skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to clarify, Backblaze states eight 9s of durability, not reliability.

Durability refers to the idea that your data will still be retrievable (ie no corruption) similar to S3's claim of eleven 9s of durability.

Reliability however would be say; the actual availability of the Web UI or API server that you download your data through. If it were down, that wouldn't impact the actual integrity of the data itself.

For anyone interested, any more than about five 9s of reliability is basically impossible anyway when it comes to human intervention. As an example, 6 nines of reliability would allow you 3 seconds of unavailability a year so 250 milliseconds of unavailability a month.

From a users point of view, being "unavailable" includes everything from going through a tunnel and having your mobile connection drop out to a shark biting one of the undersea cables in the middle of the ocean.

As you might imagine, with a human involved, they couldn't even get acknowledge an alert fast enough to meet that deadline let alone actually going about doing any repairs and diagnosis :)

It could be spread over multiple instances and redundant hardware as well but as with any system being touched by humans, it's near guaranteed that something will go wrong eventually.
The pricing on their dedicated servers are cheaper than most 1-2GB VMs on cloud: https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/bare-metal/ - this is their flagship and most expensive brand, the cheaper ones are even less

The funniest tweets demanding their data and saying they'll lose everything are the people running:

https://twitter.com/Sensity_RP/status/1369496048998223873 - GTA5 multiplayer gameserver that begs for donations. Running on one of the cheaper sub-brands of OVH probably (soyoustart, for GAME ddos-protection). $30-40/machine.

https://twitter.com/pdfshift/status/1369550522479480833 - I can't tell if this is a troll

https://twitter.com/KatsanosAlex/status/1369501497348812801 - I can't tell if this is a troll
It has some strengths as well as some weaknesses.

I’ve used it to teach myself the equivalent of GCSE grade B (but sadly not a useful CEFR level) in German several years ago, yet after reaching that level of total effort in Greek and Esperanto a little more recently I feel almost useless in the former and only slightly better in the latter (and Esperanto is the easy one!)

I’ve also been doing at least one Duo Arabic lesson per day since 24 September last year, and still don’t know that alphabet. (Doesn’t help that particular course renders some of the pronunciation guide symbols as “2” and “3”, but this is definitely not the only thing holding me back).
Zathura – A Document Viewer
Thank you for these resources, reviewing them now.
in most datacenters, the UPS's are stored in the same collum like structure as their generators. A Datacenter is divided into vertical columns, with eacht collum being powered by redundant power feeds, generator(s) and UPS's.
It still needs to trap to somewhere - e.g. a hypervisor at EL2. But then PSCI can run over HVC anyway, so it doesn't make much of a difference, though being able to pretend EL3 exists from EL2 is nifty. We still lose VM functionality if we run all this at EL2 and the OS at EL1.

I do think the HID register naming scheme comes straight from PowerPC. So does their "DART" IOMMU (again just a name thing, unrelated to the old PowerPC DART IOMMU). A much more interesting question is how much the M1 design directly derives from those older PASemi PPC cores (beyond names and such which could just be a little nod); that's much harder to know, but I'm interested in any hints that might point in that direction :)
those guys who parked their sites are angry
When i was in school, our technical writing teacher constantly drilled in one key concept:

'Get to the point.'

As in, be concise, be clear, don't use more words than necessary and make your writing as simple to understand as possible.

Most writing exists to try and communicate an idea. The words used should be chosen to make that idea as clear as possible with the least amount of effort. (Apart from abstract poetry and such I suppose.)
This has to be the method. It makes the most sense given the strengths of a 6K video camera. Record lots of frames and use a dolly to take focus slices of the subject.
The backspace does work within the line.
Yeah, me too.

Yes, it was essentially a love letter ending with “please call me“.

I actually did text him - since he included his phone number and I wanted to know who he was - but I “ghosted“ him after some months when he kept asking me to come to his home (he was twentysomething so several years older than me).

