skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They were novel because they just came out of fighting for freedom against an oppressive empire who used all those things against them and they wanted to make sure that couldn’t happen again.

Any argument otherwise should be met with harsh skepticism because you could be actively trying to oppress us again or accidentally enable some future people in power to be able to.
I've sworn by HGST drives since BackBlaze have repeatedly covered their impressively low failure rate. They've worked well for me.
Keep in mind there's no WD drives in the comparison, only HGST (reputed to be high quality), and tosiba (low sample count).
It depends but for me definitely not. I have a car and much prefer public transports instead of having to be stuck in traffic then having the hassle of parking the car. I feel way more free in the city without my car, and the journey is faster as well.

You are right that it’s quite packed in the rush hour, but you can still read a book standing.

Regarding the other issues you cite it really depends of the line. The one I take regularly (RER A) is very calm and clean. And keep in mind that there are more than 1 million passengers every day. Touristic areas are certainly problematic but it’s a completely different issue (to put it simply a lot of touristic areas in Paris are dirty and/or in sketchy neighborhoods to start with. Parisians usually don’t go or work there).

Source: taking public transports nearly everyday since more than 15 years in the area. I love my car but for road trips and going to the countryside.
Yeah, but the reason GMOs started was to improve yields for livestock-feed related plants and is the reason GMOs exist today (if we ignore cotton, which is GMO-ed primarily for the clothing). I'm pretty sure soybean is nutrient dense livestock feed, not just a carbohydrate source.

The only reason GMOs would exist for humans would be to improve the yields of most popular plants which are obviously not raised for nutrition but for taste. Almost every other plant in the world is produced in such minuscule amounts compared to soybean, wheat, maize and rice that there's no need for GMO.
Research guide to human pose estimation
The statistics of small sample sizes comes into play here. The small sample size of a personal environment doesn't lend itself well to comparisons to a large sample size of a cloud storage provider.

For example, their 2% failure rate of Vendor X drives doesn't mean anything to you if you don't have enough drives. Your few drives might be in the 2% or the 98%. The 2% failure rate is only applicable to the population of drives as a total. It doesn't tell you anything about your drives in particular.

Now, on top of that, their usage patterns don't necessarily reflect what a typical user would see on their personal computer. I suspect that their read/write patterns skew towards the write-once, read-rarely category. Even for a typical enterprise datacenter, their usage patterns are going to be different.
Are there other sources which can corroborate this story? There is an article in reuters here https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-israel-space-moon/israeli-... which outlines the crash, but no mention of dna/tardigrades.

There is another article here: https://phys.org/news/2018-09-lunar-library-photos-dna.html which mentions synthetic dna but no tardigrades.

Did Wired just reference tardigrades purely to make a clickbait article?
We made the decision to use non-JS share links for a couple reasons.

One was to speed up the load time of the site, another was to limit social button tracking all users for the sake of the very small minority of users who use them.

Our reason for keeping them was that people were sharing/saving anyway and this gave us a little more control vs something like the Pinterest browser plugin which users might use to save/share.
Since people from backblaze will be reading this - what happened to the datacenter in europe? Last news I heard was Q2 2019 and we're already way past that
A few comments which are just my opinions. First, I'd argue both languages will solve similar problems fairly equally in terms of outcome & performance. But if you have C++ knowledge on the team already it should be the default unless there is proven reasons to move away. This isn't because I don't think teams should learn new things, but when the business is trying to make money or get started that is not the time to risk a project on learning a new language.

If you haven't already worked in Rust and haven't already done POC's in Rust now isn't the time to risk a project on experimenting. You could take a small portion of the project and do a test in both languages to see the pros and cons. I'd probably not put a ton of weight on the implementation time difference here (unless it is large) because Rust might take you slightly longer just to figure out the differences but that isn't a negative and would quickly pass. And when you pick the portion of project do not unfairly bias the test towards either language, that is easy to do to bias the outcome.

If this is a vital system where failure has negative consequences for the company I'd argue again you go with C++ which seems counterintuitive initially but makes sense. With Rust the team will be learning so the number of mistakes and rework will be higher initially. The team is already C++ experienced so they understand its worts and issues, and all languages have issues. So the first result will mean the C++ software will likely be more solid than the Rust version, not because of language capabilities but because of experience in the coders. If the system isn't vital, can accept more risk and is smaller I'd go with Rust, simply because that is the perfect time to experiment.

TL;DR; don't bet a non-trivial project the company is needing to help grow or profit on a new language when the team hasn't already proven competency on smaller test projects in the language.
I have a few drives with video files and I use Backblaze for Windows. But there is no local redundancy. What is a better solution?
Protestors in HK pointing lasers at police to avoid facial detection
Amazon S3 does the same thing. You can make bulk requests but you still are responsible for deleting all objects before removing the bucket.

