skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess my point was more that disasters happen all the time and I can't remember the last time I heard about a farm being raided.
In the modern hamburger menu, it’s under “More”.
Toilet paper is normally bought in multimonth increments because it doesn't go bad and isn't that large. How often do you buy toilet paper in a year? Maybe two or three times unless you're extremely liquidity constrained or unable to transport an 8-pack. The prospect of a lockdown prompted people to buy toilet paper off cycle which disrupted the whole thing by having everyone buy toilet paper in a month, instead of 1/4 of people, and then the residential demand increased while commercial paper demand dropped. It's not as simple as blaming a media panic.
Is this purely a marketing move so Google Fiber can say they are the fastest? Netflix streams max out at 25 mbps, so even a 1gbps connection can support 40 people simultaneous streaming video. The fastest game download I've ever seen only hit ~600mbps and was over in minutes.

I love maxing out my connection so would probably pay for 2gbps if offered but even I think its kind of a silly number at the moment. There isn't much consumer grade multigig networking equipment and the gear that does exist is easily 5x the price of the gigabit version.

Not complaining though! Any internet speed upgrade is great news.
Yes, I'm aware of that, we tried to use Ngen and basically gave up, not worth the efforts.

I hope new AOT would be better
It can't happen soon enough, but we need better laws, so that not so much is left up to the whims of political appointees.
Water in a water heater may or may not be potable. If the heater is kept below 140f, the water is not safe to drink. There's also a question of various soft metals in the tank itself as well as any connecting plumbing that may leech into the water. That's not a concern in a life or death situation, but you generally shouldn't drink hot water from your tap.

All in all, you're probably better off with iodine tablets or some sort of filter.
You need redundancy with google too. I personally use google, but I have a home server that pulls my photos and emails via the google api. Then I backup that to a 2nd internal drive and the cloud. I use a time4vps storage server, if anyone is interested (https://billing.time4vps.eu/?affid=1881)
As has become my habit lately, I'll chime in and say if you're interested in accessing your self-hosted services from the internet, IMO tunneling is the way to go: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling
A small town doesn't generate 10+ pages of news a day. And considering something like 25% of the people are under 18, I doubt that most adults are going to read the local newspaper every day. 10 pages per week sounds like a more reasonable estimate.
And even check into that price. I thought it was $50/mo in Chicago, but I just checked and it was $30/mo, though it may be an introductory offer.
Why a zip file instead of a WARC file?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_ARChive
2x performance of a 10w pc chip? iirc the most recent intel air was using a custom 12w chip.
What do you gain from automated proofs? Take the infinitude of primes. Plenty of textbooks different proofs of this fact to deepen your insight. Having an oracle-like entity tell me whether something is true or false is unlikely to have the same result, and I’m afraid “following the automated proof” won’t help much in this regard.
I wonder if in addition to the proofs this could also be used to provide generated "meta textbooks". The towers of theorems must be a graph, right? So shouldn't I be able to say "I want to understand Calabi–Yau manifolds" and get a custom-made exercise set all the way down to set theory?

Add an invertible "examples" generator so examples can become exercises and keep track of all the exercises you've already done (perhaps with some kind of spaced-repetition system built in) and you can just keep "fleshing out" your own graph of practiced math knowledge starting with wherever you want to look next.
I think the number of people who actually perform prepping is vastly larger than the number of people consuming media trying to redefine the term, so that campaign will be an uphill climb.
Having the hide link right next to "N comments" makes it really easy to tap by accident. Then to unhide, you have to click through to your preferences to get to the "hidden" link.

Reddit uses this order:

N comments | share | save | hide | give award | report | crosspost

I guess my preference would be for HN to use a similar order:

N comments | N points by <user> <time> | hide | flag

Of course, if you make this change, half the readers will hate it and insist you change it back. :-)

I'm not sure that "flag" and "hide" need to be on the main page at all. You could show those only after clicking through to the submission?

(I should probably just switch to one of the many HN reader apps.)
If many people will do that it's a different story. May be it's ok with you and you see no danger in their strategy but I see this issue as huge attack on freedom and rights, including right for privacy. History have many examples about how people protected their rights and freedom. Returning product is very light way to send a proper message.

Recently I see more and more perfectly valid comments to be downvoted and I do not like it. If this forum will become mob controlled with bullying then I see no reason why bright people would stay here. If one doesn't want ot deal with comment, usually one moves on, like I do. But if argument is perfectly valid and instead of answer I see one simply downvotes it is bullying as it appears.
I agree, though it's worth noting that while volunteers can maintain the software and administer the indexes, they also rely on infrastructure provided by big corporations. E.g. the Python Package Index runs on a CDN provided by fastly, which serves hundreds of TB per day. I very much doubt the non-profit Python Software Foundation could afford that bandwidth if it wasn't an in-kind donation.
Avoid automated code evaluation platforms / take home tests at all costs. Use a video call with shared screen instead. Let the candidate use their preferred tools.

