skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Individuals or private corporations are under no legal obligation to allow certain ideas/topics.

(Though it does become problematic as communication channels are concentrated in a few parties hands, which is why, in part, we have things like the common carrier doctrine. In the end, if one party accumulates enough power and uses it in a way that it is oppressive, whether that party is a government, a warlord, or a corporation).
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze.

> Is there any way to test the speed to the EU data center?

Create a free Backblaze account in the EU datacenter region. Then upload/download some data! The first 10 GBytes of B2 is 100% free, you don't even need to give us a credit card so you can try it all utterly risk free with no way we could mess with you.

If you run the Backblaze Personal Backup, make sure you manually configure it to use 30 threads, then let it rip and watch your bandwidth meter to see what it can use. The first 14 days are completely free, again no Credit Card required! Personally I get about 100 Mbits/sec from my home in California to the European datacenter (capped by my ISP), but if you are in Europe you should be able to hit 500 Mbits/sec using the Personal Backup Client with 30 threads if you are close enough to Amsterdam (where the datacenter is). Oh, one hint -> don't judge Backblaze Personal Backup until you have been backing up for at least 12 hours. Backblaze backs up small files first, and the latency to push 1 byte files murders performance. But after we get through all your small files, it should rip.

In the end, everybody has enough bandwidth to reach everywhere in the world now, and you really shouldn't pick a service based on total throughput. I think you should pick it based on cost, comfort with the security model and how sensitive your data is, ease of use, etc. Unless you have a Petabyte or more of data, you can backup hundreds of TBytes to anywhere in the world nowadays. Easily. No problem.
The consequences of getting locked out of my bank account because I've lost my 2FA method are pretty bad -- that would be a major inconvenience.

They are better than the consequences of getting locked out my bank account because someone stole my phone number -- especially since the first thing someone who SIM-swaps will do is change the recovery number to point to a separate phone they own. I'll have to go through the exact same recovery steps, just with the added pressure of having money siphoned from my account.

Most 2FA app setups come with one-time backup codes that you can write down in paper and stick inside a safe or your wallet. If you don't think customers will do that, and you're still worried about account recovery, using email instead of SMS is preferred. For all the crap I regularly give Google, their security team is top-notch, and I generally trust most people's Gmail accounts to be more secure then their phone numbers.

The only scenario I can think of where a service couldn't rely on email for account recovery is if you yourself are an email service like Fastmail.
At the rate they're making money (NBA), why does ADDITIONAL PROFIT matter ? We aren't 'the ferangi'; people are more important than profits, but American corporations seem to have ignored or forgotten that. Screw NBA market share, or financial well-being. Democracy and human rights are vastly more important!
IRS urged to use data to uncover charity related tax scams
> That’s far from the standard Kerr response on social issues. He’s right on one point. The conflict between the people of Hong Kong and the Chinese government is complex, and speaking publicly on the topic from a place of ignorance is ill advised.

> But what’s not complicated is analyzing the NBA’s response to Morey’s comments, which places a clear priority on the league’s financial interests over human rights concerns on the other side of the world.
>Young people in China are generally ultra nationalist and they support virtually everything the government does.

Many Westerners have trouble coming to terms with things like "Not all the Chinese hate the CCP", or "Russians are just regular people like you and me."
If you believe in some kind of censorship, that's great, we probably agree on a lot. You just can't take that position and believe in freedom of speech. If you believe in freedom of speech you object to the content of speech you find objectionable, not the right to say it.
No question, that it crash. Silent buggy behavior is a bitch to notice.
If you ever want to openly speak with a mentally ill madman, hit me up. I am not bored by your history. =)
> Internally Twitter generally operated the way you would expect them to as an external user.

As a total shitshow?
> "Human rights" or "unalienable rights" are nice ideas but insubstantial.

The US was founded on the idea of unalienable rights
The words 'community' and 'customers' are not mutually exclusive and using the word community to refer to your customers is not misleading in the slightest...
> China doesn’t kill people.

Hm.

https://qz.com/683718/a-new-fathers-mysterious-death-in-poli...

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/teenager-03142018154...

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/13/world/asia/china-lei-yang...

https://www.worldbulletin.net/caucasus/uyghur-woman-dies-in-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/protester-02062014163...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970203518404577097...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tenzin-delek-rinpoche-dead_n_...

https://nypost.com/2019/06/23/the-ugly-truth-about-chinas-or...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/06/18/china-kil...

Of course, anyone can change the past, so here is one that is not dead yet:

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2171746/chin...

We can wait for him together.
Freesw.org
Why are we conflating "woke" PC culture with #metoo?

One is about being offended by things, the other is about coming forward about having been sexually assaulted or showing solidarity for them.