Agree it's stupid.
You can change the time length.
> FreeBSD solution to this, which is to not overcommit

Where did this myth come from? Did y'all just assume that the vm.overcommit sysctl actually makes sense and zero means "no overcommit"? :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20623919

But indeed, OOM killer kills the largest process, which makes more sense in most scenarios than Linux's "badness" scoring.
Yes, when ID is hard to get.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/03/how-vot...
Nice read!

Time-boxing my efforts using the Pomodoro technique has also made a big difference to my own productivity. I highly recommend giving it a try if you haven't done so yet.
But everyone does lobbying. Singling our Comcast like that is weird to prove a point of government and telecoms. Even if they are in the top 10.
From https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.

This should not be a Show HN as there is nothing to try out, just a video + early access list that currently doesn't give you access.
The only Good Thing about German Internet access is the FRITZ!Box.
Best basic Internet Router with minimal required setup.
Still missing some things, but they do their job much better than what any provider can give you (or they are rebranding the FRITZ!Box itself)
Because you're talking about _YouTube_ having a consistent policy again, while providing a load of examples of things that didn't happen on YouTube. You're all over the place here.
Good point! Can't believe I didn't consider that.
QLD is very humid too.
Competence doesn't seem to be a requirement in these positions.
There's a useless vertical scrollbar on desktop.
Bayesian Reasoning for Intelligent People (2018) [pdf]
Think the same. The idea behind it isn't that bad though, the time interval could be configurable.
Plants evaporate a lot of water, so their leaves are likely a bit cooler than ambient temperatures.
Surprised it’s Vue and not React. Vue is great, but there’s a lot of activity in the Sketch <-> React space, for example AirBnb’s Lona [0]. This could fit in nicely.

[0] https://github.com/airbnb/Lona
All those actions you list are sadly true, but they don't really force anyone to use a specific currency. Now if a country was invaded, its government replaced, and its currency literally replaced, then that would be forcing.
Why is it outrageous? He was limited to talking about his research in his official capacity, and he wanted to talk about a bunch of stuff completely outside of his research. Just because you do research on the effects of CO2 on rice nutrient content, doesn't mean you can use your government position to talk about predicting future weather, drought conditions, heat, etc.
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/ck539j/p...
It's because the USA decided paypal was the way to do C2C transfers between banks and decided not to develop their own as a result.

You also have venmo, square cash, fb messenger, etc.
> These boards do more than allow this hate to fester. They allow hate to grow as they become a recruiting ground that can radicalize people who never would have fallen into this mindset without these boards.

This is a common narrative, but it depends on an empirical question of whether hate spreads online and whether this motivates action. Fortunately, studies suggest that online talk does not motivate action:

https://www.rand.org/randeurope/research/projects/internet-a...

To summarize: the internet does not accelerate the process of radicalization, it does not provide opportunities to self-radicalize, and it does not allow radicalization without physical contact with other radicals. So the empirical evidence does not entirely agree with your characterization of 8chan's role in radicalization.
I have wondered about the same thing before. I think it's mostly an emotional reaction. Society in general seems to be really accommodating to parents when they have emotional reactions about their children.
Hi. Wish you had one-off pricing. I'm sure there are agencies that do that kind of volume. I would love to use your service a few times a year.
But the application of law should be explicitly defined in order to be applied equally by law enforcement and courts. If you define the law to be "all people have the right to live as decided by local law enforcement and courts" then by not having explicit definitions of legality you're introducing the potential for abuse. Or even confusion as to what is actually allowed (and thus litigation as to whether certain behavior was within the spirit of the enforced law).

It sounds as though what you want is the The Constitution / Bill of Right. A basic set of simply worded principles that influence the definition of law, but aren't themselves "the law".
Looking at the pricing at:
https://www.backblaze.com/b2/b2-transactions-price.html

It seems that calling b2_delete_key is free. It's just not conveniently abstracted. Listing the items however if you don't already have a catalog is $4/M items
15 minutes is the smallest billable increment for most very expensive lawyers and consultants. I'm guessing the reason is because anything less, like every 10 minutes, is just too much granularity and overly disruptive to getting work done.

Just food for thought.
Ask HN: Cloud provider support program for open source tooling development
I often find myself in the situation where I'd like to develop some kind of tooling in relation to a resource of some cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP, ...). The one thing that prevents me from starting is that I'd need to pay for these resources.

I'm aware that there are free resources but this is limited to a few/lot (depending on the provider) and they're only free for a limited amount of time. As I'd like to keep my tooling maintained and tested, permanent access to these resources would be preferred.

