skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, I really like this one! Thank you, this looks like a very fun project.
Archives aren't new. It's not like software engineering, where you can cowboy shit and and blaze new trails without giving thought to what others in the past have done.

Not to mention that Archives is historically a female dominated industry. This is a real world example of a loud, boisterous man "disrupting" an industry.
"Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension" is really fun, but it's not really tech, it's more just math. But I do a lot of work with scientific / numerical computing so some may group them together. In addition to math, it covers some interesting algorithms and fun ways to use spreadsheets for images, etc.

I also really enjoy books about the tech used in the early space program. "Digital Apollo" is probably the one that makes the best light / easy reading.
Indeed. If they aren't working on an open standard, what are they working on, and what's the point then? It won't solve any of the problems open standard is supposed to solve.
Is there a repository of successfully funded business plans
I would like to see more examples of successfully funded business plans.

I understand that financials and IP might need to to be scrubbed, but I am very curious what winning business plans look like (not just examples in books).

I just pitched and won 250K in angel funding along with a friend, but the angel investor knew us and I suspect pitching for our first real series will be a lot harder.
Yeah there’s detailed info on the contents of the config file, but not where to put said file, or how to tell the binary where to find and reference it. This looks like an exciting project that needs more externally-facing docs. A lot of knowledge is assumed at the moment.
>unsupported extensions added

I find it a security threat that websites are able to tell what extensions I have installed, supported or otherwise.
> I mean how would linux behave when you add/remove cores and RAM f.ex.?

This is already possible on ESXi with Linux guests for years now, so it’s certainly a solved problem in some capacity.
CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL! :)
It's not double taxation, it's exponential taxation. For N years of wealth, you lose (1-k)^N. Double taxation is just a higher rate of taxes, but this accumulates.

There's some element of being unable to just check out, maybe. If you Rip Van Winkled, being totally out of the system for a while (say you moved abroad), then when you returned, you would owe nothing under money-in-motion taxes in most places, but you'd owe an exponentially large share of your money under a wealth tax. I honestly can't articulate why I think that's bad, but can't shake the opinion that it is.

That said, I'm certainly fine with a wealth tax for people at the level of "OMG holy shit you have so much money," which Warren is proposing (and Sanders, sorta). I'm fine because the harm of having your stuff taken isn't real harm since it's designed to never take enough that you aren't still super rich. The harm of losing your gold toilet isn't harm in the same sense as a poor person losing their home, though it's the same act. It's difficult to articulate concisely.
Airbus pilot analysis: https://www.wired.com/2011/07/an-airbus-captains-take-on-the...
Just use the official Monero wallet, the only difference is that you'll need to visit xmr.to to enter the Bitcoin address you want to pay to instead of doing it in-app.
Guess who lobbies for these "unintended" consequences...
> But you left out some important bits from your response, including that several academic groups have used the site for building fake news classifiers

No I didn't. My quote from Wikipedia included this: "The Poynter Institute notes, "Media Bias/Fact Check is a widely cited source for news stories and even studies about misinformation, despite the fact that its method is in no way scientific [emphasis mine].""

The fact that some AI group used it to train a classifier is not a very strong endorsement in my opinion. AI researchers aren't journalism subject matter experts, and Media Bias/Fact Check is obviously a very convenient data source, but covenience is not good indicator of quality.

> Despite publications in academia using the site, you may also note the following:

> ...I'm not sure what to think of the above pedigree for CJR's editor, but IMO I suspect he either fell to one end of the political spectrum or the other.

You seem to be trying to synthesize two disparate observations to imply the idea that Kyle Pope is some kind of conservative and therefore too untrustworthy to evaluate Media Bias/Fact Check, but that betrays a poor understanding of how newspapers operate. In a well-run paper, there's a separation between the newsroom and the opinion/editorial pages. For instance, the WSJ has a famously conservative editorial page. You might think its reporters have the same ideology, but (IIRC) its newsroom staff is even more liberal than that from the NYT, a fact that seldom shows because they're so professional. The newsroom exists to report the facts, and the editorial pages to voice the opinions of the owner/publisher. That Jerod Kushner had his paper endorse Donald Trump in no way reflects on Kyle Pope's judgement as a journalist.

Furthermore, Kyle Pope's own Wiki page has him saying:

> In an interview with Brian Stelter of CNN, Pope stated that after the election of President Donald Trump, the news media needs to rethink how it covers the news in order to "retake the agenda from this man who so hungers for attention, and how do we tell stories in a way that reflects the scale and sweep of the moment we're in?" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Pope)

The tone of that kinda confirms to me that your quotes are two puzzle pieces that don't actually fit together.

