skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is one missing piece to all this, I/O.

Given they publish their apps on all platforms they could probably add this in the future as an ssd or PCIe storage tier by doing regular disk benchmarks.

However it seems like a major limiting factor, given that random access speeds on spinning drives or even cheap ssds can drop drastically by an order or two of magnitude (i.e. from 130MB/s to 2MB/s).
Given how they're doing error correction in a distributed manner, having a fast storage tier would be a major advantage for them which would eliminate any problems from flash storage wearing out and fully gain the benefit of throughput, random access times and cheap new prices of nvme drives.

At the moment I probably can't use this for streaming my own 4k videos to myself because an up to 300mbps network is not good enough for that, the slowest storage in it would be a bottleneck for a significant amounts of the experience of watching the streamed file.

And I definitely can't use it for application storage given how important response time is to the user experience and user growth.

That all aside, those 2 are relatively extreme examples and there's a lot of usage scenarios in between them.

I do admire how far they've gotten this given all the blockchain hyped products that have failed. They seem to have a solid system here that will only improve on performance and put pressure on bringing online storage prices down.
This might be helpful http://www.chinedufn.com/dual-quaternion-shader-explained/
> Today it is possible to purchase a refurbished 1 TB hard drive for about $20 — so buyers are essentially paying Amazon each month the entire cost of the hard drives used to store their data!

What a refurbished hard disk does not give you:

- Redundant storage

- Redundant power/network/etc.

- Geographic distribution

- A network API

- Any networking, or uplinks at all

- Access control

- A team ensuring the reliability and security of your data

- Global network of datacenters and pops

- Integration with other cloud services

All that and Amazon et al. do not store your 1TB of data in a single refurbished hard disk. This is beyond non-sense.

Sure, some of these costs are amortized, but I still think this is a lame comparison. If all you wanted was at-cost block storage with crappy reliability and speed, you could probably accomplish that in easier ways.
This is a good approach. What I try do is think of a question that highlights (what I perceive to be) the flaw in the "loud mouths" position, ask it, then let them defend themselves. This also requires me to be precise and well thought in my own position, which is not always easy.
Maps.me offers bike routing on offline maps.
There are indeed some aspects of Arizona I absolutely love. Unfortunately the D's and R's here seem to collude enough to slowly strip away a lot of the protections AZ law used to provide.
You may be confused. "One nine" would mean 90% availability.
When cable was first introduced there were no commercials...
I agree, but maybe encourage a U2F key option instead. I really like the idea of completely removing the possibility of password phishing.
> I don’t see any evidence that it’s actually true any more than it was back then - focus on technical ability

Learning how to communicate to non-programmers improves your technical ability.

In my experience, programmers who can't communicate to non-programmers don't understand that all scenarios are specific instances of increasingly more abstract scenarios. Programmers who don't internalize that build inelegant and fragile systems which work for specific arbitrarily chosen test data and then instantly fail in the real world.

If you can't explain a program further than jargon, then you haven't thought enough about what the program is actually supposed to accomplish.
Yelp in the US. In the UK it's TripAdvisor. And I imagine it could be others elsewhere too
Junior developers get hired on their technical skills. Mid-career developers get hired on their communications, interpersonal, and domain understanding skills. Founders and executives get "hired" on their strategic skills.

If it's your first job out of college, don't worry too much about the communications skills yet. Your technical abilities will be your differentiator, and your daily job will largely consist of implementing things.

But if you don't pick up communication skills within the first 10-15 years of your career, it will limit you. You'll be stuck implementing things forever, which may be what you want, but it will shut you out of some higher-compensated and higher-impact jobs.

Unless you just want to go the founder route and hand your company off to a professional CEO that the VCs hire once you've proven out product/market fit. If you have both technical and strategic skills you can do that, but the lack of communication skills will still keep you from running your own company.
You're right, I did what you said and it works.
This is easier than I expected.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF37GjdwJvk
The cameras are pretty huge, since you want both close ups but also very large field views, e.g. to show the peloton and landscape, so you need to be far away with a powerful zoom.
It's not that high, Google says I might be able to save .8 seconds. I might try hosting on netlify and see if that improves things
SGX has always seemed like the Netflix DRM problem to me.. eventually, pixels have to show up on a screen somewhere, right? Am I mistaken in this line of thinking?

Homomorphic encryption solves this, but it’s throwing an awful lot of performance out the window.
I agree with you, but just to play devil's advocate for a second as I've run out of JIRA tickets for the day:

If you are a major world superpower, and you want to impede other powers from threatening you, but you want to avoid any kind of overt conflict, you might be interested in developing weapons that would slowly, over time, degrade a rival's ability to aspire towards greatness. Secrecy and plausible deniability would be most important, so something that is slow to take hold would be useful, since nobody would be able to trace it back to you. It doesn't even have to do anything in particular, it doesn't even have to target any specific thing. It just has to degrade their capabilities.

