skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good enough. The mansions are photo setups that look pretty and provide background for videos. The company gets money, the influencers have nice background to look rich, and the public have something to increase their insecurities.
The FTC’s principal purpose is consumer protection and preventing unfair/deceptive business practices. Facebook isn’t a consumer and Facebook’s principal business is antithetical to the FTC’s mission. So while they certainly have jurisdiction over advertising they really ought not be acting on behalf of facebook in any meaningful way. Even to the extent consumer interests align with facebooks (I’m skeptical) the appearance of impropriety by having this meeting far outweighs any potential consumer benefit.
One thing can be better than another, even if that other thing is better than something else. What point are you trying to make?
I really appreciated this piece, Jessica. Primarily because of its focus. I've heard many of the points in it before, but the fact you narrowed it down to these three and then included practical and specific commentary (based on your deep experience with startups) on each was very helpful.

Thank you.
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I'm confused by your example also ... if the points are iid then how can the order influence the estimate? They are independent of each other, so there is no way for points 1 - 5 to influence the next data value sampled from the distribution.

Or to put it another way, if i(D) is a function of the ordering, then isn't by definition the ultimate random process observed through i(D) not iid even if D is iid?
But you'd need more trucks to move equivalent goods; seems like a wash to me.
Gensim 4.0 beta: faster and leaner fastText, word2vec, doc2vec
I think the parent question is interesting... you say you derive value from them, so it's somewhat conspicuous and seemingly arbitrary (rather than intentional, or calculated) that you've happened upon exactly $0.00 as the value to you, rather than negative (you'd like no ads unless you're being paid to compensate for the pain, loss of privacy, etc.) or positive (because you enjoy them and derive value out of them as a discovery service)...
Noah crossed to the earth on his spaceship ark :D
(c) ("caustic design" or "caustic engineering") is fascinating to me. I'd never heard of this before, and it looks like it can even be done with real-world materials:

https://lgg.epfl.ch/publications/2012/caustics/Architectural...
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Not a fan of targeted ads, but which ad to show you is only half of the part. The other part is tracking conversions, aka finding out if you actually bought some item after you saw the ad.

Also, ads don't have to work for everyone. If they work for some folks, it's already profitable for the platforms. And they do work.
Ubuntu ESM is 8 years, significantly shorter than RedHat's 12 year maximum.
It's not surprising that it's slow. Handling files has 2 costs associated to it: One is a fixed setup cost, which includes looking up the file metadata, creating connections between all the services that make it possible to access the file, and starting the read/write. The other part is actually transferring the file content.

For small files the fixed cost will be the most important factor. The "transfer time" after this "first byte latency" might actually be 0, since all the data could be transferred within a single write call on each node.
>`nix-env -i` being slow and unrecommended is a known meme that is addressed in upcoming tooling

Can you provide more info on that?
That's just a fortunate excuse in that scenario.
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On a different time scale it does. It’s selecting against groups/societies that reward, value or permit the kinds of behaviours and belief systems that allow such doggedly wilful ignorance to flourish.
Road wear creates the variations that ice exacerbates.
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So say you have a solution for your object storage and it is plenty. Then a different product pops up, solves the same problem in exactly the same way, and costs the same. Migrating isn't free and at the end you have two suppliers to manage. Does that make any sense at all? I think not.

There is a different case that makes sense: you have object storage and it's not sufficient, so you go look for object storage suppliers that deliver something different so it suits your need. Now it makes sense to look for a service that is relatively similar to what you are already using but is better in a factor that is significant for your application (i.e. speed of object key changes), now it does make sense.

Marketing just says: "Look at us, we are faster". I think that message is not going to matter unless that happens to be your exact problem in isolation, which isn't exactly common; systems don't tend to run in isolation.
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Censoring? De-monetizing maybe but they do that with every video mentioning Covid no matter the contents.
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By the way, what would Apple lose in revenues if it blocked all ads outright, at least in apps where it has complete control of what it's allowed or denied?
> majority of the popular vote in the US voted for someone that does believe in science

