jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You're ignoring the financial aspect of when that money needs to be paid. With AWS it's billed gradually over the lifetime of the servers (and if you have too many, you can easily reduce overhead with relatively little lost value.) Buy those servers, and you either have to pay up front or commit to a lease that may have breakage costs.

Additionally, if your service is growing at a material rate, there are inefficiencies around when you choose to turn on extra hardware. With colocation, you're probably going to do groups of machines at once (say once a quarter) and attempt to predict how many you'll need (naturally erring to the high side.) With cloud, you can provision new machines at any time _as needed_.

It's great to do a set piece calculation and say colocation is cheaper, but you're ignoring the realities of doing business - that plans change regularly. That flexibility is one of the primary benefits of using cloud services.

Ask most CEOs if they'd rather pay 300K now, or 400K over a year or two with a lot of optionality/flexibility, and I suspect they'll take the latter.
Nice to see you HN Greg..what game platforms are you programming for now?

I am getting into 2d/3d games on the android platform and at some point maybe iphone
flipcode was the first site I ran into that really had good programming information. For some reason, undoubtably silly, I never 100% grooved with gamedev/gamasutra.

Ah well. The wheel turns.
So CPI is not being manipulated just cost of living has risen and it’s not reflected in CPI. That’s silly. The CPI index basically picks and chooses which values to adjust and which to fix in order to get a desired outcome. It’s not a robust process there is a ton room to nudge numbers one way or another depending on if you want to show inflation or not. Think of it more like an accountant working towards whatever profit number the company wants to report this year.

Generally the government can’t Show high inflation because doing so would have all sorts of second and third order consequences like increased SSI payout and higher government salaries as well as affect contracts and treasury bond yields.

The entire market would crash if you got a 3-5% hot inflation number. That basically can’t be allowed
That was my first thought too, the word "latency" isn't even mentioned in the article.
Wonder if there is a way to wrap it in Dwarf Fortress or something and crowd source the intractable parts.
That's correct. That is one of the intended use cases for our Storage Expansion Cards. You can use it on your Framework Laptop, pop it out, plug it into an other machine that supports USB-C, and transfer files at high speed.
>The only incentive to write articles like this is to convince others to buy, consequently making more money yourself.

Given that you're not the author and so not privy to their motives, I don't see your support for your assertion that personal profit is the only possible incentive to have written the article.
Cannondale bicycles would like to have a word with you. They started out making bikes out of 'aircraft aluminum' which if memory serves was [6061](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6061_aluminium_alloy), which is magnesium silicon, not scandium. Do you mean you can't weld aluminum in an oxygen environment? I think you're right about that at least. I think they used argon, and then had a patented(?) annealing process to keep it from falling apart under the customers. Not sure what they do now.

You have probably flown in an airplane with stir-welded aluminum. Stir welding is a bit like... making velcro and sticking it together at exactly the same time.

Nobody is building things out of 'aluminum' so it feels like nitpicking to argue about metalurgy for a company that is just going to buy stock in block or plate form. With a bunch of electronics nerds.

I only brought the metal in to talk about stiffening and because some patents may make it difficult for them to build a work-alike that lives up to their hype.
Well this is just untrue in my experience. I run a SaaS business and my customers love it when you ask for their opinions and insight.

Where are you getting your information from?
Weird, for my server spam assassin tells me my dkim signature is invalid but the dkim check in the next category says that it's valid.
"It turns out then, that the reason gold is precious is precisely that it is so chemically uninteresting."

- Rare but not too rare

- Easily distinguishable from look-alikes (most other precious minerals look like silver)

- Soft enough to form into jewelry

- Melts readily into coins / etc

- Easy enough to mine

- Doesn't tarnish (chemically uninteresting)

Saved you a click.

