skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there are several things you can do.

- First, like you indicated is: you can take less margin (and believe me, there's still considerable margin).
- You can play with erasure coding policy. (n+10)/n makes that you can tolerate 10 failures. a higher n makes your storage overhead less. (which means more margin)
- you can use even fancier storage schemes (fe online codes will make your storage overhead something like 3%)
- you can use cheaper hardware.
- ...
In the FSF sense of the word, Free Software != Public domain software. I think it's fair to say that "Free Software" was coined in 1985.
Worse than that: Uber has yet to turn a profit!! [1] [2]

Even treating its “independent contractors” like d09(c)h!7 isn’t enough to make the business profitable. As best I can tell, investors are literally investing in the idea... no, hope, that companies can somehow exist without real employees. That they can Pray Away the Proletariat.

[1] : https://morningology.com/four-top-reasons-why-uber-isnt-prof...

[2] : https://www.forbes.com/sites/bethkindig/2020/03/25/can-uber-...
I think this is a "beauty is in the eye of the beholder thing", only with noses. Which smells you find offensive are a product of what you're used to. I'm not too fond of that typical "homeless musk" (which sounds offensive, but I'm struggling to think of a more neutral term). I can take or leave manure. But I absolutely cannot stand strong soaps & perfumes. YMMV, I suffer from migraines and my nose is particularly sensitive.
Oscillating aerodynamic forces explain the timbre of the hummingbird’s hum
Every article is incomplete or has contradictions.
Also I think the apps can check for this. It's also been several years for me but I remember using an external Bluetooth GPS receiver needed this setting to allow an app to read the BT data and feed it into Android & some Apps just refused to work.
I'd be happy to push work to pay for a supported Linux distro, and I have had some success before in pushing companies to choose supported open source options.

I was in fact hoping that Ubuntu would be that distro a number of years ago until they pivoted away from easy, nice, clean, just works towards halfway bad copy of OS X.

Now another frustrating thing about this is that once many open source projects get to taste the sweet juice of cashflow it seems many will immediately abandon all the ideas that got me to desperately want to suppprt them and become just as hard to work with as their commercial counterparts.
> repeatable in that if a job is executed multiple times it will produce the same result

can you please elaborate more on this statement, does it mean you dump the data first time job is executed? Because if data is evolving, at some point execution should produce different results
Yes a bit of a dog whistle given the current use of "liberal" in the USA
danke for the interpretation. i hoped someone clarifies it for me :)
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That's pretty expensive.

Storing a 250GB backup = $1.

Sending to 2 machines 500GB - 250GB = $2.5.

Sending to 10 machines 2500GB - 250GB = $22.5.

How is storing this data so much cheaper than sending it? Especially given that it's stored redundantly?

I can't wrap my head around the fact that electrical signals are priced higher than equivalent HDDs.

Example, HGST 4TB MegaScale -- $60, or $13.46 per TB. Storing 4TB at 0.004 = $16. Transferring it 10 times would be $400.

Total $416, or $356 more than an actual physial hard disk.

Imagine getting a 4TB HDD, transferring the data to 10 computers and then throwing it away.

Being able to pay for excess egress is better at least than risking getting your contract killed by Wasabi if your egress exceeds your traffic.
And then, just to complicate matters, there is free beer – “Free as in free speech”.

http://freebeer.org/blog/recipe
People understand that the government needs money to operate and have come to terms with that, people might not have come to terms with the government looking through their private lives on the Internet.
If they were the only source of the product at that price, and they couldn't pay more for it... Then it seems obvious to assume something will go wrong eventually, collapsing the whole house of cards.

If your margins are that tight, any delay in a shipment will decrease your profit too much and risk the whole thing.

They don't need to know there's a current problem, only that any problem will collapse everything.
I have played around with the amount of cosmetics I use over the years, and observed how my own bodily odors change in response to various things, most prominently my diet and state of mind.

Towards the end of the article, forest bathing is mentioned. I haver noticed that every time I spend time in a forest, my skin gets this very musky smell to it. Another time this happens is when I take cold showers, water only. Though, Tha is a different musky smell.

3-4 people have told me that I smelled very nice over the
years, one even thought I smelled like his ex-girlfriend.

I would not be surprised if there is far more going on to smell, and the skin, than we realize. Colonies and colonies of organisms, waiting to make a home in our bodies.
They're all visual appearance tweaks - the mac version doesn't have as many customisation options yet - but it's being worked on!
Godaddy is directly advertising on Steve Bannon's new outlet Real Americas Voice
Hundreds or thousands of years ago, most people would be born, grow up, live their entire lives and die within a few miles of where their parents were born. We're not living in that kind of society today and I don't think it'd be possible to go back to it short of the total collapse of civilization and technology and death of almost all of the world's population.
The people who were violent were definitely nowhere near 25%, most probably not even 5%.

