skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was pretty much the case across Eastern Europe.

In Kiev, I ordered an internet connection and to my surprise I was told that it was all done and ready to go without any visits to my apartment. I was surprised.

The wall outlet was an Ethernet port. No TV cable. No phone line. Direct RJ45.

Later I learned that everything is in the central wiring closet somewhere in the building. And many buildings are just connected roof to roof with cables.

I had 100/100 mbit connection, with unlimited data, for $15 USD/mo. Don’t remember having any issues. That was 5 years ago.

Back in the early days buildings often had their own LAN for sharing warez and gaming. Sometimes adjacent buildings were connected for extended network.
Sad to see the word "objective" become the next bullshit intensifier because people can't separate their own subjective opinions from the realm of verifiable fact.

"Terribleness" isn't an objective property.
"Arnold Judas Rimmer is a fictional character".

Not anymore!
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...and it may have animal reservoirs: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/08/covid-19-hits-us-min...

"The Dutch government reported multiple cases of transmission from mink to farm staff"

If it can happen in a farm, there's a reasonable chance it can happen in the wild too. Cats also seem to be able to get it: https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200911/covid-19-may-strike...

Animal reservoirs make the flu pretty much impossible to eradicate.
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> in many other places like China outside Wuhan and in India, the inferred death rate is close to 0.0%

it's very plausible that it's < 0.1%. Singapore and large parts of Africa or the ME have seen few deaths. Young populations, low rates of obesity, diabetes and other diseases that probably plague regions like Louisiana will change the outcomes quite drastically.

Singapore in particular is probably a high fidelity case. It has one of the highest testing rates on the globe, likely clean data and they've registered 28 deaths on >50k cases.
Have asked this before, but GPT-3 users seem tight lipped about it. Let’s try you:

How did you get accesss to GPT-3?

I’m afraid that the way OpenAI is flicking aside applications for access from mere humans, and instead granting access to large corporate entities, tells us something about how AIs will deal with humans in the future.
I'm all for concision, particularly in technical writing. But not every article has to be like that. This article feels like a mix between an essay and a public journal entry, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.
Good stuff.

Since high school in '94 I've thought it would be lovely to go to a strange town and do a gallery show with a hundred shots taken the day before in that town of weathered garage doors, down dark alleys, walls palimpsest with invisible graffiti. All blown up to poster size. These scenes are everywhere and they're rarely acknowledged as the beauty they are.
The problem of data confusion you describe is resolved by replacing management. That’s not an engineering issue that requires new technology (consider the source of social power for author; selling technology).

That’s an engineering issue that needs new engineering management who don’t enable wasting company resources making incompatible APIs in the first place.

We already did the monolithic DB design, I used to name those hosts “ocean”. And we already know the math. “Data lake” is just more jargon by a salesman to obfuscate peddling the same old abstraction, and wow fresh grads with new words for hyping the same old habits.

While not the author of this piece, Bezos is quoted as pointing out how circular social behavior is.

What do you think the odds of this author being on a similar page?

Have humans evolved much in 100 years? Or does the con simply get rewritten for the next generation to hide a simple truth?

What’s keeping people going in this circle isn’t logistical necessity. It’s us.
Did you read the article? They gave free tests to a random sample of Mumbai residents.
> Is there any evidence that the vast amounts of clicks and user interactions companies have been collecting are worth anything at all?

Yes. Every advertising platform ever uses this information. In Europe, you have to have regulation that makes account costing (what the US might call forensic accounting) possible. The presentations on A/B tests by FANG companies might also interest you. They are on Youtube.
Robinhood tells users to raise cash buffers hours before market open
Lots of commenters here.
Soon to be ex-Webfaction customer here. I got an email yesterday saying they can't migrate one of my apps, a Python WSGI custom app listening on a port, so now I'm looking.

The migration faq [0] says that there will be no capability to run Python based apps on the new tsoHost. I don't know if that extends to running Python via crontab, you would want to verify that with them.

OpalStack [1] looks appealing. It's built by former staff of Webfaction. I'm leaning in that direction, but also considering Digital Ocean, Linode, Heroku, Vultr [2], and some others I just learned about. Some do some of the host management for you. OpalStack is clearly a continuation of the Webfaction model so that will probably be my choice, but want to learn some more about these others too.

[0] https://www.webfaction.com/faq#which-features-will-not-be-av...

[1] https://my.opalstack.com/signup/

[2] https://www.vultr.com/
How so? If I level up on data science and then go work somewhere as a data scientist and refuse to work on the tasks assigned to me I don't see that working out so well in my performance reviews.

