skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is true in a vacuum, but I feel it misses the mark having run my own personal array for 20+ years. For the most part, individuals have very little mission critical data (unless they're videographers or professional photographers). Ergo, most data on personal arrays is going to be non-critical - eg VM images, old drive images, build trees, downloaded datasets, torrented media.

Does it make sense to double your cost (/halve your capacity) by backing up the whole thing, especially when the backup is likely to be more spinning rust? I've recently chosen to do so (while also backing up the critical data several different ways), but haven't always. I can understand people who still choose otherwise. Either way my main concern is a single raidz3 and I'm going to have a bad week if I lose that, independent of what can be rebuilt.

In general, personal users of ZFS are very different than institutional users of ZFS. Hopefully not too divergent, so those raidz code paths still receive lots of testing and support. But you need to always keep this in mind when reading any advice about ZFS.
Some people don't need to/feel like rushing life and can take their time to use the bathroom.
It is more than just a formality. To no longer be considered a CA resident for tax purposes you need to abandon your CA domicile and establish a new one. The CA franchise tax board is more aggressive at pursuing taxes owed than most states. If you spend more than half of your nights in CA, it is very likely you will be a resident for tax purposes. Presumably he will hire experts and listen to their advice, and he sold all property in CA. But lots of people get caught trying to dodge these taxes unsuccessfully.
If she knew where the treasure was, she could have gone and picked it up. Clearly she did not. Her case seems to lack any merit (from what I have read) and I imagine she will have to pay for his legal fees in the end.

I kind of feel sorry for her. I read someplace that she has more or less given up her job, moved to NM and lives out of her car.

The guy who did find it should clearly NOT settle though. You do it once and the next crazy will come out of the woods looking for their handout.
And for a successful action on the same subject, see this recent Spotify / Songshift request from a user: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24764371
Each 12 drive array would have an interesting physical block layout.

What was your ASHIFT and what was your physical disk raw sector size because if you had a ASHIFT=9 you would have 5120k blocks, if it was a ASHIFT=12 you would have physical 40960 blocks. None of those line up well with zfs.

Additionally if this was a long time ago the pool would have defaulted to ASHIFT=9 and if you added any 4K drives you could have been having write amplification occurring.

Looks as if you had your drives doing a lot of unnecessary extra wasted work.
I would have thought East Texas would have been the place to be wary.
I second this, but I guess I'm biased towards replicable experimentation.
There is only so much order flow they could get if most people did what you do. The fact that the have been down in high volatility days indicates to me there is plenty of trading going on.
He just wants a cowboy hat like his brother
Congrats! Totally inspiring. Curious to know what you found to be the most challenging aspect of going public to be: sec filing, on the roadshow selling yourself to institutional investors, adjusting to a quarterly wall street mindset, or pricing the listing itself? Bloomberg last night made the point that the $DASH listing was around 2x over-subscribed. Contrasted to a 200x over-subscribed offering for JD Health on HKEX!
Makes me wonder what you think about the former president

> seek out some of these powerful positions to roam free
>We could post stuff about previous commenter, based on literally nothing, doing bad stuff to little kiddies and they would be deleted by HN.

And nobody would believe it if it wasnt deleted. They'd just be irritated by it.

Nonetheless that's not political speech (unlike the YouTube vids) . It's basic libel.

Goebbels was in favor of free political speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of freedom of political speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise - whether that's Trump or whomever. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech.
The speed at which people will find those quotes, and the speed at which you'll equivicate so you don't have to delete your account, is going to be fun to watch.
You can be right, the market can be wrong, and then the market can crash before you can exit the position.

Imagine, for instance, trying to get actual USD (NOT USDT!) for BTC when that fever dream ends.
Maybe they don't have an unlimited budget for bandwidth charges? I'd strongly recommend they go behind a (free or cheap) caching CDN first before removing limits.
Orwellian drivel.

> If you are against censorship, how can you stand behind such a President

If you are against censorship, how can you be against censorhip of the president and his supporters?
Seems like this fits in well with Hyundai's autonomous car project Motional, which is also based in Boston.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/11/21362322/hyundai-aptiv-mo...
Show HN: Deploy a translation API for 100+ languages with machine learning
One pound of weight is equal to 3500 calories, so that's 7 * 500. Whoops, looks like I dropped the extra 0.
Amazon promoting its own brands isn't much different from a supermarket offering its own brand items.

Amazon promoting its own brands is completely different from a supermarket offering its own brand items. You're confusing a bazaar with a retail store; the two are nothing alike legally or economically.

