skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Content on private platforms is not protected by the first amendment, so they can moderate how ever they like
Why is a search warrant on electron data not comparable to a search warrant for some physical documents?
Looks great! I learned that it's a library developed by one of the maintainers of Moment.js, with rationale, pros and cons described here:

Why does Luxon exist? https://moment.github.io/luxon/docs/manual/why.html
> but it cannot be true, right? It's just what they promise in the hypothetical future, not current price-tag?

Here's the live pricing, right now: https://siastats.info/storage_pricing

> Is it cheaper to implement it on blockchain than by conventional means?

It's more so that anyone can join the network as a host. They don't have to have a financial or business relationship with anyone, they can just provide their storage service and charge for it. No way to do that currently in the world without a blockchain.
My experience pair (and mob) programming for the past months has been very positive, both with in loco and remote peers (sometimes mixed). New hires feel they get a lot of context faster, and experienced peers feel it improves quality, as it forces code to be understandable.

I believe it's instrumental that the entire team is at peace w/ some working agreements to make it work:

- Splitting work between pilot/guide(s) (otherwise, it turns into a monologue)

- Rotating roles often

- No pressure to stay or having to leave for a while

- Have adequate installations (quiet space, standup desks, large screens, 40"+ displays if possible, ambient sound for remotes to join in the session)

- Naturally leads to egoless programming
This reminds me of a meme, "My wife asked why I spoke so softly in house, I said I was afraid Mack Zuckerberg was listening! She laughed, I laughed, Siri laughed, Alexa laughed"
See Soylent.
The earliest known use of cryptography is found in non-standard hieroglyphs carved into the wall of a tomb from the Old Kingdom of Egypt circa 1900 BC. These are not thought to be serious attempts at secret communications, however, but rather to have been attempts at mystery, intrigue, or even amusement for literate onlookers.

Some clay tablets from Mesopotamia somewhat later are clearly meant to protect information—one dated near 1500 BC was found to encrypt a craftsman's recipe for pottery glaze, presumably commercially valuable.
> then purchase a Verizon MVNO SIM from US Mobile

Are you paying with a pre-paid card? If not, your number is tied to your card which is tied to your identity.
Isn't Marc Lipsitch the same guy who had dire predictions for SARS and MERS? While the Atlantic is a good publication, I'd rather take my medical advice from the CDC and WHO, who have not published such dire predictions.

BTW, I completely agree that Corona Virus is an issue that needs to be addressed. I'm simply saying the reaction is out of proportion to the reality of the threat.
Thanks, looking forward. Yeah, totally get about git diff - I'm talking exactly about how you know that it is commit X that you need to compare with and not commit A.

Also my preferred workflow is different from yours. I try to use trunk based development with commits to master directly, branches generally allowed either on dev machines only or long-term release branches which are never merged back to master (on some high-compliance projects).

I try to reduce the number of branches as much as I can - there is some pain there in committing to master and ensuring green build, but then you don't have that pain when merging (following advice of Continuous Delivery book by David Farley, Jez Humble).
I suppose you could say the same thing about the internet, and a number of other widely used technologies to come out of ww2 era.
Hey, I looked at some of your other comments and your profile.

I'm sure you're not posting here wanting to pathologize you, but you really seem like you're having a hard time. I doubt my comment will help, but if I were ever in your shoes I'd want someone to at least try...

The idea there is a bright line between sane and not sane is a fallacy. Instead, all our beliefs about the world are approximations-- at best. We make up some line and say beliefs that are consistent enough with observations are sane and others aren't but the position of that line is largely arbritary. Some of these approximations are more helpful than others, some create feedback that can make us less healthy and happy then we could otherwise be even in the same situation.

It seems to me that you have found yourself surrounded by beliefs which make your life more difficult and you're having trouble escaping from them.

You can get help for your problems and you will be happier for it, almost certainly. I really hope you do.
Not really. Just probability.
If you have fully redundant services then ALL of them have to go down to have an outage.
Suppose you 5 copies with 75% uptime each.
The probability that all of them are down is 0.25^5 ~ 0.0009

Now of course that assumes they are uncorrelated, but since Sia nodes are distributed across the internet, that's likely as opposed to multiple servers at a few data centers like AWS.

Turns out mortgage bonds tend to be correlated.
> even offered to buy out the other guy

Why didn't this happen? That seems like an obvious outcome of the situation, unless losing the big client is enough to effectively destroy the company.
If you want to travel fast you need a car there, yes. Public transport only works well along the few main roads, outside of that it's like 2-3 buses a day or none at all.

In any case traveling fast kinda misses the point, the fun stuff is in between. If you don't want to bike you can rent a kayak and go down one of the rivers.

