skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that you don't have to be out of money, and some companies do take the approach that you describe. Honestly, I wish that the world worked more like that...I really do. In my experience, though, that's not how the majority of the dot-com startup-world works. Maybe it was just the decade and location in which I had my run at it (this past decade 2010-2020, SoCal) that's left me jaded. That said, I don't think that a compelling story about how you're going to add value is always enough - in a lot of competitive spaces, in order to be compelling you must have either (a) existing Intellectual Property (IP, aka Patents) that will keep competitors out of market or (b) enough "might-makes-right momentum" (aka money) to keep competitors out of the market. But... in scenario (b), you can't really get money unless you ask for it (or earn it the old fashioned way by having a profitable business model), and you can't ask for money unless you can demonstrate a need.... and you don't need it if you already have some money... It easily and quickly becomes a Catch-22 where you are spending money so that you can show that you don't have any; simultaneously, you can base your company value (and how much investors can should give) on how much you've earned (i.e. your stock price).

I'm not refuting your point so much as I'm suggesting that there's a darker underside to how things often work. You're right -- you don't have to be out of money to raise funds; but smoke and mirrors is a lot easier than hard work...and many people/companies choose the latter path.
Videos like this not only spread false info, they do something more pernicious by distorting or distracting an already partially-numerate public from understanding growth rates and scale. Eg, the important thing about an outbreak is its second and third derivatives, rate of growth and rate of rate of growth.

Here they claim SARS-NCOV-2 is "similar in prevalance and death rate" to flu, somehow missing the fact that the former reached that point in one month and keeps going unless extensive social distancing, lockdowns and mask wearing is put in place.

I hate censorship, but I support censoring information sourced from the idiocracy (or malevolent foreign power as the case may be).
We use Direct Connect to get traffic to edge nodes where we buy fixed 10Gbps links and pay a fraction of the AWS cost. AWS bandwidth costs are ridiculous.
Been checking everyday without success. I haven't gotten a refund in several years, so I knew from the FAQ they would not have direct deposit info, even though they pulled the money I owed out using the same bank info.

Tried all uppercase for my street address and it worked.
> part of the beauty of C is it's simplicity.

True, but the trouble with simplicity is a number of things become excessively tedious and error-prone to code - such as ensuring no buffer overflows.

C makes up for its lack of expressivity by adding a text preprocessor. The preprocessor is a tacit admission that the core language simply isn't powerful enough. When people find themselves doing metaprogramming with the C preprocessor, it's really time to graduate to a more powerful language. DasBetterC doesn't need a preprocessor, and its metaprogramming facilities far outstrip the C preprocessor.
I don't believe that that link supports the general assertion you're making about there being attorney client privilege the entire time. In this case, if the above lawyer receives a message that is unsolicited, Apple should have no expectation of that privilege/privacy of the communications without some prior agreement. Apple has no way to know that the account is even directly run by the lawyer themself or an aide.
Guess who‘s favorite evil corp cloud is a magnitude cheaper than AWS on transfer pricing? Oracle, which is why Zoom just signed a deal.

https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/why-zoom-chose-oracle-clo...
In my experience, the worst possible outcomes in each case tip the other direction: I have never heard of a homeschool kid committing suicide because they were so unprepared for Burger King, but public school kids commit suicide because of how incredibly awful their social experience is all the time.

The absolute worst-case, most socially-awkward homeschooler I ever met ended up just fine after a couple of years of college, which fully made up for any socialization deficiencies he may have suffered from being isolated from his public school peers.
Since this is going in the kernel and is exposed to the network, what kinds of things are you doing to prevent security or reliability bugs due to undefined behavior?

Love the username, by the way :)
Who says this has to be implemented in a closed source application? And it’s hardly licensing that enables closed source applications... it’s compilers that do that. :)
The article also doesn't cover the fact that prices dont remain static long term. A loss leader today becomes a premium product tomorrow
Oh this is really cool!! I've been wanting them to do this for a few years, glad they finally did. It has some quirks (have to clone to add to an existing VM) but its at least a great start!

One thing I want to do is setup a VPN tunnel from my home network and lock everything else down. Wasn't possible before but it is now with this.
However, YouTube is under no obligation to not honor takedowns that aren't legally binding.

That's what's ripe for abuse. Why isn't it a fiduciary responsibility to their "partners" to make sure they aren't needlessly deprived of revenue, in situations where a 1st year law student could tell them there isn't a legal basis for the takedown?
If 'having your "own datacenter"' means colocation, how do you say "having your own datacenter"?
They can already cause a war just by lying about certain classes of weapons being "found" so I don't think deepfakes will help much in that regard.
> But why should we believe you?

Because you have a basic understanding of statistics.

> Why can't we watch and make our own judgements?

