skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The plural of anecdote is not data. The point of backblaze's publication is to share statistical data with the public at large. Their dataset doesn't include any WD Red drives, therefore, the data does not provide a statement about WD Red drives' reliability in either direction.

Consider this: the least reliable drive in this dataset has a 2.7% annualized failure rate at an average age of almost 4 years.

That's low enough that many SOHO users will never see a failure, yet high enough that a rack worth will have seen more than one failure recently. Thus, your question could be answered with complete honesty in both ways: with anecdotes by happy users and with anecdotes by unhappy users.

Therefore, neither positive nor negative answers are useful to you.

This phenomenon underlies the fundamental weakness of self-reported online reviews. You cannot actually get a useful measurement for how reliable a product is solely by self-reported sparse feedback.
Specific neurons that map memories now identified in the human brain
It's a garnish.
It's not just Google, I've noticed this across all the major ad platforms: Instagram, Twitter, FB, etc, have all cranked up the number of ads to prop up revenues.

I stopped using IG & Twitter largely because it went from having relatively few ads to where I started seeing an ad nearly every other post. The value of the platform proportionally declined significantly and I no longer bother using them.

Google is slowly becoming useless (even with an ad blocker) because you have to hack search terms in order to get useful results. For example, I append words like "wiki" or "reddit" to get results that aren't SEO'd. Search for something generic like "computer" and you can see an example of how hard it is to get information instead of ads.

It feels like ads are definitely a bubble, and I suspect the next big tech companies will not be ad based.
Does it allow boolean operations on shapes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_operations_on_polygons
What about jsdom?

https://github.com/jsdom/jsdom
These stats are wonderful and make me really appreciate the culture of the company. I've been considering becoming a customer because of these posts, since they reflect a lot of pride in the craft and care for the community.

But I'm stuck on one thing. Does Backblaze offer a solution for Linux backup? I've got an NFS server running that I use for home storage that I want to back up - but looks like Backblaze is only offering a Windows or Mac client.

Maybe the business version would work, since it claims to support NAS backup. But then the pricing seems lower than the personal edition (60$/computer/year = 5$/month < 6$/month) - unless that's implying that every computer that accesses the NAS is part of the fee?

So I guess: is there a reasonable Linux offering for home users from Backblaze? If not, what service do folks suggest?
The web browser version of FB is half decent, use that if you must.

"I don't know why. They "trust" me. Dumb fucks." — Mark Zuckerberg (https://www.businessinsider.com/exclusive-mark-zuckerbergs-s...)
Google's been investing in medical data analysis long before buying Fitbit. They got in trouble for DeepMind's involvement with NHS data over in the UK, which started years ago. And then Google absorbed that whole project from DeepMind into Google Cloud proper, after assuring the British government Google would never have access to the data from the project.

tl;dr: Unrelated avenue in a field they've been interested in for a long time.
Too much ultra-processed food linked to lower heart health
A New Look for The Atlantic
True. On the other hand, five comments up-thread, you specifically said "water".
Formula 1 launches a plan to become carbon neutral by 2030
They both do a very poor job at that to be fair. Wikipedia will willingly allow editors to ignore actual facts in favor of a blogpost who wrote about the same event second or third-hand, and Snopes has no credibility at all, full stop.
Go with the flow: Scientists design new grid batteries for renewable energy
Is there interest in open source mailing list software that sends via SES?
The basic concept would be similar to MailWizz/Sendy but would be centered around Tags rather than list based management.

The open source alternatives as far as I can tell also do list-based instead of tag-based management.
My Samsung S9 sends a push notification when apps are using the camera
Yev here from Backblaze -> Mainly it's the OS and log files - the reason we make a distinction is that the boot drives typically do not have as much load as the data drives, so it wouldn't be a real 1:1 comparison.
> A better question is why Google puts ads at the top of search results.

