skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know anything about the subject, so no idea if these claims are realistic. But whatever, either they deliver or they don't.

My (or their, actually) problem is I don't really get what they are offering right now. There is an impressive landing page with big numbers and pretty pictures which explains pretty much nothing. Project seems to be in production for at least 3 years, there are some apps, but I don't actually see if I can use it to backup/store some data and how much it costs right now. I mean, they say "1TB of files on Sia costs about $1-2 per month" right there on the main page, but it cannot be true, right? It's just what they promise in the hypothetical future, not current price-tag?

The only technical question I'm interested here is why they actually need blockchain? This is always suspicious and I don't remember if I saw any startup at all that actually needs it for things other than hype. It is basically their internal money system to enable actual money exchange between storage providers and their customers, right? So, just a billing system akin to what telecom and ISP companies have? Is it cheaper to implement it on blockchain than by conventional means? How so?
Software and Genetic Sequencing Track the Coronavirus's Path
Guess it's a good thing I'm not calculating totals by hand within the app! :)
It's nonsensical to you because you're not looking at it from their perspective. The healthy 25 year olds that are holed up in their apartments value playing it safe with their health more than they value helping businesses that they don't own.
You should learn to code because it is fun. If you do not like coding for the sake of coding, choose another profession.
You know, if people are sitting at home not doing anything for an extended period of time, that's actually inflationary whether they print money or not.
Noise vs. Signal in Tech Investments – Part 2
One interesting tidbit here is that the mayor made the call to cancel the event, not SXSW themselves. I understand the organizers stand to lose _a lot_ from cancellations, but this still seems like bad optics.

Unrelated, but I have three big events I booked long ago that I'm either becoming weary of attending, or fear that they will be cancelled and I'll be on the hook for the hotel and other accommodations. One of them is at SF chase center (19K capacity) and SF recently announced infections. Not a good time to be a fan of live events.

EDIT: Here's an interesting twitter thread that gives an isight into what smaller event organizers are going through due to the coronavirus https://twitter.com/jessiechar/status/1235685514667126786
Is that -40 celsius or fahrenheit?
https://siastats.info/storage_pricing

It's less than $2 / TB / Mo today, but relies on a completely different set of economics that don't scale beyond a few hundred PB. This article was aimed at people who understand why Sia is so cheap today, but do not believe that Sia will continue to be cheap as the network scales.
It's among the side-effects [0]. But it sees that the general understanding of the immune system gets better as well as therapies.

[0]: http://www.ectrx.org/forms/ectrxcontentshow.php?year=2019&vo...
I saw that episode when it originally ran. Hehe. Also, where I worked had Simpsons' character names as hostnames. Can you guess the industry?

PS: I'm not Homer.
I highly recommend buying a kayak to kayak through one of the swamp areas in your region on a nice spring or summer day. Its really an experience for the soul! Even in a cooler/cold climate, the amount of noise from birds chirping really does make it seem like you're in the amazon. A total sensory experience worth having. You can get a kayak for $300.
Hi, GCS engineer here. The lower limit on composing objects is one source object, in which case you are not so much composing as you are copying with style. Zero source objects is an error. I will file a note about the docs, thanks.
> And yet they're drawn to the position because of the emotional overtones that are ubiquitous in coverage of the subject.

or because they are tools made to kill?

Let's be honest this is not a good comparison (to stay polite). Not having guns at worst would force a group of people to find a new and less dangerous hobby, while not having encryption pretty much puts people's lives at risk in many countries and make having a democracy much more difficult.
Here was SXSW's statement on the cancelation.

