skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As above, this is not a binary, black and white thing, but you keep presenting it as such. It's probabilistic, and higher protection is not free - the tradeoff is engineering.

The actual problem is binary. You either solved it, or you didn't. ECC is "free", but it doesn't actually solve the problem. Actually solving the problem requires engineering.

Of course there's a probabilistic element to it, but the problem is to drive the probability of failure to "vanishingly small". The utility of adding or removing a vanishingly small constant to another vanishingly small constant is vanishingly small. This is what ECC does for you.

> ECC "alone reduces the probability of spurious failure by several magnitudes". That's why it is used.

ECC reduces the probability of spurious failure due to bitflips in DRAM by several magnitudes. However, spurious failure can occur for so many more reasons that the bitflip issue becomes a vanishingly small part.

> I have a feeling your idea of redundancy is having multiple exact copies of a system or data and having them vote, which is a terribly expensive way to do data protection when there are vastly better methods.

As you know, having worked for NASA, this is the right choice under certain circumstances. If there are lives on the line and you have a choice between "not solving a problem" and "a terribly expensive solution", you should go with the latter.

> If you don't think ECC helps a real problem then I see why you don't understand bitflip causing problems.

ECC does not solve the problem of data integrity. If you actually solve the problem of data integrity, you will find that ECC becomes effectively redundant. Do we not fundamentally agree on this? If so, why not?

That's not to say ECC is entirely useless from an administrative standpoint. It makes DRAM bitflips one less thing to worry about. One less thing out of thousands of things. Commensurately, the cost of ECC in a given deployment, like its utility, is vanishingly small.
I think MIT's 6.033 should cover a lot of what you're looking for; it goes deep on the "systems" that build up modern computing.

On OCW: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
I think unions should be just about wages and workloads. It's not obvious to me that collective bargaining is a good way to handle more complex questions about how things ought to be, because rhetoric of solidarity and workers rights can be very easily subverted to serve the personal and ideological goals of union leaders.
BTC is Money, perhaps even more than USD , I don’t know how old are you , but currently there are things(pure physical and digital things) that are only possible to be purchased with BTC, no other payment accepted. So yes , BTC is money , I’m close to people that only use BTC as a main exchange point for value , so BTC is money , weather you want to accept it or not is up to you
> "cancelled" (complained about on the internet)

You are completely misrepresenting what being "cancelled" means to a lot of the people it happens to. It can mean the public causing them to be fired from their job, prevented from finding another job, disconnected from both social and other contacts. Cancelling someone isn't just complaining about them; it's commonly putting for effort to ruin their life.
Be happy they did, you can now build a better a world by stopping feeding facebook. Put your money somewhere else.
How is the difference between some helper tool's parser vs the corresponding copiler's parser an interesting hackable enterprise?
I have observed that they are ineffective whenever I have used them. As I think I have only ever used them when an argument is completely wrong in every regard, it’s good to know why they are ineffective, so thank you for that suggestion.
We are changing the way we rate sustainability of consumer electronics
Goes the other way too. We were looking at some property and were aggressively confronted after going down someone's apparent driveway in the country just like this. It was not
at all clear it was a personal driveway and the person was quite rude.
what do you have in mind other than Facebook and Google as online advertising (actually any advertising) that has the same reach?
obligatory "the market can stay irrational longer than you can remain solvent"
Of course there are other things to do. But the things I had planned for the morning are all being delayed.
Bitcoin is an impetus for democratic governments to implement a better system that will align us all via trust, decision making, and not be rallied through a financial system that has an MLM/pyramid scheme structure - financially incentivized to join/promote it, unnecessarily, unreasonably transferring wealth weighted towards earlier adopters from later adopters.

"Bitcoin is almost as bs as fiat money" - Elon Musk; slightly better bs than fiat money isn't the answer.
Kung Fury was amazing. But after years of Vaporwave, /r/outrun, and all that, not sure that formula will land in the same way.
I haven't worked at Slack, so I can't speak with high confidence. A traffic spike is a possible reason, but I'm willing to bet that it's not the reason:

> Doubt anyone releasing big changes Monday morning.

