skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are all sorts of ways to created a delete-bucket button that avoids tech-illiterate fat fingering. Like simply burying it in options. Requiring end user to make a billion individual requests is almost as bad as making me call a number to delete my bucket.

I’m voicing this here because I was surprised at the UX. I was happy with my backblaze experience otherwise. My bill was incredibly cheap for the amount of data and access I was using. I’d consider using it in the future for things we generally default to S3 for.
You shouldn’t market it as mediocre, but data will correctly show most customers are best served by mediocre products: most people need a mediocre car, not one that drives 300kmh, drives well off-road, or can carry 10m3 of stuff. Similarly, mediocre furniture (ikea), electronics or most anything else is good enough.
How do you know I'm not? Why would you expect to be more successful on hacker news than one of those open forums?
No, you can nuke a bucket with stuff in it. I just realize I've never done this before, but the deletion screen calls out that all the contents will go away too.

https://i.imgur.com/j1av6iE.png
Verizon sold most of its landline business to Frontier over the past decade. While the few remaining Verizon FiOS customers got upgraded to gigabit, the Frontier FiOS customers were left with the old technology. Our Frontier contract just expired and we’re upgrading from 150 mbps to 500 mbps for about $5 more tomorrow. But I’m not optimistic about the speed. I tried paying $150/mo for the Frontier 500 mbps package two years ago and downloads never came close to that speed, the only thing that did were speed tests. Hopefully they’ve optimized more.

The saddest part is that the sales rep insisted that we’d need a modem, I’m sure because the majority of their service areas have been left on DSL.
It's good. Know thine enemy, and keep them close.
Betteridge's law of headlines: the comic.
There are good UI solutions to this problem... For example, a dialogue box that asks you to type "Yes I am sure I want to delete all my data, forever". We do things like this for internal tools at work, seems to go pretty well.
Rust in general will panic on memory allocation failure. There was some discussion about oom handling a while back but I don't know the current state.
Do think of the other perspective though, all those local places for going out are so popular partly because housing is so small and expensive that staying home for the evening just isn't that attractive a proposition
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ASNets: Deep Learning for Generalised Planning
I guarantee you it was in your textbook and probably in lecture and you just glossed over and forgot. What does "applying it" even mean if not "finding the intrgral of a dervative or the derivative of an integral"? That's the entire point of the theorem, which is given the most powerful name mathematics pedagogy gives to important ideas, which should motivate you to glance at it more than once.

Or do you mean that you never connected "derivative and integral are inverses" with "integrals are areas" and "inverses are opposites"?
The last link is wrong. It should be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0zPwhgWTgM
(Clarify: I agree with what you're saying, but...)

You need to add "cost to repair" into your equation. At my old job we used to figure $300 to replace a drive (scheduling maintenance window with customer, taking backup, migrating/quiescing services), replacing drive, verifying services were happy, wiping or destroying old drive, managing RMA, qualifying/burning in new drive).

YMMV depending on policies and procedures. If I were Backblaze, I'd design the system to work equally well with 40 drives as with 45, and consider just leaving bad drives in until a handful of them need replacing in a chassis. And the replacement be basically automatic.

This version of the report is much closer than they've been in the past. Seems like Seagate might be making some improvements. IIRC, it was not uncommon for Seagates to be a 10x higher failure than HSGT in the past.
Literal Nazis are German White Nationalist Socialists. That's not what the alt-right is. The alt-right is a blanket term used to describe anyone right of Bill Clinton who is currently not a media darling.

Fascists or Ethno-Centrists are both better terms, and cover the ideologies that most people attribute to the alt right.
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I’m not really sure what you statistical point there is.

If Vendor A has a 2 percent failure rate and Vendor B has a 3 percent failure rate it’s still valid to conclude that you would be less likely to have a failure with Vendor A even if you only ever buy one drive.

Home use being not comparable to their usage patterns is a valid argument, but your statistical argument seems like nonsense to me.
Yes that's what I heard. Also heard people just keep to computers side by side, one screen recording the other for... commenting on hacker news
That story isn't really the full story for some of the countries. For example, Romania had a really huge build it yourself boom (which have since consolidated into proper companies since, if I have understood it correctly) and at least for a while ended up with more people having fiber than running water.
A word of caution to anyone considering buying one of the 4 TB Hitachi drives listed in the report:

There are a lot of vendors selling “refurbished” HGST drives. Do not buy these. As I understand it, there is no such thing as a refurbished hard drive (not economical). They just zero out the SMART data and sell it as new/refurbished. They even look new, but they’re not.

I made the mistake of buying one. It had a ton of vibration and started reporting bad sectors immediately.

