skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I understand that logical correctness is different from universal truth. But using the exact same formula to argue two mutually exclusive points in the same breath is a very good way of demonstrating why emotionally driven arguments yield poor results.

> ...exclusive right to violence.

I know that duty to retreat is much more common outside of the US, but I don't think any democracy demands that you just die in the face of a determined attacker - which would be required in your "exclusive right" characterization. While the classic way of describing it is a "monopoly on violence", the scenario you describe would be better characterized as an exclusive right to classify murder and manslaughter.

> ...exclusive right to private communication and private secrets.

Because that would be impossible, as they can't exclusively have a right to information that you generated - at worst it would be a shared right. The US does claim shared rights to everything that is possible though: the moment you share that information with anyone they claim that right - 3rd party doctrine.

Your two points would have better symmetry if you added that bit about the definition of democracy onto the end of both. That would make it easier to spot the fact that you've just made the exact same "threat to democracy" argument I just replied to.
UX.

You can do similar stuff on AWS, like host a create-react-app but the aws ux is terrible.
Major tech companies will pay service workers during coronavirus disruptions
Aren’t short term yields in Germany and Japan negative right now? Positive returns on a global scale is hard to come by.
> It’s clear that I not only need to replace my old solution, but I also need to come up with a more robust one too.

Is there anything better than RAID? That's what every file system seems to use and it's honestly not very good. High capacity arrays can take over 24 hours to rebuild and during this time the risk of additional failures is even greater due to read errors. RAID also requires matching capacities for all storage devices, making it hard to expand capacity of the whole array.

The only alternative I can think of is object storage which is not exactly made for home use.
It's not a reach at all if you've been keeping up with their product offerings [1] [2] [3].

[1] https://www.netlify.com/products/functions/

[2] https://www.netlify.com/products/forms/

[3] https://www.netlify.com/products/analytics/
You mean like the thousands of Model S/X owners who had a software update significantly reduce range due to battery issues:

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/10/18/20919396/tesla-batte...

If you look at companies like Audi, Porsche etc you actually find that they reserve more of the battery capacity for future degradation than Tesla.
Mike Bloomberg spent 500 million dollars on advertisements for a failed presidential bid. With this money, he could've given every American a million dollars, still have 173 million left over, and have made no discernible impact on his net worth.

It's absolutely an issue of the 1% versus everyone else, and especially given these people's opposition to providing basic social safety nets to all people.

EDIT:

I'm an idiot and didn't think through the math.
Yes indeed. I work for a startup that offers an intelligence analysis platform built on a knowledge graph. It is open source.

https://github.com/vertexproject/synapse

SaaS is in the works.
They would disagree that the cost outweighs the benefit?

Of course, they are not the ones bearing the cost of having their privacy invaded despite doing nothing wrong. I'm talking about the cost/benefit to society as a whole, not one particular actor. We don't need to rearrange all of society to make life convenient for the SEC or any other single agency.

I'm sure it would also be convenient for law enforcement if they could conduct warrentless searches and detain suspects indefinitely without access to counsel, but you know there's a reason we don't allow that.
Oh you sweet child
So here's the secret. Our awesome designer actually put a lot of hard work into putting this together. 1 week later a friend told me about https://www.landen.co/ and I wish I had used this to save us some time (don't know the team, just a fan of the product).
AT&T Cooperates with Justice Department in Google Probe
Music to my ears! I think (and hope) you're probably right - so let's consider this an introductory launch price and assume it'll go up over time ;)
I recently switched to Lunch Money from Mint (6+ years user). I was sold after spending a weekend setting it up and getting used to it.

The app is a delight compared to Mint. The interface is simple, fast and snappy. You never get an annoying "Refreshing your accounts" notice every time you login. I've come across far fewer connection issues compared to Mint (~everyday).

There is a host of nifty features I never knew I wanted: custom rules; recurring expenses; split transaction; grey/green checkmark for unreviewed/reviewed transactions.