> The City of Austin has cancelled the March dates for SXSW and SXSW EDU. SXSW will faithfully follow the City’s directions. We are devastated to share this news with you. “The show must go on” is in our DNA, and this is the first time in 34 years that the March event will not take place. We are now working through the ramifications of this unprecedented situation. As recently as Wednesday, Austin Public Health stated that “there’s no evidence that closing SXSW or any other gatherings will make the community safer.” However, this situation evolved rapidly, and we honor and respect the City of Austin’s decision. We are committed to do our part to help protect our staff, attendees, and fellow Austinites.

https://www.sxsw.com/2020-event-update/
It's all about the greater good.
Long term too. The bottom 50% of Americans lost all their wealth and went into debt to live since then.
Trying to problem solve my lack of creativity, guess I need more coffee
So, to be clear, Google is lamer than DDG because it supports the natural language expression `X days after M D Y` but does not support the mathematical `M D Y + X days`

I guess Google has figured out with its trillions(?) of queries how humans search and not how nerds search.
Lifx has an entirely open and very well documented local UDP API, and a pretty open and well documented REST API.

On top of that, no need for a bridge or base station. They can operate entirely locally with no need for a mother ship if you don't need to control them away from home.

I make pretty heavy use of the UDP API from my local server and help maintain a Go library.
Soccer is a great example. Searching "Chelsea" in Google vs DDG demonstrates the differences between the two.
Not really a solution, because the people who need this advice the most are also very likely to be the ones to not follow it, as they like those movies.
This is a motherboard designed for Rome, so it has 3200 memory, rather than 2933 (which was OC'ed). Plus a few improvements here and there in FreeBSD, minus the fact that we're using 2 Gen4 x16 NICs, so there is some cross-domain IO going on.
Sometimes adding a Breaking Bad-style flashforward of extreme peril at the beginning to draw you in, followed by the journalistic equivalent of a "two hours earlier" caption.
Thanks for reading and great point. I toyed with the copy here, too, but mainly it looked weird to have "About Me" on a professional landing page. Also I figured if they cared enough to know more about the company behind the product, I guess they'd found out soon enough that it's just one person behind it. If not, we can leave it at "Us"/"We" and keep it professional.
I thought the heat was supposed to kill the virus? Something the president mentioned, but sounds like they aren't 100% certain... Wonder if it got killed in the summer, if it'd come back in the winter again? Like a new flu?
Oh hey Charlie Stross! I'm a bit of a fan.

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I have a vague idea that a kind of spittle bug foam design made from bubbles of various diameters nested to provide redundancy might work well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spittle_bug#Spittlebug_nymphs

It's could be simple, flexible, easy to construct or modify, and resilient
to impacts. I'm not an engineer or scientist though.

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A tangent, if I may...

I think we need more near-term hard sci-fi set in the future that e.g.
Musk's space trucks are about to enable, to get more people excited and
involved.

I've been trawling through Netflix and cable recently looking for
inspiring, even-slightly-realistic sci-fi and it's a barren desert out
there. There are a handful of shows that aren't bad, and I've heard good
things about "Black Mirror". One the other hand, I watched a clip of
"Star Trek: Discovery" the other day and had a minor apoplexy. It's more
like a cartoon than the actual cartoon.

In contrast, I have a "100 Sci-Fi Movies" DVD set that my sister got me
for Christmas one year, and a lot of the older black & white sci-fi
movies are practically documentaries for space exploration and
colonization. Sure there are silly aliens and such, but the technology
and settings are realistic (at least compared to e.g. Star Trek or Star
Wars.)

I think some concrete visions of what it might actually be like to
attempt to build and live on a moonbase or Mars colony would inspire
people to want to really do it.
These two points:

> Here, team members typically work remotely 1–2 days per week...

> Each team has 2–3 offshore
teams that we work with

Does not sit well with this point:

> There's a tendency for information to only be passed on orally

I have found a key part of successfully working in a distributed team is overcommunication via some persistent medium.

Perhaps you can be an agent of change to improve this aspect of your new team, both for your own sake and the team's. Good luck!
And it has been proven many times that not only will the access be abused, the secret backdoor will not remain secret and now every unscrupulous person can potentially have the same access.
Can’t wait to buy hospitality stocks in a few months.
I get this, but often it results in 10+ messages back and forward when really what I want is one nice succinct email with only what's important and no pressure for me drop everything and reply immediately.

