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> Even if you just ban "killing puppies" now dog breeding is essentially illegal as the most effective way is to kill the young you don't want.

That really wouldn't be such a bad thing, IMO. Dog (and cat) breeders, by and large, exist to produce animals to maximize certain aesthetic norms, often to the detriment of their health. Given how many unwanted animals are killed in shelters each year, it wouldn't be such a bad thing to limit their production a bit
Some of this really is pretty wild. I got junk mail within a few weeks of closing that was made to look like fake late/missed payment notices and foreclosure warnings and insurance mistakes and all sorts of horrible lies. I am curious if they maintain the quality of the illusion further into the scam but not curious enough to find out.
How to sleep at night having a cloud service: common architecture do's
I wish there was actually a curses or console renderer backend to blink or another engine. But seeing what a hell the gtk2 integration was, it showed me that the renderer is so closely tied together this would be impossible with the resources available. Maybe servo is capable of such a thing?
For their target market, I don't think their name matters nearly as much as you think it does.
SaaS Marketing Strategies That Bootstrapped Ahrefs to $40m ARR
Thanks, upvoted your answer above.
IIRC Project Indiana was mostly about replacing Solaris' SysV packages based packaging system with IPS, so it even originally referred to something that can be considered as "Solaris distribution".
Once the principled founders are gone it will just turn into an ad platform with the content curators squeezed to the breaking point for the sake of profit.
Clearly I'm in the minority of the public here, but both those claims are so outrageous that even if Reuters reported them I would be checking other sources as well to see if they got duped or hacked, or who knows what.
Yes, the way the Settings app works, it doesn't show permissions until the app requests them (the idea being, I suppose, to avoid cluttering up the settings screen for apps that will never need access to certain things).
Product growth manager wanted (“Thoughts on Growth”)
According to the FAQ, this happens if your terminal does not support true (24bit) color.
Google being evil, yet again. In fact, while I understand the frustration of Expedia and Trip Advisor, I think it is a bit more complicated.

I don't think so. I think that the hotels module may be useful, but it's also confusing. In particular, it breaks the user expectation that Google search will give you the best results from the open web, and not give you a "module", particularly not one with paid placement. That is, IMHO, Google is overstepping its bounds as a search engine by providing (even useful) modules. And I think this has a negative cognitive impact on users (in particular, it ruins their intuition about what they are seeing, who's paying for what, and why).
As noted above all driver will fail, though I get your point I think saying that seagate driver time to fail is lower is a fairer statement.
It would be nice to have some context and by that, a weekly data volume in attacks and types of attacks as well as normal visitors. May be a case of they scale and this is just normal. Equally the same data upon other parties, again over time and also be great to see previou election spikes in visitors and atatcks.

But for many, this is just part and parcel of the state of play of the internet and politics upon that stage.

I'd not rule this out as a tactical PR release to sway hearts and minds style approach. But then, I tend to be over pragmatic when it comes to anything political when the minutia is missing along with the context it brings.
An update: it looks like his grandfather did pass away in April, but on the 9th, not the 12th as he repeatedly claimed [0].

[0] http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/investigation/judicia...
Infra: Postgres -> S3 -> Looker

Business: Segment -> customer.io/Zapier/Heap Analytics + Looker

Support/Success: Intercom+Slack -> frame.ai
Without reading the Business Association Agreement it is hard to determine if Google has 'Acceptable Use' of healthcare data. Storing in the cloud is one thing, allowing a Business Associate to siphon that data for other use is another.
Yev here -> There's no way to avoid drive failure. We circumvent drive failure issues by using our vault architecture (https://www.backblaze.com/blog/vault-cloud-storage-architect...). It's essentially like a giant RAID++. Anything mechanical will break down eventually, which is why we try to push people towards having backups - the more copies of the data you have the less chance you have of all those mediums failing simultaneously, resulting in loss.
Destroying Radioactive Waste with Nobel Prize-winning Lasers
I find it really refreshing how Ben reflects on his past writings and admits when he was wrong than explains why his initial thinking was false. Really makes him a powerful thinker and writer.
Ubuntu Touch is 100% garbage. I tried it for a few months.
After $2m-$3m in ARR, Your Leads Should Always Be Growing. Here’s Why
I really wish that consumer OSs would mandate RAID (mirroring at the minimum), requiring additional steps to install on unprotected storage. This should have been implemented even back during the early days of consumer hard drives, or at the minimum have a warning on boot that "Your data is stored on temporary storage -- go [here] to configure redundancy". At least something that puts it front and center that storing data on a single hard drive will eventually lead to data loss.

Also would be nice to have a similar warning to "Your data has not been backed up in [x] days".
I don't think anyone on hackernews would be surprised by this. The scale they have to operate at is absolutely insane. To scale flawlessly on day 1 is a big ask of any development team.
Microsoft's Rust experiments are going well, but some features are missing
Seems like you presume I speak of paid overtime.