Jen (the founder) is also very responsive to feedback. It feels great to have your bug report addressed and fixed in a couple days. Keep up the excellent work!
You're confusing "asshole" with "brilliant jerk"[0]. The latter is high maintanance and finnicky, but worth it if you can keep them in their high-performance operating regime. The former are toxic parasites that are actively trying to screw you. TFA is talking about the "asshole" group specifically.

0: Or at least that's the terms I've seen used on HN for those archtypes; obviously Y[vocabulary]MV
Why didn't you find a new job?

The reason I ask this is because every time I've asked for a raise I've been underpaid relative to the market and known it, and been able to walk into a meeting with a list of numbers recruiters have sent me and credibly state that I'll have to consider other options soon. I would be surprised to find this hadn't worked for someone else, and even more surprised to find they hadn't left.
Always happy to hear people complimenting the logo. I've been told it's not professional enough, but I really wanted our site to have some personality. Thanks!
Actually backend mostly - from the API layer right down to infrastructure and some systems level stuff.

I went from an IC to a manager when the tech lead position turned into an em position in the start up I work for.

I just went with it, without giving it much forethought.
It boils down to the following:

You can calculate a probability L of losing a given file.

Because we've assumed totally uncorrelated failures that means this is the same for all files, and that the probability of losing NO files if you have T files is (1 - L)^T

As you can see, this approaches 0, meaning Pr(losing a file) approaches 1 as T increases.

Using the probability of file loss in Sia, which I would say is is too low, but lets ignore that. They get L = 10^-19.

This leads to T = ~10^19 before you expect to lose data. If you're erasure coding on the byte level, then that's 10 exa bytes.

I expect your probability of failure is much less than random nodes on a distributed global network of volunteers. so yes, ~petabyte is below the threshold, but there is a threshold.
Just make sure you make a backup on S3.

Oh, wait...
It's also the elastic modulus of the gears. Every solid thing has some stiffness or measure of how much it compresses/stretches when it's loaded.

There will be finite (but extremely small) compressive/tensile forces that are absorbed in the stretch of the material that the gears and driveline are made out of.

Like stretching a rubber band to double its length takes a force you can feel but stretching it 1/100 of that (or one one millionth or lower) takes effort you don't even notice.
Mathematical thinking is helpful for software engineering, but mathematics itself does not directly help software engineering most of the time.

I think that large industrial production management technology can help software engineering more effectively and directly.

This is [The Pure Function Pipeline Data Flow v3.0 with Warehouse / Workshop Model ](https://github.com/linpengcheng/PurefunctionPipelineDataflow)
We currently support image classification. CVAT is a great tool and we'd love to support all forms and types of data in the future!
We ARE talking about porn I'm not sure how you can be confused on that point. Nobody is defending the act of abusing kids or scumbags sharing media of same. Both acts are evil.

The biggest point is that backdooring everyone's communication will do exactly jack to prevent child abuse. It wont even make it much harder for scumbags to share it even more of them will use just use privacy preserving p2p applications. In fact if you fuck with everyone's sense of privacy you will be liable to push a much much larger portion of the population to use such tech.

The greater number of normal people who aren't drug dealers, crypto nerds, or pedos using stuff like TOR the harder it will be to pick out the weirdos. Meanwhile most of the harm to children wont be captured on digital media because it will keep happening when trusted adults abuse minors they ought to be protecting instead of harming.

Attacking the sexual abuse problem in America by backdooring communication platforms is about as effective as reducing deaths due to traffic accidents by hanging out in parking lots.
I’ve been using DDG for years, but sometimes i wonder if it’s just Bing with bangs. I haven’t exhaustively crosschecked this, but the results seem to very closely match Bing’s. They say they use results from a few engines. I wonder what the percentage per engine is.
It really depends on the area of law, type of firm, type of client, etc.