Do you know cloud providers that offer some kind of support program to help developing open source tooling around their resources?
Faster internet is coming, but only for a few
Hi fellow Copenhagener,

There are few things that make Copenhagen attractive to own a Christiania bike:

1- Very flat city and mild climate, although wet sometimes.
2- The city if fairly small geographically.
3- Public transit is a bit slow.
4- Very high taxes on cars. When I compare to Malmö, I have the impression most people there own cars.
5- Vast majority of people I know who live outside Copenhagen main neighborhoods own a car. Bearing in mind that outside Copenhagen isn't that far in distance but enough to degrade commute and life style without a car.
I think you are looking for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autological_word
Lenin Was a Mushroom
They famously did their whole competition with Diapers.com and their parent company. That wasn’t an Amazon marketplace competitor though. But it was pretty ruthless of Amazon.
Maybe i'll give these a try next, my slow lab environment is due a refresh around new years.

Thanks!
Amazon hooked me when they rolled out Prime and free shipping. So now any time I think of something I need, I open the app on my phone and click buy. I feel guilty but it's just so easy. It's a pain purchasing across different sites (different IDs, thinking about shipping cost, return policy/procedure). I know shipping singles items is bad for the environment and a total waste. I keep telling myself I need to get off Amazon.
LambdaTest Introduces Screenshot API for Faster Visual Automation Testing
Faster Payments exists today, costs nothing to the end user, and usually takes seconds.

Bitcoin processes 200-500k payments per day[0].

Faster Payments processes 230k payments per hour[1].

Bitcoin may be superior to what currently exists in the USA as provided by banks, but it isn't compared to existing private sector payment solutions, and it definitely isn't compared to what other countries have already implemented successfully in their banking system.

Again, long time bitcoin holder and user, I'm painfully aware of the downsides having paid absurd fees and still ended up waiting hours for a transaction to finally get accepted into a block.

Bitcoin's great as a speculative asset, but it's not so great as currency.

[0] https://www.blockchain.com/en/charts/n-transactions?timespan...

[1] http://www.fasterpayments.org.uk/press-release/faster-paymen...
> And secondly, what's wrong with population of Nigeria?

I don't think it was a sleight on Nigeria. Just a poetic way to emphasize the weakness of the Russian economy by highlighting the disparity between its population and its GDP. And while the population of Nigeria is is larger it's in the right ballpark for the argument being made. They could have said Pakistan, Bangladesh or Indonesia. Although I suspect those nations have even larger populations but not by an order of magnitude.
Microsoft Office is built on such model, where the document specification is intentionally vague, contradictory, and the implementation is full of constantly changing details that make 100% accurate re-implementation by competition impossible, thus maintaining its hegemony in the office software niche.
Creator here - surprisingly, it's less annoying than you'd think, (at least for me).

I built this mostly from the point of view of personal productivity/improvement.

The idea is that it will keep asking you what you're doing even when you don't feel like putting an effort into tracking your time that day. Even when you didn't sleep enough or feel lazy, it'll still keep asking you, collecting the stats, and reminding you that it's watching.
Little outside of the topic but:

“We expect a quick—and possibly intemperate—response from the White House, and consequently expect a more rapid escalation of trade tensions.”

Haha, really? No one would expect a intemperate response out of this cool and collected admin.
I built a thing like thi, and went quite a long way down the commercialization path.

The problem is that round-tripping is what almost everyone wants, and it's really hard to get to work.
The word "cowardly" seems completely inappropriate here. First off, the second crash clearly was only harmless by pure chance, it could have easily killed someone - would you have written the same in such case? Secondly, how many other countries' national postal services are even running experiments like this at all? And above a major metropolitan city nonetheless! This is exactly the right reaction, temporarily suspend in the name of safety, address the issue, and then resume.
>The world needs to be fed and needs to be fed properly

We can already do that without GMO.

>but damn is it a viable solution for vitamin deficiency and a way forward through changing environments.

Considering the areas people are concerned about are already subsisting on grains the developed world is giving them, it is simpler, easier, and more cost effective to just fortify that grain.
I never understood when pc/win users complain about missing keys on the mac keyboards. What's so hard about using modifiers, is it just habit? Pg up/down, delete, home, end. Those are all possible and imho easier, yes cmd+arrow is imho easier than pecking for that home key which way out of reach. I don't see anyone complaining about a missing "copy", "paste" or "undo" key on any keyboard.
>> I’ve been having MBP exclusively for 12 years. It was quite rare for a W issue before the touchbar generation.

What? Almost each generation of MBP has had serious problems. Both NVIDIA and ATI graphics that would die, bad SSD's, defetive batteries, failing motherboars....
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I couldn't agree with you more ;-)
dig internal-api.monzo.com

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;internal-api.monzo.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
internal-api.monzo.com. 288 IN CNAME k8s-worker-external-alb-prod-1306866561.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.com.
k8s-worker-external-alb-prod-1306866561.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.com. 8 IN A 34.254.57.66
k8s-worker-external-alb-prod-1306866561.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.com. 8 IN A 52.212.7.167
k8s-worker-external-alb-prod-1306866561.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.com. 8 IN A 34.255.246.8

Monzo the bank, runs from Amazon and not via Cloudflare.

dig www.monzo.com

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.monzo.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.monzo.com. 59 IN A 104.25.212.99
www.monzo.com. 59 IN A 104.25.211.99

Monzo the marketing website for the bank, uses Cloudflare.

