skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Re: Freezers, yeah, I agree with this. Volume to surface area doesn't scale linearly[0], so you can build something like a giant sphere or cylinder and lose a relatively small amount of energy.

Commercial freezers are also frequently built with vacuum-insulated panels[1] which have very low thermal conductivity.

It's not crazy to build something very large, like a grain silo, to hold dried grain at a low temperature. That seems fairly plausible as a way to reliably "turn off" subsidies over time.

It sort of reminds me of the strategic oil reserve[2] in the US. Similar idea (boring holes in the earth cheaply via using water to etch into giant salt deposits)

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface-area-to-volume_ratio

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_insulated_panel

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Petroleum_Reserve_(U...
What I mean is if it's not ready enough, not a good MVP essentially, and then people who see it in that stage might not be inclined to try it again later when you're still pushing it but it is more developed enough now.
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Delete your email address from your profile. That got my ten year account banned.
Free services are fantastic, until they break. Or until you get banned. There's people who get their Microsoft banned for no reason, without notice. The reason is some kind of ML algorithm found (rightfully or not) CP in their data, which could have been some public Discord or WhatsApp group or could have been a troll beating the checksum mechanism (it exists for both the Microsoft and Apple one). Good luck getting to talk to a human, and good luck getting your account back. Which includes your Windows Store acquisitions, your Windows/Office licenses, your Xbox games. Everything. I see Black Friday sales for family OneDrive. You'd have 5x 1 TB for 60 EUR a year, a good deal, right? Except I don't trust my data there, even encrypted. I don't vouch for my backups containing no bogus data, given it also includes something like browser cache or Discord/Telegram/WhatsApp backups. The solution is quite simple for techies: don't rely on cloud; DIY. For the rest of the world, competition would hopefully lead to better product. And this is all about Microsoft. Not Google, they're abysmal when it comes to support (for their free tiers).
The whole point of an escalated protest is being willing to accept the consequences. If you park illegally, you expect to get a parking ticket, protest or no. You expect your vehicle to get towed. If you defy a court injunction, you expect to spend the night in jail.

The people chaining themselves to trees expect to get arrested and spend time in jail. They also expect that their time in jail will help their cause.

Being part of a protest is not a "get out of jail free" card. Rather the opposite, spending some time in jail is part of the point.
I hope people see this: Tamara Lich (one of the convoy protest organizers) and Brian Peckford (the last living First Minister/premiere of a province, retired in 1984 I believe, and directly helped draft our Charter of Rights and Freedoms) did a press conference yesterday - which helps explain the situation.

Facebook original link: https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=2883409135138326

YouTube copy (poor quality): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoMyyXRmR8U

The convoy organizers and protestors are vast majority peaceful, and not the myriad of other lies used by Trudeau to promote hate and mislead Canadians and the world.

Edit to add: This is the 1st time Emergency Act (War Measures Act) has been invoked in Canadian history, this 100% should allowed to stay up and allow discussion on - else HN is just another place for ideological bubbles to stay coddled/sheltered - and for people to not hear the truth.
So, you are fine with the government shutting down the economy for years, mandating of experimental health treatments to gain access to work, etc, but you are not ok with people protesting against those decisions even when their livelihoods are at stake?

Do you realise too that Trudeau got ~30% of the vote, and that his party didn't even receive the most votes but win on account of the electoral system? IE voting every 4 years can only get you so far..
>whilst leaving the "problem" completely in the dark with regards to what it was they did wrong.

This is the original intent.
As far as I understood shadowbanning was for nefarious actors such as spambots, manual spammers, etc so they'd keep going without automatically creating new accounts.
>People who have Firefox installed are not being hypnotized into switching to Chrome.

They don't have to, because there's a whole market beyond Firefox users, that's where I'm getting.

Edge is the default browser for Windows, but when you visit google, you're asked if you want to download Google browser. Google is a known brand, at this point, after years of people talking about chrome, unless you don't know much about the internet you'll default to chrome.

Other instance: Android, default browser is Chrome for the majority of phones.

Google has years of hammering Chrome into people. Even if Firefox because up to your standards, the struggle would be the same.
"like" implies he's not.
I don't know about VPNs specifically, but stories of Google handing out automated, unappealable permabans are rampant. There's one on the front page of HN right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30345201

Entirely possible that user will get their account back since they won the social media lottery, but for every viral story there are god knows how many people out there who lost all their email/photos/etc. because of some inscrutable machine's mistake.
The website looks great. Did she do the drawings with an e-ink pen or do you have a process to make these images from a paper drawing?
It should not be illegal to ban someone from a website under any circumstances.
1. Most if not all ToS contain parts that contradict law and are thus not enforcable. ToS and contracts in general are not some magical trap cards you can "gotcha" everyone with with anything you want.

