skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bet people are just a little more weird microdosing psychedelics. Like, come on if it impacts your ability to create novel things, then you are going to create novel conversation topics and some of those are going to be fucking weird. I love acid for personal development but I am not sure if I could handle this reality.
ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, Rule 8.4: Misconduct: "It is professional misconduct for a lawyer to: [...] (c) engage in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation..."

[https://www.americanbar.org/groups/professional_responsibili...]

If it really was intentional, this very clearly meets the standard, and there's absolutely no requirement that there be damages for the lawyer to be disciplined. I'm not talking about a fraud or malpractice claim, so there's no reason this would involve a lengthy court battle, etc.

Further, Rule 8.3: "(a) A lawyer who knows that another lawyer has committed a violation of the Rules of Professional Conduct that raises a substantial question as to that lawyer's honesty, trustworthiness or fitness as a lawyer in other respects, shall inform the appropriate professional authority."

[https://www.americanbar.org/groups/professional_responsibili...]

Seems to fit as well if the behavior was repeated.
Sure, let's dig into networking. Who pays for rereplication traffic? If you do 64-of-96 RS encoding, that means for every failure you need to transfer 64x the lost storage capacity. If you're targeting a "low individual uptime but high aggregate uptime" model this means you need to be storing data in multiple sites -- and dedicated cross-geo bandwidth is expensive. I agree that in the happy case you can use low-bandwidth cheap equipment, but to get good reliability you need to provision for larger clustered failures such as rack- and row-level outages.
Perhaps this future review system could be used for voting in elections, or perhaps even for fair wealth distribution.
Dropbox is $10/TB/mo, which is the "old" industry standard (and still what most big guys charge). Backblaze is $5, but they charge egress fees, so usage matters. Dropbox doesn't charge for egress, but there are limits on "Public" folder bandwidth (and you can't pay for more if you max out). I don't think there are limits on private content, but I bet there's a soft throttle or some limit that will get you contacted.

There aren't a lot of options for <$5/TB and they all charge egress. I've tried Backblaze, pCloud, and DO Spaces. My specific use case is storing full HD movies for streaming via Plex, which requires a fairly reliable 6Gbit/second, and most of them can't keep up. DO Spaces did the best of all the ones I tried, so I'm using that for now, but it's just skating the edge of usability.
The panic is entirely rational. Even pg is panicking: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1235247452145451013

I understand why you might feel that way. I used to feel the same. But I think at this point if you're not panicking, you might not have fully absorbed the literature.

From my point of view here in Seattle, we're already seeing some minor effects: No one can find any toilet paper. Sounds minor, right? But it won't feel so minor when it's food rather than TP.

The virus isn't the issue. The issue is people. Everyone wants to maximize their chance of being completely unaffected by this disease. When everybody does that simultaneously, we're in trouble.

Suppose a million cases do happen. Who will care for them? Do we even have a million hospital beds? We just surpassed 100k cases today.

I recommend watching https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h... over the next week or so. It's quite astonishing to see the numbers climb. I remember when South Korea hit 100 cases. That was about two weeks ago. Now they're at 6.5k.
Datasaur looks awesome! Can't wait to try it out. Congrats on the launch!

Curious about data security and privacy? How do you guarantee privacy? Is there some cryptography or secure enclaves used? Some sets of documents (and email) are super high trust.

Guessing the on-prem version is probably safest route
As of Zen2, single core performance is sometimes better, sometimes worse than Intel, depending on the chips being compared and the workload.
This isn't quite true. For many, keto truly is an easier way to achieve the goal of eating less. Our metabolism uses various signals and pathways to detect satiety and even in the early stages of metabolic syndrome some of the pathways get broken due to insulin resistance (e.g. insulin blocking leptin satiety signaling in the brain).

Keto truly is much, much easier for many people. If you explore the keto community a bit, you will notice that it often naturally leads to intermittent fasting - simply because people don't feel like eating all that often.

Of course, it comes with its own difficulties with regards to food selection and social eating. However, in terms of willpower, my experience has been it's zero-effort compared to previous caloric restriction diets I've done.

This is not to say that caloric restriction takes a huge amount of effort and will-power for everyone. But if it does for you, it's worth checking keto out - and it's definitely not just a fad.

I've found that a fairly good selection criterion is people that suffer from post-meal slumps (sleepiness). If you are one of them, its likely that ketogenic diets will be helpful.
Fundamental health reform like ‘Medicare for All’ would help the labor market
My inner pedant really hates this first sentence:

> There are three ways to create variables in a JavaScript application: using var, using let, or using const.