I haven't looked, but is it possible to change your online status on a room by room basis?
Attend the Dubai Boat Show
Nothing will happen in 2 months that suddenly makes it safe to hold an event of that size attended by developers from all across the world. It’s over.
Dear gruglife,

I write this comment as a response to your inquiry about the reasons for why people like slack.

Now personally I mostly use Teams, but the system is similar.

The reason I like to use Teams as opposed to e-mail is mostly just the expected process around it.

Please note that I’ve cc’ed your manager, as I talked to him just before and he told me to add him. I’m not trying to seem passive aggressive or cause issues in communication.

Anyways, please come by my desk so we can repeat this entire discussion once again since you likely tuned out after the first paragraph anyway.

And yes IRC does the same, but trying to get an organization to use IRC is like trying to replace word with vim.

Kind regards and all the best,
Boublepop
I personally piled some v2 bridges in the trash for this same reason. It feels vaguely like shucking external hard drives. The garbage piles up higher.
This question seems to be entirely based on a false premise. If you want to be good at something, whatever field you choose, it's going to be competitive. Being good at coding in particular is in no way a prerequisite for participating in the startup scene.
A duo who documented the birth of NYC’s subway
Transport Layer Security, which used to be known as SSL (eg, https). It uses up nearly half of our CPU time and our memory bandwidth to read data from memory into the CPU, encrypt it, and write the encrypted data back to memory.

If we were serving plain http without TLS, we could probably reach 400Gb/s from this box (based purely on back of the envelope math)
It's also depressing that we've moved the goalposts so much in term of unemployment measurement. We used to report U6, now we only report U3 [1]. How we calculate U3 is also suspect.

Many businesses don't allow > 30h because they'd have to offer benefits. Cost of living has skyrocketed while inflation adjusted wages have decreased over time for 99%.

We are massively undercounting the discouraged and underemployed (can't find full-time work).

[1] https://www.hrcapitalist.com/2017/01/know-your-hr-stuff-the-...
The price of borrowing has never been lower. Stable governments can borrow at negative real rates. When prices drop it means there is more supply than demand.
John Wick teaches us that killing people is an effective way to make them die.

Jack Bauer teaches us that torturing people is an effective way to make them tell us (true) information.
Why can't it spin faster?
My grandmother knew 6 languages.
It's one of those things, robots are much less romantic than astronauts, but they make so much more sense it's not even a contest.

I wonder how starry-eyed Elon Musk really is in re: Mars colonization? I know for myself that it was hard to admit robots make more sense (at least at first).
Interesting that the official announcement makes no reference to refunds of tickets.
Yep, Rockefeller, Ford, etc were notorious assholes. So was Jobs, Gates, Ellison, Zuckerburg, etc. By all accounts, Trump is also an asshole and he is a billionaire and POTUS.

> So maybe not being an asshole will get you ahead in the middle

Not convinced of this either. You can't get away with being the type of assholes the billionaires are, but you still have to be a bit of an asshole to move up in the middle.
One would have to apply relativistic corrections in order to properly calculate the speed at the other end.

Realistically, though, the limiting factor in that gear system is the strength of the gear teeth. Something would break before one end moved at light-speed, or before the other end lifted the planet Jupiter.
It seems to work more like after you research and buy a lawn mower, they conclude that you are really, really interested in lawn mowers from then on.
>15% of all confirmed cases in China were serious at some stage and require some kind of oxygen assistance.

the death rate in the hubei region itself is also several times higher than in most western countries so it's fair to assume that the rate of undetected cases in China is simply very large.

What we know from well controlled cases like the cruiseship with 600 infected people appears to suggest that about 20% of people develop more serious conditions like pneumonia and a fraction of those require intensive care.
Thank you, this sounds like good advice.