Let's keep clear and separate distinctions between people being offended and people being raped.
I still remember how amazing Pepsi.com was in the mid-90s. They were doing tricks with images and tables even back then.
It probably should not invent its own language or if it does, it should take inspiration from XPath/JSONPath which is arguably simpler.
Possibly yes. One catch might be that they are contractors so if the parking company has 50 overal it might not count. They’ll have to split up or something. Or litigate for a while. But either way it’ll sort itself out in a few years.
As a hunter with difficulty in bagging skittish deer, I'd love to have this power.
No government has the right to fabricate (maybe not accurate but they also believe that's true) some thing call genocide then use the fabrication to fool the world to adjust its action. The WMD was known to be a lie only hindsight.

Western countires like to act as if they are warriors saving the world by creating evils. The people believe lies again and again because that match their desire for hate.
Maybe, but not everyone knows that Automattic is the core team behind Wordpress.org and Wordpress.com.
Like you said, it would unfortunately be unmaintainable, requiring a fork of CPython. Aggressive optimizations like this could go into pypy, but IMO CPython is still trying to be a "reasonably readable" reference implementation.

I think the time is currently best spent trying to push more of the work back into native code, extending the simple filtering that's in there now to also handle mutation (similar to jq), reducing the amount of back-and-forth with the interpreter.
Yeah, that's going to depend on what strike price they got in at. But this is the whole reason startup options are a lottery ticket, not actual compensation. Sometimes you win, and most of the time you lose.
Thanks for the explanation, makes sense. I was tempted to classify this as "irrelevant to me", but then I remembered an application I had recently where I had values (chess games) that I was sorting which I didn't want to reorder if they were adjacent (as far as the sort was concerned) but not identical. Ended up adding an "original order" field as a sort tiebreaker. As it happens a stable sort would have saved me the pain.
In general, people who overeat are more susceptible to many forms of cancer, and cancers are more virulent among overeaters.

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/o...

It would make sense that by limiting food intake, cancers would progress slower.
>Clearly our chief executive is happy to silence efforts.

Ok, so maybe Trump is remaining silent on the Hong Kong protests, but let's not pretend that he hasn't put the screws to China or talked often about their corrupt mercantile practices. Trump has been an anti-China force.
I'm not quite sure about your characterisation of "due to GDPR" in this instance. Personally identifiable information does and can flow to regular email, though obviously it is better that it doesn't where possible.
People need to stop talking about China like it's a single unit and the government can control every single thing its people do. They threatened certain countries and yet tourist and student arrivals from China only increased. If they block NBA Chinese fans will still find a way to consume it.
Some teams will start with 'visual' design at the beginning of the process and, in that case, will do the ~48 mockups before any code is written (it's more because there aren't just 2 different screen sizes). It's a more satisfying (and perhaps cheaper) process to develop in stages:

- content hierarchy (what's important on one platform will rarely change between other platforms, despite the developer guessing otherwise)

- interactivity (the platform can most of the time cater to the differences in input if you lean on the platform capabilities)

- style

- Iterate and Perfect on the 48 versions
It sounds like you are more familiar with her beliefs and this subject material than me. Would you mind elaborating on your disagreements?

Personally, I don't think any measurement is non-model-dependent. It's a question of which model. You need a model to turn some physical phenomenon into bits in memory and yet another model to interpret these bits.

I am also not convinced tired light is any more falsifiable than any other cosmology. I'm sure all it's problems could be rectified by adding enough terms that depend on variables we cannot ever measure. A version of it may be falsified, but there could always be another version with dark-whatever that explains any deviation. I feel this is just another way of expressing dismissal by non-adherence to consensus.
http://archive.is/HXsuL
Beta Testing
We are a virtual reality startup with a focus on social anxiety. Our platform is ready for beta testing and we would like to know who has access to an Oculus Go or Gear Vr and would like to give us some feedback.
For most engineering roles it's non-production and entirely synthetic, though based on a real app we use internally. It's the same trial project for everyone who applies to the same position.

source: I work on hiring at Automattic.
This is such a great article
Please provide sources. You've made multiple statements like this on this thread with either specious sources or none at all.
Court rules FBI surveillance unconstitutional
Holy. Shit.

If I were to pick the single best indicator of a terrible leader, it would be blaming subordinates for things they are resonspible for. Even if it is 100% the teams fault, the manager is, you know, suppossed to manage them away from such failure.

No organization with such a CEO can survive. We sell unifis at work and I have some in my home, but I will look elsewhere now.
Remind HN: Months later, you still can't disable Facebook tracking you off-site
So let’s say I copy a message from WhatsApp to a message board, does that disqualify WhatsApp from being a “secure messaging app”?
The beauty about villainize one another is that it is simple. No need to think or do research, just fallback to knee-jerk reactions. And it makes one feel superior when they think they are the good people that fights the evil.