So if, for example, you had a weapon that you could deploy completely undetected, that would, over the course of 20 years, cause widespread low grade health problems which cause the target nation's expenditures on healthcare to rise by 3 percentage points of gdp... well that degrades their ability to spend that money on military or other threats to your hegemony.

That said, I think this particular conspiracy theory is stupid. What one of the above posters said is true: we have too much knowledge of the source and origin of Lyme for this particular one to be true. But, in general, I don't think that _a version_ of conspiracy theories like this are _laughably and obviously_ false
Turned to the net for a cancer cure, got sucked into a world of bogus medicine
i would have liked this for pokemon go. i started scripting the week it came out and then was banned in the 2nd or 3rd ban wave. but i would have liked to continue playing against other scripters
Well, yes, at some point I have to login to something.

However, my email password is stored in my password manager. I can't login to gmail unless I login to my web vault first.

If a third service requires me to click a link in my email, this becomes a semi-rediculous three steps: web vault → email → other service.
You should definitely be using 2 different forms of 2FA with important services like your email address, and one of them should not be SMS. Personally I use a phone app and a hardware key.
This is cool, but in all honesty, golang isn't the best language for UI. It's just not expressive enough. Golang sacrifices expressiveness for readability (and readability is an opinionated concept) for a domain where I think expressiveness is more important.

That being said. I would love to see something like this done in Swift!
“podcast” I think you meant.
Powerpoint seems designed to lead people to create poor presentations. NOT learning Powerpoint would seem to give one an advantage.
As a general rule, non-MD medical care providers DO NOT answer questions about whether they carry malpractice insurance, because the question of whether to settle or contest a malpractice claim is one the insurance company will make (even though it drives up rates for the insured and goes on their record as there having been a malpractice claim). The rule of thumb: if people don't know you have the insurance, they aren't as likely to file a frivolous claim that your insurer will settle to make it go away.

I'm not in the insurance business, but I would think it prudent to put a clause in a hacker insurance policy that if you publicly announce that you have the policy then you're in violation of the agreement and the policy can be voided... because you've announced to the hacker world that they will be paid if they succeed in hitting you with effective ransomware.

Or is ransomeware a separate policy and this is more like insurance against electronic terrorism/vandalism/arson?
Ya; that's another one - the same wallet on multiple machines = different set of contracts. Didn't notice that was fixed though...
Interface Energy Landscape:Photoinduced Charge Generation at ZnPc/MoS2 Interface
What is "Grainger in Millbrae?" Do you mean Grainger Industrial Supply in Burlingame? Because if you do, that's why it can't find them in Millbrae. :)

This is all anecdotal, which is kind of the issue, isn't it? I'm in the Bay Area, too, and I very rarely have any problems with Apple Maps. It isn't perfect, but it's absolutely not "pretty awful." I have no significant problems finding businesses with Apple Maps; I literally just typed "deli" and the first search suggestion that came up was "Delis - search nearby," and it, well, found delis nearby.

Problems due to long-term construction seem to be a weakness for it, but I've run into those issues with Google and Waze, too.
Sounds a lot like Brockian Ultra-Cricket.
Without exclusive content what bargaining power does the platform have?
So are they not worried AWS will offer yugabyte as a service and edge them out of their own market? Maybe AWS wouldn't because of Aurora. And I guess the other's aren't large enough to matter.
There are also plenty of audio productions which cost money but which would otherwise clearly be identified as "podcasts" if they were free and listed on podcast directories. The Howard Stern Show, for instance.

So I think the issue here is clearly just about the semantics of the term "podcast" and how people apparently strongly identify the term with free audio content available on multiple platforms. Presumably people wouldn't be too upset with Apple hiring Howard Stern to do a video interview series distributed on its premium video streaming platform. But apparently people would be upset if Apple hired Howard Stern to do an audio interview series distributed on its so-called "Podcasts" app.
Birds Aren’t Real (https://birdsarentreal.com)
For lost email I'm inclined to agree with you. There would need to be some mitigation there (encourage or enforce users to have a backup email, etc).

But for stolen email credentials, one of the first things an attacker is going to do is start going through your email archives to see what services you use, resetting all your passwords to important services.
Oslo uses roving fare inspectors and has a wonderfully-unified time-based card system that applies to all subways, trams, buses and ferries. No gates anywhere.
Europe to channel 100 billion Euros into battery production
AI changed how video games work, and it's slated to change that even more
Check out FocusMe: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.focusme.an...