IMHO the best way is to get a tent and a bike, take a train to some city (Włodawa works), and bike for a week or two camping elsewhere each day. Best time is June - late enough that there's lots of cheap fresh fruits everywhere (you can buy them from farmers along the roads or just gather the wild fruits in the forests), but before the school ends so even the popular lakes are empty.

Also there's that https://greenvelo.pl/en/map a bike-only road that goes for over 500 km through most of the tourist spots in the Polish parts of Polesie (and also later Warmia and Mazury). Less wild but still cool. Easy flat terrain starts north of Chełm and continues all the way to the Baltic sea,

BTW choosing a smiling scenic mask icon for museums wasn't the best choice on that map, especially when you have a museum of a german death camp there :/
On the other hand, I am filled with positive associations at the name.

Reliability, redundancy, disaster recovery, cost cutting, and absolute focus on execution!
So you want to test everyone in the country before they're showing symptoms, out just close the country for a few days?
I had a famous company redline many minor changes that we had discussed, but in amongst it, they redlined a major change we hadn't discussed. They said, *we redlined it, you saw it, what's the big deal?" But I wouldn't deal with them after that.
There are 2 classes of accelerators -- lookaside and inline.

The lookaside accelerators (like QAT) sit on the PCIe bus and DMA plaintext into the accelerator, and DMA encrypted data out. This offloads the CPU, but it does not help with memory bandwidth. Since memory bandwidth is our biggest bottleneck, they don't help.

Inline accelerators are "smart nics". The NIC DMAs a pre-formatted TLS record in plain text inside a (series of) TCP packet(s) from the host, encrypts it, and sends it in an almost stateless way. This is what we call "NIC TLS" in FreeSD. Sadly, the inline accelerators we've tried all have fatal flaws which prevent us from using them. I cannot get into those flaws for NDA reasons, but we're hopeful that there will be one that we can use soon.
I'm talking about diverse, complex and modern as in a jurisprudence that takes into account many ethnicities and still manages to produce a letter of the law that multinational corporations find agreeable to do business in and yet at the same time subjects those corps to tough penalties with an enforcement mechanism to back it up.

Countries with a steady inflow of new migrants of all networths.

Countries that make real attempts to be fair to native born people and outsiders alike.

A country could speak 2 or 3 different languages and still a very largely monocultural way of doing things. Not to cherry pick but do you really think the Yighurs in China get a fair shake in a court? I really want to hear if you've read differently.

A country could have on paper very impressive law frameworks and yet in action be essentially meaningless since most of the population doesnt have access to fair representation.

Not mere grandiose legal frameworks with not an ounce of real world enforcement to back it up or go after bad actors in a legitimate way, without extra legal acts of justice or worse mob justice.

Pretty much any and every country you mentioned fails to meet atleast one or - in most cases - all of the criteria.
Let us be clear:

They are already doing that and always have been.

This is just unifying the name and the source code.
What's 80 orders of magnitude between friends?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe
I switched over to DDG + brave about 6 months ago. Haven’t looked back.
thanks that looks interesting. I realize there's probably a lot of solutions in this space. I probably won't implement a spreadsheet solution like TillerHQ. I am thinking more in line with an app and thinking of features to differentiate the app from run of the mill personal expenditure tracking apps.
So good to see competition and progress on this front - regardless of where it comes from. I wonder how the scale of GM vs Tesla's R&D spend compares. Also didn't Tesla open source their battery tech?
Never had a problem with opening accounts. But I also use banks with a big international presence.
“Illegal porn” isn’t the preferred phrase in this case. It’s “child sexual abuse images.” We’re not talking about pornography here.
Big deal. I charge $5 per TB per month and I'm not even trying to be cheap.

The economies of scale should make this much less expensive. Colocating your own machine in a real datacenter and hosting your own data shouldn't still be cheaper than practically all of "the cloud" offerings, but it is. What does that tell you about "the cloud"? It's marketing bullshit.

Sure, it's fine for occasional use, but anyone using the hell out of "the cloud" can easily save money by using anything else.
You're talking about baseline or fasting cholesterol. You can do the experiment of feeding someone a high cholesterol meal, then immediately take a blood sample and see the spike in their blood. This has been confirmed many times.
You're taking "cutting corners" out of context. He is describing how individual nodes don't need to run at the standards of regular data servers and are hence cheaper, but in aggregate provide a reliable service.

> So, I assume you’re quite young.