You're an optimistic one. They would have voted for a three legged donkey with a nose ring and gold tooth. As long as it wasn't DJT.
The axioms for a vector space and an inner product are exactly what you need to derive a full formal proof of all those.
This is old news. Anybody knows (web.archive diff) which paragraphs were changed or added recently?
So what you're saying is that better ad targeting would improve your experience?
More of a YC jobvert than an ad, YC cos have special submissions which have a decay from the front page, they start at spot 7 iirc
Anti-trust action can't come fast enough.
You could still make the system more resilient to fraud, as well as easier to audit by introducing several levels of integrity protections. For example, it would cost next to nothing to capture pictures of all mail in ballot envelopes, and keep them for a few years. It would not cost much to release all voting data (both time series and totals) for free for statistical analysis in a uniform, machine readable format. Such data currently costs substantial amounts of money, and one of the most credible election integrity investigations (and the only one that yielded robust statistical evidence as far as I know) had to spend quarter of a million dollars to acquire it for several states. It would not cost much to capture the counting with a 4K webcam for future inspection and keep videos for a few years. It would not cost much to have uniform ballot mailing and arrival deadlines across states. It is also technically possible in 2020 to have voting systems that are not easily defeated after 1 minute intrusion by someone with the right tooling and a modicum of training. We have people on this site easily capable of designing such systems, as well as easily defeating the systems in use today. A lot of people (nearly all democrats) were interested in such things during Bush years, and demonstrated how easily hackable voting machines and systems are, only to promptly lose all interest and declare that everything is impenetrable the moment Obama was elected. Videos of their exposes are still on YouTube for everyone to see. For the record: I voted for Obama both times.
This is exactly right. You're in a sense taxing safety!
Reading through your article, this solution is built on top of s3. So, moving and listing files is faster, presumably due to a new metadata system you've built for tracking files. The trade off here, is that writes must be strictly slower now than they were previously because you've added a network hop. All read and write data now flows through these workers. Which adds a point of failure, if you steam too much data through these workers, you could potentially OOM them. Reads are potentially faster, but that also depends on the hit rate of the block cache. Would be nice to see a more transparent post listing the pros and cons, rather than what reads as a technical advertisement.
I'll give you last word if you reply to this comment, since this discussion seems like something that generally doesn't belong on this site.

But, Germany did not cause two world wars.
Ford to launch new digital platform to sell used vehicles
I started when I was 10, first paid job when I was 15 or 16, got out in my 30s. I still love coding, and do it every day, but I can't see myself doing it for money again.

I urge you to put your skills to good use at your leisure and for your own pleasure, not as a job, but as an art. You can make the world a better place.

Thank you for sharing your YouTube channel, I find it inspiring.
If "viewing all at once" in a single UI is more important then security, reliability, etc., you don't have many constraints to begin with.
I would be just as thrilled if companies gave me ads for things I wanted to buy, as long as the ad was not stopping me for doing what I was doing at the moment.

As it is the closest I get is ads for something I looked at 20 days ago and decided not to buy.
Looks no different to Alluxio or Minio S3 Gateway or the dozens of other S3 caches around.

Would've been more interesting had it taken advantage of newer technologies such as io_uring, NVME over Fabric, RDMA etc.
Confluence wiki since it’s work, might as well share it to others. Obviously, don’t share your private thoughts.
People who have made a difficult personal sacrifice for their ideals often react poorly to that sacrifice becoming obsolete, and transform the now unnecessary sacrifice into a social marker.

In this case: meat is enjoyable, but eating it is unethical, so I will make the sacrifice not to eat it. If it becomes possible to eat meat while still being ethical, then I still won’t because it marks me as someone who is willing to make a sacrifice to be ethical.
> Debian contributors don’t do it for the money, so they will be there when money runs out; and they don’t do it for being cool either, so they will be there when OS work is not cool.

This is a great sentence, probably one of the most important (and underrated) ideas in FOSS and engineering more generally. A lot of critical work is not lucrative or glamorous - does your project recognize and support the people who do that work?
Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25155451
You don't need complex systems for all E2E voting systems. Scantegrity II [1] uses pretty simple systems. A particularly nice thing is that casting your vote just involves filling in a bubble on a paper ballot--no electronics is involved at all in the voting booth. Machine counting just uses the simple optical scan counters that are an old and reliable technology.

It also provides receipt freeness [2].

About half of all districts in the US already use the optical scan counters, which means if we switched to this half the districts would not need any expensive new equipment. All the mathematical/cryptographic magic is in how the ballots themselves are printed and in the pens used to fill the bubbles.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scantegrity

[2] https://eprint.iacr.org/2010/502.pdf
Well in short those properties all have (generalized) definitions that rely on the inner product one way or another. Denoting the inner product as <x,y> you get:

Pythagoras: <x,y> = 0 implies <x+y, x+y> = <x,x> + <y,y>.

Paralellogram: 2(<x,x> + <y,y>) = <x+y, x+y> - <x-y, x-y>

Angles: cos(angle from x to y) = <x,y> / sqrt(<x,x><y,y>).

Transpose: x^T is the dual vector defined by: x^T(y) = <x,y>.

the last one is especially subtle because most people think you can get the transpose by just flipping the vector, which is technically true but means you're basing your results on a possibly arbitrary choice of basis.

As an example of why knowing these relations is useful, imagine you want to measure angles on a map, then you might notice that there's no easily identifiable inner product, and indeed just measuring angles in an arbitrary projection will give different results depending on which projection you happen to be using. The trick is to go back to 3D space and measure the angles there (relying on the canonical inner product of 3D space) or to use a projection that preserves those angles like Mercator.