In many industries salaried workers don’t get overtime. The financial and tech industries for example.

I’m pointing to unpaid overtime and unpaid “email” duty for millions of people.
That doesn't do any rendering or layout calculations.
I feel like Google is increasingly becoming useless as a general purpose search engine.

When I try to find information on a generic topic where I can't exactly tailor the query, the results are usually filled with low quality, SEO optimized promotional sites, clickbait articles/YT videos or aggregators. With some luck there is a good blog post with quality links on page 2 or 3.

Good results are now mostly restricted to areas where Google can utilize structured data sources (Maps/Business data, Wikipedia, ....).

This is extremely ironic, since Google originally rose to popularity because it was much better at "real" search than the competitors.

The interesting question is why!

Is Google just not able to compete with SEO tactics? Are they overly fixated on ML/"AI" techniques that don't work well in practice?

Or are regular search results allowed to become worse on purpose, in order to maximize ad revenue? It is something a near-monopoly could afford to do.
Modern BSD Computing for Fun on a VAX
To be fair, this wasn't launch day. Disney+ has been around in The Netherlands for quite a while now
This is not "fake news" at all. This is the same factual event covered with a different spin. Use of the term "fake news" to describe reporting that is merely slanted in a direction you don't like--rather than presenting demonstrably false information as fact--is completely unwarranted, and is doing terrible damage to our social institutions.
Comparing Ukraine or Malaysia. And the company is located in Ukraine, so 0% surprise which country wins.
AI Doesn't Exist Yet
Id love some inside baseball on how the big splashy launch vs engineering realities looked during discussions.

Lots of other new services basically end up being able to “take advantage” of being early market entrances or their own obscurity and then scale with growth.

This is a different beast altogether.
Probably a byproduct of outdated historical models that were built on the (historically true) assumption that the man handles and creates the household finances.

actual reality is if his wife ran up a $30 million credit bill he’d be pissed as hell and try to fight the credit card company. this is what the algorithm is trying to model, and what likely happens in real world middle class families in the past. The distortions become increasingly transparent and absurd as the wealth increases. Obviously someone like DHH or Woz would not care if his wife racked up a $50k credit card bill and is pissed the algorithm will not provide such a limit. The modeling totally breaks down at super high net worths.

I actually completely agree that the algorithm is sexist. But algorithms provide a sort of perfect lens into real human biases and social structure. Algorithms trained to fit to a historically unjust society will continue to reinforce injustice.

Happy he is bringing up the issue, important to blame the risk modelers but should also be blaming society and legislation itself.
Oh wow, thanks for that link. I've been wanting my users to be able to save data and share links for ages.
Thanks for the link. IMO that's a pretty narrow definition of what constitutes "benefit". You could say that about what they call a workout too I guess.
do they use kubernetes?
Homeopathy and something that is scientifically verifiable is already at odds with each other.

Also 'a plant putting energy' into anything specific other than existing implies agency, doesn't it?

Evolution is hard to understand and I distrust anyone who claims to have figured it out fully.

Being tasty and toxic doesn't exclude itself simply because we like to think that.

I think the whole point of the article is that we don't understand things nearly as much as we think we do.

Especially the part about caffeine is fascinating.

It'll probably require a paradigm shift to make sense of it all. I have a hunch but I can't articulate it right now.
I used to work for a long defunct storage manufacturer, reached the point where we skipped either even or odd (i can't remember) firmware versions on the seagate drives. RMA counts would always be higher on the even/odd number.
> "Disney has estimated it will need to attract at least 60 million subscribers, putting it on a par with Netflix, in order for Disney+ to break even."

How's that for a barrier to entry? I don't doubt that they will be able to hit it, but it's still a mind-bogglingly high number. I think that's part of why I'd like to see Netflix's continued success - competition is a good thing, and if they were to ever go under I doubt we'd see a replacement.
How can you be unprepared for the load? They would have and should have expected and tested for the load on launch day.
> I hold a belief in small government, but the spam mail I've been receiving since building a house cries loudly for regulation.

Yeah, totally. Maybe there's some other stuff that also cries out for regulation!
Artificial Intelligence needs to be regulated
If it leads to a semantically different page, use <a>, if it's used only for javascript-interactivity use <button>. Never use <div> for buttons or links.
It came with a failure auto audio alarm!
If you have a business of any sort, there are companies that look for business licenses, LLC formations, etc, and send official looking forms sometimes with fine print saying they're not the Government and sometimes without, offering to do the same thing you can do for a small fee for a much bigger one. They're not adding any value at all. The form you have to fill out for the government requires the same information as their form.