So you do you have a technical criticism?
Members of Congress make $174,000 a year. Some people here make significantly more, but I don't think it's most.
Most of their customers probably couldn't care less, or don't know any better. It's likely the majority of their customers will still buy this shit, regardless.
Nothing really mentioned about longevity of this new pouch design. The impressive thing about the Tesla batteries is not only are they efficient when it comes to range but they are also built to last 100s of thousands of miles.
It's unclear why you've chosen to respond to my comment about my personal situation (which I'm not hiding at all), but I suspect you're trying to conflate something about my credibility with my argument. If that's the case, please stop. In fact, I'd rather you not bring up off topic issues in response to my comment.

We likely have orthogonal life experiences, and I'm simply trying to share my experiences and views. I'd like to stay on topic in doing so for a particular comment. Thanks.
Google Verbatim. It is super well hidden.

Type your Query, select "Tools", then "All Results".

Switch that to "Verbatim"
YouTube originally had a five star rating system for each video but switched to the current thumbs up/down system. I believe the reason given was that almost all viewers either give five stars or one star, which made the middle three ratings pointless.
>In Germany (and Austria AFAIK) employers are legally obliged to write letters of recommendation for their employees. These letters must be true, complete and favorably. So we have a similar situation where employers want to express their opinion but are required to be benevolent.

Does it actually even happen often that people who leave jobs under hostile or negative circumstances ask for recommendations?

Personally, i'd never even think to ask for a recommendation from the few jobs i've left or lost under bad circumstances. I only ever use references from jobs where i've parted amicably anyway. Do other people actually try and get recommendations from places they were fired from or left because of not so good reasons?

I may be wrong but I think here (BC, Canada), employers aren't allowed to give negative recommendations, I don't think they're required to give one though. I've never checked, but this is what i've been told over the years, so I might be wrong about this part.
Math is beneficial for software engineers because it limits competition. People change major because of the math.
It's a tricky subject because everyone uses different definitions of "low carb". I've seen positions from dietary bodies that define "low carb" as less than 40% of your total caloric intake from carbohydrates, which is still a massive proportion.

That is why "very low carb" was introduced, obviously still not ideal.

For _me_, I'd say I eat very low carb, I aim for max 10-20g of total carbs a day.

Yes people tend to get stuck on "carbs" as a single entity and demonise it, which helps nobody.

My perception is most people on low/very low carb diets avoid as much processed food as possible, then get their remaining carbs primarily from non-starchy vegetables like broccoli, spinach, kale, etc.
The companies' exponential growth curves just won't feel as impressive this year
Surprised by the hot hand fallacy? a truth in the law of small numbers
The press release is more informative than the current link:

https://media.gm.com/media/us/en/gm/home.detail.html/content...
GM also did the material science for the magnets everyone uses today. They also worked with semiconductor companies to advance the state of the art in IGBTs back in the EV1 days. Yes, they are an old global behemoth in the rust belt, but that doesnt mean they can't innovate.
I don't know any healthy people literally holed up in their apartments. But most people I know have kids. We still take our kids to school. We still go to the grocery store. We still take them to soccer practice. Even the most paranoid person I know is not holed up in their apartment.

What I'm not doing is flying my kids, with my 74 year old mother, so we can go to Disneyworld in Florida. I'm not taking my young children to Disneyland, which is local, because it's an international destination and if we run across a bug they will catch it because young children have no ability to not constantly stick their fingers in their mouth.

We could just say "we aren't going to see grandma anymore" but my sister in law also just had a baby. Should I tell my wife she can't see her newborn nephew because we could transmit it to the grandparents through visits? Or maybe we can just not go to Disneyland for a little bit? I understand that the odds of this chain of events playing out is low. But I would feel really, really stupid if it happened to.

I also talked my mom out of going to Vegas. Why? Because the US has tested damn near no people. If we had been testing aggressively like South Korea I could justify saying "there's been no found cases in Vegas, you should probably be good". Instead I have to say "No found cases in Vegas, no fucking clue what that means".

FWIW, most parents I talk to think this is a big nothing. One is keeping their trip to Italy this month. Another is immune compromised and as of yesterday, still flying into Seattle for some reason. I think it's a poor choice.
> it's easily defeated with reason: If this were true, then every innocent person who has to suffer an amputation due to an accident would be unjustly disadvantaged

How's that a defeat? Terrible things happen unjustly all the time.

Every innocent person who has to suffer an amputation due to an accident already is unjustly disadvantaged; it's not like this is an impossible state of affairs. (Just ask them whether they'd prefer to have their appendages back!)
> This is a prime example of a "shit hackernews says" post.

I'd say that applies to your post more than OP. Was that really necessary?