The supermarket pays for everything on its store shelves (except, rarely, for certain new products on a consignment basis in which case it only sales for units actually sold). Thus, it is irrelevant to the manufacturer whether the supermarket promotes their store-brand product or the name brand product; they've already been paid by their primary customer. Moreover, in essentially all cases, the name brand also made the store brand.

In contrast, Amazon not only sells alongside its third-party sellers, it uses its access to their sales data to come up with its own competing products. Notably, and very importantly: Amazon does not pay for the third-party sellers products available on its website, the third-party sellers have to pay that.

The manufacturers get paid either way (by the retailer, third-party seller, or Amazon if Amazon.com is the seller). But in the case of Amazon, the third-party sellers on Amazon's website get screwed, and that is where the antitrust concern lies.
Ask HN: Liberal seeking conservative pen pal for good faith debate
Is there a venue for matching people with politically opposed views to meet, learn, share, and debate with each other in good faith? I have wanted to do this for awhile and I think now it is more important than ever. My views are for the most part what one would label as "liberal" as opposed to "conservative" in the common but highly reductive US political terms. My social media bubble is an echo chamber so I only ever see strawman arguments in opposition. I don't talk about politics with co-workers for the same reason I don't talk about sports or religion---it never ends well!

I want to meet smart people with politically different views who are also interested in healthy debate. By "healthy" I mean you should both expect and extend respect for each other's right to hold our opinions. I would not be trying to "convert" anyone to my point of view. I will be open-minded enough to admit to not having all the answers. I will commit to logical, well-reasoned discussion. Argumentation can be heated, but personal attacks are off limits. I genuinely want to understand how other people think, especially those who have come to different views about topics than I have.

I would prefer a 1:1 format, or perhaps a small group discussion board. Real time video would probably be best to promote honest discourse due to the human connection, but might be logistically difficult to arrange, and I also want both sides to have time to think before preparing responses.

Any interest?
Except for the fact that a mainstream democrat is a center-right politician anywhere else in the world. The "far-left" you reference doesn't exist outside Twitter and a small group of congresspeople, giving that small group an outsized image of power isn't very congruent with reality.
>"I think there's solid evidence that option 2 is terrible for us, the USA has had a disastrous COVID response, for instance."

So you are blaming Koch, Russia, information platforms, etc for Government fuckup?

Does your Government decide their actions based on youtube videos? Somehow I doubt and if it does then it only has itself to blame.
Honestly, how does this site differ from a subreddit? How does Reddit "own" a list of links that a user has shared?

What in this site's privacy policy (which is safe to assume is a one-man band with no legal council) make it more transparent or free of shenanigans when I'm just sharing a link?
I actually had long term healing from MDMA, and had no problems putting it down at any time. Of course people with addictive personalities can get addicted, but thats true of almost anything.
I'm no Trump fan, but I try to be open with this stuff and actually tuned into one of the Arizona hearings out of curiosity. It was pretty interesting hearing from a retired US colonel giving evidence to say that these machines are built to be manipulated (1).

While I'm highly skeptical of any of the fraud stuff, I would much rather the opportunity to explore the issue like this myself than have it shut down by corporate gatekeepers.

(1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Wja-JMaNXQ
Let me play devils advocate for a minute. Maybe what Amazon is doing is just fine. If they had to roll all of their services from scratch themselves, they’d be massively more expensive and dramatically less compatible with everything else. The fact that Amazon and many other hosting companies can offer cheap commodity services based on familiar building blocks is a huge benefit to the world enabled by open source. That’s exactly what open source is about, making the world a better place.

I’m not entirely convinced by my own argument, but I’m having trouble seeing the world as on the whole a worse place with AWS in it.
> EDIT: Wasn't trying to suggest your post was insensitive or boneheaded.

Maybe it wasn't, but I think your original sentiment wasn't far off from my reaction to the same OP.

While I haven't struggled all that much with my weight, I know people who have. One of the most important things for weight loss (and anything else for that matter, up to and including break ups, as was in the original example) is support networks. I learned that lesson rather harshly when I went through a really ugly break up earlier this year.

Humans are social creatures, after all, and I can't fault you for your original response.

We need others around us who are a positive influence.
i believe it! certainly a viable option in many cases.

any public demo?
Unfortunately (and I am a fan of psychedelics when used in the 'right' way) I think it is indeed possible to abuse psychedelic drugs, not perhaps in the sense of addiction, but it can still be a habit (with negative consequences) of sorts for some people, either alone or as a part of polysubstance abuse, or be used to manipulate people who are more susceptible under the influence. I have seen some examples of this.
I think "participatory" means something similar here within an ML context. It favors building community-based algorithmic systems and focuses on lowering the barrier to participation, so that non-expert users can be involved during the machine learning development cycle.