Here's your facebook post text:

"If you were to collect together every earring, every gold sovereign, the tiny traces gold in every computer chip, every pre-Columbian statuette, every wedding ring and melt it down, it's guesstimated that you'd be left with just one 20-metre cube, or thereabouts."
Few questions from my side:

- Is it possible to make indexes of other country equivalents on this platform? Even if those stocks arent listed on US Markets.

- How are the taxes going to work in general if the indexes are actively managed?

- Are the 8949s and 1099s autogenerated for individual users by enombic?

Thanks!
People do exist (I am one of them) who think the NSA is doing a nasty job that isn't very appealing, but is absolutely necessary for me to be able to sleep in my bed at night safely.

I don't buy the Col. Jessup rationalization at all, and I think it's simpleminded. The threats these people are defending against are ones created by their own actions, and the actions of the governments they act on behalf. Regular citizens of whatever country are affected by these activities but they don't get a voice in how or whether the "nasty job" (and it's precursors) are in their interest.
Even without dust in the air, you have things like Rayleigh scattering. But yes, we only "see" the photons that were deflected from their original path.
It's extremely rude when the hiring manager/HR person does not respond to the candidate's inquiry. It's just unprofessional, busy or not. THe other person is busy as well.
Works terribly on my droid. As I scroll that bar that is meant to sit at the bottom of the page is right in the middle, obscuring the text in the book.
Groovy and Grails have lost their reason for existence years ago, and without the sponsoring they are both dead.
I don't think that removing it from the curriculum is a bad thing. But not for the reasons suggested by the article.

BNW isn't a great piece of literature, imo. I understand it's place in literary history, but it's aged badly, and pretty clunky because of that. The themes are certainly important, and will continue to be retold, I'm sure.

There's great modern literature and contemporary YA fiction that is far more entertaining and tackles equally difficult moral issues.
Greenplum (and associated tech) is partly open source now.
Wow - so close. How about: 'How on Earth is putting a man in prison remotely just or proportional'?
Oh, well then, no need to worry about this at all .. everything is toxic in the right numbers, so there's no wrong-doing here in the slightest and we shouldn't stop big companies from polluting the planet, because .. after all .. its already all polluted.

What a ludicrous position.
According to Wikipedia, for high income earners, the divorce rate after 10 years is 23%... Or about 1 in 4.
If I understand correctly, the idea is that the separation should be equitable (which makes sense as you were building a life together). However, this varies if there are kids involved.

I fully support this if it works both ways, ie. Regardless of gender.

You are either surrounded by friends with low income (who divorce at 44%), or You are suffering confirmation bias.

None of my friends have divorced - but that's luck more than anything else.
This happens very often. Like many others have recommended, disable the global AWS keys and use roles.
I'd put it down to the aesthetics of common usage. 'Nation state' looks and sounds better than the alternatives. Words mean whatever their users intend them to mean regardless of whether the usage is technically, or historically, incorrect.

Edit: a word
Criticize TED, cite "the 20 all-time worst TED talks" by a Buzzfeed editor who also wrote "39 Things That Look Like Boobs."
This is not a Maude Flanders "won't someone think of the children!" type issue. This is bad guys actively and horrifically abusing children. It's a good thing the LEAs are going after them with technologically sophisticated countermeasures. Good for them and we're all better off for it.
I have read that fiber helps control your blood sugar levels (by carrying the sugar away before your body can process it), but I cannot find any good references.
It's amazing that this would run halfway well on a 33 MHz 486. Doom had a 35 fps cap, and ran at 320x240 (square pixels):

2.7 million pixels per second at 35 fps (the cap).

1.4 million pixels per second at 18 fps (~50% of cap).

At the more realistic target of 18 fps, you have 24 clock cycles per pixel. A 486 averaged about 0.8 instructions per clock, so you're looking at 19 instructions per pixel. With a 33 MHz memory bus and the DRAM of the day, you're looking at about 5 clocks for memory latency. That looks like an upper bound of no more than 4 memory operations per pixel.

