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What is happening? First, NBA then Blizzard and now Apple?

Fucking disgusting. Fuck all of these companies and organizations.
Why can't the government use the powers it already has to compel one of the original parties to reveal the message? And punish harshly those that refuse, or destroy the ability to do so, another power it already has? Is seeking a warrant and due process that much of a burden?

Or is this really about seeking a means for dragnet surveillance?
You can buy an existing successful McDonald's for about that cost, and McDonald's will help you succeed in paying off the loan. Of course you will need to take out additional loans once in a while to replace old equipment, or support some new product line, but overall the business plan is you work hard for 35 years, make a good income, then sell the business to someone else and retire in comfort should work out. I think any other restaurant should have similar economics. As such the cost doesn't scare me directly assuming their management is good enough to run the business.

What does scare me though as only the most successful locations are worth that much debt per restaurant. They better not have any locations that are not in the highest performing locations. Of course their returns can be difference from McDonald's. I don't have any insight into their business to know if it is reasonable for the or not, but it passes the smell test of could be reasonable.
Turkey has begun attacking Syria
Approaching VC with a small scale demo is a fantastic idea!

I'm hoping for a quick viral demo, press coverage, and then either more funding or a quick exit. Enough funding to handle the intital traffic will absolutely accomplish what I want.

I've already written the app, so I can show it off.

This is a great idea! Thanks so much! :)
>The article goes on and on but says nothing insightful.

It's not supposed to.

A better title would be "A general introduction to Nietzsche's life to people who have only heard his name" -- rather than the more promising "Nietzsche’s Eternal Return" which only concerns half a hastily written paragraph in TFA.

That said, it's quite poorly informed in the philosophical aspects (didn't bother to check the biographical ones):

"Scholars still debate what Nietzsche had in mind. A physically stronger being? A spiritual aristocrat? A kind of cyborg?"

Scholars might still debate "what Nietzsche had in mind" with Ubermench, but they don't consider any of the above options (except perhaps "a spiritual aristocrat", and that's still extremely vague).
Well, I decided that none of that was worth the risk and uninstalled it. They need to find a better way.
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Most Americans seem to regard literature, art and other cultural subjects as an innocuous recreational activity. Since they are not taken seriously, there is not much call for censorship. On the other hand, perhaps our freedom of expression allows such variation of writing and arts to flourish that they are not taken seriously.
How have they saved millions of lives?
Hey Steve, while you are correct I think the confusion is related to what cmdkeen (and the article authors) mean by diversification.

Whilst your comments are valid for public equity - this is simply one of several types of "asset classes" someone with billions of dollars has access too. Different, non-public asset classes can have properties distinct from bubble risks or liquidity.

One of the key benefits of holding a variety of asset classes, particularly the more exotic ones - is that their performance can be uncorrelated with the performance of the stock and debt markets.

Some examples of PE asset classes:

- Venture Capital (very high risk, but over a long period of time is supposed to generate 20-30% rates of return)

- Angel Investing (higher risk still, and you need many companies but also generating 20-30% returns with a big enough portfolio)

- Commercial real estate (uncorrelated to global equity market performance - rather its connected to local market performance, pretty sure around 10% can be typical for offices)

- Infrastructure projects (uncorrelated again, lower rates of return but you are locking in those returns for decades)

There are tonnes of course, but when you start talking about personally investing such large sums of money - diversification means a lot more than just buying investments in the public markets (either bonds or stocks).
> People may have presented the concept before the US Constitution but it certainly didn't apply to many people legally (if any?) before then

You may want to check out topics such as Freedom of religion, the Peace of Westphalia, or Ancient Greece.

I don't know what the eastern equivalents would be, but I suspect at various points in history that individual freedoms were won in China too. Maybe Confucius is a good starting point.
> [...] a single meme could be a humorous homage for one group of people, and a mocking joke for another.

Those are the best memes.
Have you ever tried that somewhere but high school? That's ridiculous.
Why do you think they hold responsibility for the actions of others?
I wish all banks and CCs offered this feature.
I don't think the economic model is why Artifact failed. The reason Artifact failed is that it's not fun.
> there's not that much anyone can do about it

Sell their stock. Public opinion do hurt stock prices (the only thing you can count on to make a public company care).
I am not sure that physists do. Many of the physics I know seem to subscribe to the “Shut up and calculate” school of physics where they say all of these things are a model that gives results that correspond to the experiments.
I find your comment really interesting because I see things the opposite: the shorter the paper the better, in my view. This is grounded on the general principle that in 99% of cases, any particular paper will only have one really important key new insight (if even that much). I suppose I'm biased because I primarily read theory papers, maybe it's a different story when it comes to experimental stuff.
In this context, it means "much less." It's used that way sometimes in mathematical discussions.
I'd be curious about comparing the resolution, color depth and compression levels of those images, and the bitrate/compression levels/codec of those sounds. Let's take one wallpaper. Win95 must have included a what, max 1024x768 wallpaper size? Assuming identical compression and color depths, that's still 786432 pixels total, compared to the 4K wallpapers we get today with 8294400 pixels - a larger than 10x increase. That's vastly oversimplifying, as a 10x pixel count doesn't directly translate to a 10x file size, but still, that's just for one image.

