skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Dirt cheap with respect to pricing only a few years ago

Let's be honest, you don't buy things because they're cheaper than they used to be. You look at what you need and compare with what you have to see if the "extras" justify the purchase. I bought two used 40G cards and one used 48x10G(RJ45) + 4x40G(QSFP+) switch for ~1300E. Which is a lot less than I would have paid just a few years ago. Still 2 orders of magnitude above what most people care to pay for home use. And I'm sure this hasn't convinced you to upgrade.

Regular consumers, with no particular technical inclination or passion for specialized tech probably outnumber enthusiasts 100:1. For them not having fancy features to worry about is the feature. Sure, gimme a super fast connection, who knows when I need it. But make sure it doesn't cost more or require more effort in maintaining than what I have now.

> But for anyone who wants or needs to move large files or data at home

I guess this is the crux of the matter. Not many do in a world of mobile and streaming. Just think of how many systems are still sold every day with drives that have no chance of being close to saturating such a pipe.

I agree with your reasoning to go for it because I used the same one (only I went further because if it's worth doing it's worth overdoing). But the market does not agree, demand is still quite low since the extras don't justify the purchase for all but the early adopters who slowly drag the price down. Until I see a 10G port in a mainstream ISP router, the "revolution" will only happen in techie households.
> Who was on the Working Group, other than Patrick?

An interesting question—but if they wanted to be publicly known, they would be. I’d rather leave that to them.

> Patrick even convolutes his prose to the point where he never mentions the Olympics. I wouldn't be surprised if he had another sporting event in mind that also matched the specifics of what he wrote.

The NPB season was originally scheduled to start March 20 but has been postponed, with the original postponement decision announced March 9. The Olympics were postponed on March 24; the hash dates from March 25th.
From the abstract:

*>we both formally and experimentally show in multiple ways that this ranking scheme is not reliable and cannot be trusted as authoritative because it is too sensitive to weight changes and can easily be gamed.

That's a feature, not a bug, as far as USNWR (the magazine doing the ranking) is concerned. A more reliable ranking would be more stable and therefore less interesting for the universities. Why pay attention to it if Harvard, Standford, MIT are always 1, 2, 3? It's much more "interesting" and certainly sells more copies/gets more clicks if the rankings have a certain amount of volatility. The fact that it's easily game-able also makes it more attractive to universities because they can do something proactive if they're dissatisfied with their ranking. All these factors combine to make the ranking itself seem more important and prestigious.
If they are really in full compliance with the relevant California (and other) statutes as the co-founder claimed they must have also taken the accessibility aspect into account.
Id kind of like that. Grepping in a directory also containing minified js (with ten thousand character long lines) is a pain
Yeah this kind of gaming is probably widespread. UChicago is known for "artificially" driving down their acceptance rate with lots of decision rounds and marketing. Cornell isn't releasing their numbers at all this year - I'd guess because they don't like them.
> So having medical insurance or not determines whether or not a country is a failed state?

If a public health crisis triggers a statistically significant percentage of the population to face bankruptcy due to the inability of it's state to face their most pressing needs then the answer is yes.
In the limitations section, the authors mention that they didn't consider the effect of head wind, tail wind, and cross-wind.

Can anyone comment on the extent of this limitation in applying their findings to a real world environment? I have to imagine that on even a mildly windy day the slipstream of a runner would look significantly different.
I miss the days when you could do stuff like this without ending up in prison.
This new 'quarantine work' is just an awkward retrofit - those positions (and their managers) were never designed to work remotely in the first place.

I spent 4 years remote in a position designed for it, and it was still a challenge even on the best days. You have to communicate twice as much as everyone who is on site.

It's hard to learn all the remote working lessons at the same time as everyone else in your family is also learning them. Crash course in boundaries.
So, what does trigger grep to regard a file as binary/non-text? For me, it seems these are not only NUL characters.

And I also think that this would not be a discussion if it was just about NUL. There is something else that grep does not like (escape characters? Invalid utf8? Wrong codepage? I don't know), but this makes the binary detection annoying.
> The source code of Opera Presto is out there on the net

I don't suppose it's been open-sourced, has it? It would be great to have an alternative browser engine out there, instead of just three (or two and a half, depending on how you count Blink and Webkit).
Interesting to see https://github.com/kpcyrd/rebuilderd in Rust. Is this the first Arch project in Rust?
> What if my browser doesn't support javascript?

You are SOL. If enough people are SOL and care, then maybe things will change. If not, then you’ll change. Or you won’t.
As another comparison point, Switzerland govt said the insurance companies will pay CHF 180 for a test.

https://www.admin.ch/gov/de/start/dokumentation/medienmittei...
What they should do is come up with a trade pact for countries outside China and increase production there. Sort of like a Pacific-wide partnership...
RAID software has one thing going for it; at least it's not RAID hardware :P
Yes, why not? It could be as simple as plugging a box to a wall and having a quick setup, like a router.
> Opera felt small and fast because it did less and ran websites doing less.