You know the answer...
A lot of these answers seem to focus on app analytics (e.g. collecting clicks, page views, etc. from Segment). How are people collecting / integrating financial data (e.g. sales, subscriptions, expenses)?
> Washington state fined Local Records Office more than $3.6 million several years ago for allegedly violating state law “at least 256,998 times.”

How do they still exist and continue making the same thing? What's the point of this fine if it does not change anything?
Carbon dioxide capture and use could become big business
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-for-2018/

Seems like WD has similar rates.
You shouldn't trust any drive. Trust in probabilities to protect you. You should be backing up your NAS to either a cloud provider, an external drive (if data will fit), or another NAS. Make sure to locate one copy offsite and practice restoring from your backup.
>reason the lawyer took the case was that he was hoping to strike gold,

I'm pretty sure that this works pretty much like spam or nigerian prince scams. If the lawyer works on tens or hundreds of such cases some % of those cases could be won and some % will settle to avoid legal costs. Total income might be high enough to justify unpaid work on other cases. I'm pretty sure that you could even partially automate a lot of things (or at least use some templates) for multiple similar cases thereby reducing the amount of unpaid work.
Bill To prohibit companies from using practices that exploit human psychology [pdf]
They're not gatekeepers, they present facts. It's up to you whether or not to believe them.
There are very valid criticisms of Nassim. However, only one person seems whiney and arrogant when you make those criticisms like that.
Because they pay Google and isn't illegal either.
Off-shore wind farm have a geographical footprint, especially in area with heavy ship traffic
> The original phrase was translated from the French: Le roi est mort, vive le roi!, which was first declared upon the accession to the French throne of Charles VII after the death of his father Charles VI in 1422.

Charles VII would have probably not been amused by this historic statement being called a meme :-D
IIoT Is the Firewall Chasm and Airwalls Are the Solution
does anyone use ElasticSearch + Kibana?
> Although illegal, Bridgett said that “running numbers” wasn’t seen as bad within the black community. It allowed many black businesses to be funded, provided jobs, and helped many financially — her family included. “[The] NAACP, that really important black organization that's been around forever, they were funded in the early years by numbers men and women, that numbers money,” Bridgett said. “So it was circulating throughout the community and those dollars were turning over a lot. And that keeps a community thriving. Because you know if you hit the number and you have some extra money, maybe you'll go to Sarah's beauty shop and basically get your hair done a little more often.”

Classic broken windows fallacy. Everyone who lost would get their hair done a little less often at Sarah's beauty shop, and then you have the large cut which made it so profitable to run and expenses like bribes...
I know religion probably doesn’t play well around here, but your quote brought a memory rushing back that I feel like sharing.

My very Christian mother once asked me to help her come up with a slogan for the church. I know her pastor well, and know him to be an avid student of history and the literature.

After much thought, I told them this, with the warning that if they used it they’d better be willing to face the consequences of what it means: “The purpose of the church is to remind people who they are. As children, they know. Over time, the world makes them forget.”

In my estimation, Jesus’ goal, and the Church’s job should be guiding people back to what they once knew. Unbridled love and trust in others. Non-judgement. Absolute acceptance, before we learn there’s such thing as a stranger.

Thank you for sharing this passage.

“Their thinking is not nearly as much a discovery as it is a recognition, remembrance, a returning and homecoming into a distant, primordial, total economy of the soul, from which each concept once grew”

Later, my Mom sent me the link to the sermon where the pastor quoted my statement and my warning, and followed it with, “My friend might be onto something, because in thinking on the text with his proposal in mind, I recalled one of Jesus’ declarations, ‘Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.’”
Bytecode Alliance
I think OP meant just for the violation of not properly displaying the base cost of the service if you went to the county/city directly if you phrase it properly it doesn't matter how much they charge as 'proof reading' services if they don't show people that it only costs $3 directly they can get fined for all the purchases made since it was last properly displayed wiping out their profits.