Pretty sure sounds in Win95 were MIDI, which aren't even actual audio files.
Can't wait for this Cloud meme to die out and we can go back to On Prem but instead of VMs managed by VMWare, Cloudstack, Vagrant, LXC etc, we will have nodes managed by Kubernetes.
Media Bubbles Aren’t the Biggest Reason We’re Partisans
"Not foolproof" is the most generous way possible to speak about pedestrian-avoidance systems that hit the pedestrian in every single tested case.

From the article:

Tesla: 20 tests, 20 kills - 0% success

Chevy Malibu:20 tests, 20 kills - 0% success

Honda Accord: 20 tests, 4 kills - 80% success

Toyota Camry: 20 tests, 12 kills - 40% success

There were other tests (also failed) but the article didn't give full details on those so I won't include them here.

Looking at that, one manufacturer has a product that works poorly and three manufacturers should probably face sanctions for selling their "product" in a US marketplace.
> As an example, Vienna-Budapest used to be served by hydrofoil for a 6-hour trip, which takes 2 and a half hours by train.

That sounds cool, but yes, not competitive unless you are looking for the enjoyment of being on a boat.

More practically, Vienna-Bratislava is 59 or 66 minutes by train, 75 minutes by boat. Depending on your exact departure and destination points, that might actually save a few minutes.
I don't like TOTP. U2F, however, is both convenient and secure. You touch a dongle, you're in, and at the same time there is no way to get access to your account without physically stealing the dongle. It's a proper second factor to a password.

Other solutions are either or. There is a benefit to confirming particular actions (with the info about the action) in the app but it's unnecessarily inconvenient for mere login.

U2F isn't widely supported but I managed to secure virtually my entire high-value Internet presence with it. Google, OVH, Coinbase, and Stripe all support it. Let's be honest, for HN I wouldn't bother with any second factor. I have the password saved in the browser and that's more than enough.
Yes, the pay is crap. In general, the only pilots who make good money (150-200K) are senior pilots at major airlines.

As with any labor shortage, youre right that it's really "a shortage who are willing to work for the offered salary."
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It is. Twitter is as well.

Yet it’s still flooded with people posting in simplified Chinese about how freedom of speech is stupid and foreigners need to shut up and leave matters alone, completely unaware of any irony.
Valve released a soulless cash-in

I haven't played it, but this what the author of the article wrote in his review:

"Artifact is an amazing game. Artifact is gorgeous, immersive and flavorful, hilarious, innovative, exciting, suspenseful, skill testing, strategically complex and rewarding. The execution is bug-free and flawless. It is the most fun I have had playing a game in a long time."

That certainly doesn't sound like soulless cash-in. It sounds more like the designed a very lovingly crafted, very niche, game and then had no idea what to do with it.
Hi Brian,

Thanks for your reply, this is what makes HN awesome !

> Your "backup state" has exceeded 4 GBytes, which is unusual, but not unheard of (maybe 2% of our customers right now)

Not to put any extra pressure on you, but given the raw numbers, 2% of your user base affected by this issue sounds like a pretty big deal to me !

> And it is "on the rise" as more and more customers have more data, plus backup for longer and longer with Backblaze.

That's interesting : given that up until now there was no revision history or deleted files retention beyond 30 days, why would my backup state be larger as a customer of many years than if I signed up now, given the same set of files ? Do you keep metadata for all historical file activity even after the files themselves are gone ? Sounds to me more like a backup log than "state" then !

> By the way, Comcast has announced that it literally intends to offer full 1 Gbit/sec service to every last customer in the United States, so another way to go is upgrade your internet for 1 month, then downgrade it later.

I'm not in the US, but I do have pretty good symmetric 5G. Thanks for the advice, 2 weeks might be enough after all (I'll reinstall to reset the clock, for one thing).
It's still a significant nuisance in terms of hogging bandwidth and leaving my laptop running 24/7 for days with fans probably going full speed.
I just wonder what Backblaze would say to a customer on metered Internet (still common in many places) or simply with a slower uplink (a large part of Europe is still on ADSL/ADSL2 with 25M down / 1M up)

> And it's a fairly straight-forward fix for me to fix that, I just need to get to it. I'm sorry you got bitten by this short-coming, I will get it fixed.