You can. The video is available in many places.
There's also defamation laws. I'm sure a lawyer could make a good argument for banning a deep fake, or suing for the existence of one if it causes defamation.
Web Performance Recipes with Puppeteer
> "Free speech" does not mean you also are entitled to a platform and an audience.

"Free speech" is a right but also an ideal. When speech is being silenced (de-platformed) or people (the audience) are forbidden from hearing it even when they want to, it violates those principles.

> YouTube is not a public service.

Youtube is a powerful and unique resource without meaningful competition which I think does give them a certain level of responsibility to uphold the ideals of free speech.

Personally, I think that education is always better than suppression. Rather than remove these videos, a better option would simply be to inform users that the video contains false information and where they can find the truth.
Depends. Will you know the slang your 20 year old peers use if your main source of socialization is 30 year olds? Did you go through all the same cultural crazes and fads?

A shared culture is important, and each generation has their own touchstones.
I also am not a lawyer but from what I understand the situation is actually more severe than that.

I couldn't find the reference offhand but I've read that YouTube has no ability to adjudicate the validity of a DMCA takedown request at all. They must responed as proscribed by the DMCA.

Which makes sense because once the DMCA is involved it's ultimately a legal dispute between the person that uploaded the video and the person that claims to own the copyright. And that kind of dispute is something only the courts can decide.
in my non expert impression from reading a lot on the topic, in the grand scheme of pollution and environmental problems, waste paper ranks very very low on the list of problems we should be worried about.

That said, I always liked the idea of receipts being replaced by QR codes that display on a little LCD screen, and automatically logged into a receipts app.
Sure, I think that would be fun.

We've got a paper on the history of D accepted into this year's History Of Programming Languages (HOPL), which makes us very proud. Andrei, Mike and myself spent a lot of time combing through old emails and n.g. postings to develop an accurate timeline of when and how things came about and from whom.

I was really looking forward to the HOPL conference in London in June to present the paper, but CV scuttled that.
Google & Facebook both build their own Datacenter facilities.

But they operate at a scale that is very unique.
There are probably some cost savings in the off white background of the content area.
Because, I’m Youtube, why would I ever lie to you. I have your best interest in mind, and trust me, this shits gonna get us all killed if we watch this.
> Suppose you're right.

Easy to verify, why suppose anything?

> censorship?

On a privately owned site? Try again.
> Using the "best" teachers from the school district to provide lectures

I'm sure teacher's union would be loath to try new things like this or "rank" teachers in any way..
Isn’t the Windows kernel C++?
Isn't this DataOps?
Nowhere did he mention bleach, this is an example of stretching being done to make it sound like he said something worse than he actually did. I believe most people see the media's making a story out of this for what it is, just another example of biased vendetta driven reporting.
> censor whomever they want for whatever reason they choose

As long as "whomever they want" includes only people pushing cherry-picked and dangerous bullshit, and "whatever reason" includes saving the lives that would have otherwise been spent had that bullshit spread further, then I have absolutely zero qualms about this bending of the free-speech rules, the same way I have zero qualms about there being rules against someone yelling "FIRE!" in a crowded theater.

You're missing the forest for the trees, man.

Perhaps they need to leave it but flag it extremely visibly with something like this: "The information this video purports to be true has been in dispute due to <reason> and <reason>, as pointed out by <rebuttal> and <rebuttal>." But doing that for every single video would be extremely laborious, and during the week it might take for the work behind such a change to take effect, hundreds of people might die who might not otherwise.
I find that putting on repetitive music in the background while working is helpful.
You’re assuming a fixed amount of stuff and that the system is running at maximum capacity.

If there is any unemployment in the system it isn’t. It is systemically supressed. (There is insufficient spending in the right areas to employ everybody. Largely from the people that would otherwise be employed).

What you are describing is the “full employment fallacy”.

We’re demonstrably not at full employment. Which is when Everybody who wants a living wage job has one. Only then does what you say hold true.

And that’s because Interest Rate Targeting doesn’t work. If the Fed was required to hire everybody who couldn’t find another job they wanted then we’d be in the position you describe.

We’d also have an empirical test of how well Interest Rate targeting works
Yeah, I've been ordering more directly as well as ordering more food than I usually would specifically to help support any local restaurants that are still alive.

I lost the O and Threadgill's in the same week. :(
Yeah, I am glad we fixed that one.
Indeed. Safari, once very forward thinking, now lags behind every major browser in features and compatibility. Apple saw progressive web apps first as a revolutionary feature that could drive iPhone sales, and then second as a revolutionary feature that would eat into their app store revenue.
Sweden's first case with community spread was from the end of February, so it's been spreading for a month or two less than in, say, Germany.

Despite that Sweden has the same per capita infection rate and a per capita death rate of around 3x Germany's.