If you go through the DNS logs for the Monzo app, you'll see everything else goes direct... Google, Facebook, Status Page, AWS.

With the only exception being some image assets:

dig monzo-prod-user-images.imgix.net

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;monzo-prod-user-images.imgix.net. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
monzo-prod-user-images.imgix.net. 2280 IN CNAME dualstack.com.imgix.map.fastly.net.
dualstack.com.imgix.map.fastly.net. 4 IN A 151.101.18.208
I used to run a small hosting service and we standardized on Ultrastar disks. We would regularly have drives fall out of the RAID arrays, but when we ran badblocks on them to verify they were having problems they would always show up as good. After we put them back in production, they would always be happy from that point.

So we started going on the theory that there were some marginal parts of the disk during manufacture, and exercising them would allow them to be remapped to good parts of the disk. Once we started including "badblocks -svw -p 5" in the burnin procedure, our drive failure rates dropped to basically 0.

I wonder if backblaze does anything similar to provision drives.

Recently I replaced some drives in our old Dell R720 servers (5 years old). They were showing media errors over several months but never went degraded. During the replacement, each server had another drive fail. So I ran badblocks on the RAID arrays over the weekend, just to make sure any other marginal drives or sectors had an opportunity to remap. No other drive failures.

Aside: I didn't lose any data, the arrays never went FAIL, but also I had migrated all our services off these machines. Love virtualization!
What products are those? I haven’t seen them but maybe I’ve just missed them.
They were asked to leave, and they refused. You can say it was dumb to ask them to leave, but that’s what happened. That’s when it became trespassing, and that’s when the cops got called.
Yeah, I don't believe this at all. In Florida for instance the daily high never really goes below 20C all year, and the name literally means "flowery". 40C I might believe, but 20? No way.
I wholeheartedly disagree. You are an elitist and don't even realize it. There is no such thing as "hate speech" there is only speech you don't like.

It's too bad that people today worry so incessantly that somebody, somewhere, might disagree with them. We're on the brink of losing it all because of that.

My Grandfather fought in WWI. Actually fought. Made it home alive but died from complications of his wounds. They people who died in that war believed in things like our Constitution and freedom from tyranny. And here is history repeating itself all over again.

When you stifle speech, you are going to get that big war all over again, mark my words. People are already lining up just in hopes of getting a single shot at taking down their tormentors.

Also, HN is censoring people like me--I get 2 posts a day because my ideas aren't in line with their own. Thing is, my ideas aren't even particularly radical. I mean, free markets? Capitalism? Really? Are we that far gone?

Damn I hate this site. What are you going to do after every opinion that is different than yours is eradicated from the Internet? Do you think all these people are just going to roll over and die? There is a seething anger rising all over and you're sleepwalking right into a major conflict over this. But that's what you want, isn't it? You think you can win this, but you can't.
Statement by Jim Watkins, Owner of 8chan
I don’t think your odds of being discovered on Roblox are that much higher than on the App Store. Roblox is full of a lot of content (most junky) that you’d have to swim through to get to the front page.
When Cloudflare pulled the plug on them I didn’t saw that as a good idea because by doing that you are forcing the community underground and further radicalization is the next step. And here they are using the daily stormer CDN.

On the other hand as deplatforming becomes a norm perhaps we could see a rise in demand for decentralized platforms like IPFS or ActivityPub.
> Spectre probably knocked of Intels performance advantage, but is CPU performance really our current bottleneck?

this is what my computers have to say about that :

https://i.imgur.com/2MGzz58.png

https://i.imgur.com/h2d8FO8.png
It is scary how many people apparently believed such a ridiculous tale - and this was just a prank.

Modern 'fake news' could be far more powerful as it uses bespoke messages to target each small audience segment etc. and far from being a prank it is a serious 'cyberweapon' being deployed by political factions and nation states.
> Personally I'm in agreement with Popper's view that societies should tolerate everything except intolerance.

This is incorrect. Popper does not say intolerance should not be permitted, he said that we should not extend unlimited tolerance, and he expands by saying that only intolerance that cannot be countered by rational debate should be impermissible. Clearly escalation to violence is a form of intolerance that cannot be countered by rational debate but it's not clear at all what else should fall under this criteria.

This is clearly a very different claim that does not support your narrative, and instead, shows how your view is just another form of intolerance that we should oppose.
I wish they were around when I bought 4x IBM Deskstar 60GBs in a RAID 10 in the early 2000s....