No. There are two ways to create variables (let, var), and _one_ way to create a constant (const).
The browser vendors are in bed with the search providers. You can't bookmark a site or go directly to it, it always goes via search. No wonder companies want native apps rather then web pages, then the user get an icon on the app drawer/desktop, and they don't have to pay the middle man.
They're not talking about a datacenter. Datacenters need to be reliable. Sia storage pools don't, because security and reliability is achieved at the global network level, not at the level of individual systems or storage pools. 95% reliability means you can be down for two whole weeks out of every year and still be well within acceptable uptime requirements.

Generators? Who needs those? Just wait for the power to come back on. UPS? Why bother? Square footage? Stick some wooden shelves in the cheapest building possible. Cooling? Locate in a cold climate and buy some window fans.

This isn't anything like the sort of infrastructure you're used to dealing with. Think Bitcoin mining farm, not Backblaze datacenter. Any corners that can be cut will be.
> How is that "of course"? Not excluding one or the other a priori is one thing, but why would it be the obviously right choice to always use a combination of both?

I guess I've always thought of the two as complementary. You have a goal to encourage or discourage some behavior, or address a problem, so you want both technical and legal measures. You don't want cars stolen, so you make that illegal and also add anti-theft technology to the cars. You want people to pay taxes, so you also develop a system that makes declaring and paying very easy for most. You want protect privacy, you complement legal protections with technology that helps achieve it.

> How would that "encrypting with your on-card key" thing work?

I don't know exactly, it's not my area of expertise. My understanding is that EMV cards have a unique keypair stored on them, in which case it's not a big stretch to imagine a process that encrypts the exact record of what you bought with the card's private key, so it's a technical impossibility to decrypt without your consent.

> How does it follow that when you have a social problem, you need a legal solution? That seems like a complete non-sequitur to me.

I'm a bit baffled - it seems pretty clear to me that legal changes have been a major part of our general progress as a society, and have in most cases been part resolving social problems. Sometimes we change the law to get to a desired solution, sometimes we change the law to enshrine an established solution. With privacy being a social problem, we need both better technology and better laws.
My point is that some users want Facebook or Google login and get mad if you don't have it. Other users don't want them and get mad if you do. Because you have to decide whether to include the SDK when you build the app, it's impossible to make both groups happy at the same time.
> Can't be more than 2.5 because Backblaze B2 already gives you $5/TB/Mo.

Well it can be, if they have a lot of inefficiencies. Backblaze could have more experienced engineers who overcame these. I assure you, I can accidentally design a very expensive storage system as I’m not that smart ;)
PLEASE STOP COLD CALLING ME. Email me and Im happy to set up a time to talk if Im interested. Also it clearly says Im in LA. Im only looking for opportunities in LA or remote.
"On a related topic, I've had a ton of problems finding a cloud storage system that will reliably handle files around 100-200gb. Does anyone have a recommendation for a service that can handle that file size with ease?"

rsync.net gives you an empty, ZFS filesystem that you can do anything you like with.[1]

I believe the file-size limit is 16 exbibytes (264 bytes).

rsync.net can also talk to every cloud storage provider[2] because rclone[3] is built into the platform:

ssh user@rsync.net rclone s3:/some/bucket rsync/home/dir

[1] http://rsync.net

[2] https://www.rsync.net/products/universal.html

[3] https://rclone.org/
I should add that places like Backblaze and pCloud and DO Spaces and others charge per GB stored, so if you're using 1.3TB it's prorated accordingly.
> That's amazing. I was just scratching my head about const when I read the article, "so what's the purpose if I can change the value... but I guess I can't re-assign the variable with a new value .... that's it?"

If the value is a primitive, you can't change it. If the value's a reference you also can't change that, but of course you can modify whatever that points to.

Is that what's bugging people about this?
The people following the latest hype have definitely settled on that. The 95% of the tech world outside of the bubble just barely got comfortable with virtualizing everything in VMs about 5 years ago. The people that wrote the software enterprises are using absolutely did not design in scenarios where you can lose nodes arbitrarily without interruption.
Gas companies want to recycle your manure
Outside of professional truckers--and we won't count the trip back to the loading dock--who regularly uses his vehicle to capacity at all times?
Regardless of whether one ought to forget, this is hardly the forum.
Twitter CEO’s weak argument why investors shouldn’t fire him
This is the normal human cycle. We did the same for things as big as terrorism and as small as every tiny thing that teenagers have ever done, broadcast via the local news.

People freak out at things that are different; not normal. It absolutely is irrational. The fact that smoking marketing smoking is still legal is all the proof you need that numbers and death rates are meaningless.
Personally I'd say it's a combination of traction and API for me.