And that's still with some social distancing requests, there just isn't a stay at home order.

So yes, unless Sweden tightens restrictions, I'd expect to see it hit an order of magnitude harder than nations doing more restrictions, despite still having some.
I did this with Tailscale and it was super slick
What business would that be?
Couple thoughts: needs a "don't care" option for some of the sections, like screen size. Also, it might be useful to include used laptops.
I heard that all of crypto mining uses a similar amount of electricity as Serbia but it is probably more now.

Source from Dec 2017 -> https://newatlas.com/bitcoin-cryptocurrency-power-consumptio...
> if the general public does not have the expertise to evaluate public health policy discussions and decisions

But you're now asking people to trust experts, which in 2020 is apparently crazy-talk
“My Journey Optimizing the Go Complier”
While not in active development, you can still download the Sunset Edition for free.
So I gather, and after all it is by design, but after a lifetime of dealing with the miserable things I've come to regard the design as either obsolete or just bad from the start.

edit: Apocryphally by design, anyway. Wikipedia says that's an urban legend, unfounded. I cordially despise the things either way, and I'm sure the sentiment is reciprocated.
ODF (the format used by OpenOffice and later LibreOffice, as well as other open source applications) was standardized first. Instead of using, and/or improving an existing standard they created a new one, which as I understand it is much longer and more complicated. Thus harder for competitors to implement.
So the WA governor (which is where I live) is the one who declared expanded unemployment access, defined and modified the list of essential businesses and is constantly talking about what is preventing us from opening up the economy - and yes, that's the deaths you mentioned. And you aren't sure if he knows about the disadvantages of everything being closed, because he hasn't included any details on why he wants to work towards reopening everything? I don't even know where to start. I think that the idea that is unaware of these factors is simply ludicrous.
The way I think of it is. Say my company makes high voltage transformers. And I get wind that one customer is using them to manufacture interrogation devices. I sure as shit can tell them to take their business elsewhere.
Thanks.

Yes I believe your rough math is matching others that are reported by the scientific literature which is estimating around 0.7% infection fatality ratio (IFR) for this virus, 4*0.14 would be on the low end of estimates but within the consensus estimate. Seasonal Flu IFR is estimated to be between 0.04% and 0.1%, so by your numbers the coronavirus is, at a minimum, 5 times more deadly than seasonal flu.

I also agree this virus will become a part of life in the future. Although some Asia-Pacific countries seem to have successfully controlled the spread (Vietnam, Taiwan, etc) the only way for them to keep it from spreading will be to maintain a border closure until a vaccine can be developed to safely give their populations herd immunity.

In the west, we let the virus run free for two months and it’s probably too late to get it under control no matter what we do now.
> software engineers are not good as solving performance problems

I'm not sure that's a fair statement to make, since we have been actively trading performance for developer experience for decades it should be clear that we are not even trying to solve for performance. At least, not without giving up our high level languages.
I actually wrote "D as Better C" before realizing "Das Better C" sounded much better. And a shout out to all our German speaking D users!
It's (comparatively) easier to calculate depth data if you have the precise distances between the two cameras. Apple knows these values, down to the millimeter. Calculating the camera extrinsics based on two arbitrary photos has to be way harder.

Maybe they got that far, and decided the results weren't as good as a neural network.
Though it does suck to work in modern society without those qualities, or at least to be able to fake them.
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That's with list price. I've helped with a migration larger than that, and was less than your 5mil number.

People forget that when you talk about customers spending 100+ mil/year they get heavy discounts on many of the SKUs.
I did not understand whether they meant the whole flight or just one person flying which would be an important distinction to make.
They also have a substantial “public policy and government relations” department on K street and globally.
Hey, if it gives you a short time-to-idle…
But this is on a thread about high school. You're way over thinking it. Just ratchet down the bandwidth available to the relevant machine (or straight up disable the video feed). Easy peasy. What's the teacher going to do, fail you for not being rich enough to afford a good internet connection? They aren't paid well enough to take that risk.
There is currently no standardization for QUIC APIs. You can check out the MsQuic API here: https://github.com/microsoft/msquic/blob/master/docs/API.md
I'll look into this. Currently, I am trying hard to get to more bookstores to own up their own pages and add their data themselves.
I see I was wrong. I am not making up fake data, I read the data wrong.
This is their math. See if you can see whats wrong...

39,500,000 -- Pop. of California
12.00% -- Pct. of people who tested positive for covid
4,740,000 -- Estimated cases (Pop. * Pct.)
1,227 -- Reported deaths
0.03% -- Estimated chance of dying from covid in California (deaths/estimated cases)
Wouldn't they get familiar with their new online teachers pretty quickly?

Local teachers would provide the personal interaction during work periods where kids come online and get help.