What makes a great experience is good, timely, and responsive communication, as well as transparency about the realities of the role, comp, and expectations.

How much do you think makes in-person interviews help you to "get to know someone" better? Is the difference really that much or are you over worrying?
Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here? You don't have to like $bigco or $ceo, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it. Note these guidelines:

"Don't be snarky." "Please don't fulminate."
Pretty upset about this. I added the app to my mothers phone as it auto backs up everything at high enough quality for her at no cost. Trying to explain to a 65 year old woman with no computing skill how to set up a recurring subscription for online photo storage is going to be a tough ask.
British companies will be forced to reveal the sources of their raw materials
https://buildbackbetter.com/the-transition/agency-review-tea...
Why does Vim use `hjkl` for navigation?
Improperly installed Ring doorbells are catching on fire
Reinforcement Learning Playground
Prepping beyond basic bugout-bag and having some extra food is pretty worthless if you are alone. Once you have a real community doing it to some degree it's absolutely worth it. City folks have very limited possibilities in any case.
I’ve been storing my research as text files (manual copy and paste of web page content) for years.

And, I’ve wanted a _search history first_ plugin for web search to find pages I missed saving, but recall reading.

Since the former takes time and the latter doesn’t exist, I gather I could buy storage and save browsing using this tool.

It would be interesting to see how it works in practice—saving so much data.

Also,
For work I’d be interested to know how it works for password protected sites like banking, social media, etc.
This person sets his host names to Foundation Trilogy planet names. This is good stuff.
I expect to see Elon on Mars before there's any wide availability of Google Fiber. I remember hearing about Verizon doing a big fiber rollout with Fios, it was going to be everywhere, the next big leap... in 2005. Google's efforts have been no better - what is it now, a decade to get a dozen metro areas? Not even whole cities, or even whole blocks from looking at the SF map, but actually building-specific!

Community broadband seems to be the only real way to go these days.
This is super exciting. It makes no mention of on device bandwidth.
How do these types of licenses deal with software updates in general? Presumably, at some point they'll need to buy a new license anyway, and the issue will be moot, right?

And Rosetta will probably be around for a while...
Deutsche Bank Research: Tax home workers 'to help those who cannot'
Personally I like this new direction Google is going. I am someone who much prefers to pay a few bucks a month over having my data used for ad targeting. Ideally I'd like to see them make all Google platforms ad-free for Google One subscribers.
This is basically the opposite of prepping advice. If the world collapses, debts will all be wiped clean, you're going to feel like an idiot if you just paid off your loans and now we're all back to bartering. It would be much preferable to have a new and expensive car to barter away than nothing but the printout of a bank statement before the bank was liquidated by aliens.

I think this person just has a philosophy of debt and justifies it as "prepping" even though it's not prepping related at all.
Because it's easier to produce and extract. The zip format also allows creating self-extracting files (I'm referring to SingleFileZ). I'm not sure this is possible with the WARC format.
Author here! Happy to take any questions or feedback about this post.

I'm not an expert on computer hardware or building servers, but I feel like there aren't good resources for people at the intermediate level of choosing components for their home server, so I wrote this in the hopes that it might be useful to others interested in building a home VM server.
I'm still waiting to become skilled enough or end up invested in a project enough to merit dedicated super fast SSD storage, or some kind of exotic storage appliance!
This is actually pretty cool. Every time theorem proving comes up, I make some mild complaints about not having any examples from real analysis or calculus like the mean value theorem. They in fact do and they can be found here [1]. Personally, I don't find it particularly easy to read, but I am appreciative that there are some good examples of proofs that more people would be familiar with than, for example something from number theory.

[1] https://leanprover-community.github.io/mathlib_docs/analysis...
So one can look at the chip on beside the storage as an cpu offload built inside the drive, instead of a coprocessor on the motherboard. I’m not seeing a huge use case here except the narrowest of uses like decryption, compression.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25060973, which points to something other than a corporate press release.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Can we generate a large batch of fake data to counter this situation? Guess I'm probably wishful thinking...
I can get a 1TB storage server from Time4vps for about $60 (they charge in euros). That gives me the ability to store stuff with sftp, rsync, or more full featured backup solutions like borgbackup.
I know Rust and Go are at the peak of their hype-cycle here on HN, but I still personally appreciate the language being mentioned in the title - if it's a language I use, I will naturally be more interested.
US internet subscriptions prices are insane. In France you can get 1Gbps Fiber for around €20/month, or ~8Gbps (10G-EPON) for €40/month, VAT included.
I've lived in the US for around 6 years. When I served on the board of a co-operative apartment building, I was taken aback by the level of detail tenants and some board members made for themselves in the event of a major catastrophe.