To the downvoters - grow up and learn to present an argument.
Yeah that's my guess, and likewise biggest concern - if the credentials are the same in dev and prod, it increases risk surface.
I think the reasoning for those TV-sniffing trucks at the time were not what you watch, but that you could watch at all, i.e. you had a device capable of watching TV and to pay your damn dues for that "privilege".
A chef friend of mine treated me to a spread of different butters, salted and unsalted, sourced from various areas in Canada.

There's top quality butters to be had, but the supermarket stuff isn't it. Maybe try a local farmer's market if you're not up for huge blocks? I find they have wonderful honeys and butters if you find the right one.

Haven't found one of the big blocks you're referring to. Where are they stocked?
I was in Bucharest a couple of years ago and used wired broadband in an apartment. It was good - not terribly faster than what I get here, or at least ... not faster such that I'd notice. I suspect the price was cheaper, although unsure what the 'big mac price' might be for people who live there day to day.

I have a 200 down / 20 up connection at my office for $80/month - roughly the same at home for ~$50/month. At home, we don't normally get that unless actually wired in, as the wifi stuff around the house is bad (boosters don't help much). At the office, even over wifi, it can often be over the 200 - the wifi is probably a bottleneck there.

The town where the office is is offering 'gigabit to the home', but only in new construction homes. The downtown spot I'm in won't get upgrades for a while, from what I'm hearing.

I'm in the suburbs of a moderately large tech area, and almost rural by some measures. That said, I know some friends a bit further out aren't served very well at all, and are struggling with satellite connections as their last hope for 'fast' internet (6-10m from what I remember).

> I am surprised there's not more backlash about this.

FWIW, we (USA) get hosed around on so many things (healthcare, net, etc) and are also fed a patriotic diet of "America is the best" growing up. Because we're so large and isolated, many folks never travel, and a couple generations ago, most didn't have access to international publications/media like we do today. All that combines to give many of my fellow citizens a somewhat distorted view of our own standing and quality of life. There's little reason to 'backlash' when you think you're already "the best".
Thanks for this great comment. What kind of workloads are people trying to run on sensor data that arrives at such a high velocity? Time series analysis? Anomaly detection? I wish I had a better idea of what kind of specific problems users you've run into are trying to solve, which fail on the existing software stack.
Probably because we've been living the last 4 years in one long Onion article.

Couldn't make up a fraction of what passes for reality these days.
I do this with fastmail. Besides privacy, another benefit is you can set up routing rules. e.g. for subscribing to newsletters, use <whatever>.sub@example.com. Anything that goes to an address that ends in .sub@example.com gets marked as read and is delivered to a folder for newsletters. I do a similar thing when signing up for services. It's kinda like what Gmail does with ML, but you have more control.
it comes with some overhead though, which is useful in many circumstances as it also gives some sandboxing, but if your goal is universal interop then you probably want to have a solution that doesn’t incur a speed penalty.
Wait. What? The first time I learned that there is salted butter was in scandinavia, and now you are telling me you dont do that anymore? Admittedly it was a long time ago in what feels far away..
Here is how we had our database deletion error, about 15 years ago. Our DBs had been on leased servers at a hosting company in New York City. They were getting out of the datacenter business so we had to move. We were moving to colocated servers at a Seattle datacenter.

This was the procedure:

1. Restore DB backups in Seattle.

2. Set up replication from NYC to Seattle.

3. Start changing things to read from Seattle, with writes still going to NYC.

4. After everything is reading from Seattle and has been doing so with no problems for a while, change the replication to be two-way between NYC and Seattle.

5. Start switching writes to Seattle.

6. After both reads and writes are all going to Seattle and it has been that way for a while with no problems, turn off replication.

7. Notify me that I can wipe the NYC servers, for which we had root access but not console access. I wasn't in the IT department and wasn't involved in the first 6 steps, but had the most Unix experience and was thought to be the best at doing a thorough server wipe.

My server wipe procedure was something like this.

8. "DELETE FROM table_name" for each DB table.

9. "DROP TABLE table_name" for each DB table.

10. Stop the DB server.

11. Overwrite all the DB data files with random data.

12. Delete all the DB data files.

13. Delete everything else of ours.

14. Uninstall all packages we installed after the base system install.

15. Delete every data file I could find that #14 left behind.

16. Write files of random data to fill up all the free space.

The problem was with step #6. They declared it done and turned it over to me for step #7 without actually having done the "turn off replication" part of step #6. Step #8 was replicated to Seattle.

It took them a while to figure out that data was being deleted and why that was happened.