If you want one of these drives, you’re better off buying an actual used one off eBay or something.
Maybe if taken wrong(the click-baiting headline), but this is not advocating at all for not showering/bathing.
It is a massive win-win for rich countries to develop technologies to prevent pollution and transfer it to poorer countries at low or no cost. It's like cleaning your own house & then ensuring the neighbors don't dump trash in through the windows. Self-interest alone dictates this! And self-interest also says we should make sure the poor in highly-populated countries get the nutrition they need to live decent lives, rather than having so little to lose that they start wars!
Possibly because there is no goal and your friends aren't there in person. It's too open ended and over the internet.

Not feeling like I'm really with friends just from talking to them online might be my problem because really anything can be fun when you are with people you enjoy spending time with.
Hammerspoon. Lets me define my own keybindings.
> I got a couple of months' gardening leave (as it's known in the industry). The most senior guys would typically get six months off work: three paid, three unpaid.

I don't understand - three months unpaid gardening leave is just unemployment.
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If everyone's beliefs are unchangeable what is the danger of open forums for discussion? I think if you really want to combat this ideology it needs to be done with rational discussion instead of terminating the discussion. If we concede that many of these people were seduced by these ideologies on these sites and didn't initially hold these beliefs (which is one of the reasons these sites are considered so dangerous) don't we have to also concede that they could be swayed back.
Next version of Android might introduce security risk for online banking and 2FA
I forgot a bracket, deployed, and learned some great lessons
I think those “data protection in Europe” messages show up on all queries that Google heuristically considers human names.
This article is written like a powerpoint slide. I'm left wondering what they are trying to convey.
You have to gaurd yourself against cheap customers. They will squeeze you for everything they can get. This is not the same as customers that are low paying.
Not only could this be considered a return to the essence of social network, but it may be healthier than a single megabehemoth like Facebook controlling the virtual "third place". Even when games like CS or WoW dominated the gaming world, player counts would go through ebbs and flows, and a new triple-A title could splinter the community.

I guess it's a little more like the "Water Cooler TV Show" of the past. Let's have a whole bunch of studios (including some dark horses) compete for our viewership instead of one product attempt global domination.
The toughest part is ensuring anonymity and privacy while ensuring someone can only vote once, ensure the vote is legitimate, and accounted for.

The only way I can see that is using a PKI-based ID to validate the ID of someone, but then how do you ensure that person can vote anonymously and only once?
True, but it’s still mostly used in corprate environments. Thus having share buttons in IE feels weird.
I am really surprised to find that Apple does not include a Bounce Keys implementation (which is what this is) as an accessibility feature in MacOS as Windows has since forever. My guess is that this is due to the fact that many users find the difference between Bounce Keys, Repeat Keys, and Slow Keys confusing.
So roblox is what second life wanted to be? Any insight into why it worked out so much better than SL?
And I've always meant to go in and set SSH to be immune to OOM, and deprioritizing others like databases, but I've just never gotten around to it. Looks like oomd could be useful, once we get to kernels that support it in production (looks like 4.20, Ubuntu 18.04 has 4.15).
Are you swapping to the “VM” section of your APFS container on an insanely fast PCIe (NVMe?) SSD? That’s my guess. Although macOS does a great job of handling poorly behaved programs that use tons of RAM just to begin with.
I'm following Amazon for a long time
They are a monopoly indeed

But they became one only because they are great at doing business

They built an empire from an online book store....
The people in power are probably doing this because there are locals complaining about the homeless. So it's important that there are also locals who make it clear that they don't want this kind of unfriendly street furniture, and that they'll put up with the homeless until there is a solution that actually addresses the problem.
Compare that to the roughly 8€ I pay for gigabit connection for my apartment in Stockholm. Which is a better deal than normal since the deal is that the whole house also have it, without being able to opt out, but still.
> You are your body, they are the same thing unless you can stop being in your body this is a moot point.

No, you're not. You're the runtime state of the software that's running in your brain. Your body is just a peripheral, and can very well work against your will. More importantly, your body doesn't think.

I phrased it this way because in the case when someone wants to die, but the society won't let them, it's technically not them that have the right to live but their body (and the body can't voice its opinion).

> Well you don't thats the point.

Real world sometimes doesn't give you that option. Situations happen in which a choice between who lives and who dies needs to be made.

> The point saintPirelli made is that people focus too much on hypotheticals (what if we can stop shooters by shooting them) rather than accepting the right and focusing on the reality(how do we prevent shooters from killing people), your argument demonstrates this.

If you keep avoiding a problem, you'll be unprepared when you're suddenly forced to confront it head-on.
I've heard it's the top reason besides the mild weather.

No non-competes mean that companies have to pay you to keep you, otherwise you walk across the street. This creates the high-pay-for-tech thing that we've seen for the last few decades.