How gleefully some sprung into action with their N95 masks and crank-powered radios when the pandemic struck! Unfortunately their foresight did not extend to the more pressing existential issues in the building, such as mould, fire safety, security, insurance etc.
How to cluster effectively Quartz jobs
For big web applications or an API, even if they are build in static language you still cannot just remove an endpoint. Maybe something is calling that endpoint once a month and you don't see it, maybe even less, then you only will get to know a lot later.
This isn't true for spectrum or Comcast. Both uss fttn nowadays.
Google Fiber is coming to Cary, NC any day now. I've got the t-shirt to prove it. Meanwhile I've had AT&T fiber for almost two years. So thank you Google for motivating AT&T to trench my city. 1Gbps symmetric for $70/mo no data cap.
Hence why I put "ignoring the initial allocation of resources" in brackets to that point

It seems people on that side want "america first". Throw all political shenanigans used to try to implement that and party leaders outside of the window; that idea is not absurd

I'm sure if we found a macguffin that instantly catapulted us into a true post-scaricty economy, lots of that rhetoric would subside. Over a few generations
At this point what does bumping up already fast speeds even further (1 Gig/2 Gig/5 Gig whatever) in a handful of neighborhoods really achieve? No one needs that much bandwidth today, and the vast, vast majority of the country (even most urban areas) is still struggling to get any reliable broadband.
Would it sound crazy if I said fixing news is the most important problem facing the world right now?
Natural disasters and societal collapse are totally separate things.

They're similar, but similar in the same way a paper cut is to a life threatening laceration. It's a spectrum to be sure, but you need dramatically different strategies to deal with them.
I make Beekeeper Studio (https://beekeeperstudio.io). This looks really interesting, especially as it is open source.

Do you have many FOSS users self-deploying it?
I live suburbs but family members that live rural generally keep a loaded gun ready for people who appear on their property at 2am. Areas that dont freeze in the winter in the PNW currently have encampments all throughout forested areas and empty homes will get squatters. Additionally if a large property is not policed, drug and/or squatter RVs will set up in the property. People that dont have dogs or alarms probably sleep right through visits. The feelings about prepping are often the same about guns. "Nobody ever needs an assault rifle!" Yeah, some people actually do need a rifle just like they need to prep as well.
> while renewables are CUTTING part of solar energy, so they decrease global temperature

Do you know why solar panels looks dark, almost black? Because they absorb as much solar as they can. IN real life if you cover surface with panels, albedo would decrease and system as a whole would absorb MORE solar energy. But part of absorbed energy would be converted to electricity and do some work. At the end it all would be heat, so on pure heat basis solar panels would increase temperature
Is fiber still a good last mile solution compared to putting 5G on the roof?
They definitely should. Even if the profit on the device wouldn't be decisive, but chip making is all about production numbers. Using the Apple Silicon first for all the Apple owned cloud servers and then offering them in Xserve units would be very profitable and could reduce the power draw of data warehouses a lot.
> History manipulation is a nono

(He means on his private computer)
I hit that limit a few years ago. With kids you take a lot more photos. It cost me something like $2.99 a month for 100GB on Google
First, your argument is different from the comment to which I replied. Whether Trump _is_ a racist and whether people have reasons for believing he is a racist that they can articulate are two completely different things.

>I use the classic and correct definition of racism

I really don't have any interest in debating what definition of racism is better - certainly not which one is "correct". But dictionaries and definitions are descriptive and subject to change; they're not normative. If your argument hinges on a different definition of a word, you're no longer have a good faith discussion with someone.
Taming AWS Costs with Apache Druid
How do you prevent advertisers from having editorial control? (implicit or explicit)
The Go team is extremely friendly, so I encourage anyone thinking they could improve the language to open a feature request on GitHub: https://github.com/golang/go/issues
Yeah, I'm mostly picking on Apple and their ardent refusal to use articles ('on [an] iPhone...', 'We've made [the] iPad xxx times faster') which drives me crazy for some reason, and also nodding to The Onion's aardvark 'Macbook Wheel' spoof. It could go either way.
I've been strongly interested in computational fabrics for at least 15 years... this looks interesting, but very, very locked down.

It is my understanding that FPGA vendors have fought the open source community every step of the way. I would hate to see the future of computing locked up in a new spiffy prison.
As a heads up, the Boyd book is available free on his website.

http://vmls-book.stanford.edu/
I've been looking into doing an SBC K8s cluster, but had my eyes on the ODroid N2+. Its big.LITTLE design with 4 high-performance cores and 2 low-performance ones would not only boost the compute capacity vs the RPi4, but also perhaps cgroups on the nodes could be configured such that pods only run on the 4 high-performance cores, leaving the 2 low-performance ones available for system daemons, kubelet, etc. The biggest drawback with the N2 is that it maxes out at 4GB of RAM, which might not be sufficient for the cluster master nodes. So maybe the master nodes could be 8GB RPi4s, while all the worker nodes are N2s.
Vendors do have stable ABIs: libc. You don't have to be writing in C to make calls into C libraries, and it would be rather strange for a language to be unable to use the C ABI, yet claim to be a systems programming language. You might notice that no other language has this problem.