A convincing 3d renderer averaging 19 instructions and 4 memory operations per pixel. And we're not even counting blit/video delays here. Good lord is that savage optimization work. Carmack is famous for a reason.

P.S. The really scary thought is that Doom would hypothetically run on any 386 machine -- can you imagine painting e.g. 160x120 on a cacheless 20 MHz 386 laptop?
It is a famous anecdote that Cantor was not quite as surprised when he came up with his "diagonal proof" (reals are uncountable) but when he saw that the points on the plane can be mapped to points on the line, i.e. the infinities are the same. There just seems to be more points in R^2 than R, this is highly counterintuitive.
And use old.reddit.com instead of www.
Here's an interesting date format most of HN probably haven't heard of; military date-time-groups[1].

270009LFEB21

Translation: The 27th, 00:09, "L" timezone (+11, NATO timezone[2]), February, 2021.

Advantages:

- it's much more compact than ISO8601.

- the most significant information is first; the date.

- the second-most significant information is second; the time.

- the timezone is a single alphanumeric character.

- when military paperwork has a box at the top that says "DTG", everyone knows the format.

- I'm pretty sure it's a standard across all NATO militaries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date-time_group#Military_Date_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_time_zones
I wish this were more popular. I love the idea of using the email protocol for chats. Email servers are ubiquitous and, better, everyone can email everyone else and your contacts and you don't have to be on gmail or yahoo or anything else.
Yeah I just have a pinned beta apk from a while back that I will never, ever update.

Same with Firefox on Desktop, for that matter.
Only thing I am aware of that is remotely comparable is Wikifolio (https://www.wikifolio.com/), then again, i am not very knowledgeable in that area, so if anyone has interesting european-based investing startup-links, I am all for it, please post and/or DM me. Thanks.
for a long time consuming ale was common also for kids in Europe since it was safer to drink than water.
Domain Tasting was a problem for a few years, but let's be honest, 99.99% of the best stuff was taken beforehand. Domain tasting focused a lot on expired names, monitoring DNS/whois and frontrunning. It was but a hiccup in the timeline of domaining.

As far as punishment, looking ACPA, 100k penalty for cybersquatting. That's taken out some of the biggest offenders (see IREIT).
The deadlift is great, as is the squat. I certainly feel like the squat is more effective for me because I find it harder! I'm not sure if there's an objective standard on this but I highly recommend both of them.
In my day, we did long-forgotten things on car-rides like 'watching scenery whiz by' and 'having conversations' and 'playing I Spy'. Scoble's kids would probably be addicted to some variant of Tap Tap Revenge on his iPhone throughout the trip, chatting to their little friends back home, and posting top scores to Facebook with tags like 'scored during a road trip' or 'scored while in math class!'
Yeah, but Apple seem to be suggesting that you can use HTML5 for nice looking (near native animation) effects on these devices.
Btw since when does Apple use PHP[1] instead of WebObjects?

[1] http://developer.apple.com/safaridemos/typography.php
All: don't miss (if it's the kind of thing you want more of) that there are multiple pages of comments in this thread. You can reach them via the More link at the bottom of each page, or like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24789379&p=2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24789379&p=3

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24789379&p=4

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24789379&p=5
Mine is not there, but how can assert that there are reasonable chances that it did not get cracked.

I don't want to get paranoïd and I see no point in changing my password to minor services unless there is a really good chance that it got compromized.

The "strong" versus "weak" message that some password checking services provide tells me nothing very usefull because what is weak when you focus a cluster of CPU for a week on may be "strong" for those who use the Gawker leak and don't have (I guess) such ressources.
That website looks horrible on mobile, I can barely even see the content behind the banner and navbars. "Let's make games" is such an unintuitive button to dismiss the banner as well, it looks like it would jump to a sign-up page.
Not bogus in NJ:

https://www.state.nj.us/dobi/division_insurance/ihcseh/ihcra...