Again, thanks for responding in person, I couldn't have hoped for much better in terms of a technical explanation.

I think I have 21 days left in the backup I want to inherit before the first external disks in it get deleted.
I'm actually tempted now to wait a few more days, in case you manage to get this released quickly (especially if it's a server-side fix) :)

Something that could really be improved in situations like these, is that support should have discretion to help out the customer to make up for an issue that's on your side.

For example, putting backup expiration on hold until the bug is fixed (should be really easy actually now that your new offering is implemented : why did they not offer to move me to 1 year retention temporarily ?), issue an additional license so I didn't have to rely on the trial... anything that helps mitigate a problem that's not my fault. Not to mention, throwing in some free months of service for the inconvenience :)
> the irony of a company whose product appears to be about cloud deployment having a disaster by deploying to the cloud should not be lost on us

Is that really irony though?

I would think irony here would be them writing a blogpost about their troubles with their cloud deployments.
>My hope would be for funding or a buyout

...you're going to get bought by a company that knows it can't make money from it?
Indeed it isn't a fair comparison.

What companies can do about it? They have to comply with trade control laws and we can't boycott companies for complying with the law.

In the other hand probably some pro government Chinese could argue that was incitement or act of encouraging violence. So probably it depends who you are asking.
Why do current scholars consider meaningful a philosopher who left poorly specified one of the core idea about which he wrote?
Just stop what you are doing, you need to have a way to generate revenue if you want to sell it.
I was internet acquainted for a time with someone suffering chronic migraines. She said she could not do anything with browsers most of the time and switching her phone to dark mode was a problem because it just flipped the colors for everything.

She spent her time on Twitter because it has a terrific dark mode. She couldn't get other things to work for her.

So people who are very photophobic are apparently not finding adequate accommodation for their needs. I poked around a bit after talking to her and confirmed that her criticisms were valid. The current available options don't work well for trying to surf the internet under such constraints.

I'm not advocating that anyone do anything in particular. I'm just talking about use cases I have a little knowledge of. That's it.
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Same is true of ABS and traction control, if you take the view that your decision was to apply this much braking or power to the wheels.

Yet ABS and traction/stability control are safer for the vast majority of drivers (who are terribly poorly trained on vehicle dynamics).
It doesn't dominate the other, it makes room so that one side can be heard.

Look at it like kids on a playground. If there are a bunch of bullies picking on little kids, and you tell the bullies that for an hour a day, they aren't allowed to go near the little kids, is that a power structure set up to dominate the bullies? No; the little kids just needed a break! The bullies still have their power the rest of the time (and you haven't actually taken away anything from the bullies but their ability to bully; they can go about their lives as normal everywhere else)

Everyone keeps getting hung up on "there's a rule about skin color!" Yeah, there is, as a response to constant systemic racism forcing marginalized people to find a safe space. Turns out the world is complex.
France to deploy facial recognition for online identification
please correct this typo: "Releasly is a tool for open source lovers like our-self."

... like ourselves.

Good luck, but (in my opinion) even the most dynamic open sources don't change rapidly enough to justify your tool.
Most people claiming they would have spotted it are probably wrong anyway. They're reading the messages with the knowledge that they were sent by a scammer. Any idiot can identify these things in hindsight knowing what they're looking at. Without that context, with other things on their mind, it's much more likely they'd have been duped too.
It's great to think that the ADA damage was short-lived. But rather than a 'blip', it lasted 'through the 1990s' by that reference (thanks!) which cut out the prime earning years of a whole generation of disabled people.

Again, Law of Unintended Consequences.
With the caveat that his idea of "preachy" or "out of place" is existing, sure.

There is a mendacious and regressive strain of insecurity amongst game consumers these days where being expected to countenance the existence of those unlike them in their entertainment--when that Other doesn't just exist to be killed anyway--is an attack on that consumer, and Kern has done a lot to feed that tire fire.
Impact of Inference Accelerators on Hardware Selection
The architectural decision to deploy each customer on their own segmented components to make sure that "no one user’s data to mingle with another" seems to me like a solution in search of a problem.

First, the deployment was on AWS (EC2 and RDS among other services) which was probably already co-mingled with other AWS customers.

Second, when you are selling a SAAS offering, the assumption is already there that you'll build security and multi-tenancy into the app and the underlying infrastructure shouldn't matter.

And 100K/month for a MVP SAAS offering. I'm speechless. I just, I can't even understand how this burn rate passed muster with the leadership.

