skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't need to jump to conclusions and put religious faith into your investment decisions, but a lot of investors do and probably haven't yielded worse performance for it.

My argument is that the financial model presented during the pitch is a waste of a great deal of effort because it is inaccurate and futile. As someone running a seed-funding business, you are relying on a piece of financial fiction to make a decision about whether to fund. Do you really care about the forecasts or just the metrics that are more difficult to fudge? Could the model be distilled to something more useful that isn't even a model?

I suggest the following exercise: among your investments that survive, reconcile the early financial model with current performance and market analysis. How accurate were the estimates?

This is ultimately an exercise in creating an illusion of certainty and competence: can an entrepreneur sufficiently obfuscate a business opportunity so that the investor doesn't look bad?
HashBackup (author here) was one of the 1st if not the first B2 integration. I didn't find the B2 API any more difficult to use than the S3 API. It has the same functionality with similar kinds of API requests. The only significant difference is that you have to request an upload URL and download URL, and requests can sometimes return a code to get a new URL when a vault is full or overloaded.

There is a price/performance trade-off: B2 has higher request latency than S3, no matter where you are (my experience), but they also are 5x cheaper on storage costs, 10x cheaper on download bandwidth, and have no price gimmicks like minimum object sizes or minimum object lifetimes like many other services (S3 IA for example).

To make up for B2's request latency it is more important to issue requests from multiple threads, especially for short-running requests like removing files.

Another key difference is that B2 always uses SSL whereas S3 can be accessed without SSL with little security impact because each S3 request is individually signed with a secret key. Setting up an SSL connection is more overhead, so another key to performance is to reuse connections.

Both of these suggestions apply to S3 as well, just more to B2 because of the latency difference.
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> ethics are a separate issue

They're kinda the main thing I'm talking about here. Everyone knows perfectly well you can gain huge amounts by working at FAANG companies, that's not in doubt. The question is at what cost, do the people doing it see their companies for what they are, and why do people continue to work there if they do. I'm sure being CEO of Phillip Morris or Palantir or Exxon-Mobile is quite lucrative, but I'll pass.

Many people just need a job, and I don't begrudge anyone taking a job they need to support themselves or their families. But the kind of talent FAANG companies hire can likely work anywhere and are higher up the socioeconomic ladder. They have choices most others don't. And too many, in my opinion, work to get people to click ads and sell people's data.
Mixing private with public does lead to spiralling costs. To me it seems like a system such as the one in Germany offers good outcomes at a reasonable price, while not denying anyone care.
I'm not sure why he includes: "I’m sure it’s a coincidence that every one of them is a person of color, a woman, or both. Right?"

Is race as issue here? I thought they were fired for whistle blowing? Is he saying a white whistle blower wouldn't have been fired?
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>More specifically, you're using the non-grounded plug rather than a grounded one

Yes, the one that comes with extremely expensive European 2019 16" Macbook Pro is not grounded.

I'm not sure they sell the grounded lead anymore. But maybe I should charge my work macbook with my personal xps 13 charger which is grounded (yay usb-c!)
But can it run MacOS? :)
but i'm not advocating for this? in effect i agree with you. i'm exactly pointing out that it's disingenuous to say that someone is protecting their family and that it does end up being just greed.
That's awesome, but I really want to see lightning fast response times and TTFB... Second pain point is the number of retries needed for uploading a large batch of small files. Those are the main reasons I'm still considering migrating away. I really wish I shouldn't as otherwise I love the pricing and the philosophy.

Edit: also think DigitalOcean Spaces and B2 might be better off merging together, or Spaces being a whitelabel B2 in disguise (both are part of BWA).
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So, at least for phone numbers, Canada has a Wireless Number Portability policy. Would a similar policy for email addresses be completely unreasonable? I understand that there would be significant technical difficulties, but it would at least prevent folks from getting locked out of their lives because of an arbitrary decision by Google or other large email providers.
Hi! Backblaze employee who did some of the LB stuff here. It's relatively standard/straightforward. There's a L4 load balancing layer using IPVS and ECMP-via-BGP, then a custom application that does the actual proxying/forwarding to the appropriate vault.
I blog, though I tend to try to keep that on a more "professional" level. Stuff I'd want a future employer or potential customer to see. That can be hard to write, though, because it often requires being in a certain mood to write or edit, and sometimes it can be a while before I feel in a "professional enough" mood.