It's human nature and nothing you or me can do will change it. (I mean, the need for antagonists is embedded into our brains, just look at the popular movies)

Yes, I totally agree that some of us did stole your stuff, and the fact that you also did it in the past doesn't justify our actions. Lack of innovation is indeed a big problem in China and it absolutely should not be mitigated by stealing others' innovations. Healthy, fair competition is what moves things forward and creates value. But many Westerners are acting like they have the moral high ground. Don't you love your bible? How about that story about throwing stones at some poor girl?

Like I said, I know many of you have good intentions (except the ones who want to see a war in China). But the gap between our cultures is way too big, misunderstandings are inevitable and you can't expect the average person to learn all the differences.

You say our government is totalitarianism and it's bad. I say we treat the government as our parents and it's part of our multi-thousand year culture.

You say democracy is the only right choice. I say not everyone has enough knowledge to make informed decisions and that's why you have a madman president.

You say the CCP is an evil dictatorship that uses the book 1984 as a manual. I say I am very thankful for their tremendous efforts in maintaining a stable, independent country, even if we are surrounded by hostile countries (Yes, Russia is a potential enemy and we all know it. No, North Korea is not our puppet state.)

Very few of us can stay calm and agree to disagree, the rest writes the history.
Oh yeah, those who murder innocent animals for profit by the hundreds of thousands . . . may they glow in agony in the internal fires of hell
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? and please stop making accounts to break the site guidelines with?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm definitely not advocating for the backup client to be used on servers -- that's definitely not the right fit. I would be 100% okay with a backblaze client checking for X or wayland or something that would otherwise indicate that it's a real desktop environment running if that's what it takes.

Also: money isn't everything. I want to pay for a product that makes my life easier, and B2 ain't it.
Python sort works on generic objects that probide ">=", not more specific types. For the generic algorithm, as I'm sure you're aware, O(n log n) is optimal.

And yes, radix sorts are something like O(n log k), where k is the bitwidth of the maximal key. Since k is often a constant this could be thought of as O(n). A Python sort could enumerate the list, check for all (1) integer contents and (2) no overridden comparator method, and then use a radix sort, I guess.
Distillation would make the water safe, reverse osmosis should also work. You don't need to remineralize water, you get minerals from food not from tap/mineral water and you don't need to worry about leaching your pots and pans.
> I don't see what that has to do with its being a hard science

I agree. I meant to make two separate claims.

> The attempts at this in economics put it at the absolute low end of the soft sciences, as far as I can tell.

Economics has many subfields. The major division is between microeconomics and macroeconomics.

I think a lot of the "soft science" reputation the field has comes from the Macro side. This is a very tough field to study, since the study object (the world economy) is sentient, extremely intelligent, and adapts to any new findings. It can certainly be seen as a partially failed science as a result.

Macro gets the headlines, but the Micro side is what I'm impressed by. We have an enormous amount of knowledge accumulated over the last 200 years, and understand society and markets immensely more than before Adam Smith started thinking about this stuff.
> bipartisian support was easy to flourish once someone actually took an anti-china stance

Apart from Yang I haven't heard (partially because I haven't sought it out) any other democratic candidate voice any opinion on this matter. I really fear that if Trump doesn't have a second term, any Democrat will cut bait, sending a very dangerous message to the CCP.

edit: Actually, not sure I've heard Yang's stance on this either, just his opinion about the whole China/NBA matter.
The only mystery to me is how they deposit the dead cows without leaving obvious tracks. I assume the ranchers who often claim that there aren't any tracks just kind of suck at finding them. Or that the pranksters bring a broom to hide them afterward.

It's kind of a dick move in any case, though. Cattle aren't cheap and killing them for no reason is just destructive.
> jq is written in C, which drags all intrinsic problems the language has dated its creation

I can't even parse this sentence. What does it mean?

FWIW jq was originally written in Haskell, then ported to C. The C source for the core parts is strikingly clean. I think, it's partly from this Haskell heritage that jq gets its nice composability.

However, TBF, I do find I must refresh jq syntax whenever I use it (pr only bc I don't process json often). It will be interesting to see what jtc does - though this foreshadowing does not bode well...
Did the performance improvement persist several grades later?
I'm more looking for a debugger rather than a compiler. Like GDB. I wouldn't call cmake or make debuggers.

I have seen a few gdb plugins but at least my experience is that they are extremely wanting.
He did this during a post-match interview on the Hearthstone stream. This wasn’t some personal political statement outside of his participation in the game.
GP is talking about radix sort, basically. If you know all your keys are integers you can sort in O(n log k) (k is maximal key width in bits).
Great point about distance in culture, time and expertise.

