skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Freenode on occasion. I used it regularly for more than 20 years but nowadays casual chichat moved to Discord. I'm keeping an eye on Matrix.
...typical experience of finding a random channel - dozens of users and nothing but join/parts for the past couple of days.

Often you'll find that if you ask a question and wait long enough for people to notice, that'll spark quite an active conversation.
Agree, and if you don’t like the account naming changing it can be a simple cut-and-replace ^h operation. Beancount also supports hashtags on transactions if you need (e.g.for certain events like vacations)

(Plug: I helped add “extension reports” to Fava recently, so you can now also make your own Jinja templates for your bespoke financial goals if querying+custom links isn’t enough)
Outages like these don't really resolve instantly.

Any given production system that works will have capacity needed for normal demand, plus some safety margin. Unused capacity is expensive, so you won't see a very high safety margin. And, in fact, as you pool more and more workloads, it becomes possible to run with smaller safety margins without running into shortages.

These systems will have some capacity to onboard new workloads, let us call it X. They have the sum of all onboarded workloads, let us call that Y. Then there is the demand for the services of Y, call that Z.

As you may imagine, Y is bigger than X, by a lot. And when X falls, the capacity to handle Z falls behind.

So in a disaster recovery scenario, you start with:

* the same demand, possibly increased from retry logic & people mashing F5, of Z

* zero available capacity, Y, and

* only X capacity-increase-throughput.

As it recovers you get thundering herds, slow warmups, systems struggling to find each other and become correctly configured etc etc.

Show me a system that can "instantly" recover from an outage of this magnitude and I will show you a system that's squandering gigabucks and gigawatts on idle capacity.
Partially!
Do you really want your client to load a URI just because someone dropped it in a channel you're in?
Nope. Depends on a fast, reliable, low-packet-loss network connection at all times. The game is running on a cloud instance and being streamed to you chromecast.
I'm working on one, but there isn't one as such, no.
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When you say we/us as a more expensive, but dedicated alternative, what is the cost difference as a percentage for say a small project?

Edit: found your site, looks like you’re cheaper than aws at a glance
Okay, but say you do get shutdown and you have your offsite backups, like most people. It's still a significant amount of work starting from scratch to rebuild and link all of your servers, dbs, services, etc. Plus all of the basic OS tweaking.

Losing your backups because your on one site is always dangerous. Getting completely kicked off your VPS systems with no warning or help is what's new and scary about this DO story.
Back story here: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/surprising-artistry-of...
It's a genuine question, I don't have an argument for impossibility or anything, I just don't see how revocation could practically be done. In scenario A, Joe Schmo buys a camera, happens upon a powerful politician in a compromising situation, and uploads the video to YouTube with a digital signature. In scenario B, Joe Schmo buys a camera, actually works for the NSA, uses an electron microscope to extract the private key, and stamps a digital signature on a forged video, uploading that instead. How would any third party be able to differentiate between those? I could imagine potential avenues for solutions (e.g. maybe you could use quantum entanglement to make some sort of tamper-proof chamber around the key in hardware?) but then we're pretty far afield of straightforward PGP/TLS. Not to mention the problem that an adversary like the NSA could just get inside the ASIC fab and copy keys from the machine that prints them.
No, not even they. A good thing is something you would visit upon all humanity, and while they may potentially wish to do so to all infidels, they would not wish to do it to their faithful.
i have a linode box that runs irssi in a tmux session 24/7 and that’s all it’s for.

i have learned more about python emacs sql and gentoo on irc than anywhere else.
That page takes 5 seconds to load for me on a 100mbit connection. The advantage of the app is that it works even when network connections are spotty or nonexistent.
Phone companies can block robocalls by default starting today, FCC says
"Making Money Isn’t About Luck": Being born to parents who give away >1M$ is surely hardwork.
A) 5 years is a looooong time to be trying to conceive. Trying unsuccessfully to conceive is quite stressful.

B) You can't tell when you're 25 whether you're going to be in that lucky group. If having children is very important to you, those odds are not great.

C) Many people want multiple children. They can't afford to wait until it's taking 5 years to conceive each child.
Is there a resource that compares all the cloud platform’s reliability? Like a rank and chart of downtime and trends. Just curious how they compare
You don't consider it arrogance to believe you know for sure how that girls life would have developed?
Solaris's death at the hands of Linux can be attributed in part not just to "the Sun attitude" but specifically to the attitude of Bryan Cantrill personally. In response to Dave Miller explaining how Linux's networking was technically superior (at that moment) due to more care for things like TLB footprints and system call overhead, and also had more accessible technical support, Cantrill famously decided to respond by making fun of Miller for being a nerd: "Have you ever kissed a girl?"

https://www.osnews.com/story/28261/have-you-ever-kissed-a-gi...

https://web.archive.org/web/20110721130404/https://cryptnet....

