skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When determining what to use for development of my SaaS, I did a comparison of what you actually get from providers. The full article is at https://jan.rychter.com/enblog/cloud-server-cpu-performance-...

Your results (e.g. that z1d.xlarge with 4 vCPUs is only 10% slower than z1d.2xlarge with 8 vCPUs) shows that the "performance" you were testing was disk IO throughput (probably dominated by disk latency), not vCPUs.

> My takeaways were that many cloud provider offerings make no sense whatsoever, and that Xeon processors are mostly great if you are a cloud provider and want to offer overbooked "vCPUs".

> I haven't tested those specific setups, but I strongly suspect a dedicated server from OVH is much faster than a 4.16xlarge from AWS.

You seem to be implying that AWS/EC2 does CPU over-provisioning on all instance types; this is incorrect, only T-family instance types use CPU over-provisioning.
The trouble is that when Group A is actively dehumanizing and harming Group B (e.g. Trump immigration policy supporters are unequivocally actively harming immigrants, especially children), then if Group C acts like we can all be civil and tactful and just get along with Group A, now Group C is also directly and unequivocally harming Group B too.

If Group A holds horrific enough points of view, and this is just beyond dispute about supporting Trump at this point, then Group A effectively holds civil discourse hostage, and Group C is either in the position of negotiating with terrorists or in the position of upholding baseline acceptable civil society norms by ostracizing Group A, and Group A has not allowed Group C any other option.
> Zoom, Teams, even WebEx are superior quality

Are they able to change the bg in the browser?
I was specifically addressing the other rather broad statement that I actually quoted.

To address your point too though, there are definitely customers that the phone company is required to serve that they would rather not serve, because the costs are higher than the revenue.

Remote rural customers, customers who need accessibility-related support, certain outdated services that people are grandfathered into and don't want to cancel, etc...

And again that's where regulation protects the customer from the corporation that doesn't care about the customer's needs, unless they align with their own needs or are forced to via regulation.
The article certainly doesn’t say anything about “people” at all. It demonstrates immune response in the serum, but not at all the effect of the said response, especially not if any person is actually “immune.”
> Get your own domain from a non-google registrar

The funny (er, scary) thing is I was actually thinking of switching to Google registrar for my domain after namecheap messed up their CNAME records and dropped a few days of emails (I already use GSuite). Google reliability, the promise of fair pricing and a free WHOIS protection was very attractive to me.

After this, fuck that.

Google has so many services that you could lead a reasonably diverse online life without going to another provider, without the accountability that typically comes with that sort of power. They really need to be checked.
Its on your local LAN, so that's nothing.
Scaling a startup across Africa is no child's play
Wasn't that a P2P program?

Another one is NullSoft's Visual Debris by Brennan Underwood.
> The moment a computer knows what gives away a hint that it is a deepfakes and not real, a computer can solve to not present that give away. The “good guys” and “bad guys” will iterate with each other until it is perfected.

You just described a GAN (generative adversarial network)!
> The String type _is_ a newtype that […]

It is not. `NonZeroUsize` is (though in Rust "newtype" is only a pattern or idiom), and its definition (inside of a macro which provides numeric newtypes a bunch of `impl`s) is:

pub struct NonZeroUsize(usize);

But here's String:

pub struct String {
vec: Vec<u8>,
}

…which is a normal `struct` _containing_ a named `Vec<u8>`. Of the types you mentioned, only `NonZeroUsize` conforms to the pattern.
Yeah, the caravan that attacked another Presidential candidate on the highway is straight out of a third world country.

I'd love to hear the defense for this .
Why would you go to the trouble of not enabling Facebook login (as long as you provide other logins methods of course)? If someone is using Facebook & Facebook login they clearly don't mind being tracked by Facebook.