Afterward, I received one more postcard from him telling me how much he misses me and how he wished I was there with him (he was travelling at that time) but then it stopped.
I was actually just thinking that he should probably register the [diamond][hands].kk domain, there's got to be some demand for it given how much it gets spammed over there.
Fair enough, I don't know the vision you have, so I somewhat retract my previous comments. Good luck!
I did read the post, and I actually also read the articles in qestion, which also themselves are basically about how the press reported on this or that drama of the week.

With the additional bonus of throwing in increasingly strange and deranged attacks on the Democratic party in particular, probably because it sells well with his newfound audience. This is not 'adversarial, bold investigate journalism', he was allegedly promoting at the Intercept, now he's writing op-eds on the news headline of the week and whining about NPR in every other article.
On my machine (Ubuntu, Chrome), every special character is literally just a rectangle. Makes the website look a bit less interesting that way ;)
I am not techie enough to be able to fix the view at my end.
Before you're allowed to interview candidates at Amazon, you have to complete a full-day course on how to interview. It covers the kinds of questions you should be asking, potential pitfalls, and what contributes to a hire/no hire decision.
> Because by poisoning your brain you go into an addictive cycle and are very likely to harm others via crime and or violence in order to get more.

We already have laws that criminalize violence and theft, and those apply just fine to drug users who engage in violence or theft.

The only possible use for drug laws that apply to all drug users, including ones that do not engage in the (again, already illegal) violence and theft is to criminalize nonviolent drug use.

That's morally unjustifiable.
It's quite consistent with how the entire operation is run, at least when witnessed from the outside as a customer.
Did addicts turn to petty crime before it was criminalized? This sounds unlikely, do you have a source for that?
Problem is you can't keep it long term. As CIO you are also aware that the code has some ugly parts that are hard to maintain. You are also well aware of the cost to update the code (tax laws, or new features). You are very well aware of how hard it is to hire anyone competent who is willing to work in the language that it uses - mainframe languages are seen as a dead end. There is a lot less risk long term in leaving the mainframe behind, the only question is can you there without destroying the company.

There are advantages to the mainframe, but there are disadvantages too. As a CIO your job is to consider both.
Hello! I've been trying to adopt Web Components and have had limited success specifically because (since these are internal components) I want to use my application styles, but can't share them across the shadow dom.

Do you have a good writeup or example on the way you're working? I'm googling Constructable Stylesheets, but would love any other pointers, because what you're doing sounds like exactly what I've been wanting to do.

Edit: I see Constructable Stylesheets are Chrome-only. Unfortunately that's a deal-breaker for me :/
tar was designed for tape, so you can specify a volume size for the output and it will break it's output into segments of that size. Using split isn't required.

The options in gnu tar are -L and -M for specifying tape length (in KB) and creating multi-volume archives.

The -L version is handy as it can prompt you to change the "tape". It has built-in tape handling as well, if you are using a real tape that can be controlled via mt.

Apparently (just checked info) it supports an arbitrary command to execute at the end of each archive. That would be handy for burning CDs, though I don't remember that feature from when I used floppies or QIC-40 to move files from one machine to another.

Around 1991-ish I would use these options to put archives onto stacks of floppy disks. The floppies didn't have a filesystem, just blocks of tar archive. In the days of 9600 bps modems, this was often the fastest way to move stuff to another machine. I had an often-reused stack of 3.5in HD floppies labeled with numbers for this purpose.
ACM was the reason the grenfell disaster happened in the UK.
Hijacking traffic to Microsoft’s windows.com with bitflipping
Raspberri Pi 4 with Samsung T5 SSD rack-mount
There are a couple good bell system practice documents covering lead-acid battery hazards:

* http://etler.com/docs/bsp-archive/157/157-601-701_I19.pdf

* http://etler.com/docs/bsp-archive/157/157-601-101_I7.pdf
>I turned down the [exploding] offer because the experience got me thinking about the company’s work culture. Were the methods employed by the company to get me to accept the offer indicative of their work culture?