We were split across three office buildings, and the one I was in had not yet had phones installed in all the offices, and mine was one of the ones with a phone. None of the people whose offices did have phones were in, so they lost a few more minutes before realizing that someone would have to run a couple blocks to my office to tell me to stop the wipe.

It took about 12 hours or so afterwards for them to restore Seattle from the latest backup, and then replay the logs from between the backup time and the start of the deletes.

After that they were overly cautious, taking a long time to let me resume the NYC wipe. They went right up to the point where I told them if we didn't start now we might not finish, and reminded them that those machines had sensitive customer personal information on them and were probably going to end up being auctioned off on eBay by the hosting company. They came to their senses and told me to go ahead.
> triple-redundant ceph-based storage

Just to point out, that's still not a backup system. That's only one software bug (in your systems or theirs) away from having no working current data set. ;)
Most people skip straight from the Forth to Fortran[0][1] or Prolog[2].

[0] http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/551.jvn.fall01/ftra...

[1] "Scientific Forth" (Julian V. Noble, 1992)

[2] "Designing and Programming Personal Expert Systems" (Carl Townsend & Dennis Feucht, TAB Books, 1986)
Ironically this instruction only exists because JavaScript accidentally inherited an Intel quirk in it's double-to-int conversion. This instruction should be "Floating Point Intel Convert" not "Floating Point Javascript Convert", but w/e, trademark laws and all that.

In practice the instruction made code a few percent faster, primarily because it allowed dropping a few branches at the end of every JavaScript int conversion on ARM. IMO, ARM has always been at the "edge" of RISC (at least until AArch64 threw out all of it's quirks) and the exception proves the rule here. Instructions like this exist specifically because they accelerate execution time, rather than for assembler programmer convenience. That's the same underlying reason why RISC had such an advantage over CISC before micro-op decoders and register renaming became a thing. It's not so much that "having less instructions is better", but that things like memory operands or repeat prefixes or what have you primarily act as programmer convenience at the expense of code efficiency. Stuff like FJCVTZS is used by compiled code to gain a measurable speed benefit, ergo it stays in.
> Following extensive troubleshooting we have been unable to bring the host server on which your volume is hosted back online ...

How is now being able to bring a server online connected to the storage that server provides?

Surely they'd remove the physical storage devices from the dead server, put them in another one, and bring it up?

... unless they're hosting their servers with a third party they can't access? eg AWS or similar, which would be kind of ironic. ;)
Ask HN: Is it true Google is a failure when it comes to developing new products?
Google seems to kill most products..

Google fails to launch most products successfully..

Most of the successful products that Google does have were acquired..

Some notable Failures:
- Google+
- Google Desktops
- Google url shortener
- Picasa
- Chrome Apps
- Google Answers
- Real estate map on google maps
- cloud (?)

Successful products but they were acquired:

- youtube
- analytics
- android

Why?

Also same thing with facebook. They had to acquire whatsapp and instagram, but then went ahead and lost to tiktok in some ways. Oculus is a failure. Marketplace is successful but it'd be hard for it not to be.

What gives, how come companies with all the resources can't get logical next steps in their product offerings off the ground and also fail to innovate.

Why do they have 10k engineers but make so little??
> The wall outlet was an Ethernet port.

Huh, never thought of this as weird. I remember using a dial-up modem in the early 2000s in Romania, but since then I've just had a normal Ethernet port coming out of the wall everywhere, including Western Europe.
Salted butter is more common in Western France and Brittany in particular. Brittany has been a large salt producer for centuries and as such used to be exempt from the salt tax (gabelle).
The comparison is difficult.

Putin, Xi etc. have heavy-handed controls over state media and Xi of course total control over social media. The US is not 'headed in this direction'.

'Free Speech' is the wrong banner for this discussion, as no-one's speech is threatened here - everyone is essentially free to say as they please publicly, and on their own web sites.

The Press is 'free' to say what they want, which includes a ton of bias, but that is what it is.

'Social Media' is a very new thing - it turns out it can be extensively influential and 'memes' from out of nowhere can grab narratives like dogs chasing each other through a crowd.

FB and Twitter are private platforms, concerned with content unlike AT&T, Amazon, email or network providers who are fully neutral - and Social Media has always been censoring content: if you attack individuals or threaten violence etc. you would have been banned 10 years ago.

The algorithms have always been favouring one thing or another using any variety of criteria, so the very nuanced question boils down to the nature of 'truthiness', the degree to which it can be assessed, and how much it can be used for algorithmic purpose - and especially, how could it be done 'fairly'.

I wonder if there are truly objective methods whereby people only ever see posts if they are shared directly by friends, thereby implying a more 'direct' model, like email, whereby if one party wants to chose with a specific, other party, well there's nary anything anyone should censor there.