I find it also helps to keep a journal, just for me. Start by recapping what's happened since the last time you wrote, or big events or thoughts on your mind. I often find that I start writing in my journal without any idea what to write about, and I end up having written a thousand words by the time I'm done, most of it without any pain at all. It's not polished in any way, but it's cathartic, and it's practice.

Plus, going back and re-reading what I was thinking, feeling, and doing during critical moments of my life is often inspirational. Some things I handled far better than I remembered, others, well, let's just say I've grown more than I thought. =)
Can't we at least mostly agree that mistreatment of workers is clearly a more tangible bad offense than most of those?
I'm carefully optimistic that WASM could point a path out of our legacy. It has a lot of potential and opens up new possibilities, so please use it and contribute improvements :)
I have the same model and mine is also riddled with problems, and I have trouble finding stable work arounds for.

With older laptops (PC or mac) if enough parts break I could either go remote headless server or tee-pee it on the ground with an attached and pretend it's a desktop.

Every part of the MBP has some sort of problem so nothing works. I just have to deal with something eventually failing after an hour or so of use.
Are you suggesting that one should only look at the absolute numbers? Staying at the previous year's funding is usually - in practice - a reduction for most welfare services.
The headers was one of the worst days of my life, believe me. I heard your feedback loud and clear and they were removed shortly thereafter... now about 3 years ago: https://caddy.community/t/the-realities-of-being-a-foss-main...

The telemetry server was shut down months ago and v2 has no telemetry client. Although, the counts we gathered were informative. We learned a lot about MITM activity on the Internet, the health and maturity of TLS clients, and how many connections Caddy has secured (trillions, if you're wondering).

As for whether things have gotten worse, I suppose that's up to you!
I agree with this, and would like to add lose weight sooner. How you look, like being fat, really affects how people view, and interact with you. It also affects how you interact with others, and your opinion of yourself.
I grew up in Tanzania! Can I ask where you were, and what you were doing?

BTW - I had malaria about 5-6 times while growing up. What you describe sounds like a particularly bad case (1-2 of mine were like that). My experience, and that of my peer group (lower-middle class by western standards, top 0.1% by Tanzanian standards) was that if you got an early diagnosis and had access to drugs it was usually akin to a severe flu unless you got unlucky with the strain/severity.

It was culturally very normalised to get two malaria tests any time anyone felt sick, because the commonly accepted belief was that anything could be malaria, and false negatives were too common.

I always thought the main problem with malaria in Tanzania was that 99.9% of the country (especially rural areas) does not have access to quick testing and easy drugs, and for them it's a death sentence. That's not to downplay it, but more to emphasise the socioeconomic dimension.
Honestly, this is a pretty regular occurrence and, in my opinion, just stems from people not even giving the Touch Bar a fair shake. As someone whose job is split between software/web development and media production/design, I'm incredibly happy with the Touch Bar. The only places I see people complaining about it is here on Hacker News and other developer-heavy sites where people just refuse to change their workflows even the slightest. I get that they don't want to and feel like they shouldn't have to but it's so ridiculous to me.

I would be upset if Apple removed the Touch Bar now. Sure, offer a Touch Bar-less option for these Luddites who won't even consider an alternative option but don't regress for their sake.
They have an Amsterdam Datacenter https://www.backblaze.com/blog/announcing-our-first-european...
You set up your personal shell paths by adding files to /etc/paths.d/?
If you're a dumb customer who doesn't care about how fast your computer is, then why are you going out of your way to buy the more expensive macbook, instead of buying an Air?
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I've been using that exact adapter for several months now and I'm pretty happy with it. Carries power and data for my home setup + I have a separate one just for power for my mobile setup. What were your coworkers' complaints about it?
> Good arguments can come from poor sources.

All the more reason to not silence cranks and conspiracy theorists.

From John Stuart Mill's On Liberty:

> But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_Liberty/Chapter_2
Huh. If I'm reading that correctly, that means it would be possible to build a paranoid_sudo command, where you run a command and use PTRACE_SYSCALLS on it, and for each of the syscalls it makes, try running it first as a non-root user, and if that fails prompt the user for whether they want to allow the base program to run whatever syscall requires the child process to be root.