It supports what you're looking for: you can block both specific applications and URLs in all applications. It's worked well for me. They also supply a version on their website that includes uninstall protection: https://focusme.com/android/
The free version of Hit Film is really excellent: https://fxhome.com/hitfilm-express

Good to put some VFX.
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https://share.icloud.com/photos/0UvrFm0fJbLxIGYPFqGr0ClLg
The guys on .NET Rocks have talked a bit about this & being able to tweak & update ads over time. One big reason is people still listen to their old shows & they would like those ads to still have value.

I believe the host of your podcast files that people download will send different audio files to different people with different ads targeted in.
The original comment was made here (but no other comments are in the thread): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20418196
You did an excellent job beating up that strawman, but I'm not biting. I'm just amused you had to use a throw away to do it. Why not use your main?
It's a bit like "do not track". The people you want to use it for don't care and won't respect it (even if publicly they might say they will).
Actually what many are unaware of is that for a couple of years Adobe still had Flash for mobile devices via an AOT compiler to native code, as means to address iOS as target.
I was talking to a guy at the UPS store and he said amazon told them to bundle all their returns together.

Meaning, 12 customers return stuff, they put all 12 returns in the same box and send it in.
There is a related issue that I have some personal interest in: removing specific audio from video.

Background:

There are streamers on Twitch who will play copyrighted music as part of their streams. Twitch allows them to do this, but then Twitch will scan these videos for copyrighted music against some music fingerprint database and mute that section of video entirely (the part of the video that played that audio). The other parts are unaffected unless they played some other copyrighted audio. YouTube does something in terms of recognizing copyrighted music, but will demonetize the entire video as a result. Needless to say, demonetization does hurt the streamer.

Alternatives:

I don't want to get into whether or not Twitch and YouTube are right in doing the copyrighted audio matching and the subsequent actions they take. Some streamers who've been affected by this have started playing royalty-free/copyright-free music or music from lesser known artists that are less likely to be in these music fingerprint databases.

My question:

Is it possible to just subtract the audio of a copyrighted track from a video after it has been detected to having being played in a video?
Try a "hacky sack." Only the person who has it may speak. If interruptions continue, introduce an airhorn, and hit it when they happen. ;)

There should also probably be a time limit as well.
Ah yes that makes sense. I wasn't considering that because my email password is one of the few I have memorized.
This isn't an Apple Maps specific problem. Last weekend I opened a full address in Uber (uses Google maps) and it directed me to 13 st rather than 13 ave, about 5km away from where I wanted to be.

Several other people at my final destination reported the same problem, though they'd all caught it and fixed the destination manually.
> Authorities do not care much, I assume, if you possess illegal content. What they care about is if you share illegal content.

You'd be wrong - people get nabbed for having or creating child porn, not just distributing it.
Or the fact that what was once a cornerstone of American Conservatism has now disappeared entirely, the free market economy. "I can't compete in the marketplace of ideas, I need government intervention, subsidies, import tariffs to break up those big bad 'leftist' companies, I'm not smart/strong/good enough to do it myself."

Reagan is spinning in his grave.
If I see other people do it I make a point to circle back to the person who was cut off immediately after the person who cut them off finishes and make a comment like "Sorry you were cut off, you were saying." That being said, know your audience before taking that approach. I wouldn't do it to an executive for example but I have no problem doing it to a director or manager (people in my experience who are notorious for doing this).
As Hombre said, it is paying for the voice talent and production costs. also it is a much lower volume market so the fixed costs like that are a more significant hit to the price.

Actual printing of books does not cost a lot. the materials are cheap the processes are very efficient at large volumes. That is one reason why ebooks are not always cheaper than the print versions. the print costs are small.
It's a mistake/misunderstanding in the article. They're using two factor authentication: https://old.reddit.com/r/apexlegends/comments/cciyx6/712_res...
> for stolen email credentials [...] an attacker is going to
[...] [reset] all your passwords to important services

I agree. You are saving them the effort of taking this step.
It's interesting to see this evolution of media over time.

It used to be that it didn't matter who you were - the distribution channel was all that mattered. For example, MTV could make you famous in an instant, but the second the channel let you go and replaced you with the next flavor of the week, you were out of luck.

More recently, we've moved to a model where the platform and medium are less important than the personality. Think Joe Rogan, who pushes his podcast out to every channel possible. Or Barstool Sports, which has various content in the form of podcasts, blogs, YouTube videos, etc.