I'm not aware of any seminal papers per-say, although here are a few that I've read recently... first one is something I maintain at $DAYJOB:

1) Halfaker, A., & Geiger, R. S. (2020). Ores: Lowering barriers with participatory machine learning in Wikipedia. ArXiv:1909.05189 [Cs]. http://arxiv.org/abs/1909.05189

2) Martin Jr. , D., Prabhakaran, V., Kuhlberg, J., Smart, A., & Isaac, W. S. (2020). Participatory problem formulation for fairer machine learning through community based system dynamics. ArXiv:2005.07572 [Cs, Stat]. http://arxiv.org/abs/2005.07572

Also checkout PAIR:
https://research.google/teams/brain/pair/
Effect of the initial configuration on the training and function of ANN
You can't say "the democrats" were claimed ng fraud. As far as I am aware, no major democrat questioned the legitimacy of the election or claimed widespread fraud. Iirc, the only notable person who claimed widespread fraud in 2016 was Trump himself, so stop claiming equivalency here.
Fun anecdote:

A couple years ago I was at a bar in Marfa, Texas - a small art-centric town that gets a lot of tourism for things like it's fake Prada store (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prada_Marfa) - and overheard a few guys celebrating a birthday. They were all clearly gay, which isn't unusual in Marfa. I started talking with them and it turned out that one of them, who was black, had just bought a ranch a half hour north of Marfa outside the town of Fort Davis. Fort Davis also has a bit of a touristy feel with its exaggerated "old western town" look and because it's right outside Fort Davis State Park, but culturally it's no Marfa.

The fact that an openly gay black man felt comfortable buying farmland in a small Texas town was pretty awesome. I have a hard time believing that would've happened even 10 years ago. In fact, he might be the first.

I hope he still likes it there.
Isn't this quite old though? Can something, which couldn't become mainstream, be the next gen?
Sure, so diners should look at Doordash, see that all that's available at a sustainable price is Taco Bell, and decide whether they want Taco Bell or not. Restaurants that can't afford to be on the platform shouldn't be on the platform.

Also, it doesn't cost a billion dollars to open a restaurant. Restaurants are wasteful, but not that wasteful. And diners don't care how much your restaurant cost you to open, or that you had to get venture capital to do it.
True if looking at individual news stories. However, when looking at significant developments, 5 days is not enough to create proper context. I'm thinking about things like wars, public policy, scientific breakthroughs, major business moves, etc.
Hey HN!

This is a small project I've been tinkering with for a while. In simplest terms, it is an open source web service that enables on-demand translation between over 100 languages using machine learning.

You can deploy it on your own AWS account if you want to try it out. It uses Cortex (an open source ML deployment project I help maintain) to automate deployment and implement multi-model caching, which allows the API to access the models from a remote S3 bucket and cache them in memory as needed. As a result, it only needs one EC2 instance to run, despite serving predictions from +1,000 different 300 MB models.

There’s a ton of room for optimization and customization here. Please feel free to hack it however you’d like. The API uses models trained by the Language Technology Research Group at the University of Helsinki, hosted publicly by Hugging Face.
> haters of every western thing

such a low level of discourse. I thought these kind of comments weren't allowed on HN?
Those are some extraordinary sweeping claims you've made with exactly zero evidence to back them up.
It comes down to whether your company can accept the risks inherent in hosting essential data at a third party site that necessarily provides a bigher attack surface than anything hosted behind the company firewall, but is also monitored by a (dedicated) security team.
Many of Google owned products do not work on Firefox. Google analytics is another example.
It's not new though.
What does CA/Silicon Valley have to offer? There are talented engineers all over the country
Lived there for 4 years, your last couple of sentences made me laugh. People would drop racist statements in conversation as if it was normal, and I guess it was for most people, but not for me, coming for Portland and now living in LA.
It's all fine until they censor us. Sooner or later they'll go to far. In my opinion they already have.

When they censor medical doctors for talking about the facts around HCQ. Or I see PHDs censoring themselves on the subject of covid19 vaccinations instead of being able to have an open, honest conversation.

I don't like all the lies and fake news out there and how easily it sucks people in. But censorship isn't the answer in my opinion.
So you think Voltaire was a liar? That no one could ever support free speech as a principle, even while disagreeing with the content of that speech?
This is one of the scammiest companies to ipo in a while. They're dumping shitty stock on the public and doordash will never, ever make a profit. The way they handle tips should be illegal.
Can someone help me understand why the acquisitions here are considered anticompetitive?