I don't think the above would actually be all that useful, but still it's kind of cool that it's possible to do at all.
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze so I'm biased. :-)

> B2, as a storage service, is not really intended for "serving web pages and websites" — it's for larger files, binaries, etc

It might be missing a couple features (which is a pet peeve of mine) but we SURELY intend for it to be used for serving web pages. That's one of the largest differences between "Backblaze Personal Backup" (our original product line) and Backblaze B2. The largest parts of the redesign/refit when we originally did B2 was around the concept of what we call "Friendly URLs" (web page names, folder names) instead of just ugly 82 character hexadecimal file names like Backblaze Personal Backup stores all your files in.

For full disclosure, Backblaze B2 isn't a great "hosting" solution for something like WordPress because we lack two or three things, one of which is comically easy to fix and I keep trying to convince everyone to do it. The issue is URLs that end in a "/" (trailing slash) basically need to "guess" that after that is an ".html" or ".php" or whatever. So the URL: https://f001.backblazeb2.com/file/ski-epic-c/full/2015_scotl... does not work, but the URL: https://f001.backblazeb2.com/file/ski-epic-c/full/2015_scotl... does work. All modern web servers do this automatically filling in of the "index.html", but it is missing from Backblaze B2 currently. And it would take just a day or two for one of our developers to fix it. And dang it, I'm going to get it done one of these days.
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From what I can see, Dell has significant problems with quality control. That's why the feedback is so varied.

If you live in a city with good Dell support, you could probably have managed to replace it. Sounds like a hardware problem.
My gateway MacBook was the old 13" with a discrete GPU. As far as I'm aware that was the first and the last model to have one. It was, you might imagine, quite loud when playing a video game, but it did ok.

I was hoping the rumors of a 14" were going to pan out. Maybe next time.
Congrats Inkscape Team! I don't use it enough to really be proficient in it, but when I do need to do something with it I'm so grateful that it exists. Mostly my use has been creating fliers for conferences, and making art for feeding to the laser cutter at the Creatorspace,
Does Caddy request separate certificates for domains served through it, or is it handled using SANs?
There are those with power who reap it, those with power who are granted it, and those without it. That's just how it is, and if you disagree there is a much better way to go about that than putting your words into my mouth to portray your point of view.

Any society worth much will do its best to provide the basics for everyone, and utilize everyone's capabilities regardless of range, but if you remove all that ...yeah. All you're left with is the weak and the strong. The whole point of societies is to incentivize those useful to the collective and grant them "power" rather than the psychopath killers who used to be emperors 1000 years ago.
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Interesting, I don't see an ethernet port. Do you use a USB adapter?
LoL Google.... I thought that I was a victim of your random account deletion for a bit
I imagine it's quite a lot more than a few lines of code to correctly handle HEAD requests, ssl/tls, etags, expires headers, and so on.
No, the reason is still slow string buffers.
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How amazing would it be to see a story like this premier on one of the main stream media outlets nightly broadcast for 1 or 2 months in a row?
I am still surprised that Apple doesn't give the option of non-touchbar. Why is that? A good compromise would be to have both options, imho.
Same here! We are huge fans of Caddy at Narration Box (https://narrationbox.com) and we are considering replacing NGINX completely in our Django production stack. (Currently we only use Caddy for development and staging) The author of Caddy, Matt Holt, is a really great person and is extremely responsive on Twitter and GitHub. Highly recommend checking them out.
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Surely one can stream the video to a nearby phone? Raspberries can create a hotspot so should be doable somehow
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Slightly disappointed because they changed the Caddyfile syntax. I think it's a bit more verbose now, compared to v1.
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So experts are wrong and you're right. OK.
I have played NES Tetris something on the order of 14 hours per week for the last 7 or so years. I can consistently get to level 29 (kill screen) and put 700,000 on the board with the rare 800,000. However I don't know if I'll ever hit 999,999 with the kill screen.

Typically I'll do this while listening to other things like technical talks or tutorials. I found in college that I was able to better focus on the lecture if I was playing Tetris. In fact for some people, having something that is "distracting" to do while listening, has been to be effective in improving recall [1]. It's been pretty huge in helping me make it through a lot of stuff I would have otherwise found dull.