I think also forcing them to link out to either the direct form or at least some page explaining how to submit the form directly to the government would also be a good idea in addition to forcing them to just show the base cost. Force them to provide an actual value add instead of just fleecing people looking for the correct way to do something.
I think of the economy as a giant lazy river. A large quantity of life-critical fluid circulates endlessly, in a wide loop.

Most people spend 9 hours a day walking down to the river (commuting), filling their vessels (working), and carrying them back home (commuting). Some people also have an at-home cistern that they pour their vessels into (savings) that provides a buffer beyond the home's immediate needs.

A smaller number of people have gigantic reservoirs (rich). They don't go down to the river themselves to fill up. There's no way they could carry enough with their own buckets to fill even a fraction of the volume of their reservoir. Instead, other people pour in a little every time they make a trip to the river, perhaps as part of a deal to supply larger buckets, or shoulder yokes, or carts.

The big private reservoirs remove water from the normal water cycle. When people use the water, it flows back into the river somewhere downstream. Sometimes different stretches of the river experience droughts or floods, and that is what those little at-home cisterns are good for. During a drought, the river narrows, and not everyone is able to fill their vessels all the way. And those giant reservoirs--which aren't actually being used, but instead protected against leakage, siphoning, and evaporation--each slightly reduce the water flow downriver.

During a drought, some people may resort to begging water from a private reservoir owner. And if they have stout legs and shoulders, the owners agree: you can take a little of my water, if you promise to give more of it back later (loans). Sometimes, even in good times, someone will get water from a reservoir, because the reservoir is closer, and they need more than they can personally carry, and they promise to put more water back into the reservoir later (investment).

But as the water is locked up in private reservoirs, the river slows to a trickle, and only the rich can drink without pledging some of their future water-carrying capacity to someone else. The reservoirs grow larger; the river shrinks smaller.

Water that is used returns to the river. The poor and middle class need the river, as it is their only way to drink without mortgaging their future away to a rich person.

You might already see the problem here. The river comes from water that has been used and recirculated (spent!). When someone uses reservoir water, and pledges interest or investment return on it, they are committing to put more of the circulating public river into the unmoving private reservoir.

The only way to refill the river from the reservoirs, and keep it in circulation, is for their owners to use more water. Or for armed river rangers to order them at gunpoint to drain some of it back into the watershed. There is a little natural rainfall, and a little from people melting glaciers a little bit at a time by holding chunks of ice under their armpits, amounting to about 2% or 3% of the known volume of liquid water, but all those existing reservoir pledges have already exceeded that influx.
Can you go into what a 'security seal' on an EEPROM consists of? It is just a tamper resistant sticker or plastic of some sort?
I think what you refer to as decentralized systems is for the most part applications on top of the TCP/IP protocol stack. Still I wouldn't call the examples you provided - with the exception of torrents - as decentralized. The internet and the telephone systems are mostly run by a few large ISPs and CDNs, email by a few large providers (Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook), and for most people the web consists of Facebook, Youtube, Spotify, Instagram, etc and a few large newspaper sites.
I remember after a few months of being forwarded on stupid urban legend email chains by my mom, I started replying all on her messages with links to snopes.

Did that stop her from sending around stupid emails without verifying them? No, but it did stop her from forwarding them to _me_, which is I guess a kind of victory.
Eh, it's still a captive UI. I'd like to see a browser somehow decomposed into individual actions I can compose in the shell. I have only vague thoughts on what that'd look like, but I keep hoping someone beats me to fleshing it out.
does anyone uses elasticsearch + kibana?
That's the one I prefer to use as well. It has better compatibility with colors, it might also have some js compatibility, I think. Basically, it looks like I often get a better result with it.