In my family there are four grandparents in their 70's with various health problems, and my two young children. All four grandparents have commented that they're relieved that this virus appears to target old people more than children, and we'd all consider it to be at least less bad news if the numbers confirm that. My father in law, who is a doctor, remarked that he's less concerned about losing his own life because he's "already lived 90% of it".

I'd never want to have to decide whether my parents or children get to live, but if I did, I'd choose my children in an instant.

These are our opinions -- no more or less valid than your own. Do you suppose we, or anyone else for that matter, cares whether someone like yourself thinks we're "heartless"?
Sorry that I came off that way.

I don't agree with your argument, but I think that disagreement is really entirely unimportant compared to your personal challenges. You're entitled to your views.

HN doesn't have a mechanism for private messages, or I would have addressed you that way.

To the extent that I would want any public effect from my comment being here it would only be to remind other people that you're a human being and should be treated with a modicum of kindness. ... unlike that rude commenters who called you a FBI shill. :)
The SPA rewrite of wiki was an extremely bizarre move and I'm still not sure why they did it. (For those who aren't aware, this site is the wiki - the original one, and was mindblowing in the 2000s.)
> That money comes from taxpayers. If less people work, less pay into it.

But none more receive it.

> If less people work today, less will get made today.

What do you expect companies to do if some of their employees quit? Give up? No. Either they'll pay higher wages to get employees again or they'll automate the job.

There are millions of jobs that could be automated right now, this year, except that the automation equipment costs slightly more than paying current wages, so they pay the wages instead. If it becomes somewhat more attractive to not work and employers have to pay higher wages, some of them will get automated instead. The same work gets done with fewer people.

> When a few percent of people suddenly don't have work, we have a recession, tax revenues fall drastically, raising deficits. The last recession makes this perfectly clear.

Tax revenues fell and deficits rose because they cut taxes and increased spending. The reduction in GDP (i.e. the tax base) was, again, only ~3% and only for one year.

> The UBI experiments so far have around 10% of people stopping work. That would be devastating to any modern economy.

I have already explained this. If you give one person a UBI and not everyone, they don't need work as much, but everybody else still does, so employers don't have to pay higher wages since they can still hire any of the other >99% of people who didn't get the UBI and pay them the existing wages.

If you give everyone a UBI, employers do have to pay higher wages to retain employees, so they do, and then more people stay working.

Someone else also pointed out that your 10% also mostly "stopped working" so they could go to school. Which is obviously not a permanent condition and generally precedes taking a better job, which pays more and generates more tax revenue.

> Because people were getting back to work.

The unemployment rate went from 5% in 2007 to 9.9% in 2009. It was still at 9.3% in 2010 when GDP had fully recovered. Apparently the economy did just as well without the other 4.3%.
This is clearly not true. If it were an effective means of getting accurate information, then there would be moral arguments for using it in some situations, to prevent even worse events (An imminent nuclear attack? Biological weapons attack? Whatever horrific scenarios you care to imagine) from coming to pass.
Is he? It sounds like you might know more about him than I do. Having said that, I do worry sometimes that people who make dire predictions about unconstrained infection, which then don't materialize because people take it seriously, get an unfair track record.

The WHO is seemingly asking for dramatic action, although you can judge that for yourself: https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/03/1058461

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/php/preparing-comm...

Otherwise I think you're insisting on an unreasonable burden of evidence, in that unless the CDC or WHO specifically make a prediction, then its not justified. The best known parameters on secondary infection distributions are strongly suggestive that this spreads more readily than the flu, and the flu infects ~20% of the population a year. Those are good priors to start with, given that we don't have enough realized empirical evidence to know the truth.
I don't know about all those extra feature, but to ship a static create-react-app, netlify has made my life super easy. Happy customer here. I hope they keep their core offerings solid and don't go crazy with new features to justify the Series C.
This is interesting. Do you by any chance still have the stats?
I don't think they are really. Guns are tools made to inflict kinetic damage. They can inflict damage on humans, damage on animals, or damage on targets.

That may seem like pedantry, but a huge number of guns aren't design to be used in anger, fired at a living thing, or will ever be purchased for the intent of firing at a living thing. I own a shotgun exclusively for shooting at clay targets for example, and I have no intention of ever pointing it at a living thing. Firearms used for sport are frequently explicitly designed for use in sport rather than being designed for combat, self defense, or hunting.
In one place I know of with a significant number of confirmed cases, I'm told by someone working on the problem that hospital visits are actually declining as sick people are too afraid to go to the hospital to get tested, for fear of being infected by COVID-19 if they don't yet, in fact, have the virus. And that is directly hindering efforts to diagnose, treat, quarantine and control the spread of the virus.

Overreaction can take many forms, depending on what people think is in their individual interest (even if it's at the expense of the collective interest).