In immigration or family law there is lots of procedural work, the lawyer might be solo, and the client is an individual or family. In this case the lawyer can generally not charge thousands per hour, they're doing most or all of the work, and the work has lots of steps that are repeated every case. This is a good case for the use of software to increase efficiency.

In big corporate law the work is specialized, the lawyer belongs to a firm, the client is a multi-national, paralegals and associates do a lot of the work, and the firm can charge thousands per hour. Here there's not a lot of incentive for efficiency.

Practice management software targeted to solos and small firms is very successful, look at https://www.clio.com/
Yeah, but if you'd actually run the machine long enough it would simply destroy itself due to the force multiplier.
Chevy Volt battery degradation in terms of percentages has not been bad at all. I understand that GM used LG-Chem and now its bringing whole battery tech in-house. Tesla may be 2-3 years ahead of others in battery tech but GM has been in the game for a while since 2011 Volt. So, the gap is lesser than many think. Now Software and Auto-pilot that is a different ball game and even there the gap is 3 or so years.
You might want to double check your arithmetic.
I've used Netlify as a "Heroku for static sites".

I deploy my React apps and landing pages there and don't need to worry about the underlying compute, or load balancing, or anything else. Thankfully I didn't do any frontend work before Netlify was available!

I don't really get all the hype around the Jamstack (https://jamstack.org/), though.

Netlify's hypothesis seems to be that if you deploy websites on CDNs, instead of on web servers, then you'll get better performance.

Also, because it's just a static site, there's no backend or database, so you get better security.

I accept this hypothesis, but it seems like you still need a backend. Netlify is promoting functions as a service [1] so you can avoid having web servers for the backend too, but I'm a little skeptical you get the flexibility to build applications with dependencies or non-trivial business logic or design with this approach.

If anyone's tried a FaaS and this is incorrect, please describe your experience!

[1] https://www.netlify.com/products/functions/
$500m would give every American $1.50
The majority of cases do not have pneumonia. They have a dry cough and fever. In a minority of cases this develops into pneumonia.

The part about the upper respiratory tract is wrong though, cold-like symptoms are not a normal feature of COVID-19.
So after rotating enough to reduce clearance between teeth, you can move last gear lets say tooth to the distance 10^65 smaller then Planck Length -- smallest known length, wchich is 1.6 x10^35 m and where all strange things like quantum foam, or micro wormholes are supposed to happen ...?
Interesting. I can't access their website from Europe. Even when going through a VPN exit in the US.
Guns are an offensive implement, while encryption is a defensive one. A better parallel would be arguments in favor of banning bulletproof vests for civilians, because a criminal might use them during an attack.
Side note about budgeting apps: anyone just not have the time to use them? I just use a spreadsheet to keep track of subscriptions and balances — can’t bother to “categorize” transactions which seems like such an arbitrary grouping exercise anyway.
That’s pretty cool! Unfortunately its actually a ceramic with only around 5% the thermal conductivity of straight aluminum so it wouldn’t work for this. Most transparent materials tend to be thermal insulators afaik.
eBPF isn't safe to load without root privilege. This means no containers and no users process. From what I saw so far, there is fear that letting Turing complete programs in the kernel would make some future CPU/hardware vulnerabilities more dangerous. While the compiler makes sure the program return, it cannot make sure it isn't nefarious.

ref: https://lwn.net/Articles/808048/
Gray Television in $8.5B bid to acquire Tegna – sources
The Psychology of Panic Buying
I imagine this could be chain-gang hell for introverts.