You can see in video after video that they're mostly young people (20s), and their message was "burn with us" [1]. Carrie Lam withdrew the bill and that still wasn't enough for them. Realistically, they were never going to get the 5 demands met, and it was clear they wanted to incite police violence.

There were plenty of people, especially those who were a bit older and those who owned small businesses who wished they would go away, and the national security law has guaranteed that. I know HK culture is quite separate from Mainland culture in quite a few aspects, but I can't see how any of the violence has helped.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lam_chau_(doctrine)
I didn't know anything about Fred Hampton, so I looked him up (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton). I suppose his example highlights the difference between the US and China, as his family was paid $1.85 million for his death, which is probably still not what they have wanted, but an acknowledgement of government wrongdoing. When is the last time CCP acknowledged wrongdoing?

McCarthyism offers another interesting contrast. Read https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism. There was lots of opposition to McCarthy. Even a noted anti-communism person such as President Truman criticized McCarthy. Most if McCarthy's victims got their day in court, and ultimately the scale (affecting hundreds of people) is dwarfed by the scale of CCP persecution of pro-democracy or those who wish to practice a religion not endorsed by the CCP, which has damaged the lives of millions.
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What if the loophole is bigger and allows a individual congressperson to make a law or something?
Good riddance?

I'm tired of social culture spokespeople flogging technologists over the head

Nobody can make a case that RMS is a swell guy, he's awful. Still, he's without a sliver of a doubt the single most influential activist for FOSS that there's ever been.

Getting rid of polarization happens with one instance of forgiveness+rehabilitation at a time. You cant cancel your way to better culture.
The website is unreachable
One can refer to Chinese characters as hanzi.
You do realize storing your data away from where processing takes place is going to incur network charges and latency, right?
It's presumably not isolated. I lived for a while in Oman, and for example construction workers and bar staff are significantly shipped in from India and a few other places, and are not paid well, and are put up in cheap cramped accommodation, work very long hours and the places hold on to all their passports.

They also held all my band's passports as a musician, but we knew that if we were to rock up to the British embassy / consulate and requested assistance we'd have been helped to leave the country without our passports on emergency travel document, and I suspect that the Indian workers who were, in my opinion, poorly treated - they had a lot less options.
I confess that I haven't gone deep into Storj, but I am running a node for some weeks now and I didn't have to pay anything (besides the operational costs of keeping the server online, of course) to get into it.
First you chemically castrate person, make him depressed and make him kill himself. Then some 60 years later make money with him. It's Ironic.
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$100 bills are routinely checked in the US, but almost never refused IME.
> the three essential recitals of the Op.92 II Allegretto

Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic (1963) for grave and majestic, Gardiner and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique (1994) for bright and invigorating - but what's the third?
When Big5 became Big4 and a name-change.

Then there's MBB and Wall St. firms like Goldman Sachs.

I was familiar with a WASP guy who worked at Morgan Stanley. It turns out he was basically a quant who created a new market for a subsistence grain by exploiting African farmers. Oh how nice! I'm glad that project failed because it would've costed those farmers dearly. From significant personal experience with them, Wall St.-types almost universally have the hubristic attitude that they're so awesome, better than everyone else, and unconstrained by laws, ethics, or morality.
The idea of free software is a very libertarian one. You have freedom. Its the same ideology that drives concepts such as freedom of speech. It is not compatible at all with the authoritarianism that drives cancel culture.

Maybe these people should get together and form their own authoritarian-left software foundation. Call it the People's Software Foundation or something. No Dang, I'm not being snarky. This is a legitimate suggestion.
You know, one major reason we raise cows is so we can eat their dead flesh.
> iOS doesn't support open standards like Vulkan mainly because it's not in Apple's interest to support them.

Or maybe because Vulkan was a standard so long and late in the making that Apple released their own graphical stack a year before the Vulkan was even announced?
1. Alter articles 4 and 79 (this one contains the eternity clause) so that that they don't protect articles 1 and 20 .

2. Alter articles 1 and 20

3. ???

4. 4th Reich
Hi rollulus, I’m so grateful you liked the book :) Do not hesitate to share with me if you found an error or an improvement suggestion.
When learning a bit of Japanese to me it was quite obvious that the script was most likely intentionally left (or made) complicated. By using a normal alphabet that actually fits to the structure of Japanese language it would be just another ordinary language to learn.

Using a syllables-script for an ending grammar just doesn't make sense. Using 2 syllable scripts is just strange.