I'm inclined to trust the CJR's editor's judgement on journalism topics (topics which include the Media Bias/Fact Check website), because the CJR is the professional journal of the most prestigious American school of journalism.
Apple is not responsible if you choose the cheapest cleaning company you can find to clean your room full of expensive equipment.
Decentralized non-blockchain social network and messaging protocols that have existed for years:

- Scuttlebutt

- GNUnet

- Secureshare

- Fereenet

- ZeroNet

- Retroshare

- Diaspora

- Mastadon

- Matrix

- Cabal
UK's Technocracy and Mafia Behind It
So is the main point of these new E2 instances to provide VM's for users who do NOT benefit from sustained use discounts? Does "general purpose VMs" basically mean "VMs that do not benefit from sustained use discounts?" I'm confused because the article itself says "For all but the most demanding workloads, we expect E2 to deliver similar performance to N1, at a significantly lower cost." So the article is claiming that the whole point is to save money if you do not need big memory or CPU (what I want!). However, what you write above and the prices seem to say that the whole point is save money if you do not benefit from sustained use discounts, which is a totally different thing. Help!

I spend nearly $10K/month on Google Compute Engine and get substantial committed use discounts, so these are very important questions for me.
Per another article[1], Dayo (the owner of the domain name) also filed and received a trademark for "Do It For State".

[1] https://onezero.medium.com/the-influencer-and-the-hit-man-6c...
Twitter and Facebook and Google and others share one common concern that, if addressed, would see their staffing budgets massively reduced (and thus profits increased):

Human moderators.

Each grudgingly uses human moderators to squash the worst of the problems on their platform, and does a terrible job of it. Each underspends on human beings, using contractors without sufficient mental health care to ensure their well-being as they sift through our online sewer pipes.

Google outsources YouTube moderation to third-parties: the Content ID system is a labor shifting device designed to force the labor cost of enforcement outside of Google’s responsibility.

Twitter ended political advertisements rather than spend the human cost required to moderate them, and is now proposing a decentralized platform where Twitter is no longer responsible for content moderation for other platforms.

By doing so, they can continue to act as your “aggregator” of individual (RSS-like) Twitter accounts, so that they can continue showing you ads based on the data they harvest from you and your feeds — while outsourcing responsibility for moderation to others.

This is an effective strategy for increasing profits and if implemented correctly will permit mass layoffs of most of their content moderation workforce. This will also vastly increase the prevalence of abuse, racism, and other societal ills that infect Twitter with its underpowered moderation today.

Props to Twitter for identifying a way to externalize the cost of civility while continuing to profit from the resulting cesspool that will ensue.
It is entirely the wild west, where you can "cowboy shit and blaze new trails without giving thought to what others in the past have done" [1]. Anyone can be a digital archivist, anyone can run an archive (object store, metadata management, distribution). If I had to compare it to another industry, it'd be newspapers. Barrier to entry is low now (command line, compute, storage), and anyone can do it. This will continue as storage continues to decline in cost, tools get better (disclaimer: I maintain some tooling in this regard), and software improves for capturing physical materials as digital representations.

If someone thinks they can do better, they are free to try. No one is gatekeeping their attempt. Help yourself to some storage & VMs and write some code. If you do better (regardless of gender), everyone benefits.

[1] It's not bad to be able to wild west it and cowboy shit in non-regulated industries, where someone's life safety, finances, etc aren't at stake. Two cents.
>We subsidize the cheap food

Exactly: you receive cheap food in the city because it's subsidized. You are a beneficiary. Why should that be? Living in a city where it's impossible to grow food is a choice. So let's end that, along with internet subsidies (of which I'm a beneficiary) and we'll see if you're better off.
I like Vue a lot, but then I discovered Blazor (.NET core + SignalR).

And now I am questioning the whole Javascript ecosystem.

With stacks like Vue and Node I always feel I have to do the same work twice. Double models, validation in the front end and validation in the back end, and so on.

With frameworks like Blazor you are much more productive. And I believe this will be the future of developing SPAs.
We finally know fuller details* about the as proposed MCAS fix not-a-fix >

There are four main changes to the B737 MAX flight control system software that have been developed to prevent future accidents like the ones that happened with the Lion Air and Ethiopian Air flights. They include the following:

1. Angle of Attack (AoA) comparison – an addition to MCAS that will now compare readings from both angle of attack sensors on the aircraft. If there is a difference of more than 5.5 degrees the speed trim system will be disabled. Also included in this change is something known as a “midvalue select” which uses data from both sensors together to create a third input that will help to filter out any AOA signal oscillatory failures or spurious sensor failures. This modification will prevent MCAS from commanding nose down trim when a single AoA sensor reports a false AoA as it happened in the two accident flights.

2. MCAS resynchronization – this change will account for manual electric trim inputs made by the pilot while MCAS is activating. It will track whatever input the pilot makes and return the pitch trim to that setting when MCAS retrims back to normal.