Besides, Go does use libc on macOS (now), and always used Win32 API calls on Windows, so it clearly can be done. It's just that for a while, they've decided that being fast on macOS was more important than respecting the ABI stability guarantees from the OS.
Not the best example since there was a severe earthquake in Pompeii in 62 AD. They were still rebuilding in 79 AD when the town was destroyed by Vesuvius.
... the fastest ? in france we had 5gbit for a few years and some providers are starting to get close to 10gbit for their fiber offers: https://blog.ariase.com/box/faq/debit-fibre-free#:~:text=Fre....
Relying on them, no.

But in practice natural disasters are rarely a "collapse of society" sort of thing. It's more that you should have supplies and shelter, and a way to communicate. In the middle of difficulties where people work together, I'd say that's "society" in action.

"Collapse of society" tends to be more descriptive of human-driven disasters such as war and civil war, where people start turning against each other and there's high levels of mutual distrust and violence.
It's easy to dismiss the concerns out of hand and spout basic handling rules that soldiers do get, btw and are drilled into them.

The wisdom is realizing that all of this goes out the window when the shit hits the fan. Also unless you're training your entire family on weapon use, they will be untrained folks around dangerous weapons.

There is a reason barracks do not allow weapons and all that stuff is under guard in a proper armory.

Your flippant response sounds more like a religious defense than practical consideration of real situations. There's a reason a large number of firearm deaths are one of the above categories I listed.
Would be cool if you could create a whitelist of websites, then have a feature to check if any other users have more recent versions of those sites (if they happen to be online). This way you get decentralized site updates without actually going to each site itself.
When you do, it would be interesting if the form could be generated with specialized widgets from a JSON Schema Validation.

It would probably be a lot of work, but would make life a lot easier for people who use that. Automatically populating enum dropdowns, numeric range enforcement, etc. On the other hand, you wouldn't need to make your own UI to edit the field typings since many JSON Schemas can be generated from code, or with existing visual tools for people who prefer visuals.
I don't think Iodine is safe to use for long periods.
I've had AT&T gigabit fiber in Louisville for four years now and it's fully symmetric. I frequently run speed checks and I always see uploads close to 1gbit.
Yes, that's a good point. The Perl repo and services are also relying on donations from various companies. That said, it's easier to switch donors than it is to switch repositories.
Message buses, as a source of truth, pass events around without much knowledge of its content relative to what applications need to process. They maintain history and offset of events based on topics.

Sink/aggregators listen to events and, as per instructions, store payloads into db for efficient storage or optimized querying. The query service is only connecting to that db to execute queries. It's possible to have multiple dbs that store the same exact data but for different purposes. i.e. sql for normalized data or acid transactions and nosql for fast map reduce ...

A properly designed system, treats dbs as disposable. Meaning, delete any db at anytime and just play back events from the beginning or from the last snapshot and rebuild a new db.

Unfortunately making message buses the single source of truth is not that easy, and scary. Kafka is an expensive family relative, you better make sure you have the $$$ & the initial configuration is near perfect but still streaming requires some experts to help you get it right.

Nats Steaming is good alternative to Kafka, I use and recommend it personally, but not perfect at high scale, like billions of events/day. Jetstream, successor to Nats Streaming, is coming but it's barely in preview stage and would need another year or so to be qualified for prod usage.
Alpha version of ApostropheCMS 3.0 official release
How we designed Dropbox’s ATF – an async task framework
Are you thinking of JITs? And yes those are allowed.
Hard to know exactly as people get it from multiple sources, but there are a few hundred thousands downloads on Dockerhub, people run it from source, and it's packaged for OpenWrt, Arch (AUR), Fedora (COPR) and a few other Linux distributions. So yeah, quite a few users.
Few people need sustained 2 gbps access, but everybody could use it in a bursty way.

Every time I turn on my PS4 there's it seems like there's some multi-gigabyte update that I have to apply first. I'd love for that to be pulled down in a few seconds rather than ten minutes.
On Breaking One's Neck: A Doctor's Near-Death Experience
Well, obviously, the answer is a large family. I have 12 kids. Keeping watch should be easy.

Dogs can help. There is a trade-off to be had. Larger dogs can actively participate in defense, but they require lots of food. Geese might be a better option; they seem to be happy eating grass.
I have a private HN client that does this and more but I don't want to release it and destroy what we have here. I've gone a step further and removed username display next to comments so I make judgements based solely on the content of the message.
CDC says masks protect wearers from Covid-19
I believe they're still expanding in Utah at least.