It most likely helped the leaders there to stay in control. Without native Japanese translators foreigners are unable to get very far.
Many thanks Jahak !
Is it that easy? It seems, that only works if people can pay for the essentials. For example, look at the grain prices that sparked the protests of the arabian spring. People could everywhere not afford their bread anymore while Saudi Arabia bought the grain at ultra high prices.
Just to pile on to all of the other fallacies and falsehoods in the article

> This conspiracy theory goes something like this: If you can’t examine the source code, then some bad actor might provide you some executable software that has evil baked in, and you wouldn’t be able to tell

How is this a conspiracy theory? We literally see it happening in the news all the time. See Solarwinds, NSA backdoors, etc. And on the flip side catching the insertion of malware into the the Great Suspender Chrome extension. These are just the first things that come to mind in 2 seconds.
For a place that prides on hiring people from all backgrounds for coding roles, it sure does a helluva job asking leetcode all the time.

The bulk of folks with myriad backgrounds would be in higher positions & most likely brought in by acquisitions or recommendations, but not from the typical interview cycle.
Perhaps this is also why diplomas are called "sheepskins," since they were issued on them for similar reasons.
> What more people do, though, is chit-chat about mundane stuff on IMs. Depending on the company, your subordinates may already have their own #random / #offtopic channel. Of course, as a manager, you need to stay away from it and pretend you don't know it exists :).

Why is that? At all the companies I have worked at the managers would join in with these kind of things same as everyone else (not all of them, but then not of all the ICs were interested either).
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s/software/speech/

I support and defend everyone's access to folly, but understand: this is an unsavory game, and that game will devour its players.
Companies are using custodians to hold large amounts of bitcoin; they usually don't hold it directly.

It’s certainly held offline in cold storage.
I like the current design, it is really clean and pleasant to read.
I don't like Material Design, kind of makes everything look massive taking up too much space as if my desktop is a phone screen. for ex: http://angular-material.fusetheme.com/ui/forms

Could be that it's just me though
Yeah, I feel for dirty admitting this in this forum, but I still use React & MobX for state management. I get to use simple classes with observable state management. Works just dandy for me.
What if Gödel never actually found a loophole but simply intentionally left behind a cryptic puzzle, with the influence of his celebrity friends, so that future generations will keep scrutinizing the constitution, watching it for dangerous changes?
So because something is declining...that means it doesn't exist.

What a WONDERFUL world you live in!
> he's without a sliver of a doubt the single most influential activist for FOSS that there's ever been.

Maybe that's why it's not taken more seriously in industry.
Because it's an API for a bunch of reasons ( custom apps for better features, probably taking a video of what you're doing uses the same API), so any app can use it.
Java and Spring is a nightmare and I can't believe someone can actually look at that stack and not see it as a complete joke.
When an organization,
that you have a leadership position in,
does something that you believe is wrong,
and you have failed at preventing it and correcting it,
then resignation is an entirely appropriate option.

Walsh has integrity.
We have plenty of capacity to handle 50 PB :) We also leverage our own more traditional cloud storage transparently if/when needed.
Because you’d rather people not in your social group not smell foul to you. The “con guy” stereotype is real and it’s quite unpleasant.
Can anybody share some context, as to why this person is resigning?
The MacBook Air keyboard is exactly the same as the Pro keyboard, except for the Touch Bar. Any problems with the Touch Bar are UX issues: I don't think anyone has questioned its longevity/reliability.
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I can suggest the online team building games from this company ▶ www.teamazing.com/e/online-team-building

They are also affordable and do an excellent job.
It's even harder to learn a universal language if you can always turn to Google Translate.
So tired of illegals. Go home assholes.
A bit off topic: I happened to talk with an editor at a large Japanese publishing company a few hours ago and the marketability of audiobooks came up. While audio versions of Japanese fiction and nonfiction books are produced and sold, he said the business has never really taken off and his own company isn’t interested in it anymore. This contrasts with what seems to be a healthy and growing audiobook market in English-speaking countries.

I speculated that the nature of Japanese writing might be one reason. Written Japanese can sometimes be hard to understand when read aloud, as a lot of meaning is conveyed by the written characters themselves—most often by the kanji used, which frequently distinguish between different words with the same pronunciation, but also by the stylistic choice of whether to write a word in hiragana, katakana, or kanji.
The article literally has people saying they complained to the police because the black and brown men are "scary"

And here you are claiming there's NOTHING AT ALL wrong with that.

Sure let's just ignore decades of selective enforcement of law to discriminate against black and brown people, I guess "racism is over" because it makes you uncomfortable
Looking tough, but hampering rights: ONGs say no to online Terrorism Regulation
RMS's role in the FSF was president, and now Member of the Board of Directors. Sure this requires some technical skills, but the main factor is leadership and the ability to bring people together.