Kaiser is an exception and is only available on the West coast. And maybe a little bit in VA.

Either way, the point about needing a ton of money for healthcare is valid. It’s a race to get to Medicare age before you get hit with a medical problem.

Edit: Here's the data for nationwide for a 40 year old. Based on the NJ pdf above, you can double the premium to figure out the cost for someone in 50s to 60s.

https://www.kff.org/health-reform/state-indicator/average-ma...

Edit: I just noticed you were claiming someone earning $50k won't pay $25k in health insurance premiums, which is right. I did not know that premium tax credits only took into account annual income.
I agree with the sentiment but this is probably not the case as a sysadmin hardly has any say in this usually. (I've been a sysadmin at software companies for 10 years.)
Everyone has both, though I'm not sure you can change the proportions.
Twitter is just an internet forum with a handful of famous users, internet forums come and go so do user names.

Twitter is not the real world, despite what Twitter addicts and journalists (who benefit from Twitter because it makes their jobs easier) would like you to believe, most normal people barely use it.

If Twitter disappeared tomorrow I think you'd be surprised how little it would matter.
Never to yourself. Maybe to a board member. Or all of the board members. But that's a big maybe.

And make sure your contract covers your ass, under production system testing / penetration, or something similar.
(2) is about 15 years old, but can you explain how actually does (1) work?
No connectivity in TFA. I'd suggest IRLP or better [0]

[0]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Radio_Linking_Project
Does it just use the default GTK+ theme, or are there rendering issues?
Is this going to be their stock ticker symbol in an IPO?
We had a great IT security presentation at a medium-sized company I used to work for once, one of those annual "click through all the slides so we know you've read it" things that US companies seem to love.

As I understand it, the material was put together by an outside team of expert security consultants, who came in and audited the company's usual policies and the access requirements for people to do their jobs sensibly.

The executives watched the presentation and concluded that this was great, because now all of their staff would know not to leave CDs with sensitive data lying around on their desks when they went home.

The front-line grunts -- who were mostly geeks, this being a software company -- concluded that more than 98% of the recorded data leakage incidents in this 5,000 person company, and 100% of the serious ones, would have been prevented by (a) refusing to exempt senior/executive management from the corporate IT security policies that applied to all other staff and (b) requiring sales people only to use company laptops with the standard security software installed and maintained by corporate IT when going off-site.

(I'm pretty sure that I really am remembering the statistics here accurately, BTW. Listening to the executives on the conference call after watching the presentation was the kind of bang-head-on-wall moment you don't quickly forget.)
I think that the average abduction would be significantly harder without the use of an automobile, with many more opportunities for someone to see / apprehend / alert of the guy carrying a screaming / unconscious / bound child.

In the US, abductions are also very rare. I think the last average I saw was 800,000 a year. Of those, about half were family abductions. After factoring in runaways, accidents, etc., the number of abductions was down to a quarter, or something like 200,000. In a population of over 300,000,000, that's pretty rare indeed (though I admit, high enough to be concerned with in a metropolitan area).
Especially Giving up all rights to code that was better than anyone else's for only 10K.

Edit: $9,814.40 USD, the 10K would be in AUD I am guessing
Edit2: Scratch that it is 10K USD, not AUD
Do you have any plans for doing form building capability in backbone? I was trying backbone out and I found that to be a part that I would like to have in there. I was trying to figure out the best way to get it done. I'm thinking something along the lines of what Sammy has:

http://code.quirkey.com/sammy/docs/api.html#Sammy.FormBuilde...

Also, great job on this (and coffee script as well).
libtelnet: A nifty little library that makes it easy to speak proper telnet.

https://github.com/elanthis/libtelnet
My instincts agree with his basic point, and there is probably much to learn from the individual companies he has studied.

However, the numbers are totally useless. He has only profiled companies from Minnesota, and many of them are over 40 years old. His data may just as well be pointing to differences in availability of venture capital over space and time.
Only when chips/gpu production keeping up with the currently increasing demand, which should be long way ahead.