As another example conjugate gradient descent works better by using directions that are orthogonal through a more natural inner product rather than ones that just happen to be orthogonal because of your choice of basis.
The operating system will explicitly tell you at runtime if ECC support is available. If this returns an affirmative value, then ECC is working.

Support for patrol scrubbing is a bit more variable. It's supported in my ASRock motherboard (B450M Pro4). It was also supported in two previous ASUS motherboards (AMD AM2 and AM3 platforms, respectively), although they called it something else that I can't remember. As well, a lack of a setting for patrol scrubbing doesn't necessarily mean that it's unavailable; it could just be enabled but not user-configurable.
I did a bit of fact checking of some claims myself. The all fall into three categories.

1. Misreading a graph

2. Not knowing enough statistics to be able to make sense of something that can't easily be represented in a simple graph.

3 lying.

I checked about 10 claims and most of them were in category 1. Kinda depressing.
Can Ford succeed in competing against Carvana and Vroom? I don't know, but it's the only one of the Big 3 that would even entertain trying.
Why not add someone as a viewer to the private repo as needed?
No reason to not just tie it to the rego.

Let the drivers report the odometer reading, and add the amount for the last period to the new cost.

You'd get some folks who lie, but there's already inspections in place for sales in some states. If the owner wants to sell the vehicle, require an odometer check and a final payment.

Basically - I don't really think there's a ton of extra admin cost here. Most folks will self report just fine.

Plus, we should be encouraging emissions inspections anyway. At least in the US many states require yearly or bi-yearly inspections to confirm nothing is wrong with the emissions systems in the vehicle. Good way to encourage basic maintenance and to vet manufacturer emission claims against real world data.

It's tied to yearly vehicle registration there too, and includes an odometer reading.
You can do this using s3backer, goofys etc to mount S3 as a host filesystem and then use the host path provisioner.
There's iPhone and there's insulin. I talked about iPhone not insulin.

I am not the one making ignorant comment or logical fallacies.

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/academic_writing/...
So. I have to ask, why? A pair seems to be $6 on Amazon. Why wouldn't one simply order it and expense it? And even if expensing weren't possible for some reason, was it really worth your time?
The purpose of ads is to get you to buy things you wouldn’t have otherwise. The vendors aren’t interested in you being informed, that would mean considering competitive products.
Frivolous overconsumption is harmful to society and the environment, not just to your wallet.
Does anything like this exist?:

- A program to build a bootable Linux image from a config file, like NixOS

- The image is tiny, like Alpine Linux

- Support for x86, Raspberry Pi, DigitalOcean, and EC2

There is a project to build bootable NixOOS images for Raspberry Pi [1], but it produces 2GB+ images. The iteration time to build + copy + boot is about 10 minutes. And the images are too large to easily distribute.

Packer [2] has some of these things, but it has to run on an actual EC2/DigitalOcean VM to produce images for them. That's a lot of extra config, potential for cost overruns from failed VM shutdowns, more secrets to manage, and more ACLs to maintain.

[1] https://github.com/Robertof/nixos-docker-sd-image-builder

[2] https://www.packer.io
Next step: The browser must not be anything but Chrome.
Are there any good morse code keyboards for phones these days, though? iDitDahText was good, but only for iOS and it's no longer.

Some baseline features to expect are being able to slide between keys, auto-repeat, and iambic keying. None of the alternatives had all of those last I checked.
> One of the big problems is that early in the Pandemic, the WHO, Fauci and most media said that Masks were useless.

No, the problem was that people took the statement that we didn't yet have the evidence on efficacy to mean that masks were useless.

Not having evidence... Means that things can go either way. And the WHO didn't even stop by saying no evidence, they said no evidence, and then went ahead and said it might help anyway.

> Although there is no evidence that this is effective in reducing transmission, there is mechanistic plausibility for the potential effectiveness of this measure. - WHO
German Wikipedia even notes that the fungus is related to ergot.
> I'm in no way responding to the blog, as you can see in my 4 points.

Your opening line in no way makes that clear:

> A couple of healthy reminders to avoid drama and FUD:

If your intent was to "in no way respond to the blog," you should have instead written something like this:

"Unlike the article, it seems like a lot comments here are intent on spreading FUD about Debian..."

> I recommend attending Debian events in person (once COVID is gone) to see that 99% of interactions between people are very friendly.

In the meantime, I'd recommend reading the blog: in it a Debian developer mentions having very friendly interactions with other Debian friends before diving into a technical, respectful, and detailed critique of the developer UX in Debian.
Perhaps that's true. I wouldn't put it past Scorsese. It does remind me of this though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9dbO56vl3A
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Many things end up at exactly $0.00 because the transaction costs (handling payments, dealing with refunds, reporting taxes, etc.) exceed whatever value the thing has.

