skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mr. Walter Bright, I'm late to the party here, but I hope you will see my comment.

I have a lot of respect for you and Andrei, and I think D deserves much more love than it gets.

I personally feel like there are too many options when it comes to D. Perhaps it would be good to double down on some combination of those options and make that widely known?

As a newcomer to D, I am exposed to GC/non-GC code, dmd/llvm compiler/gcc compiler, several debuggers, some BetterC option, etc. I don't know which toolchain is best, and I don't want to deal with the integration issues between them.

All of these options that exist are great, but the brand gets diluted. D seems to be the ideal thing: it's seemingly a better C++, and a better C, with a clean syntax like Java.

I trust it's a better C, but how do I know the combination of the D toolchain that I'm choosing is better than sticking with the devil I know already?

What I would love to see is an opinionated package spun off from D. One compiler, one debugger, one IDE, one standard library. Make my onboarding experience better and take the thinking out of assembling a D toolchain.

Every time I find myself thinking "maybe I should look into using D instead of C for this project", I spend a few hours with D, and then I get frustrated at all the options and I go back to the devil I know.

I truly wish I could be one day convinced that I can install D and I get a solid platform without weird moving parts.
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> Turns out internal IP addresses are a resource, too.

That's not what is happening in AWS. IP address are resources (duh), but that's no the issue. With their CNI plugin each pod gets its own Elastic Network Interface. ENIs aren't just virtio's virtual network, it could be ENA (100Gbps) or Intel VF (10Gbs). It's a hardware limitation of amazon virtualization stack starting with previous generation instances.

> I was quite surprised when pods stopped scheduling even though CPU and memory were available.

This is well documented here: https://github.com/aws/amazon-vpc-cni-k8s
That’s like saying the MTA is some independent platform that New Yorkers can choose to use or not use. Another example would be saying cable companies that have a monopoly over your region (once upon a time) provide real choice to customers that want to switch.

Youtube is the de facto video platform that the masses use, so much so that Youtube finds it necessary to enact something like this.

To bring it back to your point - If we don’t like YouTube’s policies, we can’t just simply ignore Youtube and move on from it. How it controls things is a big deal, especially if it is similar to how non-free governments censor stuff. We have to be vigilant of this, it ain’t some niche video site.
Generally true. Though I will say that in larger orgs, you will occasionally get someone doing some ML they read a paper on that's not well supported by major tooling. I mean it's the same trend chasing you see in engineering...
Pretty standard? Taking AWS for example:

- You can do this, but it's highly discouraged since it means no VPC peering if you ever need that.

- Can't do this at all with network interfaces, it all is via VPC peering.

- Can't change the VPC after an instance has been created, you have to take a snapshot and relaunch it.
You can criticize a company's behavior while recognizing it is their right to do what they are doing. We do it all the time with other industries. Critiques of hiring/firing decisions, environmental practices, poor customer service, bad products, etc.

It is not unreasonable to dislike the trend of a company named "YouTube" increasingly favoring large state-sponsored and corporate organizations both in hard policy and soft algorithms.
This is taken out of context. Those doctors were using aggregate testing and mortality statistics in New York and California and extrapolating. Sample sizes in the hundred of thousands. This Tweet is taking an anecdote about what they were seeing in their own practices out of context.
JS has a better library-integration story than Go does, since there are so many JS implementations in other languages. Go drags all its runtime threads along with it.

But fair point :)
The primary issue is that "dictating" has been implemented with owning the channels and making bad decisions with the channels consensus process. The Internet needs to be reworked to get rid of these large corporations being able to own channels, but Hell if I know how to do it.
Why shouldn't it be done after waking up? I haven't got anything better to do.
>> I tested the drive in Blackmagic Speed Test, it averaged just 20–25 MBps for both read and write speeds.

I found this odd. My 2.5" Seagate and WD external USB 3.0 HDD will both run 120MBs+ using Black Magic.

Not that it would be something you would want to use as an OS boot drive, you'd want the Samsung T5 SSD that the author ended up buying.
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>For no reason other than "I didn't think of that".

Of course there are other possible reasons. Many people have a range of relevant ideological positions on the profit motive, and when and where it should be applied.
I'll pass it along, but I don't think they're interested in going on the record against their former employer given the circumstances.

I'm sure you're already on top of it, but it's not hard to find similar stories on social media:

Former employee on Damien's excessive labor tactics: https://twitter.com/LAtweets22/status/1255225658298507265?s=...

Another former employee with who is gathering e-mails and texts from her time at the company: https://twitter.com/djlilelle/status/1255156543017762816?s=2...
Yes, but your comment has the potential to be read as dismissive of the ethical concern. I don't know if that was your intention, but I thought it relevant to make the distinction clearer.
> But you can have a great culture without wealth. In fact I’d argue a great culture is one of the building blocks of wealth.