But Kudos to the team for owning up to it and sharing. Lots of lessons learned here.
What breed?
what's it like working for paul? :)
How do you upskill yourself?
The Repo Market Is More Than Mere Plumbing
I do not question their economic activity. Whether that's been for the good of anyone but China and the world's billionaires... I'm not so sure.

Either way it wasn't done for the benefit of the world. China started manufacturing because they wanted to gain economic power and arrive in the 21st century.
I'm starting a new side project from scratch and wanted to explore new architectural approaches, heck, I can't sleep all night, because I'm so excited.

When you get money for programming, that's work, but programming in itself can be both fun and work. A side-project you do for yourself should be fun and exciting.
> If you’re spoofing a random number for telemarketing calls that’s just not fraud.

It absolutely is, and in most civilised countries is illegal.

Like, I can totally believe that in the USA where any old lunatic can own an automatic weapon amd nobody gets concerned until he shoots up a school thats the case ye

There’s probably some constitutional argument that you can spoof your number based on something ridiculous like free speech
People have a tendency to remember games from their childhood more favorably. World of Warcraft and StarCraft 2 were very high quality games. Obviously the business model had to change, we don't live in the 90's shareware world anymore.
Well, you can't comfortably cover their legs with a blanket so if flies are more attracted to regular blankets they still get bit more.
I'd wager >50% of those that claim "Ah ha! I'd spot it here!" would fail in real life. Arm-chair quarterbacking is easy. Spotting the scam in real life, when you're walking down the street or otherwise distracted with life? Much harder.
> Not naughty, stupid.

Why didn't they just make 1 table with 1 column and put a JSON object in it with all customer data? This would fit their design objective "Avoid the need for joins as much as possible"! It's brilliant! We'll call it: noSQL, because we don't even have to write that pesky SQL!

Can't wait for the next blog post where they discover another naughty trick called primary keys to increase their NoSQL performance even more!
That coming after a constant stream of surveillance laws, and other laws targeting freedom of speech and freedom of movement, is getting frightening.
Why does everyone feel entitled to give their opinion on Asian idol culture when they clearly have the barest of exposure, usually consisting of watching a documentary or reading a CNN article...

Really irritating stuff
Just go and read Deleuze's essays on Nietzsche.
They're short and extremely insightful
Many thanks! I assumed that GC tuning had indeed been attempted.
I think it’s punitive. Felonies are (or should be) truly serious crimes, the worst of the worst — if a crime doesn’t warrant permanently branding someone as outside the norms of civil society, then it shouldn’t be a felony. There should of course also be a process for truly repentant and changes felons to earn back their privileges, but it shouldn’t be easy.

I think that there’s a good argument that we have too many felonies which aren’t actually truly vile crimes. But I also don’t believe that Robert Hansen, John Gotti or the Unabomber should be voting.
A few bits about me: Wells Fargo is the bank I use, I post things on Craigslist and list my phone number, and T-Mobile is my mobile phone provider.

I almost always get text messages from numbers trying to scam me into receiving their check or giving them my G-Voice verification code.

I looked into the phone numbers that contacted me and it's difficult to find exactly who is trying to reach me.

A few things I learned:

- Apparently phone number spoofing has legitimate use cases so it is a "feature" that is do-able. I was asking different companies and they said for example: checking for domestic violence or checking on someone if they have a second spouse somehow.

- It is difficult to look-up online who is the caller and what mobile provider do they use.

- Some private companies have an internal database that contains the information. I asked one company and they told me what was the provider of the phone number.

- Spoofing makes it difficult to know where the actual call is coming from. Someone can use my mom's number to call me. It might be difficult for my phone provider to inspect the call further than what I would see on my phone already.

What I'd like:

- For T-Mobile not to forward to me calls that are known to be from fraudulous callers or thought to be from fraudulous callers.

- Know if T-Mobile can provide me with information on where the call is coming from.

- After I identify what company XYZ issued the phone number, or what company provided the telephone service to the fraudsters, ask them more information on the caller.

- Ask such company XYZ to stop routing these calls to me.

- Create a resource such that whenever there is a scam call coming in, we could send the number to such a resource, and discover what company BCD issued them a phone number and routed their call. I believe that once this company BCD knows about their fraudulent customers, it is supposed to not do business with them.

Hopefully with such steps, the situation should clear up over time.
There's a significant difference between bootstrap binaries and the actual distro binaries and this thread seems to be conflating the two. Out of curiosity, does anyone know how big Alpine's set of bootstrap binaries are? This article estimated Debian's to be ~550MB. It would be interesting to know which distro has the least amount of stuff taken for granted.
Not a different number to call, but instead a shortcut through the usual automated phone menus - e.g. I've had a bank tell me to phone their number and then enter an extension to take me straight through to the right person.