This is part of the reason why so many things are ad-supported to begin with -- even if someone is willing to pay $0.03 to read a random article, there's no effective way to collect that.
That other person is trolling
Yeah they like the Smilla's Sense of Snow shiver :) scientificamerican and history channel....
Debit card targeting millennials is ‘operating without permission’
http://archive.is/ZR0Q6
Conversely, I picked up a book titled "All the Real Indians Died Off", which was intended to dispel such myths about Native Americans. One of the first chapters was an attack on the Bering land bridge hypothesis as "just a theory" with language that directly echoed creationist texts, which then went on to dismiss any suggestions that American Indians are descendants of migration and spiraled out to attack science itself. No alternative theory was put forward.

After that, I naturally flipped ahead to the chapter about the myth that "Indians are Anti-Science." It opened with the sentence, "Few people in the world have more reason to be anti-science than American Indians," then said that calling Indians anti-science is inflammatory, moved on to reject Western science as anti-Indian, and then redefined science as any passed-on knowledge that makes life easier. I didn't read the rest of the book.
Ask HN: Have you tried leaving social media
Have you tried leaving social media such as instagram,
twitter and Facebook.

And felt fear of missing out.

How did you deal with that situation and what made you leave the social media.

My personal story: i have been using Instagram for about two years within those two I really tried hard getting off from it but still struggled and ended up back on Instagram.
I decided to leave instagram for thirty days to see if I’ll be able to completely leave it but it was hard and ended up back on it

I would love to hear out from the community and there personal experiences and how did they coped with it.

Another last question has social media played an important role in your life
The article also describes a coup that failed, and yet the damage was already done, and consequences ensued.
Yes, I don't see why they wouldn't. If everyone is wearing masks then the likelihood of transmission is lower. Also the viral load of any transmission may also be lower, which could improve the outcome.
> Can you point to any time since the adoption of the Presidential Transition Act of 1963 that the GSA has waited until Electoral College vote to begin the transition process as required by law, or, in the alternative, provide any legal argument as to why you believe that every Presidential Transition since then has been conducted illegally?

You're missing the point. Usually the transition happened early because the winner and the loser agreed on who had won. At this time, the official results are still in doubt. Therefore there isn't a reason to begin official transition.
I wish they'd at least quit being sneaky about stuff like this. This wasn't mentioned in the release notes at all. Just a section inside the privacy section of the knowledge base.
The point is to tax externalities so that incentives are aligned. In this case you'd get much less road wear for the same cargo delivered.
Like you, I am not "normal".

Today's economy not only is based on people buying thing they don't need, with money they don't have, to impress people they don't like; but also it is rooted to the core of the ID and Ego, it's a quasi-spiritual experience, and, like all belief-system, when challenged, it would bring out its ugly side.

Did you read the book: The Millionaire Next Door? You'd enjoy that. I bet your local library has it.
Agree with all the comments here. Once you get your head around it, it’s fast and capable – until you run into a corner case it doesn’t support (attributed text was the big one for me). Then you end up needing to wrap UIKit, which is straightforward except there is a new set of corner cases to deal with, eg. content sizing, embedding in native scroll views, etc. It all does work in the end but it takes a while to get there, and I know I’ll be replacing a lot of code as SwiftUI evolves. Having said that, it’s probably a better situation than releasing a half-baked but more featured framework.

Also yes, the documentation is terrible.

A few things I found helpful - https://gist.github.com/lhoward
Google literally has the keys to a kingdom. Should Google's box ever be opened, countries will burn. Let's face it, the definition of a monopoly is insufficient on a global scale.

Merely restricting their own sign-in service impacts over 1.5 billion people. Of course, most are unaffected.
I haven't. I have deleted some accounts, but a trail of forums, typically writing forums, with my email and some one-off password, has followed me for about half a decade. Honestly don't know how to fix that. Of the big ones, I have like a Facebook and a CraigsList, which I use for selling, plus YouTube for music.
I’m doing computer stuff while listening to music in a comfortable office/home so I don’t have to till the fields or hunt deer to eat.
> But, until today, there has been no equivalent to ADLS for S3.

ObjectiveFS has been around for several years. How is HopsFS better?
I don't see why a large family would be an excuse. You need a large vehicle because you chose to need a large vehicle?
Get a coach, worked for me.
A Dutch journalist was able to access a confidential EU defence minister meeting
Better ad targeting definately can improve the user experience ... but the path to get there is insidious ...
You could but I would do thorough real-world benchmarks.

EMRFS has dozens of optimisations for Spark/Hadoop workloads e.g. S3 select, partitioning pruning, optimised committers etc and since EMR is a core product it is continually being improved. Using HopsFS would negate all of that.