Alternatively, one could contemplate anything with any political content whatsoever, to be in fact, political, and to be managed in accordance with the same rules for political spending etc. - but that might be altogether too much.

I honestly don't think that this is an existential question to the point wherein industries need to be disrupted or transformed, we are probably 'somewhere near' reasonable at this point, with some modifications we may have a system we can live with.

Finally - it should be noted that 'free expression' doesn't in any way imply 'fair expression' - like a free market, it can be leveraged and dominated by a few small voices who want to 'take control'. There's no reason that a few smart minds couldn't establish control over the narrative whereupon we'd have to ask ourselves if that's what is remotely good for society. As much as we sometimes loathe the press today, there are a lot of checks and balances, along with 'narrative driven news' the MSM are beholden to mostly facts, there's quite a lot of integrity in that system. A 'free for all' wouldn't have any such controls and any kind of real truth could be lost.

Perhaps the best solution would be to just stop using social media as we do. I did, and don't miss it at all.
The terminology in the article is confusing. A shell is a means of supplying instructions to the OS, which when provided a UI becomes a command terminal. Any NPM package that makes use of arbitrary child processes opens a shell. This is clear in Node’s documentation for child processes. Very many NPM packages make use of child processes.

It only becomes a security problem when malicious instructions are passed into that spawned shell or network ports are opened for remote access to a shell. Either way these problems are potentially present in most systems applications and are generally addressed with security policies set in the OS.
Now this is just my opinion: I think you might be losing your grip on reality. We seem to be observing the same thing, and forming two different conclusions. Not really sure what to do in situations like this, where there is no consensus on reality itself. I have observed negotiation happening on C-SPAN with my own eyes...

Maybe we just have different definitions for "negotiation". Please would you like to tell what happens in a negotiation, so I can better understand?
If Scrum is X, but everyone saying "Scrum" is referring to Y, is Scrum X or Y?

The answer is it doesn't matter. The problem here is that people are doing Y not X, and discussing semantics is only useful as an appeal to authority (which to be fair can be pretty darn useful sometimes).
Its a ball you move with your mouse that creates some sort of liquid metal ripple effect where the ball went and ends up looking like: https://i.imgur.com/DaM4a9I.png
Interesting. This may be a naive question — this is very far from my area of expertise — but is there a reason sensor data can't be sampled? It seems gratuitous to store that many events.
Learning/speaking Toki Pona has all the fun of Esperanto with none of the costs. Seriously enjoyable.

And, of course, English is the de facto lingua franca.
You want this to be illegal? Get to work on it.

The subtle underlying problem is all the people out there curating cogent arguments about the problem on social media, meaning countless hours spent avoiding the legwork.

Hi HN. Hi Reddit. Hi Facebook. Hi tech workers who have to constantly re-invent the wheel.

I’m sick of “both sides” and every one in between projecting and deflecting.

You all want to look at the problem in society, look in the mirror, cause you’re a part of it too. Say and do other things rather than demand other people do and say other things.

American people and politicians are on the same page: nothing is my fault, and it’s only my problem if I get paid for fixing it.
An old habit that I still give into when needing to quickly de-format in browser: paste into the URL bar and copy that.

Works across browsers/OS so I don't need to think about it.
If your script connects to a production database by accident, you have a whole different issue.
For 12 years, I have had an email setup where all emails for the domain go to one mailbox (postmaster style). Then, I just give each service their own, unique email address without any configuration. Any spam or unusual mail is then easily-identified. Plus, it makes for easier searching, sorting and tagging. A good, secure, backed-up email & webmail setup is necessary to make it work.

For anything I don't care about and want better anonymity, I'm fine with using random, public disposable email addresses.
Agree. Nothing wrong with doing what works for most things, but with backups it's easier to use an appropriate process from the start. It's easy enough and saves you grief later.
No. I'm just not trying to write out half of a legal text. In the standard tort ones it's a requirement largely because of the historical requirements behind the remedies associated with the acts.

Where the offenses aren't linked to theories of compensation or restitution, but instead are based on punishment, they're less likely to require injury and more likely to look at it as a factor in determining the magnitude of the punishment.

The rules regarding fraud in connection with TARP funds, lies to federal agents, etc. all run on this line.

Tell a federal agent you aren't guilty of something when you are? That's a charge. There's no harm to the agent. No injury. Just the lie.
I've been living in Japan since I was born, but I've never knew these products. Thanks for sharing this!

I think I am gonna buy this one.
https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/Stainless-Steel-Cutter-Butter-...

It seems Butter Cutter(lattice shaped one) can only be used for "soft" butter, but it must be helpful anyway.