I probably get at least one of these a month. Everything from trademark renewal to burglar alarm permit renewal.
> when those who cloak themselves in hard-left rhetoric are in the crosshairs of ridicule, they tend to retaliate hard, with whatever means they have to hand.

That's complete nonsense, and not a partisan or "hard-left-only" reaction. The right also tries to de-platform the left, if you're trying to make "fake news" a partisan issue, you're contributing to the problem.
Why not both? The possibilities don't preclude each other - that there is and it is an attempt to abuse the courts to silence.
With runit, for example, logs are put in a canonical per-service directory.

E.g. `service_directory/service/logs`

Seems like a trivial way to solve it...
Online air travel UX has been a dumpster fire since the very first booking sites 20 years ago. The major players mostly share the same flaws and try to mitigate them in the same crappy ways. It’s almost as if there is a single query system underlying them all, and their UIs are merely similar-looking wrappers around that same old clunky system :)
I just got one of these this week! Only $3,000 to register the trademark "internationally", but they try their best to make it seem like it's part of the registration process you've already undertaken and you simply need to sign & submit to move forward.
I love Factorio, but this is a rather expensive offering compared to other, more mature Factorio hosts. Quick search reveals other hosts offering 50+ slots for the same price or cheaper than this site's 1-4 slot option, with better control panel functionality.
Applying environmental criminology to better understand and fight cybercrime
Rejecting a rule 68 offer doesn't imply the offer was reasonable. Statutory damages mean that licensing fees are not necessarily the basis for damages.

Also, it's up the client to accept any offer, not the lawyer.
Except the Babylon Bee always writes satire and nothing but satire. It's not like they publish some serious stuff and fail to properly delineate factual vs. satirical reporting, they publish satire only and the "about us" section makes that clear. Your analogy attempts to demonstrate that the site is "playing both sides" and claiming to be factual and satirical, when that is clearly not the case.
> Not coincidentally, the active ingredient in hot peppers, capsaicin, impacts mammals but not birds.

It is coincidental. Evolution doesn't plan.
And there are still some use cases beyond the single machine: eg CERN.

But I think it's quite safe to say that it's not often because you need to process so much data, but rather that your experiment is a fire hose of data, and you're not sure what you want to keep, and what you can summarize - until after you've looked at the data.

And there might be a reason to keep an archive of the raw data as well.

Another common use case would be seismic data from geological/oil surveys.

But "human generated" data, where you're doing some kind of precise, high value recording, like click streams, card transactions etc might be "dense", but usually quite small compared to such "real world sampling".
Remember Disney+ isn't completely new software, Disney acquired MLBtv aka BAMtech to run the site. And their business is live streaming, not "merely" VoD.
> "When Brusius altered the name on her deed, that may have triggered the solicitation."

Sorry in Advance, I'm not familiar with this formal process.
If the whole exchange is triggered by completing the property deed, what's the service this company claims to provide for $89?

I understand it's a scam, but what is the "alibi-service" they deliver in return for the payment?
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Is ZFS more solid than in Linux?

Linux does the same with bad RAM, and you'll often see that in large installations. (Monitoring should check you have the number of DIMMs and CPUs expected, modulo a fiddle factor for reported memory size, which depends on BIOS.)
I've found them to have a consistent bias, often claiming things are "partially true" when they conflict with the site's overall left-leaning narrative. I noticed this during the 2016 election, so that may have changed.
It seems like the taxes on marijuana are too high. Legal marijuana has taken over about a quarter of the market, which is great because it means a quarter less illegal operations like these. But the legal producers could just put these guys out of business if they were allowed to.

Anecdotally, taxes approximately double the cost of marijuana in California. There's some benefit in taxing things that are bad for people, because you discourage the behavior, but it seems like wiping out organized crime by lowering taxes on the legal market here would be a bigger benefit.
Youtube Music also gets you this for free. I didn't know what an Youtube add was until I realized I got this for free.
The point of the non-disclosure is to prevent people from gaming the system by abusing specific rule sets
True but a paid company spokesman typically says ‘we’, whereas a shareholder does not.
TeX by Topic (2007) [pdf]
Conducting Better Business with Uber's Open Source Orchestration Tool, Cadence
Why Your Agency Should Offer Managed Cloud Hosting to Clients
If I was the lead designer of Reddit I'd make this the goal, gracefully degrades to be accessible on Lynx but still looks great in a modern browser, instead of making it 100x more complicated for no reason. They learned nothing from Digg (or HN for that matter).
Not an option, it does not do sandboxing.
As the owner of a couple of corporations, I get crap like this all the time; often with implicit threats of legal repercussions.

The letters can look VERY official; sometimes almost clones of official state mailings.
I doubt Charles VII had much opportunity to read Dawkins.
Another great trick is just increasing version numbers in your blog posts! People look for content relevant to their version number, so you should just make sure you have copies of your content with all the version numbers people might search for!