These power law podcasters (Joe Rogan, Tim Ferriss, etc.) can make more money on their own than through exclusivity with a distribution network. But they are few and far between, and require an entire support system to handle ads, cross-posting content, business admin, etc.

So it seems that the majority of full-time podcasters and content creators, after attracting an audience, will move back towards a walled garden of content.

If you're a creator making a living off of your work, would you rather spend 75% of your time on business admin and cobble together your income through ad and merch sales? Or sign with Apple or Spotify, collect a salary, and spend 100% of your time creating art?

We haven't come full-circle, though. While these creators are locked into the platform, people are coming to the platform for the creators themselves. The creators have far more power than they used to. But the consumer has to pay for a "cable package" of podcast apps and video streaming apps.

Corollary: Lots of people no longer root for teams, but for their favorite athletes. I see a ton of this especially in the NBA, where people are LeBron fans first and just root for whatever team he's currently playing for.
> I mean we don't normally let companies or individuals create their own currency right?

Actually that happens all the time; for example we have store credit, loyalty points, virtual "gold" in games, poker chips, and a long list of community currencies[1] like BerkShares.

Why wouldn't companies or individuals be able to create their own currencies? In the end it just means people are discussing and reaching consensus on the ownership and value of some common unit of account, which is a direct expression of the rights of freedom of speech, freedom of association, and ownership of property. (And by "property" I'm referring only to what is being bought or sold, not the currency itself, which in the case of virtual currencies or cryptocurrencies might not even be property, just pure information about a completely theoretical system which people happen to agree on, which is 100% a matter of speech.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_community_currencies_i...
It's possible, but the quality isn't that great even with state of the art machine learning:

https://towardsdatascience.com/audio-ai-isolating-vocals-fro...
The reddit post the article references has some more information: https://www.reddit.com/r/apexlegends/comments/cciyx6/712_res...
So if I pay more for this service and still get robocalls, do I get double my money back, only what I paid back, an apology, or pointed to a section in the terms and services that paying extra guarantees me nothing?
No explicit backup, but I think you're also assuming Google-level lack of customer service. If someone contacted me telling me they lost control of their email, there's a lot of steps I could take to help them out short of telling them tough luck and them never being able to access their account again.
bulk filtering like that only cements FAANG hegemony; agree its a problem, do not agree this is the solution
URL shorteners do this trick, can just update the redirect. Most people just put videos in a playlist so it comes recommended next though.
Generally, manufacturers include the cocao butter in the percentage of cocao solids. And only low-grade chocolates would substitute another kind of fat.
And some of it is child porn. Does that only upset the elites?
This may be a bit off topic, but I registered the domain GoogleProtest.com several years ago when I had a problem with them.

Does anyone have a suggestion of how I can donate it to whoever needs it?
I agree - actually I've gotten into the habit of trying to track down the original RSS feed for each podcast I listen to. Often the link shared by the podcaster will be to rehosters like Google Play or iTunes, or lesser-known services, that have tracking and probably the ability to insert custom ads. The worst is when they make the elitist move of only linking iTunes, making their podcast unlistenable (on mobile at least) to most people worldwide.

But most of the time the original file is getting pulled by the rehoster from an unprotected RSS feed, and these can be easy to find. You can get the RSS feeds for Soundcloud, as an example. Others are hosted on Libsyn.com, and you can often find them by searching for the podcast name and "site:libsyn.com" in the search engine of your choice.

That said, I don't listen to podcasts enough any more to say whether this is a universal solution at all. Actually, the fact that podcasts have unblockable ads is one of the main reasons I no longer bother.
Amazon has been getting a lot better in this respect.

However there must be some wierd corner cases. I ordered two lithium coin cells (about the size of a credit card), and they came as the sole item in a grossly oversized box (maybe 12x8x6?) with a strip of inflatable cushion things and a huge lithium ion battery warning sticker.

I couldn't help but wonder if the box was sized for the sticker and not the contents.
So yes, the "anti-trust" talk is politically motivated? And proudly so because the employees have "pledged allegiance to the left"?

Strangely, there seems to be a very large number of people who decry google's information "monopoly" because of the blogs and youtube(!) videos they found while googling. A group that, given their power in government, is certainly not being oppressed.

And as a side note, I use no Alphabet product and obviously run an ad blocker. You'll find there are a great many technologists that do so. So, while there are certainly issues, the monopoly talk is obviously intentional hyperbole promulgated for political reasons.

As compared to, say ISPs which actually are monopolies. Or even Sinclair broadcasting which actually does control all media in some regions. But those genuine monopolies are not objectionable because they align politically with the party in power.

This pattern does correspond with some political systems but certainly not democratic, rule-of-law forms.