Beyond that, it's an amazingly hard game to master. You can't "Win", you can just do better and there is something hard to describe about how you play "Clean vs Dirty" "High Risk vs Low risk" etc...that wouldn't seem obvious if you're just looking at it as a silly game. I'm certainly attaching more significance on it than others would, but I think Tetris is a really great metaphor for life in a lot of regards.

[1]https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/the-thinking-benefits-of...
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> IMHO firing whistle blowers is the kind of action that should be called out as very negative and not something to be apologetic about.

Agree 100%. Daylight is the best disinfectant, especially in publicly traded companies. Every CEO, CMO, etc loves white-knighting ("We care about the environment/our employees!") until the shareholders start calling. Then they're the first to start covering up problems.

That's not to say that you can't have your cake and eat it too - the first place to start is that these corporations have to be honest with themselves and their shareholders about social commitments and financial returns.
Good thread from a few weeks ago, about 1.0RC:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22855357
I'm seeing horrible TTFB from Europe. Most files are fast but sometimes a request is stuck for 10s or more...
When I was in law school I was fortunate enough to have a paid internship at an investment company that came with a small office. Since it wasn’t too far from school I started to use my office to study even when I wasn’t working. It was a quiet place to get things done and when I was on-site I would occasionally get pulled in to cool projects. It seemed like a good way to get a few more opportunities at work and also get my homework done without all the gossiping that happened at the library.

That meant I spent most of the work week “at work” even though I was only actually working some of that time. I did all of my work and I did a good job but at the end of the year I was the only intern to get a bonus checks. Interns weren’t even eligible for bonuses but my bosses were so blown away by my dedication they decided to reward it. The craziest part is they knew I was doing homework half the time. I had gotten the okay to use my office as a study spot first and they were getting my timesheets every week. They were well aware that I wasn’t some sort full-time super intern.

I think the whole concept of “facetime” pretty silly but it definitely matters even if we like to think it doesn’t.
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I understand the frustration by the students, but I think there are a lot of parts of society and the economy where we are going to have to assume good-faith efforts to "make do" over the next year, and not get lost in the legalese. I mean, are we also demanding refunds for:

- Public schools? I pay a lot of property tax to public schools. They aren't running, but teachers are still getting paid. If we demand refunds from colleges, why can't we demand back-property-taxes?

- Parks and recreation? I paid taxes for state and local parks which are shut down, and I'm not allowed to use.

- The court system? We paid taxes for a functioning police and justice system, which where I am (Seattle) has basically shut down except for flat-out murder.

- Zoos, museums aquariums, and other civic institutions I can't access

I don't think it's fair or practical to try to make a tally of all the services which can't be fully rendered. Institutions are stuck with enormous bills for infrastructure they've built and staff they are (trying) to keep paying. This isn't the time to let lawyers start siphoning money off of institutions attempting in good faith to do what they were paid for.
>No one is claiming (so far as I know) that Who Wants to be a Millionaire? scoured all episodes looking for suspicious patterns

Because it's normally not worth it. This selected a show with a big win where it was worth analyzing it.

Big winners will always either know a lot, or be lucky (and bold) with their guesses. So this is already a pattern that was selected for.

Now given this backwards reasoning every time the guest said something else but changed his mind will look like cheating. But you already selected only the cases where they did get lucky, so that shouldn't factor in to your thinking, but it obviously does because humans are bad at separating this rationally.

No matter the percentages, absent any proof of collusion I don't think this conviction holds up, since nervous cough when seeing the right answer is enough of an explanation to make this plausible without any connection between the two.
I never said "lower middle class". From this article [0], ~$50k doesn't seem like a stretch for middle class.

[0]: https://www.businessinsider.com/middle-class-income-us-city-...
want it for a static site, no access to the backend.
I dont want to run a full blown website, just want access control. possible?
> YRMV, but it has been incredible for us, both to support our data science initiatives, and for rapidly deploying applications. I couldn't imagine going back to anything else.

Out of curiosity, are your data scientists actually happy with this? All of ours are using Python notebooks with Spark or RDS, and I think there'd be an armed revolt if we asked them to migrate to anything else.
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