I don't have a FB account fwiw.
Almost no bikes actually go that fast, while the scooters practically always do, which is they they drive in the middle of the lanes or into oncoming traffic. Thus head on collisions etc.
Yes. I can verify that it contains email attachments, Google Photos files (along with metadata in JSON format), and YouTube videos. There is quite a bit of other information included as well, some of which I didn't even know I had created.
True, but photoshop is usually done by hand. An AI-generated deepfake could maybe eventually be trained so that it outputs videos that are indistinguishable from the real thing.
Awesome, thank you! Even though it's not what I was hoping for. If you're still set up, you could try with Chrome on both ends, since a single Firefox participant is known to degrade the quality for the whole conference. (I'll try to find a reference once I'm at my desk.) I suppose if the rpi is at 100% cpu that's unrelated, though.

Edit: The issue I mentioned appears to be fixed for a while: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/5439 More discussion here: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/4758
We used to have the cultural value of keeping politics separate from work and (mostly) separate from family. In the workplace, this was fairly strongly enforced via the concept of "professionalism", i.e. not personal. You didn't discuss your political or religious views because the workplace wasn't the appropriate venue. On the family front, you didn't discuss religion or politics at Thanksgiving. And so on.

But, furthermore, I think, because the concept of "personal" was precisely that - personal, private. There was no social media ecosystem encouraging you to output your entire self into the public sphere. The fact that voting is private is an indicator that in the final analysis, your political opinions should be a private matter.

In the last few decades, we've seen a wholesale rejection of this idea. Instead, you should "bring your whole self to work". Your political opinions are now a key, or even the only, important part of your personality. Markers of professionalism like wearing a suit or not swearing at work are seen as antiquated.

A lot of this polarization would evaporate, IMO, if we brought back the professional-personal distinction and strongly enforced it.
Would signing the image in hardware alleviate some of the problem? It would create a high cost to faking.
The Haskell crowd brags about that in Haskell "of it compiles it works", but they are weak. If they truly believed in their language they would require vigilant purity and say "if it compiles it HAS to work".
If you can't forgive people for their mistakes, that says more about you than about them.
TOR onion site: https://www.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion/2020/11/02/world/world-he...
Why not match capacity to cases rather than match cases to capacity? They have had 6 months now to increase capacity but it seems they aren't even trying.
That you should be able to obtain through GDPR in Europe at least, though it might be an issue to prove ownership if you didn’t provide your real name.

What doesn’t work that easily is resetting passwords without account access, especially since more services are switching to magic links instead of passwords (and the issues of managing multiple accounts in a standard browser password manager with things like slack having different sub domains and accounts for different projects)
How Convolutional Layers Work in Deep Learning Neural Networks?
Is this a method to innoculate the viewer against deepfakes? I wonder if part of thief goal is to specifically make people more aware?
Or maybe you're using Pis in ways that aren't so hard on SD cards, etc? It seems very likely that this is the case given that these users experience these issues on Pis but not other systems.
Talking TV heads are already deep fakes. I'm glad computer fakes will finally erode the confidence of public into those people, from news anchors to presidents. Took almost a century to arrive here.
Ah, that delightful cloud propaganda move, where you assert that because some undesirable thing happens to both VMs and physical machines, that they're the same, elegantly glossing over the orders of magnitude difference in severity.
I'm not sure there's an easy way to port everything (few services integrate across so many fields as seamlessly as Google does), but this Reddit post has a huge thread of alternatives to common Google services: https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/g1yu01/google_alt...

For me, I've switched to DDG full-time for search and I'm veeery gradually swapping over to Protonmail for email (using Thunderbird as the client to ease the transition). Once email's over, I'll be able to rest a lot easier.

However, if you're a heavy Docs user, NextCloud is a Google-like suite with a few hosting options (self-hosted, third-party host, or enterprise).
Indeed. Seems what's lacking is political will.
‘Our Recent Performance Sucks.’ Here’s Your $10B Back
Why an Auditory Browser?
> How many people pay for google services?

Everyone pays with their data and the ads they and others are seeing. Just because you pay no cash, does not mean ther is no payment at all.