Admittedly, this was in 1996, and it's possible Cantrill regretted this remark, or the nerd-hating attitude behind it, at some point in the intervening 23 years. But I've never seen him admit it. I see he's participating in this thread, so if you see him not replying to this message, that's him doubling down.
Gives a new sense to "fake news"

Now we need a robo-reader who reverses the article back into the source data.
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I think the problem is that if we can’t trust video then there is really nothing visual left we can trust. Until now you could at least trust video recordings to some degree. Not sure if that a good thing or not.
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"Fixed film dialog without reshoots" and "better story telling" seemed rather compelling to me.

Perhaps the malicious use cases are more obvious due to how trustworthy a video can appear.
Is there any such “how to get rich” advice that IS actionable?

Literally all of it I’ve come across suffers from extreme selection bias, and does not account for (or give credit to) luck.
I did to get some Haskell help about 4 years ago, and it was very good for that. But that's mainly down to other humans, not something special about IRC itself.
I'm talking here about the managed Kubernetes offerings from AWS and Azure. As for when I last used them: waiting for provisioning right now (18 mins and counting) is affording me the time to comment on this article.
I’m not asking if they gave up copyright on their photos. They did. I’m asking, for example, if it’s ethically appropriate for Microsoft to publish annotated public domain photos without requiring a human ethical review for each use of their dataset. If I wanted to perform a sociological study on that dataset, I’d have to get a review board’s approval. Why is performing a statistical study (literally, machine learning) somehow exempt from that ethical concern?
America was founded by pioneers.

Immigrants didn’t start coming for their “better life” until the mid-19th century.
I'm not sure that's quite true, as video is more likely to be cited or redistributed by journalists as a primary source, for example, where memes would not be. The age of credible video is at an end.
From my observation I believe that a lot of educated and less educated people don’t really care if something is fake as long it confirms their opinions. They don’t want to let go of their “facts” although they know they are wrong.
That situation would be better described as “independently wealthy” rather than rich. Independently wealthy is specifically the scenario where your investments are your major source of income and you can maintain your lifestyle without extra income.

Rich for me is about current liquid assets, and doesn’t relate to income. Rich vs wealthy is cash pool versus cash generation.

A cleaner who wins the lottery is rich. A homeless person with enough investment income to cover food and transport is wealthy.
prove it :)
We were hosting customers of Joyent in 2006-2008. They were fantastic. I remember having a technical issue and talking directly to the CTO, who was most helpful.

Before AWS launched, Joyent (in my opinion) had one of the best hosting services. We ran everything on them, and especially liked Zones as a feature.

Separately, no one has mentioned that Joyent also had a full web application framework at one time (mail, calendar, etc.) that competed with the nascent Google GMail offerings. Joyent EOL'd back around 2010 if I recall correctly, but technically it was an impressive accomplishment.
I hate Robo stories. They come up on google all the time and they’re just a waste of time. They seem to generate decent seo I guess
Yes! Everything must be done to preserve a life. Imagine instead of starving herself, she had slit her wrists. Do you believe the correct case then is to allow her to bleed out? Because that would be the exact same situation, only with the tiny, inconsequential detail that a different method was chosen.
Slack client doesn't load URIs, the server does
GAs are a lot of fun, but a lot of the time they are very time-consuming in the case of fairly straightforward optimisation problems. Other iterative searches like simulated annealing or just plain ol' dumb hill climbing is a lot faster most of the time.
Just like with everything in this universe, "Wants" tend to swing from one side to the other just like a pendulum.

The tricky part is trying to find the balance without overshooting, and restarting the cycle.
Wow, this app saved my butt over a year ago when I ran out of laptop battery while out in the field. It was one of those rare cases where my low expectations did a complete 180 in the first few minutes using the tool.
That's not a prisoner wardialing on a smuggled phone, it's a well-know scam targeting seniors: https://www.aarp.org/money/scams-fraud/info-2018/grandparent...
> These semantics are mental shortcuts that are harmful in this case to actually solving the problems we face. They frame the issue narrowly, which leads to a single viewpoint coloring the entire population.

The population is largely defined by that fairly narrow viewpoint. Generalizing isn’t harmful for people who understand the term, and I won’t pander to those who don’t.

> Do you agree/disagree with all of them?