This is definitely an engineering best practice, and by best practice, I mean something that Uber's, I mean Slack's SRE team strongly pushed for, and got politely overruled on. After a code freeze is lifted, it's quite common for lots of promotion-eager engineers to release big changes.
Ive used both pronunciations of "gyros" and in my experience it's concretely better in the US to use the "wrong" one. As in, if you say it "yeeros" some servers won't know what you're talking about, by "jy-ros" would be understood by all (but some will think you're saying it wrong).

I think it's a case where language is to communicate and you can't be the "correct" person by verbalizing in a way others don't understand.
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ah, I see what you are saying. Better shared pool management by the larger senders would help, but a smaller sender should be able to more aggressively protect their shared IPs; I agree in principle. This is extra important for infrequent sending.

I still contend that a dedicated IP is superior for deliverability reputation as long as you are sending enough email. For a brand new (to you) dedicated IP, it will need to be warmed up (gradually increase the amount of traffic it sends). There are automated and manual processes to accomplish that, including "pre-warmed" dedicated IPs that were previously in a "good enough" shared pool.
When comparing BTC to GOLD

> First, gold is hard to fake and impossible to manufacture.

> Second, gold (...) doesn’t rust or tarnish.

> Last, gold is pretty

to conclude

> On the other hand, BTC lacks all these attributes.

I pretty much reach the opposite conclusion with the same premises
Also posted on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/kqazpd/d_w...
Notion is down for me (and others) as well. Is there a cloud outage somewhere?
Seems to be more than that. Even slack.com in an incognito browser fails.
The NBPA has overseen a huge increase in NBA player's wages over the past few decades, both at the top and for the average or minimum player. Yes, there's a salary cap, but that actually helps the vast majority of players, because otherwise Lebron would get paid 200M/year and the minimum/average players would get basically nothing, and it also ensures competitiveness.

A salary cap is not a reason unions are bad when the salary cap is 800x the average person's income...
Please be sarcasm.
I want to see a remaster, or some sort of faithful remake of SimCity 4. Something about its crisp graphics and trimetric camera projection feels irreplaceable. I still frequently listen to the soundtrack while I work too. God I love that game.

If EA released the sources to it or created a “Definitive Edition” I could die happy.
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It looks like an algorithmic stablecoin pegged to the price of Bitcoin instead of USD like most others.

Those are interesting because the economics are set up to turn greed into a stable value. If the price of the token gets too high or too low, people can make money bringing it back to the peg.
he also says "...as a whole" so depending on how you interpret this it could be as simple as not holding any bitcoin. eg. if you held stocks in every S&P 500 company except GOOG, then you could probably say you were short google "as a whole".
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This fell into a broader question of whether the Extradition Act 2003 has to be enforced notwithstanding the terms of the extradition treaty. The treaty refers to political offences; the Act does not. The answer to this question was yes, the Act is self-contained. Therefore the judge did not need to decide the question of whether it was a political offence. So she did not discuss it or decide the question.

You are correct in a way -- judges do not decide issues that do not need to be decided, and things they do say about those issues are ignored, so yes, she omitted to discuss it.

But you couldn't say she "sided with US prosecutors" on whether it was a political offence or not. If you put that language in the Extradition Act, then you would get a decision on it. It's not so much "chilling for investigative journalism" as a deficiency in the Act itself not accounting for the particular US-UK treaty language or the US' categorisation under the Act that should reflect its recent anti-democratic bent.
No, that's just normal anti-union-FUD. A union doesn't have to imply that it controls everything, or that everyone has to be part of the union to work somewhere.

A union could also just be a large entity that collectively bargain on behalf of the workers, and can do so better than they could separately. Often that involves stuff like better safety, pay, getting rid of bad stuff like non-competes etc. And where I'm from those new things are enforced company wide, not just for the union. So every worker profits from the union, even non-union members.