Let us assume that is true (even though it isn't) - what's Firefox and other browsers excuse for running slower than Opera on these same sites, during the same period?

Opera presto supported a lot of the features of HTML5(1). So it didn't necessarily "do less" than the others.

And second, if you really want to compare Opera presto with other browsers, you should do it with the versions of the competing browsers that were available then. (I still remember how people complained about Firefox consuming a a lot of RAM when you opened more than 10 tabs, where as Opera could easily handle 100+ tabs(2) without any complaints.)

Even otherwise, if you test it out yourself today by downloading an Opera presto version (version 12.15 / 12.16) you will find how usable it still is on 70-80% of the websites today, even after not being developed for years now).

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presto_(browser_engine)

(2) https://forums.opera.com/topic/19313/how-to-retrieve-acciden... ... and ... https://portableapps.com/node/59581
There's a whole section at the end with his theories about why you could expect someone like him to get this better than the experts (the experts were too busy managing the intricacies of Plan A instead of constantly rigorously checking that its assumptions still held and whether it was time to give up and switch to Plan B, etc), and he makes a point against having too much modesty like he did if you have good data.
I wish they would put a "Messaging Czar" in charge with completely authority, to fix that mess. They know their target is iMessage and WhatsApp, yet don't seem to coalesce around any product in particular.

Are they too scared of regulators to make an iMessage-like service in Android? RCS will barely nibble at the ground they need to cover in order to compete for real.
Part of the value of a CS degree is that many students incidentally end up RTFMs for a lot of stuff before they start their first job. Which makes them slightly less useless in their first few years.
A mix of trying to get a sense of educational quality and prestige.

In some specific programs, you'd want to aim for the schools known to have the more robust curriculum but outside of that, it's mostly ego/prestige. "I got to a top N school, I went to harvard", etc.

That badge signals _something_ to your peers, parents, and future employers. Think of all those companies that explicitly filter for "target schools". It works pretty well too, you'll get a call-back to an interview because you have an Ivy on your resume even if you barely passed your classes.
Same! And I still don't feel confident that the Red Pros are actually not SMR. Has any independent outlet confirmed that yet? Or am I stuck buying Toshiba next?
Indeed it was: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22765531
> Stefanie Milam at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, revealed that the gas coming out of the comet contained unusually high amounts of carbon monoxide (CO). The concentration of CO is higher than anyone has detected in any comet within 2 au from the Sun (within less than 186 million miles, or 300 million kilometers).

Is that really that far in the scale of things traveling through our solar system?
Nicotine probably doesn't affect the brain in a permanent negative way.

THC probably does affect the brain in a permanent negative way.

Although they said "THC-oils" which implies they are talking about the black-market issue, I think unlike vaping nicotine which is probably mostly safe. Vaping THC-oils should only be seen as safer than smoking THC.
"Bidouilleur" est le terme utilisé par Benjamin Bayart, je pencherais pour la même chose
> The author of the article tries to connect the COVID-19 crisis to the U.S.'s political divisions and to the failures of the Trump administration, but I am not sure that he succeeds.

Did he or anyone has to try for that connection to be extremely clear?

I mean, right now the Trump administration is desperately trying to manipulate the public to force the Overtime Window over the "let's stop the quarantine" spot. How is that not a glaring failure?

And let's not forget how the Trump administration persecuted a carrier captain for protecting the crew after finding out the epidemic was spreading within the ship.
RAID 6 (adds an extra parity disk) or generalized erasure coding (more flexible but not so easy to manage).
It’s specifically different in this case: a big part of Stripe's value to a web vendor is that Stripe can collect credit-card info directly from the buyer (thereby exempting the vendor from PCI compliance and other issues related to storing and processing CCs).

"The simplest way for you to be PCI compliant is to never see (or have access to) card data at all. Stripe makes this easy for you as we can do the heavy lifting to protect your customers’ card information." [1]

Interesting question whether Stripe incurs statutory privacy duties to the web vendor and the buyer separately. I would imagine so, because given the "triangular" nature of this kind of Stripe transaction, Stripe ends up collecting data from two parties.

[This is not legal advice]

[1] https://stripe.com/docs/security
> When you describe someone as "doing only exactly what he wants to do in that moment", I'd imagine something quite different. A heroin addict.