Addtionally, it's used to be quite hard to even pay in cash for googles services. Though, this changde in the last years, as there is now youtube premium and google one. But still not possible for all their services.
All very good, but I used the phrase 'nutter' for a reason!

I'm in the UK and it's shit at the moment. Personally, I believe the financial, and mental health cost of the lockdowns has probably exceeded the cost to human lives. It's an awful thing to have written. I think this lockdown will be the last. Vaccine or not, things will have to get back to 'normal' at some point.
It's hard to talk about this because

a) these cases are real and scary

but

b) these cases are proven outliers amplified by crazy fearmongering media and the likes of redditors who don't stop to understand statistics.

What we need is a more reasonable approach to all of this, especially regarding the fact that COVID will be endemic. We need to deal with this fact.

But we also need better reporting since death is not the only bad consequence of COVID-19. It isn't even just limited to health.
Because MS Office is a different business than giving away free accounts to collect user data. It provides cloud services for money. I guess MS has much better redundancy mechanisms and pretty much committed to not lose your data.

Well, shit happens sometimes even with people having the best intentions to do the right thing. Though I didn't hear about a single case of MS losing people's data. But I'm sure MS would handle such situations differently than blaming it on a user and just terminating accounts.
Alternatively, just spin up your own Gitea instance, set the access restrictions as loose or as tight as you want, and call it a day
No; it could e.g. be hosted in Switzerland; when assessing the case Swiss law applies; possible agreements with other countries are not directly applicable, but are reflected in the national law.

EDIT: and in contrast to e.g. Germany or apparently the US there is nothing like a cease and desist letter in Switzerland, but claims such as the present one must be brought before the court.
AWS hearts multi-cloud? It's gonna happen
A more analogous approach would be to use ALPC; its handle-passing support was inspired by unix domain sockets. Unfortunately, it looks like ALPC never got exposed via Win32.

Windows TCP sockets are definitely their own thing, which is pretty unfortunate, but Windows exposes a number of other kernel abstractions as handles - processes, mutexes, shared memory sections, events, timers, &c; “Wait for either this particular process to exit or this timer to expire” is trivial. At the time I worked on it, it was one of the features I really preferred about Windows over Unix.
Fun fact: After the Greeks beat the Persians, they created a union of state-cities, called the Delian league [1] to protect against future attacks. It was named so because the gatherings were happing at Delos, a Greek island. Many state-cities had contributed to a fund that was to be used for guarding against future Persian attacks. Shortly after the league's creation, Pericles moved its base to Athens, and the story goes that part of that fund (the equivalent of today's $4 billion) was used to build Parthenon.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delian_League
It's documented.

>A Date object can be created with an optional argument, the day of calendar reform as a Julian day number, which should be 2298874 to 2426355 or negative/positive infinity. The default value is Date::ITALY (2299161=1582-10-15).
A lot of this is due to the blatantly undemocratic actions Republicans have been taking to maintain their hold on power. There was a lot of this sort of familial strife during the run-up to the Civil War.

Both sides, for different reasons, feel increasingly frustrated that their political wills aren't being fulfilled, and Trump's pure recklessness in, basically stating that he won't accept any result that isn't a victory, is making Democrats feel that nothing short of a landslide will ensure that this mess won't get worse.

Peaceful power transitions have historically been one of America's great advantages, look to our Southern neighbor for just how not having that can hold us back.
Sigh. So, we're canceling Einstein now?
To not enable Facebook greater power?
didn't pg name this place "Startup News" before changing it to "Hacker News" just because hacker sounds cooler?
> E-waste is a massive problem nowadays. Why not assemble the lab out of "old" computers? They might take a bit more electricity to run

In the developing world electricity tends to be very scarce. Raspberry Pis, and stuff of that sort, are ideal for that environment.
Thank you, and you're welcome! Nice to know someone appreciates the time I waste on social media :)
Which could mean that such asymptomatic people could still infect somebody vulnerable, if they shed enough virus at some point of their reinfection.