What I line - I would never hire this person. There are people who see big deals when much more obvious reasons exist, they just can't see beyond themselves.

In this case, orgs I work with our small, we almost always have a #2 and #3 candidate ready to go. It's rude to drag this out more than it needs to be for everyone, and it tells you how interested someone is if they want to sit on an offer. 2 days, let us know. If you are not interested, fine.

Note, I've normally already talked through comp packages and ranges early and asked them if this is in the range or what they are looking for. If they have been straight at this stage I normally get offers signed within hours. That's a good sign for everyone.
On the other hand, just about every month, there's a story on HN saying why are you wasting your money on AWS when OVH is so much cheaper (for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24966028).

And well, I guess this is one of the reasons.
I think they meant DDos'ing as in the person gets overwhelmed with notifications and can't actually see the notification about the password change. (i.e. the person's attention is the service)
Thanks for the explanation!

Follow up -- Considering that at some point we'll reach saturation in the amount of buildings we need, and the world population will necessarily stabilize itself due to resource limits, are there other ways to take CO2 out of circulation besides concrete that don't come with the additional emissions of concrete?

For example I believe plants make sugars using CO2 and water? Can we make a ton of sugar (or other environmentally safe molecules) artificially using CO2 and bury it in the desert? (Sorry for my naivity, I'm not a chemist!)
If you could cook the toxicity out of nuclear waste on stovetop, then you'd have a good argument.

Simply because botulism and nuclear accidents kill roughly the same number of people (depending on the time period chosen) does not address the issue of nuclear waste. It's a good way of distracting from it though...
You should have pulled your phone out part way through the interview exercise and pretended to remote in to your Single Dev Start-up Environment and pretended to hot fix a bug or deploy more resources...
The really good writers can hold multiple ideas in juxtaposition and allow the reader to draw their own conclusions.
> Part of the purpose of law is to protect society.

What makes you feel this way?
Two interesting pictures from the earlier story...

How close the 3 data centers are in SBG: https://cdn.baxtel.com/data-center/ovh-strasbourg-campus/pho...

How hot that fire was. I'm pretty sure the orange spots are holes melted in the walls that are made from metal shipping containers: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EwGqV17XMAMF_wa?format=jpg&name=...
It's a little of both. A larger lens gathers more light from a given scene and thus doesn't need to crank the sensor gain as high (which adds both luminance and color noise) for a given exposure value. Even a fairly basic webcam will have a larger lens than the camera built into a laptop's lid.

So, while my laptop from 2016 almost certainly has a better sensor than my webcam that hit the market in 2013, the 2013 webcam still looks better, because it can do more with the same amount of light - for example, I'm facing three windows in full sun right now, and the laptop video still manages to be washed out and grainy while the webcam looks just fine.
But isn't there still value in getting the faster build without needing to pay a premium for it?
> With tailwind and css-in-js, changes to style require changes to js/html and therefore require an entire page reload

ah!! I was wondering why HMR wasn't working like I remembered the first time I used React. I think the first time I picked up React I used plain CSS, and the CSS would change on the page without reloading. Now I'm using tailwind and material-ui and thought HMR was just busted.

I like tailwind but it doesn't play well with material-ui. Material components always take precedence which is super annoying. I might just end up canning tailwind.
Kinda opposite direction, with the launch of new very high res ("50 megapixels") Sony a1 I started thinking that with a macro objective you could use it as a sort of low-magnification microscope. With a 1:1 macro, if you crop a 4k section from the full-resolution image and draw it on a 32" display you'd get 40x magnification (sort of) if I did my math right; 1px on screen would correspond to roughly 4µm which gives some ballpark on what sort features you could see with it. But it gets better still, there are at least some 2:1 magnification macro lenses [1] out there, those would double the magnification you get.

I haven't really figured out how that compares to "real" microscopes, or even like the $100 chinese digital scopes.

[1] https://www.dpreview.com/products/venus/lenses/venus_laowa_1... and its 65mm counterpart
how so? using OVH and their bare metal servers doesn't absolve you from doing your own due dilligence.