3. Stab trim command limit – is an addition that will limit the maximum nose down trim that the
automatic flight control system can command to prevent the pitch trim from reaching an
uncontrollable situation.

4. FCC monitors – software monitors have been added to the flight control computers that will
cross check pitch trim commands against each other. If a difference is detected by these
monitors the automatic trim functions are disabled. This protection helps prevent erroneous
trim commands from a myriad of causes that could occur in the automatic flight control system.

These design changes in the software that controls the automatic pitch trim features including MCAS
should prevent angle of attack sensor failures from causing the pitch trim to operate when it should not.
Further, they should prevent the trim from activating erroneously for other reasons as well.

* https://transportation.house.gov/download/kiefer-testimony
Is there a way to make the transitions more snappy, maybe with a less linear transition curve? I suspect that current implementation makes the app feeling slower than it could be.
It's pretty straightforward to determine where someone works. You are physically in the USA when you do the work so you're on the hook for income tax. What the companies do is set up a bunch of companies in different locations. Then they manipulate their books so that the low tax companies show profit while the high tax locations don't.
American companies built a billion dollar industries based on this
: Ask Toolbars, Babylon and Yahoo.
Please add support for Ukulele tabs!
If they're only getting one-failure protection for a 2x expansion factor, then they clearly do need more expertise and more money won't solve their durability problem. With more money they could expand to 100x their size and have the exact same vulnerability to data loss. That's a problem worth solving.
Wow, I really appreciate this! And I like the Tolstoy-inspired username :)
Thanks for the reminder that not everyone on this site is a Paul Graham or a Torvald. Congratulations on your progress.
The communes do not match work to ability based on what I read. The distribution of ability wasn't a factor in who did what job and who got paid.
That's how it works; no large telco I've ever worked for is willing to put third party gear (or really any gear that hasn't gone through extensive validation) into their head ends. An IXP is just a datacenter that the big ISPs and transit providers use to exchange traffic. The business agreements determine the price paid (which in some cases is zero, but often not, and is negotiated like any other business deal).
Can you please not post duplicate comments to HN? It lowers the signal/noise ratio of the site and creates a headache when we merge threads, like we did in this case.

If two threads are so much the same that you want to post the same comment to both, that's a strong indication that they should be merged. Sending us a heads up at hn@ycombinator.com is a forcing function to make that happen.

(Parent is a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21763925. We merged the replies from here to there.)
HTTP2 could be great, but how would you implement this with Postgres, which uses one process per connection? You'd have to do all the multiplexing in a single server process, but you'd still have to have one process per underlying session, I think, and so you get the same problem with per-connection overhead that a pool tries to solve.
Just think how wealthy they will be when they inherit all those stocks from the rest of the human race!
Yeah, a desktop version would be sooo nice, we really need a better toolchain for creating desktop applications.
The original argument seemed about illegal content. If you're just talking about unwanted porn, well, that's an argument for better local content filters, which is different from eradicating content at the source.
Hunter Biden was on the board of Amtrak. Please stop spouting unsupported Fox News narratives. He was completely qualified.
> Disclosure: The writer owns Microsoft stock and holds no shares in Amazon.

On the one hand, this would be a reasonable investment strategy if one sincerely believed in the stuff she's saying. On the other hand, the things she's saying would be strategically correct given her holdings.

A bit of a credibility chicken-and-egg.
I've noticed a few ways to save when flying private, the best being www.jetmembership.com which provides wholesale prices for private jet flights. Normally folks use a broker who adds a markup but this flips it into a small membership fee to eliminate those unknowns.
Regenerative agriculture is the term I keep seeing thrown around a lot - do you happen to know how it's different than these?
Well put.

Couple days ago I literally counted >100 varieties of marinara spaghetti sauce in the store. There's no way a walking-distance grocery is going to carry anywhere close to that (ripple effect on to all the people employed in making each specialty) AND do so at Walmart prices.

I live close to the grocery, and there's still no way I'm going to carry supplies for 4 that far (recall as a child doing similar with my mother, that was quite a trek made possible in part by not having a job).

Y'all who want pervasive public transit and no cars, yes I see your point - and really don't want to live that way. Do as you like, just don't do it in a way that compels non-urban living to comply. 'scuze me now, I have to get the kids from school - driving them because herds of children on mass transit is a haven for bullies.
Still seems a bit far from replacing jet engines? This article was going on about fuel emissions in the entire aviation industry, this is just an electric propeller. Anyone know how far we are from electric jets? Is such a thing even possible?
I wish more companies had this, it's really useful.
I looked into applying at Gitlab, but was able to easily find out their location adjustment and avoided wasting my time or theirs. Unfortunately they pay less in a high cost of living Canadian city than for someone living in Alabama.
Much of the noise from small planes is from the propeller(s), so it might not help much.
Convincing them to stay means people need to be given competitive pay once they have upped their market value.
I'm the opposite. I love helping out a fellow engineer, especially when that does not involve much effort on my part.