Grade 2 and younger are already learning through tv. Big Bird is rarely in person but kids know and learn from him. Is Barney still around? The Wiggles? Those top performs seem to hold attention as well as the local puppet show.
100PB would be $2.1 million per month. You're right that it is a similar order of magnitude of the egress fee.

That still means to exit AWS you have to add 2.5 months of opex to your budget, which will weigh against the perceived benefits of relocating the service out of AWS. That isn't an accident on Amazon's part -- there is a business case why ingress to S3 is free and egress from S3 is not free.

There are also a lot of problems around paying both the old and new provider during the move, so if you aren't very careful you could wind up going from a $2.1 million monthly opex to $9.2 million until the project wraps up. And what projects end on time?

Snowball may speed up your timeframe and reduce costs, but 100PB still costs $3 million to move and you still need to go back and sweep up the data from S3 once you've verified the data is complete.
it's unlikely an apartment building's management is familiar at all with HIPAA. it's more likely incompetence or like most things in the u.s., a lackadaisical attitude towards the viral outbreak. i doubt HIPAA applies to a global pandemic. that's not its purpose.
If they are downloaded, they can be indexed by various parameters.
Here's my proposal for fixing that in C:

https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/C-biggest-mistake.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I'm not one of your downvoters, but since you asked for feedback, I will try and inhabit the mind of one: a complaint about duolingo's non-response to your email isn't terribly interesting. (And neither is a comment replying saying that your complaint isn't very interesting, sorry everyone who sees this before it disappears from the front page)
I tried to change my address today on https://moversguide.usps.com

In the address form, there is a field for PO Box. It is labeled "PO Box". One would assume you should type your PO Box number in this field, e.g. "1234". That is incorrect. You must enter the entire string "PO Box 1234". In a field that is already labeled "PO Box"
As the other commenter suggested, the costs aren't central to Netflix. They're including your home PC, network and ISP infrastructure in the cost.

edit: Sorry, I didn't read your comment all the way through. You accounted for that.
Nationalize everything I say! Private ownership leads to greed and greed leads to need. They did it in Russia in 1917 and we can do it again...everywhere!
$0.01/GB is fantastic, but I have a bandwidth intensive ML media application and don't know how to monetize or sell it quickly enough to pay for my bandwidth costs.

Is there a cloud or dedicated server farm with even cheaper outbound bandwidth?

Edit: as much as I hate Oracle, their first 10TB is free, and each GB after that is $0.0085/GB. Better...
I'm new in wasm code base. Where is export code generation located? How complex to rewrite export?
I want to make export wasm to .acpul programming language for run wasm modules on animation cpu platform. Link to architecture schemas & docs will be a great.
Licensing can also be an issue sometimes.
I long wanted downvotes to require comments (that may be displayed privately to the person being downvoted or whatever) to at least put some effort into the downvote.

Silent downvotes just create animosity.
The biggest problem we face is that the number of programmers we need is much higher than the actual, available programmers. We are becoming more and more efficient everyday. One of the projects I work with has us converting 200+ excel sheets on 20 different computers into one CRUD microservice and a frontend. The biggest problem? convincing the people to move away from excel.
> Maybe they are afraid that Amazon or Microsoft with their tradition of copying competition would pose a threat?

For Amazon marketplace merchants, I get how Amazon using internal metrics to start carrying popular products is a problem. For Zoom, though? They're public, and they announce quarterly usage numbers. There's nothing to copy that they can't already see.
> eliminated by evolution

You mean natural selection, and it doesn't select towards perfection

https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evo_32

Great news: it means you're part of the select 2% by some other measure! Good job.
I think currently it creates new possibilities to do business. Computer vision is that point that nowadays it is more engineering than data science so adding something like somewhat good object detection is not that hard. NLP is probably same point where cv was 5 years ago so we start seeing very good NLP models.
Can't state that benefit enough. Zoom is draining right now. They shame participants into using video.

Chime's UX design really allows you to join calls without video and without the pressure.

It's great as video doesn't add much to a large conference call.
I think when people think of "reel-to-reel" tape, they're probably imagining the sort of upright desktop models that were extremely popular among hobbyists in the 50s and 60s.

But studio-grade tape machines were absolute engineering marvels. They could weigh as much as a thousand pounds, and had to be maintained and calibrated by highly-skilled technicians.

There were a thousand factors with tape (tape formula, humidity, azimuth, asperity, the fact that it's a Tuesday), but having an even speed was the main thing. The big names in analog tape -- Ampex, Studer, MCI -- were really all about creating extremely precise motors. IPS (inches per second) was the critical number, and the engineers who worked on that problem are legends. Honestly, these incredible gadgets belong next to Rolleiflex cameras and Lamborghini clutches in the history of mechanical engineering.