That statement is true but also not at odds with the point you're responding to. The point is that if you start off with less, you need to work that much harder to build that culture. It's like picking how to allocate skill points in an RPG. If someone gets 40 skill points to spread along attack/defense/hp vs you who only get 10 (this is what a wealth gap does), you could allocate all of them to 1 dimension to have reasonable performance there, but it will come at a cost. And even then you won't beat someone who had the luxury of allocating all 40 points to the same thing, since they have more to begin with.

What really irks me is when folks worship the character with maxed out stats in every dimension and then for lesser characters they say "didn't grind enough" or "didn't optimize correctly." Maybe just acknowledge the truth of the matter, that folks with maxed out stats probably grinded a lot (yes yes, very admirable) but also started with a better dice roll. And if kids grow up with less education-centric culture or worse learning outcomes you can't just blame parents for not instilling that. Some parents can do more, that's guaranteed. Some parents can't, that's also for certain.
Well, that's the marketing interpretation of "blockchain", the same way the media use "hacker" nowadays to indicate anyone who breaches an information system. A blockchain is simply a data structure. In git you can achieve 1 by signing commits, 2 by simply comparing what you have with everyone else has (if the majority of the network wants the history to be changed it will change, no matter the technology), 3 can definitely be achieved even for cryptocurrencies (51% attack and the like).

At the end of the day distributed trust literally means we all trust each other to do the right thing because, at the end, it's more cost effective and more beneficial for everyone. Directly from the Bitcoin whitepaper:

"The incentive may help encourage nodes to stay honest. If a greedy attacker is able to
assemble more CPU power than all the honest nodes, he would have to choose between using it
to defraud people by stealing back his payments, or using it to generate new coins. He ought to
find it more profitable to play by the rules, such rules that favour him with more new coins than
everyone else combined, than to undermine the system and the validity of his own wealth."
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Which part? Taking what these doctors actually said out of context?
From your source: "Recent modelling studies of COVID-19 predict that school closures alone would prevent only 2–4% of deaths" a 2-4% reduction in death rate implies quite heavily that children would be a disease vector.
I honestly have no idea how many people drive for Uber. I guess it's in the hundreds of thousands?
On iPhones you could go to Settings > Phone and turn on Silence Unknown Callers.

Works like a charm. If they have something important they'd leave a voicemail or text message or email anyway.
TripAdvisor slashing 25% of staff as the coronavirus stalls travel
A deeper evil... for all the hate IE got, at least it didn't try to track and monetise its users nor treated them like idiots (compare the options dialog of IE to Chrome for a stark contrast, and then with Edge for even more sadness.)
That's a copy of the repository, not the repository (there is no such thing in a system like git).
Are infections and death tolls in the countries with much less restrictive measures an order of magnitude higher?
Like the British BBC and the Australian ABC, (and more?), the CBC is at arms length from the currently serving government, and was setup intentionally to be independent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Broadcasting_Corporat...
We had kids aged 2/5/7 at home while we were working in recent weeks; schools stayed open here in South Australia but many who could work remotely pulled their kids out as a precaution.

The 7yo is fine. 5yo is learning to read and can look after herself with some programs but needed help now and then - she also learns better with teachers. The 2yo disrupts everything unless you put her in front of an iPad for hours on end. The older two went back to school today and the 2yo back in childcare a couple of days a week. Depending on your work situations, I'd suggest leaning on formal schooling and get the 2yos in childcare a day a week to get a break for work or even just catching up around the house.

I think it'd be difficult to do the 5yo's homeschooling justice with 2yos helping.
Never mind the insanity of leaking a secret that would otherwise only travel over TLS. Banks wouldn't know actual security if it fell into their lap. They got spoiled by pretending SSNs were somehow private, and are still trying to use "identification" as a crutch rather than focusing on proper authorization - eg a hierarchy of auth levels with the master being a public key on a hardware token, ideally that you go into a branch to replace. The only thing a person can do is refuse their snake oil voiceprints etc wherever possible, and most importantly monitor your accounts religiously at least every 40 days.

Even worse, the snake oil is leaking to non-banks as well. For example, Amazon now seems to insist on doing an email challenge for every login. Very unfriendly UX. Eventually I'll get around to writing a procmail recipe that grabs the codes out of emails/texts, and spits them to a terminal ready to be pasted.
So if I understand this correctly...

YouTube took these videos down based on a copyright (DMCA?) claim. Which of course isn't a court ruling or anything.

At the same time, no court would ever uphold this removal, because it obviously falls under "parody" which is protected. (Otherwise shows like Saturday Night Live couldn't even exist.)

After all, the end result is no different from a really good vocal impersonator. In fact, a really good impersonator will definitely do better.