If anything, the non-union members are the deadweight where I live. They get the benefits, without paying any membership fee.
'CTO freelancer'? How does that work?
He didn't follow whistleblower procedure and fled to an adversary. If he believes he is being noble then he should stand trial in good faith. Best case he wins and gets off, worst case he does jail and is proven right.
Users most definitely want it. They just aren't technically literate enough to know about it.

Hello user, for an extra 10 dollars, would you like to guarantee that cosmic radiation never affects your computing experience, including having to reformat, reinstall, or otherwise reboot your phone/computer randomly when one day something just doesn't work anymore?

Was it an update? Was it cosmic radiation? Was it a bad capacitor? Who knows!

Why do you think so many problems are solved by rebooting? Sure 99 out of 100 might be software bugs, but the other 1 out of 100 is straight up cosmic radiation, and that 1 percent is growing more and more every year as software becomes more robust and bug free with better tooling.
> Majority verdicts are not allowed in criminal cases in the United States, and so a hung jury results in a mistrial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hung_jury
> How's that going for you?

;) Two consecutive flash crashes notwithstnading and the fact that we're all really enjoying our view at 30k+, I'd say says its all. I want more so let it dip longer, please!
Given past experiences, I see large group projects trending towards having CLAs/DCOs where you give up ownership of your code anyway.

Most people don't want to work with random contributors who wish to hold a gun to their heads in perpetuity.
I told you this was going to happen! Some month ago I wrote a comment predicting exactly this.
It's an incredibly similar case...
Some companies do this, though probably not publishing data. Any customer downtime is treated the same - for one, for many, for all (in theory, ha ha). But they take it pretty seriously.
What do you think the software industry will be like 20 years from now? Do you think the cushy salaries and relative lack of gate keeping will stay around? I sure as hell don't.

Unionize now, even if you earn a little less, while you have the most bargaining power, so that later you don't have to fight through pinkerton detectives just to get a seat at the table.

There's a reason companies like Google suppress initiatives to form unions, and build strong zeitgeists within their employee base that unionization is bad. If unionization is so bad why do companies spend so much money breaking it up? For the good of the workers? Bahahaha.
None of the perks are beneficial to the consumer. The consumer just sees the onerous process of converting btc to usd, and sees the currency as speculative like a penny stock and nothing more. The only people who are long interner are the same people as they were 10 years ago. For most people, btc is a slot machine.
Random anecdote:
I remember in his book, Wil Wheaton talks about going to auditions and how the producers are supposed to pay a nominal fee to everyone, but no one ever collects it because it means you’d never get called for further auditions.
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Sudden surge of traffic as all their users returns to work?
Where there is demand, there is supply.
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Bit of a stretch to call Facebook a "partner" to _any_ business. They're racketeers and building a business on the back of them is frankly insane.
Even with vaccinations, this virus will be around for another 10 years. It took 185+ years to eradicate smallpox (mostly from a big WHO push in the 60s/70s). It's still not possible to eradicate Polio. Even with a massive push, it's not like a vaccine will make this go away.

We have a lot of information now about how to treat and not treat this virus. A bunch of early deaths were due to overuse of high pressure ventilators and the Governess of NY and Michigan putting sick elderly people with healthy elderly people in nursing homes without adequate isolation (most had 2 or more people per room) killed a lot of people in the first three months. We overreacted to the virus, like a social auto-immune response.

We also know the fatalities are 95% over 55. This virus has mostly reduced our life expectancy. By 5 years? 1 year? That's difficult to determine at this point. Everyone is going on about "long covid" now, but if you actually read the papers, the whole things starts to break down to a couple of case studies of 40~50 people each. There may be long term effects for heavily exposed people (health care workers) and the elderly, but the "long covid" narrative is another one if abuse and fear; not grounded in hard science and accurate risk analysis.

For things to go back to normal, the vaccine is not the solution. The solution is to stop spreading constant fear. The Great Barrington deceleration has been shunned and dismissed by all major media outlets, yet it's signed by many doctors, academics and professionals and it makes a lot of sense.