And of course, duckduckgo is very usable with elinks. mediawiki and wordpress sites tend to be quite good as well!
Oh, it doesn't only cost you $1. It also costs you at minimum a years worth of free spam mail from various "You're moving! Here's a bunch of discount coupons for things you don't need" that USPS sells your new address to.
New Spanish PM to subsidize marijuana chewing gum
Note this key part:

Google has entered into similar partnerships on a much smaller scale with clients such as the Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine. But in that case all the data handed over to the search giant was encrypted, with keys being held only on the medical side.

It sounds like they are migrating to Google Cloud for some of their infrastructure.. and someone (and the paper) are sure trying to raise a stink about it. its misleading in a few spots, but not quite lying, hard to tell if its intentional, or technical incompetence.

For example, all storage in google cloud is encrypted, and the keys are rotated every 24 hours by default. There is an audit log you can see, any time anyone at google touches your data. (very, very few people can actually access the keys)
>suggests to me that their days of being a valuable resource are over

Why's that? You don't think there's value to debunking that kind of information if people think it's "real"?
Disney+ hit by technical glitches on launch day
Hey mods, may I suggest shortening the title to "Browsh for text-based internet browsing (2018)"?
Reimagining Privacy Online Through a Spectrum of Intimacy
Oh yeah. I’m not a lawyer myself but when I’ve read about other shady lawyers the message is always seemingly the same: justice can be slow but when it comes - especially at the hands of a federal judge who you lied to, multiple times - you should be happy if the only outcome is that you never get to practice law again.

I only want to highlight the client may have very little to do with the case and what’s happened with it so far, as everything this lawyer has done is out of the bounds of the legal system. I don’t think the average person is equipped to deal with the impact of a lawyer who is themselves a criminal.
But it was used as a selling point.
"Make it legal and tax it, win win!"
"Once you do that the cartels lose!"

Seems like another lie, cartels can now launder product and expand reach.

I say all this as someone who does not care what people inhale or ingest. But look at it from the point of view of the teetotalers and bureaucracy.

It looks like a fucking mess and now we are being told that we should do the same for heroin to reduce fentenal deaths...

I don't have a solution but I am not sure more of the same is gonna help at all.
of course not, but news like this tends to shape how we think about the protests in general when clearly there are those who have pure intentions. If they are having data collected on them as well, regardless of whether that's constitutional, they should, at the very least, not be grouped into the same category of those for which the justification is based on threats of attack.
The money for decommissioning and upkeep was used to prop up wind and solar uptake in France, with dismal results.
The title is terrible because I don't really see Lynx (nor links) and Browsh as competing projects.

The former is a low footprint console browser with it's own rendering engine. So it doesn't always get stuff right -- particularly not on JS heavy sites.

The latter is ostensibly a console frontend for Firefox so it works with JS and all the other goblins of modern websites.

The commonality is obviously the "console" part but that's like saying notepad.exe and Visual Studio are equivalent because they're both Windows GUI applications.
It's been reported many times that Facebook creates shadow profiles for everyone who does not use FB, and still tracks them across the web. So avoiding them is harder than "just dont use his products"
> in reality, in real projects, if it works, it works, and you move on.

This is your perception, but if you don't use semantic HTML, you are building elements that look like something (for sighted users) but in reality, is something else (for assistive technologies and search engines).

So, it only works for a part of your users. And maybe it works for the majority of your users, but that means that you are making it hard for people that use assistive technologies and search engines to navigate your site.

Leave alone people with disabilities because you don't seem to care. Search engines need semantic HTML to crawl correctly your website, so it's an important part of any project.
I never noticed it until now. But I haven't had to use the app in a few weeks.
Website allegedly claims that it can't take down user's content because it's decentralized, would the DMCA request go through to the individual user? I can see that being a problem with negligent people, I expect that the company would probably step in regardless and take down videos.
This information seems to combine well with information offered by Mark Sissons of "Primal Lifestyle" fame. I am currently exploring that specific avenue, I have lost over 10 pounds in 2 weeks, and it does not seem to be all based on water retention.