Well paid tech types can afford to take time off and create startups and pinch talent in lieu of equity
The first thing I did was to reassure my prejudice towards Seagate. I recall similar stats over the years and Seagate made an impassion on me that they fail quite more often than the rest. I also had a personal Seagate drive failure so...
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/promotional-booklet/
I'm wondering since other commenters wrote that even twitter is filled with white nationalists. I don't think you can blame some random internet platform for the world's problems. It's just that they make the problems far more visible because they are echo chambers that focus around one particular ideology.

So what exactly causes white nationalism to be rising everywhere, not just on 8chan?
It's a marketing trick.

They might pay 300k, but the PR and coverage they get after an action like this worth millions
There are still too many cracks in the process with the human element. We've seen pollsters that have hoarded and thrown away ballots.

Persuasion and intimidation outside the polling buildings.

Now we have hoards of people that are not even American citizens that are be used a pawns for a vote.

GREED.

GREED is the problem.
It's a great idea for cities but despite what many people here are saying, I don't see myself selling my car any time soon.

I live in the Boston area and until about 2 years ago didn't own a car. I don't need it for commute since I bike or take the train. The public transit in Boston and nearby towns is decent. But if you want to go to a town farther away you're usually out of luck. Car sharing is great but it wasn't a good enough solution for me.

Zipcar started in the Boston area and overall there are many options today such as Turo and others. The problem is that these services are at peak demand when you need them the most. During the week there are many Zipcars available in my area but I usually don't need a car then. On the weekend when the weather is nice and I need a car to go hiking, everyone else needs a car too and if I didn't book in advance I need to travel across town for an available car. And twice I did it just to find out there was a problem with the car. (that was the breaking point for me and led me to cancel my Zipcar membership and buy a car).

There are other problems too. Now we have a kid and need a carseat. That makes Uber/Lyft much more of a hassle. We're not gonna travel around carrying a carseat. Many of the people here commenting probably don't have kids.

Having a car on the weekends is just convenient. The carseat is already installed. The hiking/beach gear is all in the trunk. We have a bike rack and go on biking trips (some car sharing companies let you book a car with a rack but those are more limited). For us it wasn't even a big investment, we got a great car for $6500 which we only use on the weekends and so far had no issues.
As a student this would be great for studying and getting both work and school done in a reasonable amount of time.
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

It works both ways.

Russia's social media operations utilized (and is surely still aiming to utilize) our relatively permissive climate of free speech to sow discord within America and deepen our divisions.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/us/politics/takeaways-rus...

So, there you go - there's "people in power" using free speech to weaken/oppress us.
The shooter acted of his own free will. Yes, there were factors that contributed to his actions, but the responsibility is squarely on his shoulders. There's room for nuance, but unless he was forced to do something against his will, it's on him.
I think the laptops would defeat the purpose of the paper ballots?
> This is a security blunder of the highest order.

No information was leaked... it's really kind of a non-issue. Monzo's approach is radical transparency. Any other bank probably would have never said anything.
I think you are spot on, I also think you should watch your language in that people will use it is an excuse to ignore the painful truth of the very important point you are making:

"more and more i'm lead to believe that the compassion and empathy of the sensible majority is largely performative and on a fundamentally emotional level they just want heads to roll irrelative of any actual justice"
When I was visiting Germany 3 years ago, I bought a prepaid sim a second time from a 2nd company because the service was so mediocre. It didn't help. I was only in the major cities and I was lucky to get good 3G signal/speeds let alone LTE. It surprised me quite a bit. As a Canadian, where we pay extremely high rates for mobile, the signals and speeds are at least very good.

It was also surprising as I've had good service in France, UK, Belgium, Spain, UK, etc. I expected the Germans to be stereotypically efficient on this.
I don't doubt Germany has continued to take in refugees, but we're not comparing like-to-like here; they're different population estimates, as the 2018 number in your link differs from that in mine.

The point remains: Germany has almost the same population it had 20 years ago. Blaming internet troubles on rapid population expansion is clearly false.
Pretty high? Even most of my nerd friends don't have their own name registered.
>But everyone does lobbying.

What? Your local Cafe does lobbying? Only magacorps do that, and yes, they use it to protect themselves from competition.

And no, protecting yourself from competition using lobbying, monopoly rights, patents, regulations means exactly this: big biz uses government to ensure its monopoly/oligopoly, aka governments creating monopolies.

>Comcast like that is weird to prove a point of government and telecoms

Comcast is using government to ensure its marketshare is not an example of government forcing people to use the service?

It exactly is IMHO.
The Monzo web interface uses the public API too.
Uh. I checked my bank (Boursorama, France) and I got 17 trackers. WTF? How can you just add trackers left and right in a _banking_ app?