The open question is, again, what will be the percentage of such cases.
My point was about the top 1% creating more wealth or not. I think society as a whole is creating more wealth with many people contributing. But somehow we ended up with a situation where there top 1% percent are taking an increasing share of that wealth.
Awesome, maybe they'll add more climate change denialism into the mainstream /s
You obviously haven't seen the Antifa riots for the last 6 months then or the shops being boarded up in case Trump wins.
I can understand. When vehicles of different cruising speeds share a roadway, the faster ones are perpetually passing. So always oncoming straight at you. It gets worse with increasing density - instead of passing occasionally, now you're passing pretty much all the time.

Its a hard problem to solve.
Redesigning Steinway's Website
I'd be very interested in a show where they have deepfakes of politicians reading FOIA obtained emails that they wrote. It would be a positive use for a technology that has some pretty negative use cases =)
I think it'll be similar to the situation with pictures. We've had the ability to 'photoshop' people's faces in and out of images for a long time now.

I think the first question asked of a video is going to be "is this a deep fake?" just like we currently ask "is this picture photoshopped?".

It doesn't mean that we no longer use pictures, or that we don't alter pictures, just that we are more critical of them.

That said, there is just more realism in a series of moving pictures, but I don't see why the situation for a series of fake pictures has to be wildly different from the situation of a single fake picture.
He has hunter's laptop, no reason to lie.
This is not the only source (at some time several months ago I did more research), but here: https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/01/electric-mini-scooters...

Folding bike is indeed the best legal option if one wants to ever ride a bus also, but even the nicest ($$$$) folding bikes are so much less portable than a step.
Gmail isn't actually cheap either, the costs are just offset to different places.
SO_REUSEPORT has only been supported since about 2013 though, the trick with passing the fd over a Unix socket has worked for way longer than that.
This victim-blaming needs to stop before the tech industry backlash hits. This is exactly why we need regulation. I swear, if "just go somewhere else" were good advice (and it's not), we wouldn't be having this conversation. How many years has it been, though, that Google and other consumer-ignorant companies have been able to get away with this, helped along by people who tell victims to just "go somewhere else"?

Normal people will only put up with this for so long. Either regulate it intelligently now, or expect actually scary regulation a decade or two from now.

There's nothing wrong with a law that says: "You cannot close a customer's account with no remediation, no recourse, and no explanation." What is Silicon Valley so afraid of there? How is that unreasonable?
The claim is that they had a lung clot and needed to be connected to a breathing machine, resulting in all the blood.

If Covid is causing lung clots, it's not unreasonable to attribute the treatment required to deal with them to Covid.
I've had my Pi 3 running constantly for the last three years as a Plex server. The only thing that has gone wrong is the Western Digital hard disk drive that failed. The Pi itself and even the microSD card have been fine.
Business opportunity?

Open an online iListen service, charged by the minute.
Seems odd they don’t mention the architect at all. William Crawford Smith was an officer in the Confederate Army.

The Nazis also had an obsession with neoclassicalism. Monuments to the Greeks and Romans were a part of both southern US white nationalism and German nazism; it aims to give legitimacy to race science and claims that they are continuing some ancient tradition of greatness.
The homepage is sassyjustice.com. Currently it's embedded from YouTube.
More importantly, it might cause some devices to wake their network hardware or even CPU's up every 10 seconds, and significantly shorten battery life.
Well... bad people do conspire (i.e. cooperate)... just as much as good people do. It's not outlandish to worry that say the church is conspiring (e.g. Catholic abuse scandal). Of course solid evidence is always nice, but as with so many things it takes decades of mounting anecdotes and evidence to accumulate formal proof.

Perhaps conspiracy theory is just the first stage of hypothesis refinement, and that's where they mostly die. There are many times it's actually a healthy and correct choice to mistrust motives of an institution (e.g. No thanks, I don't need that oxycodone), even if the mainstream consensus is a few years out.