I disagree with the central theme—that gender is useful and perhaps even primary for establishing credibility and/or guilt. Theoretically some women may have used the slogan to mean “pizza is delicious”, in which case I would have to agree, but this falls well outside of the normal parameters of communication and sentiment (which have regrettably been challenged too often already over the course of this conversation).
Did anyone actually even use that thing?
`pyenv` is more for keeping multiple minor versions of the same major version (e.g. Python 3.6 and Python 3.7) around at the same time

Actually, it doesn't have to be multiple minor versions, it can be any version–major or minor. It can even be Iron Python or Jython. Anyway, the point is that it's smart not to touch system Python on macOS. So when I run:

`$ pyenv versions`

My output is:

`system

`2.7.16

`* 3.7.3 (set by /Users/wyclif/.pyenv/version)

Dead simple and easy to use. Much better than overwriting and reinstalling when you need a different version for a specific project.
I'm curious, are there types of battery that don't use ion exchange? I'm familiar with physical energy storage using flywheels or compressed air; I suppose you could call something like that a battery if set up to spin a generator.
not sure anyone really even used this thing.
There is plenty of evidence that younger women (<35) get pregnant more easily, have easier pregnancies, and have lower risks of complications. After 27 or so, the odds of it all going well start to decline. After 35, which is about when women would be trying for #3 or #4 if they started in their late 20s, those odds start getting worse quickly. No point lying to people, unless for some reason you want the people listening to have smaller families.
Ironically, this list is a great example of survivorship bias.

We only know about inventors killed by their own inventions where the scene was understood well enough to be reported and the incident notable enough to survive into Wikipedia.

It would be easy enough for someone way ahead of their time to have an unexplained death with a bunch of weird artifacts surrounding them.
Some schemes add those parameters to the genome input itself. IIRC it's not a big win, but I don't recall at the moment why.
"Increase surface area" is the only one I can think of.

I.e., the "make your own luck" aphorism - the more you open yourself up to opportunities, the more likely you are to get lucky in the first place (finding an opportunity to generate riches).

So like, meeting lots of people, talking to lots of people, going out a lot. Not staying in, and if you are staying in, increasing your knowledge-based surface area.

Pretty much my go-to advice when I'm mentoring job seekers - the more people see your resume, the sooner you'll get a job, one way or the other. Nobody's gonna hire you if they don't "see" you.
> I assume you were a fuel rat for Elite 3

No, these are actual In-Real-Life-People. Maybe parent got their dates a wee bit wrong.

When I started playing Elite:Dangerous (circa release date 2014?) I ran out of fuel in a system I couldn't refuel in (wrong type of sun or something like that)...and so was stuck. The only way out was to self destruct.

After some googling I discovered the Fuel Rats on Reddit and then their IRC channel. So as per their S.O.P. I put out a call for assistance on their IRC channel and within 10-15 mins or so one of their crew appeared in-system and refuelled me. I don't like to abuse the word "awesome", but these folks were awesome. They were like the AA or RAC of the galaxy :)
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This article mentions Australia as a "mature liberal democracy," but everything else written here seems to flat-out contradict that statement. Did Australia use to be more liberal and democratic in the past?
Very nice. Do you have a blog post about how to create such animation using D3 ?
There are still folks that recommend AAA memberships for leisure travel, and that start at $52/year (plus "admission/activation fees").

On the flipside, I see so many people these days using a wild combination of improv wandering, personal recommendations from Uber drivers, Airbnb (or VRBO or whatever), and Yelp, that I think a lot of leisure planning has gotten sometimes too weird and undirected/semi-directed versus classic trip planning models.
"Smoke crack with me bro"
All of these problems are the same problems you have whenever you are near a stranger without airdrop, and are solved the same way: by ignoring it.
It doesn't seem unreasonable to put a limit of "as long as it doesn't violate my ethics/morals or any criminal statutes."

"Hey, I need to dispose of [toxic waste¦a body¦evidence], can you help out?" "Sorry, have to wash my hair."
> only 6% of those wish they had not had kids

It's very socially unacceptable to admit you regret having had your kids. Even to an anonymous stranger conducting a phone poll.

I am much more inclined to believe studies that ask for self-reported happiness and compare to life events / states like childlessness without directly asking "do you regret your kids". From what I understand, having children is negatively correlated with happiness in those sorts of studies.
Suicide rates have skyrocketed for middle-aged white men in the US. They are now the highest statistic. [0]

It's happening already.

• Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the US.

• The age-adjusted suicide rate in 2017 was 14.0 per 100,000 individuals.

• In 2017, men died by suicide 3.54x more often than women.

• White males accounted for 69.67% of suicide deaths in 2017.

[0] https://afsp.org/about-suicide/suicide-statistics/
Yes, that's their data source.
Out of curiosity, does anyone know of examples where genetic algorithms are the "right choice"?

I thought they were really nifty when I first heard of them, but thinking of them as an optimization procedure, they don't really stand up in my experience to basic gradient descent methods. Sure, you can e.g. train a neural network with genetic algorithms, but why would you?

I'd love to be proven wrong though :)
He has said he regrets it in a Reddit AMA[1]. I find it quite strange that you attribute the death of an entire company to the attitude of a single engineer in an email from 1996 where he made a silly remark. You'd think if Cantrill was that powerful of a king-maker you'd want to be much nicer to him. Not to mention that Cantrill himself is also clearly a nerd, so "nerd-hating" is a bit of a weird statement.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/31ny87/comment/cq3e4y...
What does your stack look like?