I've always been interested in reading the Great Books, and some say the only investment you need is a library card, but it's not that simple. If all it truly takes to read the Great Books is just reading them, a lot more people would be doing it. But they're not. Having taken a sequence of courses on Western civilization, I realized there's a lot more to reading the Great Books than just reading them -- most of the time is spent in footnotes, commentary, research (to understand context) and of course, arguing with the text. Otherwise all you're doing is streaming words into your head.

It's all in English, but it's also like a totally different language.

And you're on point about critical thinkers being deceived when they don't have the full context -- Sherlock Holmes says to never theorize without data, which is all well and good, but sometimes your data can be incomplete in ways you cannot detect and you end up developing a perfectly coherent model of the world that is fatally wrong. This is often a problem when you theorize within a single work. Having more context from different sources doesn't fully solve this problem but it does mitigate it.
I think this router+dd-wrt supports it though I haven't personally used vpn on it. Here is the link that implies it supports it: https://www.myopenrouter.com/articles/r6300r6300v2-guides-ho... . Some general information about the router is at: https://wiki.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Netgear_R6300v2 .

Edit: another link: https://nordvpn.com/tutorials/dd-wrt/flashrouters-privacy-ap... .
That reminds me of the RC2014[0], a Z80 based system that uses a backplane.

[0]: https://rc2014.co.uk/
And under Trump, the steel tariffs have basically forced Ford and GM to stop making sedans in the USA and instead make them in Mexico. Ford Focus: moved to China (Ironically). Ford Fusion: Cancelled. GM Volt: Cancelled. Harvey Davidson: moving to Europe.

Things aren't exactly simple, and I am not convinced that the tariffs + tax cuts have helped the American worker at all. US Manufacturing is down for two months in a row now, and I don't see it getting any better any time soon.

We're at a point where the Trump-defenders need to start explaining exactly what these tariffs are supposed to do and why they think the tariffs are helping. The tariffs have been in effect for well over a year, do you have any evidence that they're helping yet?

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Frankly, I don't care how much we hurt, or help, China. It was supposed to be "American First". So lets talk about America and whether or not these policies help Americans.
Will people who ignore and distort some facts in bad faith not do so for other facts? Seems unlikely.
Geographical Load Balancing
I thought the western world was immune to communism??? It seems to me that we are more mercenaries than missionaries
Really? It was my impression that not being able to guarantee encryption along the way (basically you might be sending a postcard instead of a letter) made it a non-starter.
There are plenty of limits on what types of housing can be built in what areas. How many stories high can you build? Can it be multi-family housing (condos, apartments)? Can you subdivide a larger property into smaller ones, and what rules are imposed on that? These are the types of things that are used to limit housing. Sometimes there are good reasons for the rule, sometimes not. Sometimes there's a good reason for the general rule, but not the current limits it enforces.

It's not an issue of building out, or even necessarily of building up, but just allowing and/or encouraging more building and allowing some building to replace existing low-density housing.

I've lived an hour North of SF my entire life. I've seen how housing policies affects SF as well as where I live (which is also very expensive, but not quite to the same level). People don't like to allow too much change into a neighborhood because it changes the nature of the community. News flash, so does allowing housing prices to double or triple over a couple decades. The only difference is that the existing land owners get to capitalize on that, so it's not just about change, it's also about people controlling the flow of benefits of an area to maximize their own benefits.
Personally, I would very much prefer that it crash.
I’m sorry, YouTube is too academic and dense. Could you post a TikTok or a meme with the same info?
> not less than 10 years: they should update it to work

> get dlink to pay your costs

What happens when the company is gone?
Radix sort is worst case O(n). (which is what I'm assuming the parent commenter is referring to) It's not n in common situations, but nlogn in pathological cases the way Timsort is.

The reason is it "violates" the n logn lower bound of comparison sorts is because it isn't a comparison sort. Sort of like how hash table lookups "violate" the O(log n) average lower bound of binary tree lookups. It has different performance bounds because it's a different problem.
> The common usage is to describe an unfair inequality.

> The spirit of the accusation

Yes, this is indeed the common usage, which I find extremely puzzling. The word "privilege" has become somewhat of a pejorative term — an accusation rather than a statement of fact. It seems to have a stronger negative connotation than the word "luck", or the word "advantage", although it has a very similar semantics. I wonder how long this has been the case. Has this bundle of negative connotations come to be associated with this word during the latest culture wars (and if so, I would like to push back against this automatic "spirit of accusation" against those who happen to be in the privileged position), or is there a much longer tradition of such usage?

> It's possible for more people to have free speech, and due process, and clean water, without taking any of it away from anybody who currently has it already.

Of course it is. I am surprised that the presupposition is that a privileged person is necessarily taking something away from an unprivileged one.