The challenge is, as it always was, to figure out which claims of bad-people-conspiring are true and which ones aren't. And when those bad-people-conspiring can taint/hide the information sources themselves (e.g. Nixon trying to withhold Watergate recordings by claiming "National Security", or astroturfing, or settle out of court, or using authority figures, or buying research) it becomes exponentially more complicated and the net gets cast much wider.

This piece is a very detailed historical read, but I'm not sure it has any bearing.
Not just muliti-party, but also with proportional representation. I listened to the author in an interview[1] and he claimed there is less conflict on average in countries that use such systems. New Zealand was one example the author gave. I assume the book has citations.

1. https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/vox/the-ezra-klein-show/e/7...
The word for your grandfather would be "obdurate". Rather than stubborn or obstinate, obdurate specifically means an unwillingness to alter one's position in the face of valid argument.
I followed the Russia stuff and never believed Trump was an actual agent. I didn't hear many serious people saying that, though I did hear it from a few propagandist talking head types. I ignore those as a rule.

Trump is too egotistical to serve anyone but himself, and he's too wild and unpredictable to be a reliable agent to anyone. The allegation was that Trump accepted help offered by Russian agents, which is likely as I'm sure he would have accepted help offered by anyone.

I just thought Russia may have covertly backed him in an attempt to get an intensely repellent and divisive candidate into office and damage America's reputation. There's a good deal of evidence that Russia is still in the ring for Trump, such as Russian state TV running anti-Biden stuff all day right now. There is also evidence for Russian propaganda targeting the Democrats and the left too, like sock puppets infiltrating BLM chat rooms and pushing the most divisive messages possible. The ultimate goal is destabilization and damage to America's reputation, not the victory of any specific candidate.

That being said, I think the ultimate goal of this Russian propaganda may be more inward-facing than outward-facing. Putin needs to portray American democracy as a failure in order to hold onto power in Russia. Meddling in American and other democratic processes can be a way to do that.
Time is one of those libs that you don't try to implement on your own. It's one of those things that sound simple on the face of it, but you soon find out there's a huge number of complications. Things like locales having different daylight savings, which require a DB to keep track of, and might change in the future. Historically baked in weirdness like the thing in this SO answer. The international dateline. Arizona having its own TZ. Half hour countries. Cultural specific calendars like Jewish or Arab. It's a cave of horrors.

At best, try to understand that if you do use something other than epoch time, you might have to record a bunch of stuff like what I mentioned.
No, abolitionists weren't too extreme, but for your straw man to work you'd have to think that Trump has done some things analogous to maintaining slavery.
Leaders need to learn the skill of "Diversity" in writing. You need diversity in writing. Based on situation one needs to be either succinct or elaborated or aggressive or indicative or crystal clear or write for masses or etc, etc.
That's a pretty broad statement. I suppose that depends on your use case?
It still puzzles me how much being forced to stick to 6 pages, ideally completely data based, helps to form concise thoughts and concepts.
Lots and lots of shame needed to fix this situation. Bother your Google employee friends, send this to them, upvote it and keep discussing.

YouTube doesn’t really listen to the content creators or fans but they will make policy changes within a week of a hyper critical article in traditional media.

BI isn’t big enough probably, need this to get picked up by a bigger paper for a major Gmail policy fix.
Fourier Transforms with Scipy.fft: Python Signal Processing
Those cases aren't scary, they're expected.

Some people die from diseases and some people have long term effects. It's not anything more than a novel virus.
I think that makes a big difference. I would (and did) make the same choice as you when it was a sporadic thing, but when I had the ability to do it every week, I quickly realized I felt (and performed) a lot better with the Wednesday off.
You mentioned the word "value". Is there another tangible value to you in O365 vs G Suite besides the redundancy?
New Cybersecurity Field to Address IIoT Comms Insecurity [pdf]
Well.... this works because Amsterdam is a small city.