Fair enough. But heroin addict wants to do heroin in every moment and nothing else. While in my cases it varies wildly from moment to moment. At any given moment I might want to play a game, talk to human, craft a response on stackoverflow, read about some obscure database, build a prototype in language I barely know, connect solar panel to LiFePO batteries, sculpt large ugly head out of polymer clay, read online about covid19 related research, think about how you can prove simple tautologies within axiomatic logic system, attempt to fix a bug in a program I just started using, discuss philosophical ideas with you, watch youtube video and then game some more. All of it just as useless as heroine (although less harmful), but all of it something that I wanted to do in that given moment.

> The thing I wouldn't picture is moderation.

Moderation comes from diversity of whims.

> I understand to have many years ahead of me. And all of that might leads me to a great path with a happy ending. But right now I'm certain having played less would have made such a path more likely.

I wish you all the best. When I was younger I had this urge that everything I do should ultimately give some monetary benefit. Once I felt secure with what I had materially this feeling subsided and I felt (bit aimless) freedom. Now I just want to be as happy as possible. Even if that desire has nihilism as a foundation.
Education is a market. To make money, universities need to attract customers. And they do that by being highly ranked.

And I disagree with your statement. Many other western countries have their "ivy league" equivalent. Not all schools are equal in the rest of the world either. But I do however agree that the "marketing" aspect is definitely more pronounced in the US.
I had the same experience.

I clicked the continue button, but in the following screen clicking the "grant permission" button didn't do anything.

I uninstalled and reinstalled the extension, same thing. But this time resizing or moving the browser window showed the Firefox Addon prompt that should have been shown previously, but not long enough for clicking it. I was using Firefox under Wayland.

I tried a third time, now using Firefox under XWayland, and this time the prompt was correctly shown.
> Standford

^ ;-)

Not to be confused with Stamford

https://stamford.uconn.edu/
> The fact that it's easily game-able also makes it more attractive to universities because they can do something proactive if they're dissatisfied with their ranking

Are you saying that there is nothing lower ranked universities could do to improve their ranking in a better, more objective ranking of universities? Because it smacks of elitism.
So basically don't buy WD Red for RAID and buy WD Red Pro for any real NAS application. It's a way to silently raise prices, I guess.
If you think this is cool, watch this video. I've linked a relevant to the comment portion, but entire video is amazing: https://youtu.be/NGFhc8R_uO4?t=2065

P.S. if anyone knows a more modern version of this talk, I would love to see it.
I second your opinion. I used to give Firefox a tremendous amount of leeway because its support for extensions and customization set it head and shoulders above competing browsers. Now that they've thrown away that advantage I find myself using alternatives more and more.
Reasonable response. WD did insane decision.
My CS masters completely changed my life. Would 100% recommend if you are open to learning a bunch of cool stuff.
I can't really find any examples. I wish the homepage showed one.

This page shows how to do an add function: https://chaos-lang.org/docs/11_decision_making
> This data has never been, would never be, and will never be sold/rented/etc. to advertisers.

I don't think first-order data access is really the problem here, but rather where that data is going in general and who is authorized to access it, for how long, etc., and the volume of data any one person has access to at one time.
Both Seagate and Toshiba do the same. You have nowhere to move.
As someone who has been reading a lot of AV1 benchmarks over the last few months, it's also unclear to me how/why they're doing it. AV1 (and specifically google's libaom) is great, and for VOD-based content it is ready for primetime, but h264 is better for realtime streaming from just about every standpoint.

Though, AV1 is way, way better than h264 when bitrates are super low... I don't know. I wish I had more details about the implementation.
The professional connections pay for the tuition and much more.
If you believe "this data is not going to be sold to anyone" then boy do I have a bridge to sell you. In my 20 years experience I've never heard anyone say "no, we can't sell this because that would be unethical!".
In fairness the Canadian army doesn't really need you and to get combat you really need to put in your time and volunteer for the post. In the US army depending on the timeframe you could be through basic training and in a combat zone in less than a year.
Related to expenses..

"And there are several perverse incentives in the marketplace that make it hard for colleges to cut costs. The most basic one is that the U.S. News algorithm rewards them for spending a lot of money: Higher faculty salaries and more spending on student services lead directly to better rankings. If you reduce your expenses, your ranking will fall, which means that next year your applicant pool will probably shrink."

You'd be surprised at the burgeoning expenses of universities, and often meager profitability, despite record-high tuition rates. It seems, often like startups, a burn rate signals potential growth!

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/10/magazine/coll...
Same for me when I was stationed in West Germany in 1988 and then South Korea in 1991. 2-3 second delay and it cost around $2-$3/minute.