It's hard to tailor a postmortem like this to everyone's individual experience but it is surprising to me that your experience is so different.
Would it somehow be better if the perp didn't airdrop a duck pic... And then followed her off the subway?
There is no baseline. You go to the doctor because you’re concerned about a lump, probably because you had never felt it before. A scan needs to be done. It doesn’t always need to be MRI. But in my non-clinical knowledge of BC survivors, MRI are a must for young/dense breast tissue. It should be required.

I’ll give you specifics on a patient I know (I actually went to all doctors appointments).

32F. Feels something but hard to find next day, I felt it, she couldn’t. I urged her to see doctor. (I actually worked for a pathologist as college job, I know what pretty much every type of tissue looks/feels/smells like... and I knew it was cancer, but maybe benign). Anyways, she goes to doctor. He can’t feel it in exam. But, she has family history so he finds a way to get the MRI done. He explains why it should be standard on young women (denser tissue). Next day, MRI. Confirms lump, doctor is blown away as it was only ~0.5mm in diameter. He’s about 70 and it’s the smallest lump he’s ever identified, surprised it even showed up on MRI. Long story short, she had a full mastectomy ~5 days later and the pathology showed the lump was over 3cm in diameter, super aggressive (triple negative). Started chemo shortly after because the milk duct had opened and cells could have reached her lymph nodes and spread the cancer anywhere in her body.

I know many other people that have similar stories, so this is why you get thrown into full on crisis mode when you get a positive imaging. So I would ask, if she waited a month or more to come back and see if this thing was growing, how do you think that would have played out?
>We are the only animals in the animal kingdom that cooperate across genetic boundaries. Most animals don’t even cooperate. But when they do, they cooperate only in packs where they co-evolve together, and they share blood, so they have some shared interests.

>Humans don’t have that. I can cooperate with you guys. One of you is a Serbian. The other one is a Persian by origin. And I’m Indian by origin. We have very little blood in common, basically none. But we still cooperate.

That's... kinda weird. I mean, humans are also the only animals on the planet with language. Or like, the only ones that can associate abstract concepts with value (so trading shells for food, etc). We can teach some of this to other animals, but only for a single generation - none of them are "discovering" it on their own.

I don't buy that this is a argument for the "naturalism" of capitalism.
> JP Morgan and Goldman were completely solvent

Not really, both JPMC and GS had large insurance contracts with AIG. If AIG fell it would have quickly led to both JPMC and GS collapse too.

Its called systematic risk for a reason.
people choose to believe things. The kind of people who will be duped want to be duped as it serves their own ideology. You can’t change that.
Samsung acquired them because of their public cloud infrastructure -- they were Joyent customers for a long time and clearly decided that buying them would be the cheapest way to continue using them. As mentioned in TFA, they are only shutting down their multi-tenant cloud and are keeping their dedicated cloud business (which is what Samsung uses).
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Even for disabled people cars are not a strict requirement. You could build a smaller vehicle that goes walking speed specifically for transporting the disabled & severely disabled.

Able bodied people in wheelchairs are the easy case - just pave the roads with enough smooth transitions.
They are bad odds if having children is very important to you, and if you want multiple children.
Sure, a quantum transition takes time. But demonstrating that point experimentally is not new this year.

In The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol II, p. 35-4, Feynman describes an experiment by I.I. Rabi. I think Rabi did the work in the 1940s. The reciprocal of the transition time is the 'Rabi Frequency'. http://mriquestions.com/who-discovered-nmr.html

https://www.aps.org/programs/outreach/history/historicsites/...

Back to 2019, the dissertation abstract underlying the news story here doesn't appear to claim that this is the first experimental demonstration that quantum transitions take time. Which is probably good.
I can play NES games from 35 years ago despite the fact that Nintendo has ceased manufacturing the console and publishing the games.

As soon as Steam decides to shut down (and it will one day, be it tomorrow, or 30 years from now, those games are no longer playable).

Nothing lasts forever.
> K-12 education is payed for by taxes

Many wealthy families send their children to private schools. Even though some states have "school choice" programs that let the budgeted amount from taxes go to the schools, the families still pay the bulk of the price.

We don't know the poster's history, but it's entirely possible he attended private schools his entire life and was blissfully unaware of how the rest of us were educated.
Viewers' pre-existing knowledge has to be formed somehow. Expect echo chamber effects to get even stronger.
Australia has publicly funded healthcare for all. If my parents hadn't been able to pay for extra, I would have had the same operation in the same hospital in a room shared with someone else.
Unless I’m misunderstanding Google blog post they are reporting ~4+ hours of serious issues. We experienced about two days.

If it was possible to have this fixed sooner I’m sure they would have done that. That’s not the point of my comment tough.
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