Any pointers as to what volunteering to do? I don't really feel strongly about anything.
Could the city announcing the cancellation yield the organizers a more favorable insurance payout? I've heard of some event insurance policies treating pandemics as Acts of God, and will not pay on a pandemic forcing a cancellation or closure. Would be very interested in hearing the insurance industry's justification for that position.
Looks super interesting. Can anyone who has used it share their experience?
full and fullest serve for quite natural substitutes for vollen und vollsten i.e. full satisfaction
They already have the data, lol.
I wouldn't go as far as to say "We" is a lie especially with malicious intent. In short, "we" can be an appropriate way to refer to a company as a whole. Btw this is a hotly discussed topic among solo founders (whether to use "I" or "We") so it's nothing you can be "wrong" about!
>what happens when messaging with ciphertext becomes illegal

Back in the late 90s, Ron Rivest proposed Chaffing and Winnowing [0]. In that scheme, no ciphertext is transmitted and therefore no encryption is involved; only plausible plaintext is transmitted. The receiver filters out the chaff, leaving only the intended message. Perhaps one could construct an end-to-end winnow-chaff scheme (E2EWC) to replace existing E2EE schemes.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaffing_and_winnowing
Almost certainly. Even with the plausible deniability measures others mention, if the torturer has no scruples and is willing to sacrifice you, you will give it all up.

That this is awful does not make it untrue.

If it makes everyone feel better, the tech to simply "read" your secrets out of your brain with no torture whatsoever will likely soon exist (or already does).

That said, a lot of torture is performed not to extract information but to instill terror, etc.
Yes. There's a reason companies like Digital Ocean, Heroku, OVH, ZEIT, Joyent, Rackspace, Linode, Cloudflare and many more have been able to survive and grow rapidly in an AWS-dominated space. None of them are competing by undercutting Amazon in price.
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Mostly a web developer with a few years of remote work experience. Also willing to return working on-site and full-time. Aside from delivering many websites and web applications over the years, I have also professionally contributed on two indie games that were launched on Steam.
It's one of the most powerful weapons authorities can swing at anyone at anytime.

It's dead simple to poison some website, insert a thumb drive, or just flat out lie and put it on a device after the fact and make any target an instant socially repugnant felon. The ROI on that is fantastic
I'm sure it can spin a bit faster. Why can't it spin so fast that the final wheel visibly turns? Well the first wheels would melt from friction or be torn apart before then, and where are you going to get that much energy to turn them so fast? At some point there's the speed of light as a limit as well.
I think this is missing the point. Shooting people works at what it sets out to do. Torture doesn't. Despite this, they're both portrayed as effective in getting their intended outcomes.

The problem isn't portraying torture, but portraying it as something that always gets actionable, accurate information.
Protesters on UC Berkeley campus rally in support of fired UCSC grad students
FB has an analytics platform that businesses can use - like a mixpanel/amplitude/google analytics.

https://analytics.facebook.com
I use the same phrase. Public transportation is the bane of my life - here in London they seem to turn the heaters on full blast between specified dates regardless of the actual temperature. I find myself taking off and carrying coat, hat, bag, umbrella on the tube (subway) and still sweating. It's worse having a toddler because I'm either chasing him around like mad and overheating, or freezing my ass off standing still for long periods of time while he examines a leaf!
Yeah, exactly. And running a payment through wouldn't have revealed anything since those two systems aren't connected.
I think they mean 'open' as in nobody is dining at that table and it's available, not a reference to software development processes.
Probably, but I think even in a frictionless system you could still get the same effect.

I suspect even if slip between teeth, slack in system, etc... was eliminated you could still get the same effect.