Not only crypto is still running, companies want to push nfts. Not to mention increasing demand in ai / ml sector to cloud providers want to ramp up their ai capabilities.
There are decentralised exchanges like bisq: https://bisq.wiki/Main_Page

Presumably, this would do the trick.
It's hard to tell if it's constantly shifting priorities and budgets causing projects to be retired, or a strategy to bring users into their walled garden and then upcharge once they are onboard.
> The outcome in Afghanistan gave everyone the impression America will back down. Trump kept everyone off balance.

You mean the outcome of the withdrawal plan that Trump agreed to? Biden was damned if he did and damned if he didn't:

- The US is weak for withdrawing

- The US doesn't stick to its agreements
There was a Academia Stack Exchange question on this very thing: http://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/46354/what-is-th...

My answer, from there:

They help support professional societies. Profits from society-level journals, if they indeed do turn a profit, allow professional societies to engage in other activities, from political advocacy to supporting students attending their conferences.

They provide typesetting and layout, as well as proof reading. While this is not true for all fields, generally speaking it is true in biomedicine and public health. To my mind, all but the most carefully done LaTeX templates are a poor substitute to actual page layout tools, and typesetting is something that is not necessarily an academic skill set.

They provide a means for manditory, potentially blinded review. Most alternate systems rely on optional post-publication review, whereas the conventional journal system ensures somebody saw it before it reached the press. This might seem like something of a low bar, but it's better than a paper that never attracts reviewers. Additionally, it's essentially impossible to make post-publication reviews anonymous. I'd suggest that the quality and level of criticism for identical papers published by a "Senior Luminary in the Field" and a "Female Graduate Student with a Foreign Sounding Name" will be markedly different. This is just as subjective as the existing peer-review system. For something like SX voting, you're also going to conflate two issues - popularity and quality.

Journals, through their editorial boards, provide a means of field-wide advocacy. I would, for example, suggest that the ICMJE Guidelines carry far more weight because of the associated journals.

Journals also provide essentially a curated collection of papers that meet a certain quality standard (whatever that standard may be) and are topical. I can read Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology every month and get a sense for what's going on in a particular field. And importantly, I can find papers there that I wouldn't necessarily have read if I was just searching through somewhere like arXiv. Journals provide a means to browse a field in addition to targeted searches of the literature.
I’m mixing it on ideological grounds. Tax comes from the state, a violent actor with arbitrary rights to tax an distribute (although in democratic societies, ostensibly controlled by majority rule)

For me land rent isn’t a tax, and it does not belong to the state in any shape or form. It’s about the commons and fundamental inalienable rights. Things I expect to see in the UNs declarations of human rights rather than in the tax-policy of the local government
"It wasn't a scare, people were just missing nuance"

This reads like post-hoc rationalization about the claim (scare) that saturated fat causes heart disease, because that's what the scare was about. As far as toxins in fat goes, the primary toxin that I've seen discussed is dioxin and that scare tactic is sorely missing nuance.
a week ago I passed in front the One Coin shop in Sofia.
It was open.

I was surprised as It had been closed for a long time.

I had listened to the BBC podcast and was curious so I tried to enter.

It was locked and a lady came to open.
There were a couple of people, maybe customers.
There were books, CDs and other material.

I stayed two minutes and head to the exit.
The door was locked and the lady came to open.

That's all.

It felt weird.
32 ETH is ~$4,800 at today's price of $151.07[1]. What's the expected "payout" for this stake?

[1] CoinMarketCap used as source.
> The USSR were the adults in that conflict.

Adults wouldn’t have put missiles in Cuba in the first place.
I found their comment to be a useful way to easily explain it to those who are less technical. In that way I find it has value.

Your comment, however, has quite an aggressive feel. I don't think it was warranted.
Decentralized finance (DeFi): https://defiprime.com