It's disappointing that Jay-Z (or more likely some lawyer working for him) is abusing YouTube's takedown mechanism this way.

But at the same time, I can see how this could seem particularly scary for a performer. After all, if you've spent decades creating a recognizable profitable persona... the idea that anybody with a personal computer can flood YouTube with fake lyrics that aren't yours could feel terrifyingly like losing control of everything you've built.

What if some really nasty stuff went viral and became as associated with Jay-Z as the rest of his stuff? Stuff that did serious damage to his brand, which "nobody could unhear"?

I genuinely wonder if deepfake technology will actually result in new copyright restriction law. I.e. to make it a crime to produce unlicensed deepfakes that are genuinely indistinguishable to the average person, regardless of whether they're parody or not. (While "bad" parodies like SNL will continue to be protected as always.)

I kind of feel like that's going to have to be the outcome at some point in the near future -- in fact, as soon as really convincing yet nasty deepfakes of senators and representatives start making the rounds and spreading on Facebook, I suspect a new law will get passed incredibly quickly.
https://www.abc.net.au/cm/lb/12193902/data/timeline-data.jpg
It sounds like Amazon is adding quite a surcharge onto their SMS, then.

https://aws.amazon.com/sns/sms-pricing/
Shifting goal posts are we. Your original point was how Apple will be fine amidst Covid-19. Now your point is how great it is compared to Android vendors. Yes I stated what anyone would deem the obvious take. You posted a rebuttal which you're now recanting.
Me neither. Companies have been sued when they use impersonators in their ads, but individual impersonators are generally left alone (excepting that they license any songs etc by those they're impersonating)

Doing things computationally allows a scale that humans alone can't achieve, and as you said that may make all the difference.
I think I can understand a bit why people are afraid of this type of content.

First note that this video is more than just "opinions that they don't agree with" as the doctors are claiming and framing as fact some blatantly false ideas (like their statistical nonsense where they extrapolate their testing data to get a .03 IFR).

Now note that a lot of people are using this video to justify their desire to not social distance. I know older at-risk people who are using this video to try and convince other older at-risk people to stop social distancing. What if some of those at-risk people were people you cared about? Then you might be afraid about these opinions.

Whether the answer is calling on Twitter and Youtube to curate people's tweets and videos, I'm not sure (and I want to believe the answer is no, but I'm very much not sure that it is).
If you’re home-schooled, then how do you make childhood friends? How do you meet that dreamy girl, that you remember after all these years, just because she did something nice for you once.

Most friendships are based on serendipity and closeness and repeated interactions.

While public schooling does have its drawbacks, and some bad bullying scenarios (we’ve all been there), it also does have some good things. And you meet a variety of other kids, that comes from different walks of life, that may positively (or negatively) influence your own life.

Sure, you can supplement your kid’s social activities with going to church, or karate, or ballet, or piano, or other extracurricular activities, but it’s not quite the same.

Church, for one, is too cohesive, and results in groupthink. And that’s if you really want your kid to worship a bible, instead of understanding science. The other extracurricular activities on the other hand, lacks cohesion, that you don’t build lifelong friendships through that.

The other thing is, home-schooling tends to shelter your kids. You need them to build the toughness and mental resilience, from peer competition with other kids at school, in order to face the real world.

Because in the real world, you now compete with other adults, and a lot more is at stake. And you tend to learn these lessons along the way, as you grow up.
Ray Nagin got released yesterday and I get cold sweats in bed thinking if Cox hires him back to unleash some new fresh hell
This is a terrifyingly large amount of capital sitting in one place. The part of me that wants to mitigate risk is thinking, maybe these planes should be spreadout around the country a bit. I guess there are no tornados in this area...but one freak weather event and a couple trillion dollars gets mangled into scrap?
> You may not find content partitioned on the other side of a netsplit from you, but the degraded condition is that you can still query and find content present in the same part of the network as you.

This becomes hugely problematic the minute you start using IPNS. On one side of the split, the name `foo` can resolve to `bar`, but on the other side, it resolves to `baz`. If you're trying to impersonate someone, then a netsplit would make it easy for you to do so (barring an out-of-band content authentication protocol, of course).

> You've left the attack you're worried about pretty vague. IPFS itself doesn't need to tackle many of the sybil-related issues by being content addressable (so only worrying about availability - not integrity) and not being a discovery platform - so not worrying about spam / influence.

On the contrary, a Sybil node operator can censor arbitrary content in a DHT by inserting their own nodes into the network that are all "closer" to the targeted key range in the key space than the honest nodes. This can be done by crawling the DHT, identifying the honest nodes that route to the targeted key range, and generating node IDs that correspond to key ranges closer than them. Honest nodes will (correctly) proceed to direct lookup requests to the attacker nodes, thereby leading to content censorship.