I am awaiting blood work lab results to make sure I do not have anything out of whack, and if I get a green light, I'll continue.

Insulin response is quite a weighty subject to study, and the Standard American Diet (I bet some love the initials of that) appears to aggravate that system within us.

YMMV, consult with your health partner expert.
Show HN: Underrun (Js13k) World Creator
> Now that I'm middle-aged (39)

Excuuuuuuuuse me?!
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>As an easy example, we have no idea if our patients actually fill their prescriptions properly once they leave, making it impossible for us to do any sort of intervention on medication adherence.

This is probably the lowest hanging fruit of all waste in Medicare. Consider the average Medicare patient has 7 prescribing physicians and 10 prescription therapies, yet not a single physician has access to the claims data to see what another physician has prescribed, leading to duplicate therapies and adverse drug interacts at ridiculous rates. These are generally for chronic care patients also, meaning complications with diabetes, blood pressure, cholesterol, etc... resulting in costly hospitalization.

MTM was a step to fixing these issues, I am guessing perhaps what you may be referencing in improvement in sharing claims data (maybe you use OutcomesMTM), but realistically MTM is just a program for insurers to monetize their claims data.
John Stuart Mill's reading list, Age 3-7
I have an ASRock X399 Professional and a TR-1950X.

64GB DDR4-2666 ECC UDIMM runs perfectly on it, and the kernel reports ECC support.

Day-one memory support was very, pathetically, bad with Threadripper, but it has gotten better. It improved even more with Threadripper 2000.

If Ryzen 3000 is any guide, the gaping memory compatibility gulf between Intel and AMD will probably be closed to a slight gap by the time TR 3000 releases.

As far as I'm aware, every X399 motherboard vendor supports and warranties ECC support on the platform, but only if you use memory on their QVL at its rated speeds.

sTRX4 will likely be no different.

As far as cost-effectiveness, a W-3175X ($2,978.80) and Dominus Extreme ($1,868.74) is indeed $552.45 less expensive than a Supermicro MBD-H11SSL-NC with EPYC 7702P ($5399.99), but the the 7702P is about 37% faster multi-threaded, and about 13% faster single-threaded.
Walgreens may get scooped up in the largest private equity deal in history
Any major websites doing this well? The impression I have is that current technologies are not making it easier for Lynx to survive. In the other hand, I see people that can actually(?) browse without Javascript enabled, which makes me curious about the current state of things.
>If the finding of frivolity was separate from the verdict

this on the other hand further increases costs of those frivolous cases requiring a second trial to test frivolousness of the case
I bought a house last month and received this same exact letter from a similar firm asking for $79 doll hairs. What a trick.
FTA, stated by the judge in reference to Liebowitz: "His litigation strategy in this district fits squarely within the definition of a copyright troll."
> The USPS offers this for $1(not free, thanks ebg13)!

$0 if done in person.
Trump AI text generator fools 60% of readers. Conservatives most vulnerable
The Spanish try to whitewash their atrocities by speaking of a purposeful campaign of defamation from rival powers.

So successful it was, apparently, that it made disctinct stories of Spanish brutality materialize in every country in the Americas.

The legend of the Black Legend also emphasizes the enlightenment of the Crown's laws regarding the legal status and treatment of indigenous peoples.

Unfortunately the rumors spread by the English about the treatment of natives were so convincing, that the Spanish conquistadors and encomenderos also came to believe that they had the right to enslave the indians and create a racial caste system where mestizos would live as serfs for centuries.

Or maybe it just was that the laws were never effectively enforced.
MariaDB > Metabase
Stitch/Segment > BigQuery > Metabase
Stitch/Segment > BigQuery > Google Data Studio (Curmudgeonly stakeholders refuse to log in to BI tools... but require reporting anyways...)
It sounds like (b) achieved Google's ends. I don't think they wanted to be in the fiber business. They just wanted everybody to have it so that Google could sell them services over it (including the service of feeding ads to them).