2. Pretending that ToS are written in a way that the average user without a law degree, or even technical competency in this example, can 100% understand them and interpret their future implications is just dishonest.

In that sense:

To any HN user, by replying to my comment you agree to the following terms:

- Starting February 20th, 2022, you are obligated to upvote every piece of written text or submission created by user "2pEXgD0fZ5cF" appearing, now or in the future, on the website https://news.ycombinator or any website that can be considered derivative of https://news.ycombinator.com. These terms of interaction are subject to change at any point in the future. [1]

[1]: I'm not a lawyer, and someone trained in law probably would've been able to create a version of this that is actually funny.
Does anyone have any benchmarks with AWS FSX (LustreFS) vs EFS - how do they compare in random/sequential access?
It sounds like you have a good path on your technical skills, so I'm going to suggest something else: take some humanities classes. Pick topics outside of technology that interest you, and learn how to communicate about them. Take as many seminar discussion and writing-heavy classes as you can. Hopefully they are there even at a technical university.

From a career perspective, programming skill is relatively easy to come by. Programming AND speaking AND good writing will put you on a better career path. You won't get stuck after a job or two when you know the tools of the trade but not how to handle things outside the compiler.

But also, just as a person who has to make it in this world, it's good to have more ways of understanding people and systems around you. Humanities students are enriched by taking science and math classes, and getting a new way of seeing things. Technical undergrads who learn to tolerate ambiguity and learn some history are rounder humans.
maybe you can recreate them? otherwise https://acf.org/ny/how-you-can-help/ get them in a couple years
Coca-Cola’s New Coke may be an example of this, though New Coke may have actually been the best marketing campaign possible for Coke Classic.

Crystal Pepsi was another example. Budgets couldn’t overcome the fact it tasted like nutmeg.

Modern era, I worked for a startup that got national media coverage before it was ready. I’m not convinced it was the right product and I know the founder could have spent way more time talking to customers in the ideation stage. But national media coverage created some bad months. I remember a several week stretch with more than 100 support requests in queue.

Fun times, in the Dwarf Fortress sense of the term.
Or you know, who your boss is?

vs. now, when lots of the basic tech exists (Musk's rockets are based on Soviet missile tech, if I remember) ALONG WITH a proven market for that tech, yes, it does become more feasible for a commercial venture to leverage that existing tech/knowledge to create a product for the existing market.

IIRC, Elon Musk tried to buy soviet rockets, but otherwise all the engineering works are his company's own creation. As far as standing on shoulder of giants, they likely stand more on NASA's than on Russian rocket designs.
Tilting of Earth’s crust governed the flow of ancient megafloods
So your story is farmer stops doing activity A and does activity B because it makes more money?
Just to get it out of the way: 300 weight #6b7280 on white. Someone hates eyes.

As for the content...meh. The file(s) or book(s) you put your ideas in are like compost piles. You throw things in them, and every once in a while you get out the pitchfork and turn them over. You see if some half-baked concept has become fertilizer for your current thoughts. You admire how some old brainstorm has rotted down to goo after you've learned more on a subject. You fish out some weirdly undecayed thing and go, "Oh, I was looking for that."
That always scares me, if you lose/break your phone you can't use your card any more?
Room Temperature
> state-sponsored space exploration

Let's be clear - we are talking about organisational structure not about funding.

A lot of SpaceX's income comes from the US government. The money that they have used to develop Falcon was a result of NASA contracts, they get paid by NASA to deliver people to the ISS, they're getting paid by the DoD etc. I think it's a good thing that public money is paying for exploration, it just turns out the legacy players in the industry were incapable of innovation and a blank slate was needed.
Not at all. To dumb it down (just started studying this subject): There is a hierarchy to each law, sometimes it can be overridden by a TOS, sometimes not, sometimes even the standard the industry has set is above the TOS (and strangely enough some laws, for example when you pay on the buss no contracts are written for the trip because it is is deemed to be standard of the transport industry).

It all depends.

Here they are leaning on "Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier Act and the Deceptive Trade Practices Act".
The correct solution is to adopt approval voting and not have primaries at all.
I'm not from USA, but my limited understanding is that the contractors (Boeing etc) work for Nasa, which in turn is guided by congress. And congress does not specify engineering or scientific goals, but how much government funds they want directed to their district. Hence it's broken from the start as a vehicle for engineering progress, but successful if the measure of success is to create jobs and subsidies.
I do the same, but then I take an iPad with me for long plane/boat trips with all the articles saved for offline reading.