When I went back to South Korea in 1994 I was able to telnet into compuserve from on base, and then email back home.
Ask HN: Do you know exciting/challenging tech companies recruiting in Vancouver?
I'm living in Vancouver and I'm going to graduate in Summer (And I can extend it to Fall in case I want to wait for the Covid19 situation to calm down). I'm looking for some "Exciting" tech companies in Vancouver. I'm going to apply for software engineer position or machine learning engineer position. The point is that I don't want to work on CRUD-based applications. They are not challenging enough. I want to work in something that is challenging enough. For example there was a job and they were working on developing a big data analytics engine and they were looking for software engineer. That is exciting for example!

Do you know any exciting/challenging product in Vancouver you recommend working for?

P.S: I'm OK with startups as well and to be honest prefer small-size or mid-size companies! Don't enjoy big companies where everyone is a stranger.
Interesting how so many people are so desperate to come here and live in this failed state they'll enter the country illegally!

Really remarkable.
Location: Los Angeles

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Microsoft Launches the Windows 10 Wallpaper App Everybody Wanted
But remember, always use "strings -a"! http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2014/10/psa-dont-run-strings-on-...
Are they wealthy? How do they pay rent, food, etc?
The war business needs lots of dedicated people, therefore fueling nationalism and military pride becomes necessary to have a constant influx of applicants. This happens pretty much everywhere, although to different degrees.
How to Read and Write in Japanese
I've heard many allegations about established universities gaming their ranking by, e.g., soliciting applications widely -- not so much to have a larger and more diverse pool from which to choose -- but to maintain/lower their acceptance rate metric.

Two things I like about the Northeastern story are that the official demonstrated even more ambitious gaming, and it was publicized.

No criticism of Northeastern; they have many great people, doing great work. And I've heard many faculty objected to the rankings-climbing emphasis as it was happening.
Thanks for being a part of the solution.
> Stripe is getting free data to train its fraud-detection models and potentially selling that information to advertisers.

Can the author back up the second claim with any non-speculative information that stripe will actually sell it to advertisers? advertising is not even stripe's business model. Hypothetically any site anywhere can "potentially" use any data they collect to sell to advertisers.
> Patrick is presenting everyone else in Japan as fools and building up this white savior narrative.

He really did no such thing.

And I think your comments would be better if they presumed good faith on the part of patio11.
How discrete are the rings of Saturn? Do they look continuous due to the long exposure time of a photograph? Would they look more like an asteroid belt if we could increase the shutter speed?
The few who switched to LibreSSL actually switched back to OpenSSL (Alpine, HardenedBSD).

Void is considering switching back too:
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/20935
my guess is that the prof wanted to plagiarize the work as their own.
Literally no one in this discussion has called it illegal, so who/what are you replying to?
I mean, if your org already uses Microsoft then of course it makes sense to use Teams.

But I guess I don't see how Google apps are "in isolation", it's the exact opposite. All my contacts appear in every app, whether Calendar or Meet or Docs. Links work everywhere. The Google concept of a team is basically that when you create a Group you can generally use it everywhere else (to share a doc, to create a calendar event, to add to a Team Drive, to start a chat, to notify of a comment, etc.).

And heck, the "side panel" functionality literally allows you to load Keep inside of Gmail, or Calendar inside of Docs, if you don't want to open a whole new tab. Clearly the opposite of isolation.

Maybe you've just never used Google apps this way, that you haven't seen their integration? I find it entirely natural to have a tab for Mail, Calendar, Keep, Tasks, and several Docs and Sheets in my browser. Perhaps for me, my tabbed browser window is the same as your Teams app?

In either case, it seems like the functionality and integration is largely identical. Again, it's just a matter of whether the icons are at the browser tab or home screen level, or whether they're inside of a single app. It seems to be a very minor distinction at the end of the day.
Can you confidently confirm or cite a source that 7200 SMR doesn't exist? It doesn't sound like I can avoid buying from a sleazy company, but I at least want to avoid this SMR nightmare for a new 8-bay NAS build I was planning right up until all this broke.
Why not? It’s not like they have any obligation to respond, and someone needs to point out the bullshit smell wafting through the room.
Isn't the point of an audit is that it tells you what problems to fix? It would be concerning if this audit happens only shortly before, or even after, the main ranking happens.

But if the increased ranking is done based on data from, say a half a year later, then that just seems like a normal audit effect? That it might just make the client better at gaming the rules is true for a normal audit too.
Is there actually a big fixation on university rankings? I had no idea what my school's ranking was (apparently it's now #40) and I'm not sure I've ever had conversation where university rankings came up outside of specifically talking about where a high school student is thinking about applying. Even then it's not like it's common for people to pick which school to go to out of the ones that accepted them based solely on rankings.

People who care about Ivies and the such don't care because the Ivies have a high ranking. Someone who went to Harvard who wants to use that fact to their advantage isn't going to say that they went to a "top 3" school.