As said earlier, their cloud service is unaffected.
This also frustrates me so much with all the newly-live-streamed events this year. So many companies are spending so much money putting together virtual conferences, but can’t be bothered to ship their speakers a decent mic or webcam. Heck, Apple’s $20 headphones would make a huge difference. Instead we get audio that sounds like it was recorded in my shower.
I leveled up by helping people on #postgresql (freenode) if I wasn't getting help, myself. I still think highly of the practice.
>if you can't hit the ground running in two weeks or less (2 weeks notice to leave your previous job) we will move on

That seems unreasonable in a lot of situations. In my current position, yes, they did want me to start right away but I really did want to take a real vacation before I started so I negotiated it out to a month or something like that. No, it's not reasonable to offer to start in six months. It's pretty reasonable IMO to offer to start in a month. (I did accept the same day. No brainer. It was a good offer. It was my first choice company. I really needed to move on.)
This is most definitely debt.

If these would be ANNUAL contracts, and the factoring company took on the risk (as with Affirm or BNPL solutions) then it wouldn't be debt. But these are NOT guaranteed future cashflows.

What happens if a customer churns? "swap out churned contracts with active ones". Yikes.

What if there are no active contracts left? You've just defaulted on that loan.

The marketing seems to suggest that the investor is taking the risk - that is simply NOT true. It's a regular loan, which isn't a bad thing, and isn't easy to come by for many startups, but the tricky marketing is a major turn off.
It's scary. I sell about 120 copies per month. I suspect charging more will drop it down to fewer than 100 copies. I'd rather more people use the app.

I will be working on adding facial recognition; I might have a pricier option for facial recognition features perhaps.
I specifically mean patents for the "generalized" accelerator hardware implemented in silicon that would presumably be needed to make a specialty FPGA that's fast enough to handle modern RF modulations, even in a vaguely software-defined way. That's presumably companies like Qualcomm's secret sauce, and you can bet they have it locked down with patents and NDAs. If someone came up with a general purpose CPU powerful enough to actually do everything fast enough purely in software, then that might be different (but would likely have plenty of its own patent issues!)
That is true, but more nuanced. https://www.tutorialspoint.com/cprogramming/c_storage_classe...
72 hours is not a quick timeline. I've routinely set shorter (48 - 36)... Just say no if you don't like offer so company can move on.
We have a lot of Mitutoyo Plan APOs floating around at work, sometimes they come up on ebay. If you can get your hands on a 5x or 10x those are great for quickie high mag photography. Highly recommended.
> can't really quantify attributes like curiosity, ability to learn and ability to listen

You can get a feel for it... ask about personal projects, then follow-up on why. The best candidates will cop to "I wanted to check out the new tech (curiosity)", "I wanted to learn the new programming language (learning)".

Listening is a little bit more difficult to quantify, but we're mostly looking at people who know how to follow the flow of a conversation (a good friend once told me it's like a battle, their side shoots a little bit, we shoot a little bit back and back and forth)

Edit: Some people don't have personal projects and that's fine, you can ask what they would like to learn or if they want to learn something. Someone who just rolls in to write some code for a paycheck is perfectly fine but if someone has a desire to learn something, it's a good trailing indicator.
Link is broken. It should be:
https://www.city-journal.org/the-miseducation-of-americas-el...

whereas the link in the post has "elite" without the "s".
You can get a feel for it... ask about personal projects, then follow-up on why. The best candidates will cop to "I wanted to check out the new tech (curiosity)", "I wanted to learn the new programming language (learning)".
I'm not so convinced of the difference between the "real world" and online. Misinformation, propaganda & charlatans all existed in droves long before the internet. In fact, it's almost certainly true that your average internet user is far better informed about actual facts than the average pre-internet person. Scepticism about what you read is advisable everywhere, internet users have become better at it than previous generations.