If anyone reading this is ever in Santa Barbara, let me know if you want to grab a coffee or a beer! :)
DevOps Lessons from the Ski Industry
Well, given that other models exist that accomplish the same job (albeit perhaps not from Boeing), it's going to be a steep climb to get European authorities to agree to certify it, I expect.

So, the correct comparison would not be to driving, but to flying in other planes with similar range that are already available. I am no expert, but I do not get the impression that it is looking good in this respect.
Only a problem with Chrome.
But who will archive the archive?
Totally. Price to book is a better measure in that case.
I think it would be reasonable to establish a bar, similar to offline where everything above it is archived, and everything below is optional opt-in.

In the offline world the National Libraries get a copy of every book, magazine and newspaper published, by law. At least that's the way the UK and US do it. They archive a lot of other stuff as well, including music, audio, adverts, but that's more informal, and there is no requirement to preserve.

Personally I'd like things politicians and personalities (by dint of having chosen to live large) say online archived, all business (to later hold them to account) along with the sites of anyone in the business of influence - think tanks, parties, lobbyists, activists, "grass roots" organisations etc. Individuals, anon forums, HN and reddit subs and other places of shooting the breeze should be allowed to stay ephemeral. In fact I think conversation is freer that way - some will choose to say less, say different, or say nothing if all everyone says is forever...
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Cybertruck is Engineering Genius (and will be copied)[video]
It's different techniques (erasure coding). As it turns out, applying those techniques would reduce need for additional physical resources as well, since it allows data to be stored more efficiently with the same physical resources. It does require more CPU and memory relative to bytes stored or spindles to store them on, but it's easy to make that tradeoff and still come out ahead.
"You wouldn't be poor, if you worked hard enough to earn more money."

"You wouldn't be fat, if you ate a reasonable amount of healthy foods instead of calorie-rich junk."

"You wouldn't be a criminal, if you had enough moral fiber to obey the law."

I think you are intentionally ignoring a lot of circumstantial factors that have been scrubbed from the strawman hypotheticals.

I believe the canonical example for rating someone on a scale of morality is as follows:

Jack's child is very sick, and may die. The doctor gave him a prescription for a drug that would cure his child in one dose, but when he took it to the pharmacist, he found that they had some in stock, but that single dose cost more than he has ever saved at one time, and even if he could get a loan big enough to buy it, he would never be able to pay off the debt. Jack did notice some holes in the pharmacy's security, though. Should he break in to steal the drug, to save his child? Why?

There are a lot of ways to answer the why, for the question as posed. We are also adding some additional questions. When Jack is caught, how severely should he be punished? Does the reasoning behind the situation change if the police operate the pharmacy as a front, and intentionally inflate the price of life-saving drugs and weaken security, in order to more easily catch people who might rob pharmacies, if allowed the opportunity?
Not all day, but we do have some time (timezone crossover) when people can join a conference to talk about anything. We also do party line conference if we feel like it - basically an invitation for anyone to drop in and pair on something.
Renting your weight in gold would cost much less than 3M USD per year.
That is actually a really fair point, I was only considering the actors and musicians who have "made it."

The second point, the surplus of people willing to do whatever to make ends meet - this is shrinking as more people expect to be able to survive without working, but also a fair point.
> The math you're using is creating money from nothing. You started off with $10M and by dark magic you now have $10.3M.

I think the idea was that the company is worth $100mn at the beginning and it accumulates $3mn of cash over the year that it wants to distribute somehow to remain a $100mn company.
http://noplabs.com/cpm50/cpm50.html
That might be a great angle, but what does that mean for the course? Does that mean you will take us through deployment on AWS/Heroku? Does that mean you include testing etc?

Consider Hartl's (famous) Rail tutorial:
https://www.railstutorial.org/book

Will it be different from that?

I do there is a market for copying Hartl for Django, Vue/Node, etc
> We live in the only point in human history where we can actually save all of humanity's knowledge and culture,

Because the the welter of proprietary, undocumented formats, media bitrot and the like we are actually moving away from such a point.

Turns out historians may not be so upset. You can be a historian of early medieval France have a chance of reading 100% of the surviving documentation. Too much data can obscure the story.

Of course historically you could get a PhD for compiling a concordance to Shakespeare, something that can now be done mechanically in seconds. Future historians could (and will) apply the same tools to today's surviving documentation. But I don't believe there'll be as much of it as you seem to think.
Remind me, saw a fintech company with almost a billion in VC funding earlier this year. Basically a bank doing loans.

The whole business was based low cost labor taking whole days to evaluate stuff manually and write risk reports. Crazy thing is they were hiring loads of developers and data scientists, but the core of the business is all manual.