The amount of energy in the system isn't the same thing as the amount of movement, so in a perfectly efficient system (I think) the initial gear would spin faster than the final gear but the final gear would turn with more force (same amount of energy).
Covid-19 reached my city but company says no to WFH so I'm looking for a new job
Their justification is simple - their entire business model is to pay out as little as possible.
The greater good...
Ages ago, my tool tried to do both weekly and monthly but then I had the realization out that almost all of the monthly items were not ones I was having trouble with in the budget. The fixed expenses were (obviously) fixed. And consumption-based utilities would vary month to month, and that was easy enough to track and reconcile every so often.

In other words, the budget would get "broken" more often in the week-to-week habits than the monthly ones... hence, the resulting focus of my tool.
I had an AI conference later this month in Palo Alto that was just canceled.
Surely you see that this is the same kind of emotional appeal the original commenter is decrying. "Tools made to kill" and "less dangerous hobby" aren't dispassionate statements of fact.
Or excel, rc[-1]+366, assuming you typed in the date you want in the cell to the left...
I watch hardly any horror movies, and yet the continue to proliferate. Why?

Really, this idea of shifting personal behavior and hoping the market/economy as a whole will follow is advanced for some many problems, and in general it is a dismal failure. Why would you even expect it to work? Theaters might stop booking movies that are unpopular, but there is zero social penalty for going to see a movie; and in any case, most movies are watched at home, as is porn.

Where is the evidence for this working? Over what timescale? How is it to be measured, especially when streaming video viewership is far less transparent than even old-fashioned box office and movie rental receipts? It's little more than a statement of religious faith in the market, and doesn't even engage with the possibility that vicious as well as virtuous cycles exist and can be manipulated.
That's ridiculous.

People can encourage filmmakers being responsible while not encouraging turning the government on them.

I can say Mark Boal and Kathryn Bigelow have done immense damage to the world without wanting them imprisoned or forced to stop making movies.

There's nothing wrong with condemning people who are doing bad things: criticism is a necessary part of the equation that allows free speech to work.
Is Economic Growth a Moral Imperative?
Thanks for the kind words! And that's encouraging to hear seeing as getting to $1k was quite the journey to me!
Thank you so much! Is there a limit on size of objects besides the 5TB max described in the docs, similar to other object stores where multiparts have lower limits than the total composed object?
I agree with you. Not 2-5x but they are rounding down on costs and optimistic on risks.
It reminds me of a landlord who charged me $300 for returning my girlfriend's key late since she was out of town. I talked to him before and he said oh sure, no problem just bring it by the office... Then charged $50 a day. Of course, anyone decent would have warned me or not charged me. His defense for this was that "the contract allows me to do that".
What about summmer? Honest question that I haven't seen discussed enough to form an opinion on. Flu and the common cold are drastically curtailed by late spring and it seems reasonable that coronavirus spread could also dramatically slow until the season starts again this fall.
you are wrong that AWS pays more than small vendors.
What I am hearing is SXSW cannot get the insurance payout if they unilaterally cancel the event. Thatswhy they have waited the city and Austin Public Health to make the decision for them. Same thing with SaaStr as well - They waited for the Santa Clara county to make the decision.
any of the expander (SATA, or SAS) things, yes, will be sharing bandwidth. but as you mention, it won't be a limiting factor for mechanical drives. and considering the latency involved in this sort of retrieval, probably isn't a problem regardless.

FWIW the break out cable they've listed is splitting up a connector that has 4 electrical channels onto 4 physically separate cables, so there's no problem with it. they just don't have anywhere to plug it in.
That’s a very speculative statement. It’s quite possible that the Virus spread will stop as the weather warms up.
When it comes to a company like Sonos it's not one strike and they're out. Their whole stupid "recycling" program came from a series of stupid decisions inside the company and then someone signed off on it! No one got fired for it so everyone in their decision making tree is still in place, waiting to strike.

Sonos has a bunch if opportunities to signal they realized they made a mistake and correct it. Instead they doubled down.

The fact the policy is still in place means they think everything is fine. I think their policy is stupid and so they're not going to get any of my dollars.