked a trade then you would probably find going into that trade to be a natural path. The latter part is still very true today.
That's a fair critique adding birth control.

But look up Matriarchy. There are lots of shades.
This type of attitude is pretty common these days. It's this postmodern view of the world where humanity is somehow separate from nature and must be controlled to protect nature. This is such an arrogant attitude. Sure, you may be right, that having a child has a high carbon footprint, but your decision to not have children doesn't improve anything. Not being actively bad isn't the same as being good.
Happiness is overrated.
> My point is not that they require a lot of work. My point is that they have a massive impact on climate change. You could spend your entire life flying to conferences, living on a cruise ship, dumping trash in the ocean, and none of it would even hold a candle to the environmental impact of having a child.

Your argument applies equally to "having a child" and "letting some person live."
this is the first time I've seen Kim Dotcom's name rendered that way. As far as I can tell he usually spells it out.
And here I am a Canadian and my client base is Canadian. While not a problem just yet it is likely that PIPEDA/PHIPA would make it complicated to serve data from outside the country.

I am not a lawyer but the advice I have been given is murky. It’s much easier to stuck with DO which, at my usage, costs about the same number of $CAD as lightsail would in $USD
Google is way more than search. YouTube, Cloud, Android, and Pixel are all part of Google.
I can type "environmental impact of having a child" into google[0]

[0]: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7541
Ooh, cool, hadn't heard of that before! TIL.

But even with the added complexity of regularly pulling in the public suffix list, the problems keep going: e.g., facebook.com's scripts are all served from static.xx.fbcdn.net.
Please point out the part of my comment that is wrong.
> Or maybe the guy was an idiot. But possibly entertain the thought that maybe his situation wasn't exactly comparable to your eh?

I have never encountered a business that does not require backups. Not having a DR site as early in the game as they were might be excusable, but even then suggesting they get one is sound advice. It's an additional expense but it has a cheaper implementation cost while your infrastructure is small. Having a good DR plan is a selling point as well, this is the first thing I ask SaaS providers when I am evaluating them.

What is a total failure is not having backups on another provider. Before anyone says it's just a 2-person startup... surely that makes it easier? I can't imagine their DBs are all that big. Even just a three line cronjob and a Backblaze B2 ($0.005/GB) account could have secured their business continuity in the event their DO account didn't come back up.

>But also DO Spaces for our object storage with ~500k media and our database backups.

Based on that comment (from @w3nicolas on Twitter) they actually could have used the same script they used for DO Spaces to back up their DBs to S3 (both use the S3 protocol). The 500k image files should be relatively small and cheap to back up too, appears they are just logo thumbnails for the tracked companies (500k image files, copy says they track 450k companies).

If you are building infrastructure and you don't have IT Ops experience consult somebody who does because they will save you from yourself in scenarios like this. If you are a dev you could probably throw a rock and hit 5 friends with enough ops experience to tell you the importance of redundant backups.

I think this comment might read a bit more abrasively than I meant it, but I don't mean to kick the guy after he was down. If you are in a similar boat to RaisUp with your backups go fix it now. If you rely on any one vendor for business continuity that is a problem. This PSA is sponsored by salty sysadmins everywhere.