Hence, I also don't think there's anything at all wrong with the imperative style of writing (or I might as well say "there is nothing wrong with it"). Since it is incumbent upon the reader to consider whether or how far to trust the author anyway, it should make no difference whether the statements are presented as fact or opinion. To treat them differently is to give the author far too much power over your thinking.

And so, as the author, given that any sensible reader will put your statements in context anyway, you might as well simply state them directly.
The biggest private enterprises I'm aware of are Cargill and Koch, at estimated $115 Billion revenue each.

Lets just look at the top companies in the world by revenue, shall we?

1. Walmart (Public, stock ticker WMT) -- 560 Billion/year revenue

2. Amazon (Public, AMZN) -- 386 Billion

3. Apple (Public, AAPL) -- 274 Billion

4. CVS (Public, CVS) -- 268 Billion

5. ExxonMobil (Public XOM) -- 264 Billion

(Etc. etc. etc.)

By revenue, we have to drop down all the way to #25: Bank of America ($113 Billion/year) before we find public companies close to the size of private ones.

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In fact, most private companies seek to go public. So that those private-shares can be "Cashed out" on the public market. Private companies do not have access to a market: you cannot leave your seat of ownership very easily.

In contrast: public companies trade their ownership ("shares") millions of times a day on the public stock market. Its extremely easy to become an owner... or to leave your seat of power. As such, as large private companies's owners grow old (and eventually die), their successors naturally transition to public ownership models.

As such, figures such as Bill Gates, can easily leave their seat as owner of Microsoft and move on with their life, doing something else. All Bill Gates had to do was sell his shares.
If I were him, I wouldn't post it here because it's a link between his previous (attacked) identity and his current online identity.
`The override is missing the droneship or blowing itself up.` Disagree, that's not an override. That's a program written by a human programmer (who makes mistakes) that autonomously decides that something went wrong.

I would argue there has "got" to be an override precisely because humans make mistakes all the time and so there's no reason to think that an autonomous failsafe should work in all possible situations.

I don't know much about rocketry, but if it's true that there's no remote abort capability, that seems like a deeply misguided decision.
Most FIRE advice advocates for selling a small amount of long term funds every year, as they're taxed at a lower rate than dividend income.

I read a bunch of Mr Money Mustache to get me started on this path. Recommend that you take a look at his blog to read more about it in detail.
Yes but Google also later moved to a 48VDC power architecture with the batteries at the bottom of the rack.

See http://apec.dev.itswebs.com/Portals/0/APEC%202017%20Files/Pl... page 6.
> ...Tailwind is a trap for people that don't like CSS...

I can't speak on the validity of this for all devs, but for me, I really enjoy CSS and I love Tailwind too. CSS is there for an escape hatch when I need it, but then I can use the utilities for a lot of mundane styling and placement.

Tailwind can absolutely be used for boring layouts and designs but can also be used for really cool custom stuff like this Diablo 4 landing page from a few years ago[0]. People made cool stuff with Bootstrap and then a bunch of crap also got made.

Tools ebb and flow and it's up to us as devs to find what's working for us now and then get the work done. Worrying about the future before you even get started doesn't make sense imo. The reality is very few sites are being worked on continuously for more than a few years, so trying to optimize for that potential maintenance burden doesn't make sense. If your site continues to grow and it becomes painful, that likely is a good problem to have and you can address the issue when you have the team and budget to do so.

[0]: http://web.archive.org/web/20191222080351/https://diablo4.bl... & https://twitter.com/tailwindcss/status/1190423327590027264?s...
That is true, I can imagine that kids getting bored too quickly especially when writing code. Game dev might be too boring for many kids. If using general purpose language, then we will have to provide most of the code.

That's why we are thinking hands on building robots might be more interesting.
One piece of advice I saw recently - if you are interviewing, FAANG companies supposedly have a longer offer acceptance window. Smaller startups often have a smaller window. Also FAANG companies and larger companies and organization usually have a longer interview process. So the advice was to interview at the larger companies first, and then at the smaller startups who can turn on a dime quickly. It makes a lot of sense, but I never thought about it until recently.