I get it, if I buy the competition, then I'm reducing my competition. If I'm a car wash and I buy another car wash across the street, arguably our services overlap 100%. But maybe the acquired carwash was $4 more expensive and served a more luxury clientele. Is that a competitor or not a competitor or both?

How can you also ever prove that a company being acquired was truly a competitor? What percentage overlap on products and services would be necessary to deem that company a competitor?

My bet is that there is a lack of science here and surplus of qualitative judgment. Educate me please... :)
Marketing works and that means propaganda works. Constant messaging can and will influence people's behavior.

Consumer Reports studies consumer products, product marketing claims, and real-world use. That enables consumers to make more educated purchase decisions. Is there anything like that for political news or news in general? If news is a form of entertainment which is a product, then it deserves some level of critique to measure its accuracy.
> But if you've ever done MDMA you'd certainly know it was a placebo, so it feels like these are people who never had, but imagined what they thought it ought to be like.

There have been times when the effect of coffee or marijauna hits me after a few sips/a bite of an edible, which feels placebo-y. But then I'm aware that it seems to be too fast, even as I start to feel it so fast, so could that still be a placebo effect?

I don't know, but it confuses me.
What funny is that AWS's UI was built with GWT -- Google Web Toolkit -- technology that Google abandon in favor of Angular.
I think the three of us are in agreement here!
Walmart paid for the products on their shelves. Amazon does not pay for most of the products you can buy on Amazon.

The difference, in case it's not clear: Walmart is the manufacturers' primary customer, so it's irrelevant from their point of view what products Walmart chooses to sell in its stores.

The third-party sellers are the manufacturer's customers. The manufacturers still get paid either way. But we're not concerned about the manufacturers; the antitrust issue is with the third party sellers. Since Amazon uses their data to come up with competing products that are sold in the same marketplace, it matters a great deal that Amazon competes with them, and how.
Shrug.

I've had ... interesting interactions with police and even some ornery locals as far south as Austin (yes, that "blue dot surrounded by red" as people like to call it) and as far north as Milwaukee, which isn't that far from where I live now, comparatively.

Kinda stopped believing in that whole "social avarice is relegated to certain parts of the country" stuff before I even hit 23.

(but don't get me started about certain parts of Missouri)
For what it’s worth, the 2->3 update was by far the most consequential; they merged in Merb, rewrote how routes and controllers worked, and completely flipped expectations on how JS and views should work.

Rails 3->6 has had far fewer major user-facing architectural changes, and consisted mostly of new tools and APIs. A lot of stuff they added used to be handled by gems - password hashing, attachments, background jobs, caching, etc. all got rolled into the core framework.

Another comment mentioned https://guides.rubyonrails.org, which is good. I would focus on the new routing style, REST controllers, forms, and strong params; once you wrap your head around those, the rest will probably fall into place, or could be ignored completely.
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> A small case study on how inequality ..

Can you please explain this to me?

Inequality of ... what? Opportunity or outcome?
> Redis adopted a strategy of adding a severely restrictive “commons clause” to updated versions of their existing open source tools,...

Severely restrictive? I'm amazed at how bad (undeserved imho) reputation Commons Clause license got. The new Redis tools' license is basically the same, just less clear. The same with MongoDB and MariaDB's licenses. In effect, they all forbid selling to 3rd parties - and yet, being less clear, they are deemed 'OK' while Commons Clause, clear and to the point, is frowned upon.

I firmly believe that both proprietary and FOSS licenses are extremes and that a new batch of "cloud protection licenses" will help develop software that will protect core users' freedoms and still allow maintainers to work on in fulltime. Commons Clause was simply ahead of its time - I'm waiting for its descendants to prosper.
> But its pretty diverse, and it seems that folks with opposing viewpoints can still coexist here.

I think you're talking about Dallas/Houston/Austin vs everything else. I actually wouldn't necessarily call that diverse, it's in fact polarizing, but that's okay.

At the end of the day, no one in Texas really cares because the economy is strong and people's assets are going up. Until that stops (and it will eventually, like California) then thats where the divisiveness is going to be a problem.
Probably not very many places, but transphobia still has quite a bit of traction.
Light-driven sonar could survey the oceans from the air
Likely because the released emails didn't really show that.
Don't mix Sputnik vaccine with alcohol, says Russian official
I'm sure Facebook buys all the data on you that it can, which in America is an amazing amount of information. Your auto mechanic is likely already selling what is being done to your car to CarFax, etc.