If anyone believes that RMS is fit for that role, that says a lot about the state of FOSS.
Being as silent as possible has only two effects; an attacker takes 2 seconds longer and you significantly degrade the network experience of all your users. It hasn't been best-practise in a while (outside the greybeard firewall admin circles), ie, almost a decade at this point. Anyone who hasn't figured that out should really consider not doing network admin if their knowledge is a decade out of date.
FOSS doesn't depend on the FSF Board. There are many in the FOSS community that want RMS removed.

https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/joint-statement-on-the-gnu-pr...

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/mar/23/outreachy-fsf/

https://rms-open-letter.github.io/

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Also the FSF members weren't made aware of RMS's comeback. That's shitty behaviour.

https://twitter.com/fsf/status/1374399897558917128

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Partial reasons as to why this is happening:

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21287006

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20994216

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26545420

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26535789
Covid had nothing to do with the suez blocking, could easily have happened in 2019, and it's a very rare event

The Suez is being progressively widened and doubled. Previous blockages have been due to war, this type of blocking I think is the first since 1869. The powder keg of Israel is hardly new (indeed that's often been the cause of previous Suez blocking), collapsing south american countries isnt new either - Pinnochet? Peron?
I wouldn't have thought that bank notes would typically turn into microplastics? They don't tend to fall apart and would be returned for incineration or recycling when they need to be replaced - you can't continue to have the money/value if it gets thrown away
Some additional information: France is actually a leading country when it comes to Japanese Studies, to the point where high-level knowledge of French is a relevant skill in pursuing Japanese studies elsewhere, as many papers were historically only available in French.
We have a well-established process for managing requests from law enforcement for data about our users: when we receive a request, we notify users that their information has been requested, push back on overly broad requests to protect users’ privacy, and provide transparency around such requests in our transparency report

As a non-native speaker of l'inglese, there's two ways my brain parses this - simultaneously:

(A) when we receive a request, we notify users (... well knowing they can't do anything ...), push back on overly broad requests to protect users' privacy (i.e., we do push back on requests that request we respect users' privacy, who do you think we are?!) and provide transparency ... ("only") in our "transparency" report

I.e., we very well sell the hide of anybody and everybody as quickly as possible, not only abiding by requests but filling in the blanks as well. Then we increment a counter "requests_served++" and include that in our transparancy "report" lol

(B) when we receive a request, we notify users (..to warn and enable them..), push back on overly broad requests IN ORDER TO protect users' privacy and provide transparency (as best as possible)

I.e., we are the good guys and actually try to serve our users as best as possible.

The sentence "we push back on overly broad requests to protect users' privacy" is at the center of this dichotomy for me. To clarify: we push back on (overly broad requests to protect users' privacy) vs. we push back on (overly broad requests) [in order] to protect users' privacy. To you native speakers: is there doubt which of the two are meant for you?
If someone can ignore the governance process then it’s not an effective governance process.

If there’s not auditing to identify when someone bypasses governance, then that’s not effective auditing.

Assuming effective controls are in place without any description of them and evidence that they fail is foolish, I think.

Reddit could have shown off their governance and audit process, but didn’t. I’ve worked on similar systems where someone can just edit the db records and there have been places with no and decent governance. It’s more likely that anyone with admin rights can change stuff. This is bad for a company as big as Reddit with as many users.
Not in China or india though. It's safe there.
I agree that the workers should be compensated for commute time as well. I tried best I could to make use of that time - finding routes with a little changes as possible, getting some good tech books, a small laptop to practice things but after a while this is not sustainable. Even meditation is quite difficult in a full carriage.
I dont doubt Covid has caused a bunch of these deaths, particularly in the first wave. But it would be nice to break out suicides and overdoses, as mental health issues are on the rise as a result of lockdowns and the economic fallout.
And who is reviewing the archives for everything, all the time, looking for diffs?
If you owe the bank $10,000 you have a problem. If you owe the bank $10,000,000 the bank has a problem. Seems like the creditors are potentially unhappy either way.

Debt aside, I would maintain that if people can barely afford bread, they are likely not buying cars, washing machines, or other more expensive items. That seems like a recipe for a vicious cycle where society ends up regressing towards individualism and barter, with less economic strength.
The FSF invited Stallman back. It's become a fight internally and externally.

Twitter is on fire with passionate debates on both sides of the issue. Lots of people asked the board to resign in protest lest they be deemed supporters of RMS, and now we're seeing the board members react publicly.
Just an app and website, just like Just Eat, Uber Eats and Foodhub.

Can place an order by just calling them, most restaurants display their phone numbers online. Shockingly, yellow pages still exist in the UK even online.
> And sufficiently fulfilling a software requirement is like being mathematically correct if not actually correct.

Absolutely.

> But I fear you’re being over constrained by this specification. My larger point is it’s important, very, to not draw too many lines and wind up with a “polite party” of 0.

I'm not sure I understand where we disagree. Or I'm missing what you are getting at with this paragraph, my apologies. I think contributions to mathematics should be open to anyone, everyone, and everything.