Honest nodes can employ countermeasures to probe the network in order to try and see if/when this is happening, but an attacker node can be adapted to behave like an honest node when another honest node is talking to it.

> For the remaining degradation attacks - someone overwhelming the DHT with misbehaving nodes - there's been a bunch of work in this release looking at how to score peers and figure out which ones aren't worth keeping in the DHT.

Sure, and while this is a good thing, it's ultimately an arms race between the IPFS developers and network attackers who can fool the automated countermeasures. I'm not confident in its long-term ability to fend off attacks on the routing system.
If you've ever used Chime, you know it's no threat.
And I have no reason to doubt you. Homeschooling definitely isn't for everyone... but that is not the same as saying that homeschooling is across-the-board inferior to public schooling. Public schooling also isn't for everyone.
I think you might have replied to the wrong comment, because this response makes no sense. ddevault said:

> I reject any argument which justifies behavior because it makes someone money that they otherwise might not. Captalism does not justify a lack of ethics.

ddevault's point is that the mere fact that doing P makes someone money is irrelevant to whether it's ethically okay to do P. ddevault does not say whether closed source software is unethical or not (in this comment), and so your "premise" does not exist here.

Furthermore, you go on to make exactly the mistake ddevault is complaining about: "there is nothing unethical about closed-source software." Why? Because "[the customers are willing to pay for it]". The fact that there are people willing to pay for something is irrelevant; the fact that there's a market for hitmen doesn't make that acceptable either.
It works better in columns.
The LA county serology* showed 4.1%, with a confidence interval of 2.8% to 5.6%. That test that has a ~3 week lag so current #'s are even higher.

Are you really prepared to say a claim of 6.6% is so misleading it needs to be removed?

*
http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/phcommon/public/media/media...
free credits. I've heard of deals giving out $50mm+ in credits over five years before... also gives you some insight into AWS/GCP/Azure margins.
We don't even know if the creator is alive
NATS' author, u/tylertreat, wrote a series of articles on how to build a distributed log that are pretty insightful:

Part 1, Storage Mechanics: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15983185

Part 2, Data Replication: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16021876

Part 3, Message Delivery: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16101223

Part 4, Trade-offs and Lessons: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16181963

Part 5, Sketching a New System: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16215788
Exactly. There are certainly socially-stunted homeschoolers. But in those case, it is not the homeschooling that is the problem.
No. I don't think so. They really don't like AWS. It's all openstack/azure/gcp/vmware depending on the use case.
> is this just a custom domain (medium.economist.com) pointing to their Medium blog? I believe custom domains are a common practice for larger brands.

I wouldn't label it "common practice for larger brands".

I would label it "common SEO abuse by larger brands".
What on earth is .000...1

If it terminates it’s not an infinite series. In any case, if you add any finite number to .99999... it’ll be equal to 1 + that number.
> People deserve second chances. Particularly for the stuff they do before their brain fully develops at 25 or so.

I agree about second chances, but with limits.

This guy is the CEO of a surveillance company with government contracts to collect people's data, including relationships with police departments and other sensitive sources. If he has a hidden past with the KKK, including being part of an attempted murder (they shot into a synagogue, hard to believe that wouldn't be considered terrorism these days), then how many other people have photos of him with the KKK? His situation is the definition of being compromised.

When someone has this much compromising info combined with government-related positions and access to people's sensitive data, that compromising history is a massive risk for extortion. It would be one thing if he had previously admitted his actions and publicly apologized, but instead he waited until the information surfaced.

Does he deserve a second chance for actions committed when he was young? Sure. Does he deserve lucrative government contracts that give him privileged access to people's sensitive data? No, I don't think so.
Real life socialising is done with adults who are probably not exactly the same age as you. The kind of interactions a homeschooled child will have are a much closer model of the kind of interactions everyone has post-school than what happens in school is.
My 9yr old hard drive on my daily driver PC, still works fine.
>> I have a friend with a 2011 27" iMac that uses thunderbolt 1. It has an absurdly slow HDD.

Almost every single one of those that we bought, had a hard drive failure. They used WD Green drives. I replaced them with WD Blacks, and if SSD's had been cheaper in 2012/13 we would have used them, but these were graphics designers.

You will need to control the fans with software like SMC Fan Control, which is annoying, or better yet, this harness: https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/DIDIMACHDD11/

You can pop the glass off an iMac with a credit card (or your fingernails, they don't glue them on that year, instead they used magnets) and with a torx bit you can tilt the screen out of the way and pull the bad drive out.
house is a feeling
I was just envisioning what this storage airport would look like in 10 years if the airline industry NEVER picks back up to its previous levels. Trillions of dollars worth of airplanes rotting in the sun???
For those not already familiar with NATS:

https://docs.nats.io/nats-streaming-concepts/intro
That controller looks like it would be a lot of fun with Kerbal Space Program.