I've always wondered if the people who move into decision-making spots are extroverts, who then go on to make decisions affecting introverts, like open-plan seating.
The current rate of estimated infection doubling from genomic analysis is 7 days, absent containment measures and other interventions. Assume there are 1000 cases today and do the math. You get there pretty quick:

https://bedford.io/blog/ncov-cryptic-transmission/
24 premiered on November 6, 2001, 56 days after the 9/11 attacks. My un-informed opinion is torture got a whole lot more popular because of that than the show
Utility lib to generate tokens for MapKitJS in Rust
This utility library provides wrapper functions to generate MapKitJS valid jwt tokens for your rust program.
Oh yeah I totally messed this one up.
In Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep, traders traffic in cubes of material that acts as a super dense source of pad data. Your communication partner on another ship would have the twin cube, and the two would be synced up and then provide the carrier data stream for video and other content. When your cubestuff is exhausted your secure authenticated comms cease.
Atheism by Gender over Time
The nutrition "research" you read on internet sites does. But don't confuse this with what nutrition researchers believe. What they believe does not change month to month but over years. And none of them believe things as simplistic as "sugar bad" or "fat bad".
>the elastic modulus of the gears

And in this case, the concrete!
personally i find the ux of slack to be pretty appalling, from the newly added “visual formatting” to the weird dichotomy of left/right split of chat and thread (to say nothing about the lack of back button for the right-hand-side drilldown), downloads covering the right hand side chat, the lack of multiple windows, inability to drag and drop attachments to the “threads” channel... etc etc

BUT the plethora of integrations is what really makes it almost worth it to me personally, and i suspect very much so for my workplace as well
This is already done in many countries.
I'm guessing that overlap between different options might be hard to predict in some situations but easier in others. If raw data is available you could of course answer more precisely.

I'm thinking that plenty of users use both an ide and a text editor but few use more than one text editor. For example few use emacs because its required by their job thus emacs + vim probably IS 30% but VS.Code + VS probably has a substantial overlap.
It was a light-bulb moment when I learned that in medieval warfare, battles were relatively rare, and the primary mechanism of military force was the siege: camp outside and block trade/supplies, until the enemy runs out of food and gives up. Even if one has overwhelming force, fighting is expensive and risky, whether for an army or an individual [0]. This pattern replicates throughout nature: many animals develop signals to proxy their fighting strength without having to fight, due to the risk it would incur (such as growling as a signal of chest cavity size).

It's perfectly cogent to own a gun, not with any intent to kill, but to establish a power dynamic, such that one could respond with deadly force if necessary [1]. This is how America projects its military power across the world, through 400+ bases and several aircraft super-carriers, with the majority of that force going unused. It's still a projection of power, and still subject to moral scrutiny; but having a military base parked outside Qatar, just in case, is not the same thing as "that military base is a tool for invading Qatar".

I get your core point; weapons being deadly is the whole point, and even weapons acquired purely for deterrence can lead to a positive feedback loop of escalation, resulting in violence that would not have occurred otherwise. And humans are not purely rational actors; there's a simple numbers game, where the more guns are in a populace, the deadlier a small number of maniacs or extremists are going to be. It's not a problem we should ignore, and it's frustrating that NRA hardliners seem to be fine with doing so.

I don't own a gun, and I'm in favor of something resembling "common sense gun control", as well as other harm reduction interventions (particularly universal mental health care); at the same time, I consider effective self-defense to be an inalienable human right (I don't declaw cats, either). But to say that guns exist only to kill is a little overly simplistic: to take another example, North Korea acquired nukes not to use them, but to dissuade the U.S. but ever thinking about instigating regime change. They know using them can only result in their immediate obliteration; yet owning them tilts the game-theoretic dynamic in their favor.

[0] Aircraft and drones somewhat change the dynamic on this, but we can consider those out of scope in a 2A debate.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credible_minimum_deterrence
Businesses already do bookkeeping as required for taxes, so categorizing is a must. We use bench.co for bookkeeping.
> but it seems like you still need a backend

Of course. It's just managed by someone else and you often are paying per usage. And you'll find yourself needing to wrangle numerous serverless platforms to actually build out relevant business logic if you want to do something meaningful, one third-party microservice at a time.

> Also, because it's just a static site, there's no backend or database, so you get better security.