Between the time spent in waiting rooms and actual travel time you can actually go through quite a lot of material (of course, pandemic didn't help with this strategy).
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did you think that it was homosexual in nature?
The context of this discussion is adding null checks for parameters that are not explicitly used within the module, thus impairing the ability to test specific parts of the code without instantiating or mocking huge parts of the application.

That is, this pattern

F(x, y, Z) {
if (x == null) bad();
if (y == null) bad();
if (Z == null) bad();
Z.doThing(x, y);
}

I would argue that Z may have reason to validate x and y, but in this scenario, F only has reason to ensure that Z is not null. What Z does and requires is Z's concern, not F's.
I allow notifications from virtually nothing other than phone and messages.
Most people I know think they are assholes and should go away. Also check out r/Ottawa on Reddit where the sentiment is solidly against them.

I think you're right about one thing though. Opinion hasn't "turned" on them because it was never with them in the first place.
>>The downvote is not a disagree button!

Downvote is a disagree button as it is perceived as such and that is an issue. Same functionality is in NH - it just has a higher treshold when you can use it, but not really that different in essence.

Banning for arguing is normal - from the times, when early web forums existed. Banning can be for any reasons - disagreeing with mod, arguing with someone, who is friends with mod. Mod is a god in forum. The solution to that is - either be a friend of mod or do not argue with idiots for idiotic reasons unless you are an idiot or simply want to be banned. PHP might be stupid or might not be stupid - who really cares in the end, when you log off from forum.
I'm sorry I don't see what you are disagreeing with.
How much of the population do you think is actively involved in the protests right now? We should bow down and throw away our government for 1% of angry people? 0.01%? This just sounds like a recipe for chaos. A middle school could topple the government by standing on Ambassador bridge just because they don't like today's lunch menu.
What can they do to prevent it?
Meanwhile, everyone else complains that they take search money from Google.

What would be acceptable to you as a monetization model for Mozilla? Google makes money from Chrome because Chrome fits into their larger advertising goals. Apple makes money from Safari because it fits into their larger goals about platform control, particularly on iOS. Brave makes money because they inject ads into the browsing experience.

What should Mozilla make money on? They apparently shouldn't take money from Google because that makes them dependent on a competitor. They also apparently shouldn't focus on platforms like Pocket or Email because those are independent of the browser. And they also apparently shouldn't sell VPN subs that are directly integrated into the browser because those are bad. Should they charge directly for the browser itself? That's a good way of crashing your browser market share.

Off the top of my head, I wish Mozilla took direct donations for Firefox, but I also don't think that would be enough. I wish Mozilla would do more donation campaigns for specific features, that would be really cool, but also not a solution on its own. I wish we saw more sponsorship of the browser, but people seem to be angry about sponsorship, particularly when it comes from large tech companies. Outside of those partial solutions, I really like that Mozilla is doing subscription features around the browser. I don't personally feel like the subscription features they're currently offering are particularly strong, I wish they would make some more compelling stuff that's easier for me to recommend to people. But it's not the core idea of subscriptions that upsets me.

> I think this is what the Mozilla execs believe and also why Firefox likely wont exist at all in 15 years.

Nobody in the current market monetizes browsers directly with the exception of Brave, and Brave's monetization model is toxic and should be rejected. Everybody else is using browsers to further other interests that they have. Vivaldi is partner deals and secondary services. Safari is iOS. Chrome is Google dominance and other services. Edge is Bing/Windows. Who is selling browsers successfully as its core product?
Technically true, but practically hardware is very unlikely to fail in a way that maintains self-consistency.

Eg, if you checksum all the data, what you can expect from bad RAM is either to detect a mismatch, or to mis-calculate the checksum and something else will detect a mismatch later.

You certainly can't count on it, but enough of that sort of thing makes it a lot more likely you'll notice something is not quite right eventually.
Is success tied to having rich parents?
I had a ten year old account that was banned for not having an email address. There were various warnings asking me to supply the email address. I refused and the account was deleted. No issues other than this.
I don’t know from which countries you got such pessimistic view, but for me that’s unheard
This is one of the benefits of remote work for me.