And with version numbers, you are not limited to dates in the past, you can even write articles about the future!

Here's a brilliant example: https://gorails.com/setup/ubuntu/20.04

How to set up Rails on Ubuntu 20.04, which will be released in April next year. You can already read the guide today! Some of the links might not work yet, because obviously you can't download Ubuntu 20.04 yet, but once it's released, those guys are bound to be the first ones who had a guide out!
You'll get these calls and mail whether or not you own a car and no matter what the warranty status is.
To an extent. Some layers are significantly more leaky than others. Rust vs. SQL for example.
Fifth-generation broadband wireless threatens weather forecasting
What are these numbers?
I'm sure things like this are A/B tested to the moon and back to see the exact impact on usage.
Well for one thing, the majority of the articles seem to be done by completely 3rd party authors, without mention of vetting, conflicts, or bias.

>More troubling is that we simply don’t know who contributed to a given fact check. David noted that Snopes’ “process is a highly collaborative one in which several different people may contribute to a single article,” but that “the result is typically credited to whoever wrote the initial draft.” David did not respond to a request for comment on why Snopes only lists a single author for each of its fact checks, rather than provide an acknowledgement section that lists all of the individuals who contributed to a given fact check.

It's the same problem Wikipedia sometimes has. Selectively pick sources that confirm the story you want to convey, and ignore the others.

The other big problem recently is to spin something that's true as being false, by slightly changing the question, to be broad enough to encompass an "out."

Also this story covers most of the history of what's in the linked article, from over 3 years ago.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2016/12/22/the-dai...
"She just wanted a text-based web browser, but she never expected THIS".
Well it looks interesting, but the intro video states that it is, "The only platform designed specifically for rational debates." This is not true; HN is an example of another forum with such a purpose. Others exist, though they periodically get "Eternal September'ed" once enough people join and have to be abandoned.
That's great context. Thanks for the response. Very helpful in understanding what's going on since Snopes seems reluctant to offer more detail on it, understandably.
I believe the taxes are functioning as intended. The entire reason California legalized marijunana wasn't some high minded criminal justice reform, and they certainly did not want to remove a tool for social control from the use of law enforcement.

Legalized marijuana was to pacify white, rich pot smokers. It was never the intent of California to encorage the use of marijuana, to make it avaliable at a lower price than the illegal market, or to allow non-white, non-rich people to benefit from its sale and use.
I wonder what type of biometric and other monitoring of employees by employers that could happen under employment contracts or in the name of security or `Health and Safety`.

After all, many companies trial new ideas and technology in house.

So would be insightful into what companies like Google do inhouse.
I'm one of the folks working with the Alliance, and I'm incredibly excited about WebAssembly outside the browser. Happy to answer questions.

Imagine extensions for applications or databases, written in any language you want, with no ability to exfiltrate data. Imagine supporting a safe plugin API that isn't just for C and languages that FFI to C, but works natively with safe datatypes.

Today, if you want to be extensible, you typically expose a C API for people to link to, or you embed a specific language like Lua or Python. Imagine embedding a WebAssembly runtime like wasmtime, and telling people they can write their extensions in any language they want.
Sure, but, like porn and art, we can tell the difference between Info Wars and The Onion. A simple landing page on The Onion or Babylon Bee is all Snopes needs to do, whereas it's clear Info Wars has an agenda of spreading disinformation and it's useful combatting specific articles of theirs.

Last I knew, Snopes isn't and cannot be run as a simple application of objective rules. You can follow guidelines, but debunking the type of Info Wars, or Trumpian, disinformation requires more mental effort than that. If it didn't, if it was the simple application of objective rules, there would be little value in the site.
Image Search has also been completely ruined by their push for ML based results without even checking if it's better.

Years ago I could Image Search a frame of a film and get the film title almost every time, now I get a generic "Street" or "Man" search term and then a bunch of photos that have streets in them with a similar color palette which are never from the film.

They've got so excited by the tech that they can identify an object or setting that they've forgotten just finding the same image elsewhere online and using the context of the web page would give a better answer.
I'm very much okay with judges being extraordinarily careful to preserve people's due process rights. There's not really any significant time pressure involved - if it takes an extra month to make it abundantly clear that they're willfully and knowingly defying court orders, so be it.
As a teenager, I helped a friend revive a Seagate drive after it bricked due to faulty firmware. If I recall correctly, my friend had actually installed some firmware updates for the drive, but had not installed one recently enough to avoid the problem. We had to run wires to contacts on the board to allow us to run commands in a terminal (in Windows) on the only machine we could find with a serial port. When it worked, we felt like hackers from a movie!
6k UK homes still have black and white TV licences
Wikipedia, in a random sampling of information, came in as equally or more reliable than nearly any other privately published reference. It's not perfect but it doesn't have to be.