Humanity has a new virus and we need to learn to live with that. The countries who have avoided it can keep shut down, but at some point it's no longer going to be feasible to do so.
The misperception that unions are only for blue-collar workers is one of the causes of the decline of quality of life for the average American worker.

America made a massive shift from labor-backed economy to service-sector-backed economy, and in doing so, the percentage of workers in unions dropped drastically. Unions aren't for only labor; they're for any situation where there's an asymmetry in negotiating power between the company owners and the employees (which is, basically, every company).
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What is with all those articles on HN front page about bitcoin?

Is this because BTC price has risen sharply recently?

You don’t have to be genius to understand what is going on: USA printed trillions and gave most of it to already rich people. What are they supposed to do with that money? Only option is buying more real estate, buying stock of their companies, or investing in BTC.

Keep in mind that these trillions hasn’t flow into these assets yet but it will keep flowing and you will see these asset prices increasing.

In essence, if you don’t own any real estate, company stock or BTC then you will essentially own nothing because thieves already sucked all the fiat to its own end.
gold use case is only 5-10% of it's actual market cap
- if gold price were to go up because of currency debasement, it's industrial use will decline
- if gold price were to go down because of let's say BTC, it's industrial use case will increase. Can even replace copper use cases if cheap enough

problem with gold is that there's a consistent 2% supply inflation per year and if gold price shoots up, Miners mine more and i'm technical innovation will inflate supply further(asteroid mining or atleast cheaper mining techniques). So if you're a gold holder, gold miners go against your value. in the long run gold is not a great investment but it is still better than most of the other stuff that can be produced easily with machines etc.

Bitcoin supply issuance is predictable and mathematically known and provable. If prices goes up, more people mining only increases the security and decentralization of the network. So if you are BTC holder, BTC miners are your friends not enemies unlike gold.
It was ropey before SV woke up, I thought it was just my (normally rock solid thanks to using Ubiquity) network having issues.

Guess it was Slack being Slack.
But in the markets, it is not about the technical definition of Bitcoin, it is about how the average market participant interprets what Bitcoin is... Being technically novel does not protect Bitcoin from being treated like currency, and it doesn't alleviate the negative impact of people's (erroneous) conceptualization of it.
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Other data points:

* iMessage was taking its sweet time sending a few texts this morning.

* I had momentary trouble trying to call a business from my Verizon phone, and someone I know had trouble calling from AT&T.

Could just be a coincidence, but I wonder if something larger-scale is happening.
The philosophy of imprisonment is fairly vast, I believe.

But hard/philosophical requirements notwithstanding, prisons tend to be what they are. The famous moral philosopher Jeremy Bentham designed some a "modern" prison system with some of these goals in mind, especially reform. The result was quite horrific.
At least when irc goes down you can still access your logs
Sounds like they’re also made in other countries

> Most of the tubes are imported from other countries, like Germany and Japan
> Facebook has systematically shut down our 2 small businesses during a pandemic and economic crisis without explanation.

If you've spent $57MM on Facebook ads, are you still considered a "small business"? Perhaps I'm out of touch. I think the warning about building your business on someone else's land still applies but I'm not sure how you get around that when so much of the world's attention is controlled by a few truly giant companies.
How would the bank disable the malicious version of the app without disabling the entire service?
What does an incognito browser have to do with anything?
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Getting rid of HR is a killer feature of WFH.
At the end of the day it is being traded and speculated on like any normal asset though.

The people buying bitcoin as an investment don't need to care about the asset or secure network, in fact bitcoin's technical details have actually created negatives when exchanges/vaults/services break and assets are lost.

To most buyers it's just like buying and selling stocks, currency, gold, oil futures, whatever.
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I don't know much about Hollywood, but clearly the biggest examples of abuse in recent years were all the examples that came out of the #metoo movement. What exactly did SAG do for all of Harvey Weinstein's victims for all those years that it was being swept under the rug? If not sexual abuse, what other kinds of abuse in Hollywood have these unions put a stop to?
> who wish to hold a gun to their heads

An aside, that's an awfully violent visual for discussing ownership of code.
Exposure over time, allow day dreaming / unconscious thoughts