I no longer have to try to work while noisy coworkers are playing foosball or ping pong.
This can be summarized to:

How to write untestable code: Use OOP ;-)
Just looked at their pricing and it looks quite sane. How good is their calendar and does it sync to iOS and Android?
Back in the 90s, that feeling when Netscape or Windows used to crash. First, a feeling of utter sadness, having lost whatever work was open (imagine writing a Word document for school and hours lost, that's when you learn to save regularly). Then the feeling of relief: ah, at least I gotta start over. But it keeps gnawing. What did I miss? Back then, there was no term for it (or it wasn't popularized), now there is: FOMO.

With regards to your quote, writing down helps the brain memorizing. It turns out typing it out doesn't help as much. In that sense, a notes app isn't akin to writing a note, the former isn't handwriting and the latter isn't digitized with all the advantages (and disadvantages!) attached. Its why I bought a reMarkable 2 for my mother (before they went all cloudy). She writes down a lot. It became a mess of notes, pure chaos. A digital notebook is the best of both worlds.
I'd honestly throw a party if Reddit completely collapsed under its own weight and its owners/investors lost everything they had... but I still haven't seen anything else that will replace the niche that it fills. As long as there's no alternative, they'll continue to make the rules.
The downvote button is Reddit's second biggest problem. It was meant to signal that a piece of content was either off-topic or broke a rule, as a way to alleviate the pressure of moderation. That's a fine theory, but it's simply not possible in an anonymous and unaccountable environment. It increases the trolling and makes it easy for bad actors to both control competitor content and promote their own.
most of the latency comes from network layer. my naiive guess is they probably switched from a standard ethernet setup to a infiniband setup to achieve 600us of total latency.
Heya, I'm working on creating a metadata search engine (using transcripts) for YouTube, Spotify, etc. Basically any video/audio content.

Everyone always complains about how bad multimedia search tools are, so this is something that can address that. Some people tried to do stuff like this back in 2006 (Blinkx) but never made it very far. This takes those attempts a step further than basic transcript searching, and uses machine learning to extract topics, entities, and keywords that can be used to filter on the data sets - as well as show "gists" of the content in any piece of media.

It's very much a work in progress. Currently it doesn't have a mobile layout, it's buggy, and it's quite - uh - "overwhelming", but hopefully someone can see the utility of it.
SpaceX is government-funded. The government is their customer.

But same with the internet: The government funded the raw science, with military objectives in mind, and then it became commercially viable for private industry to make money from.

Arguably, you could then make the claim that the private industry ruined it for everyone. I hope this doesn't become true of space.
"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which one can say, 'Look! This is something new'? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time."

I mean ~2000+ years ago people understood this. Day to day relatable ideas generally come to anyone involved in the cutting edge of any era of humanity, and such ideas will generally resonate with one's contemporaries who are likely thinking similar things. Billions of us can't really claim to have found something new. We didn't invent countability, or factoring, or primes.

But it's also a bit of a cynical lie that may comfort some of us, that being ordinary is okay, because ordinary is normal. Over the millennia we managed to turn philosophy into science, mathematics into machines, and miniaturise them into our hands, generate energy and resources unthinkable to our ancestors, and create networks of algorithms complex enough we offload a significant portion of day to day thinking and planning. These are new things.

Is it true wisdom? Define true wisdom - my understanding is there is no objectivity in such matters. There is only the balance and friction between forces of imagination wrought out by human minds and hands, always building on knowledge that came before. Take away all knowledge, and the cycle will continue, it's just what people do. We think, we imagine, we create.

I ramble but it probably feels day to day like nothing is ever new, and everything is always being recycled, but it's in this compost heap that new ideas ferment and take root, so that is an analogy I'll be adopting henceforth (not in the least as it makes me less disappointed in my own unpursued ideas).
Yes, but I think there are some corollaries. First, sometimes marketing beats all the other concerns. And second, sometimes business deals beat marketing.
This is great! I miss the personal site era where you saw different designs all of the time rather than just the common big social network templates.
I'm conspiratorial enough to believe that some of the power mods are being paid, but not by reddit.
What do you enjoy about Gmail/cal? I don't see the point of that level of indirection in your setup. Fastmail seems indistinguishable from Gmail UI except I don't have crap on the left nav. And gcal is unreliable garbage, in my experience.

These days I pick a provider for each service that lives and dies by the quality of that service. Fastmail has 'mail' right on the tin.
Huh. I would have never thought that was a risk. It’s the sort of thing I would do. Thanks for the warning.

My highest likelihood interpretation is that a bunch of fools marked your email as spam rather than the initial spammer.

I think it’s hard to help most people drawn from the total population in an async context because of the 50% being less than median intelligence problem.