It's pretty useful to have a ubiquitous comms tool that integrates with most saas infra out the box...I do loathe its shoddy audio/video/screenshare
Compiling Pelagia in Linux
It all boils down to: what is the energy return on energy
invested .
The Elon Musk dilemma: When big thinkers think badly
Other popular alternatives are giving you a desk at the window (= you only get busy work), overworking you, forcing you to relocate to a far away city after just having bought a house, etc.
having worked at aws, all I'll say is I think you're wildly over-estimating their agility
I'm going through Sia's website now. It seems this article is meant to bolster the claim on their website which states "When the Sia network is fully optimized, pricing will fall somewhere around $2/TB/month." [1]

Call me skeptical but it seems that they aren't committing to building out this infrastructure themselves or providing a specific amount of storage at this pricing. They seem to be outlining a potential infrastructure that some enterprising individual (or corporation) could use to provide storage at that price to "renters" within their marketplace.

I guess I'll just wait until someone puts their money where their mouth is. Given that this is a marketplace, the fact that a theoretical setup could be built to provide some service doesn't necessarily guarantee it will be built.

1. https://support.sia.tech/article/thvymhf1ff-about-renting
I don't remember every having notifications so I went looking. Found them all disabled: https://imgur.com/QKdDIqz
Backblaze is operating at their own economy of scale with dedicated deals with suppliers, custom bare bones hardware, optimized processes, etc. It's always more expensive starting out as a little company for raw hardware and processes until you're big enough and mature enough to get the deals and processes in place.

That is also not the only service that Backblaze offers and wasn't their first. It could be that B2 is simply a way for them to offset their cost for extra capacity and are running it effectively near-cost for them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDRAND#Reception

I'm inclined to believe this wasn't a "flaw" and was intentional design.
Here is a copy of the paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3342908
In a world order driven by AI, we need to rewrite the rules of data capitalism
`var` creates global properties when used in the global scope, which is useful at times.
See my response in the sibling thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22506913
The coin landed long enough that you can’t even see it under the dust. Xorg is effectively unmaintained aside from Xwayland. If you had hopes of Wayland disappearing, you can safely end them now.
You could imagine a network of trust, where some people have more trust than others. And there could be clusters where people with a lot of trust are not necessarily trusted by everyone. So this would be more general than a central authority like Michelin.
I think the point is that the cost should not be the main motivator. I would agree that there needs to be other differentiators in addition to cost, which could provide sufficient moat against other competitors, big or small.
I wouldn't call them indispensable but they are helpful in moderation.
I'm always hesitant to use any of these services because (AFAIK) they need to store your banking credentials in order to access your account. The one exception I've found to this is Chase, which actually has an API. But even with providers like Plaid, its not clear whether the API is being used - I don't think it is, because the request does not go to Chase.

Is there a better way? Or a service that would let me enter credentials if I want to update data? Rather than storing them and updating automatically...
In some developed countries you can get qualified labor that cheap. For example in Southern or Eastern Europe. Not to mention developing countries of course.
> How can I see what they have on me without agreeing to those things?

You can't. It's part of the perversity that is Facebook -- in order to be able to see (and delete-ish) the data they have about you, you need to sign up for an account and give them more data about you.
Little plug of something similar I developed one year ago :
Wisteria : https://gistnoesis.github.io/
It does the real-time spectrogram using tensorflow.js with gpu. And it also run some transformer neural networks real-time to transcript the notes into a piano-roll.
Zombie Capitalism
Good point.

I think of the others in that scenario as a sort of "halo" effect, around the central drivers. They tend to calm down or go away when the central drivers stop.

In that scenario, it doesn't take much for even one or two mean-spirited people and their halo people to make life relentlessly miserable and difficult for anyone that is targetted, deliberately or accidentally. The size of the halo can be enormous, hundreds or even millions of people in severe cases (social media storm), but even say 5-10 people is enough to induce great misery, because of social effects.

I do blame the halo people for not being more self-aware of the consequences of their actions towards others or caring about it; when I've seen it, most of them seem to not care. "Don't blame me, all I did was...".

(The ones who do care when they realise are wonderful though.)

I think being scared they have to get in first to avoid trouble is rational but low on an ethical scale.

I don't think there's much point in action against the halo people because they each don't tend to have done much except contribute a little to the wave, and "punishments" backfire if there is no clear bad action that is widely recognised.

Serious psychological trauma, PTSD etc, which can take years to recover from (if ever), are quite likely for the targets if it persists, especially if it has knock-on effects on the rest of their life. It is not a small thing, but people often don't realise that, or will minimise it unless it's happened to them.

Because of the severity of harm that can happen, and especially when it is happening, sometimes I think it is important to recognise and "pick off" the core driving people - or if possible just the problem behaviour - decisively, and the halo will tend to dissipate afterwards.

Of course there are countless problems in the details with this, and it may be somewhat unjust, but what else can we do? It isn't justice to let it continue.

So if it looks necessary, I start to see a "picking off" intervention as ethically-necessary harm management, rather than platonic justice for all. That makes me sad, but seeing waves of relief in someone kind of makes up for it, and I have a lot of empathy.
I've switched to Qwant a few months ago at home. Aside a few usability issues (like hijacking the space button), the search results are fine both for random searches and for programming-related ones (aka. SO, JavaDoc, cppreference search).
Their map search is not great, so had to switch back to google for that.
at a minimum the facility will need some power conditioning and/or insurance. you don't want a brief power surge to eat all of your capital, and lockup fees, in one go.