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GitLab makes you do something similar to delete a repo, but not as explicit with the message. I think you just have to type the repository name in a box (to confirm you read the instructions) and click the delete button.
Who exactly will be demanding to liquidate their yuan? Offshore yuan deposits amount to under ¥2tn. China has foreign exchange reserves worth $3.1tn (¥21.8tn). Enough to buy back all offshore yuan deposits ten times over, and still have more reserves than all but eleven countries.

China has enforced strict capital and currency controls over decades to protect its currency from external shocks like an attempted run on the yuan. There may be lots of vulnerabilities in the Chinese financial system, but currency is not one.
We are part of its community for years. It's always good to start with tools you master. React is definitely on our roadmap. Are you more of a Vue or React dev?
I don't understand this comment but would like to.
The browser _does_ do that. The hard part is detecting "the system is out of memory". Some OSes notify you when that happens, and Firefox listens to those notifications and will flush caches. Some OSes will at least fail malloc and let you detect out-of-memory that way. Linux does neither, last I checked.

Disclaimer: I work on Firefox, but not the details of the OS "listen for memory pressure" integration.
there's little or no evidence that duplicate votes are a problem in US elections
I think now it's process-architecture-optimize (but the 10nm took so long that they just kept optimizing and Sunny Cove became a process and architecture change).
I have that. It’s my kids.
They can but doing so reduces their operational life time so they'll want to minimize the amount of the thrust budget they expend on slot filling launches. As someone else pointed out their prices are high enough to cover the cost of a reusable launch with maybe half the ports filled so they're probably just playing the numbers game assuming there won't be a large coordinated drop out of customers. And those prices don't include the main top port which will likely cover a fair portion of the operation cost of the launch by itself.
Percentage wise, you're totally right, but reality is that once you know the true cost of these sorts of things, you start wondering why you paid so much in the past.

Sadly, laptops are expensive due to the way customs works in Vietnam. =(
I think a question asking app that helps you build a reliable schedule would be useful . Eg what are you doing ? When do you normally do it ? Are you doing X now? Should you be? Etc
> ... who is the intolerant one.

One party being intolerant does not prevent the another party from being intolerant. As I have tried to show repeatedly, multiple parties can be intolerant.

> In Alabama, according to your original comment, the intolerant are the pro choice ones: according to your reasoning, not to mine.

Expectant women in Alabama do not suddenly lose their rights when Alabama declares 'fetus' = 'child'. Alabama instead chooses to override women's rights and place fetal rights above it.

> Of course that you could just accept the obvious, that the concept of intolerance is clearly abstract, and finish the discussion

I could repeat this statement back to you, with the only change being my claim instead of yours, and it would mean just as much as it means when you say this. But that would be discourteous and discouraging of discourse, so I will try yet again, one final time:

The concept of intolerance is not any more "abstract" than "the concept of harm".
False.

> But it does not seperate table data into one file per table

That's because if you didn't have it set when creating the database, it won't move data to the new fs layout when you set the setting on, without an OPTIMIZE. If you had it on from the beginning, table data is per file. I literally just did an ls on my /va/lib/mysql and there's a folder per database, in which there are 2 files per table (.frm and .ibd).

When innodb_file_per_table is on, and the database has been OPTIMIZEd, only the following is stored in ibdata1 [0]:

- data dictionary aka metadata of InnoDB tables

- change buffer

- doublewrite buffer

- undo logs

[0] https://www.percona.com/blog/2013/08/20/why-is-the-ibdata1-f...
Hmm, I've had pretty good luck returning Seagates. Which I'm thankful for, because I have to do it a lot. I pay the few bucks for the advance replacement, something like $7-$15 sticks in my head, and use the packaging that they send the new drive out in to return it.
But industrial mathematics is numerical methods, a rather different beast from the tricky closed form puzzles of Olympiads. I question your claims of causation vs correlation regarding Olympiad work and industrial math and general effort put into basics of mathematical thinking and general mathematical intelligence.
Hotz isn’t an expert, he’s a loudmouth tinkerer who never produced anything working before NHTSA shut him down. I’ve never heard Levandowski comment on the long-term necessity of lidar, but actions speak louder than words: Otto/Uber definitely used lidar (actually, the entire lawsuit with Waymo was over their lidar tech. Why would Levandowski have risked everything stealing it if he didn’t think it was necessary?)

Elon really is alone in claiming that lidar isn’t needed for self-driving.
Not necessarily. You loose a bit of data reliability(which is an important quality for a backup provider) by using a drive that fails more often, and you have to pay wages to workers that have to replace those failing drives. At a scale 5% sooner means additional employees just to replace those drives.
May be. My point was more that those questions need to be answered one way or another; I understood GP as saying they're unnecessary and are just muddying the waters.