It's not as trendy to think of it this way, but "static sites" are just caches with manual invalidation.
Can't imagine how long it'll take to get the slack out of that gear train.
iOS open source messenger app
You end up with some of the following barriers to saving:

1. Cost of housing.

We mostly don't have affordable housing. This is a serious burden for many Americans. It's not legal to live in a hut without electricity or the like, even if you wanted to.

2. Our public transportation and walkability sucks.

Most Americans need a car. This is a huge financial and logistical burden for many people.

3. Healthcare

The US spends insane amounts on healthcare and people who are poor let problems linger because they aren't sure if it's worth getting seen and having the bill for it.

I've escaped that pattern. It was really challenging to escape it and I've been dirt poor a long time, in part because not having a car is a logistical barrier to earned income and even if isn't, it's a social signal that "I'm an incompetent loser" which helps suppress my income.

I'm gradually making progress on all of it, but it is tough to swim against the tide and our current tide is highly problematic and burdensome for most people in the US. So it's a damned if you, damned if you don't situation.
We always phrased it as "Presume good intent."
Uhm, the yield curve inverts well before a recession and with a variable look-ahead period, typically 6-18 months before, so it worked as prescribed.

All of those articles are actually spot on. If this indeed is a recession; we'll know a year from now because that's the typical delay in NBER's recession announcements.
They all run the same software stack though, so despite being deployed on diverse hardware, so they can’t claim to only have independent failure modes.
Yup, bingo. Although every single thing, gears included, will have some deflection.
When you says Sia is reliable, do you mean it could be reliable if hypothetical X, Y, and Z things happen?

Because according to the homepage (sia.tech) there are only 895 hosts storing a total of 206TB right now, which is a very, very small amount. Backblaze, a relatively small player as compared to the big cloud providers has 1.1 million TB of raw capacity as of last year (redundancy reduces the available capacity, but still) [0].

[0] https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-for-2019/
SafeKodi: Researchers Help Kodi Users to Spot Malicious Addons
This name is the best part of the project (and the project itself it's already an awesome tool).
Children appear to be safe from COVID19
Question to those who know:

I used FreeNAS and liked it, but my recent build is Unraid because I had 24 bays, and didn't want to buy all my drives at once, and afaik FreeNAS/ZFS is not super great with adding drives to the pool, especially if they are different drives. Unraid, though, is not great with drive failure and I'm starting to think I want to go back to FreeNAS, but I am torn:

1. I don't know how to move 80TB.

2. I still dont want to buy all my drives at once, is FreeNAS better about adding new drives these days?
As a recovering sysadmin, I'd say it's not just a rebranding. Sysadmin work was a mix of hardware, networking, OS, and app operations. With the rise of AWS, etc, a lot of that work got spun off to cloud operators. The "cattle not pets" shift removed another chunk of it. So true devops work is more applying developer thinking to what was left of operations.

But I want to address this part:

> If developers are expected to take more roles, doesn't that turn development into "second class" work if no one is left to fill a dedicated role for software development?

The answer is no. My dad started writing software in 1968. From the way he tells it, good developers never just threw things over the wall. They made things for people to use, things that ran efficiently within the constraints of the platform of the day.

I feel the same way today. Devops approaches give teams control over (and responsibility for) the whole lifecycle of the software they write. That's great! Instead of wondering what happens over in ops-land and hoping we get it right, now we can make sure it's right. And this is aided by the rise of the observability movement, giving developers the ability to see inside the running software.

To my mind, there's no such thing as "dedicated" software development, where it happens in isolation. That's like wanting to cook food without caring whether people eat it or how they're enjoying it. I think it's great that teams are expected to operate what they build, and are given the right tools for that.
Yes, the 500k number is what will happen if we don’t enact emergency measures to slow down the spread of the disease. That you have not seen numbers approaching that is only because countries like China and South Korea and Italy have already done so.