> For a 32 HDD system, you expect about 5 drives to fail per year. This takes time to repair and you will need on-site staff (just not 24/7). To account for these costs, we will budget $50 per year per rig.

will you not also lose 6TB (times utilization) of your lockup every time a drive dies?

> 8x 4 way SATA data splitters

you've linked to SAS breakout cables. they don't plug into SATA ports, they plug into SFF-8087 SAS ports.

they cannot plug into the motherboard you've listed. nor have I ever seen one listed for retail sale that has 8 SFF-8087 ports.

the cheapest way to get 8 SFF-8087 ports is with some SAS expander card, and a SAS HBA. even scraping off eBay that's another $50 per host, and two more components to fail.

there are also actual SATA expanders out there, but they last about 3 months before catastrophic failure in my experience.
Yep this is the biggest annoyance for me too.
lettuce isn't very nutritious; it's not something that astronauts would eat for nutrition. It's more for flavor. It's really hard to imagine that you would grow a plant for vitamin C, when you could ship a kilogram of it in pure form. The other plants they picked (tomato and pepper) are nice, but again, not really practical to grow on a long space trip. Personally I think algae would be far more practical.
Oh, and Italy went back to a higher number. Today they ran almost 4,000 tests.

https://lab24.ilsole24ore.com/coronavirus/
NASA's Deep Space Antenna Upgrades to Affect Voyager Communications
So good that Atlassian sold it.
Influenza has a CFR of 0.1%, COVID has CFR of 2-3% (20-30x higher). Officially the CFR for COVID is ~3.3% but it is thought that is too high because there is thought to be many people who have it who are asymptomatic or have a mild reaction. It is estimated that 40-70% of adults will contract it in the US this year. That is 83 million people in the US alone. 10-15% of COVID patients have Acute Respiratory Distress. 10% * 40% * 209M adults => 8.3 million people that would need to be hospitalized. What is the CFR when hospitals can't cope with a fraction of that? If the CFR is 2% and 40% get it, that is 2.1 million dead people this year alone, in the US, alone.

As paulg tweeted the other day (I'll update his number)... There are 20.5k cases outside of China. That number doubles every 3 days. That means there will be 2.6 million cases in 3 weeks.

We have to do everything we can to slow it down, buy us time to try antivirals, buy us time to get to summer where heat, humidity and mass doses of Vitamin D can help keep numbers down.
3.7% is the measured rate in China. Which has the best available data set. Which is why I used it.

The CDC has consistently concluded that the real rate will be somewhere in the 2-4% range.

There are admittedly researchers who think that cases are severely underreported. However data from other countries has been in line with the Chinese experience. If dramatically more get it, those dramatically more seem to also be less infectious.

Given this, it is better to act on the higher end of evidence based estimates and to have possibly overestimated than it is to believe on the low end and find that a higher figure was appropriate.

But even if you disagree with that reasoning, dropping all of my figures by a factor of 4 still comes up with figures that justify truly shocking disruptions to our lives. And the basic facts about epidemiology that I gave are still worth understanding.
There is another reason its not really effective to try to ban or even limit e2e encryption. If you're intentions are nefarious, and you have a group that you need to communicate with, you will just implement the encryption yourself. Or buy burner phones etc.

Honestly, with my cynical hat on, I feel this is actually being pushed by the marketing and advertisement lobbyists, such as Facebook, google and others, in order to data mine for advertisers into your communications..

Maybe my tinfoil hat is a little bit too big, but I really use encrypted communications so that at least there is one dialogue that's not being warped into advertisements for me.

I genuinely fear for future generations privacy, in all regards. It's worrying and it really does deserve more attention. It's so crazy to my younger nieces and nephews that when I was their age, I didn't have a phone. It blows their minds. And I'm only in my 30's.
We don’t use fingerprinting besides cookies and don’t rely on third party identity graphs; we have over a decade of experience doing B2B and understand what works. Also, anticipating the death of the cookie, we are moving towards contextual technologies over individual identifiers.
Understanding a company’s buying intent is a whole different ball game, takes a lot of data that doesn’t belong to any single individual. It is intrusive to individuals because we infer your employer, but we don’t care about anything else; we operate at a macro level and that keeps us ahead.
If you like terse code I recommend APL.
From your perspective, yes they are definitely lying. From their perspective they've implemented a pro-privacy feature and advertise it and their company as doing so. I'm not saying either side is 100% correct, but there are two sides. The industry groups call something like the below pro-privacy and adtech/pubs do the same.

Example:
https://digitaladvertisingalliance.org/license-pricon