skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, most of the time it's not a question of paying someone to run an entire data center, but rather some racks in someone else's data center. The data center has data center staff who handle a lot of this. It's unfair to pretend that going bare metal entails starting with an empty plot of land and building/managing a whole data center. While that may be the case for the largest companies, even moderately-sized companies won't do that.

When you're a business, you have to pay people to handle hardware no matter what. The question is not whether you need to pay someone to administer the hardware -- the question is who you are going to pay. It can be an employee, contractor, or third-party service company like AWS or remote hands at a colo.

I've seen multiple companies move to cloud merely because they were annoyed at having to go down to the rack to deal with hardware, often making oblique justifications about difficulty when they really meant that they don't like driving down to the colocation center.

Those companies have spent millions more paying AWS than they would've if they just hired a couple of hardware jockeys.

The argument basically becomes a question of whether you know how to hire someone who knows how to deal with hardware. If you don't, it's better to go with Amazon even though they're going to rake you over the coals cost-wise. If you do, then practically speaking, the differences should be small. Your hardware people will automatically fix the hardware issues just like Amazon's hardware people.

The bulk of the work of running servers is at the OS admin level, which is still the customer's responsibility with cloud servers. These arguments about difficulty of administration would work for something like Heroku, but they don't work for Amazon.
I wanted to like System76. I had a dead pixel on a new machine that was to be my new workhorse AAAAAND that's how I learned what a dead pixel policy is!

Turns out, theirs was rubbish. The whole laptop wasn't elegant or well constructed, but it was durable. I had to send it in for repairs once, that went well. Still, I'd never buy anything of theirs again. Ever.
Couldn't they just have called it google??
"Installation on Windows was always much easier"

I've rarely disagreed with something said on HN so strongly (at least among things that, in the grand scheme of things, really don't matter that much, but they matter a lot to my personal experience).

"The fact that Linux relied on people to install stuff with the command line was a massive oversight. UIs are just way more intuitive than shell commands."

This has never been true in the past 12 years. You have to go back even further to find a time when there weren't multiple GUIs for the leading package managers. And, for at least the past decade, the core GUI experience on every major Linux distro has had some sort of "Install Software" user interface that was super easy and provided search and the like.

There's lots of things Linux got wrong (and some that it still gets wrong) that Windows or macOS got right. Software installation really just isn't one of them, IMHO.

It's the thing I miss most when I have to work on Windows or macOS, and I miss it constantly...like multiple times a day. A good package manager is among the greatest time savers and greatest sources of comfort (am I up to date? do I have this installed already? which version? where are the config files? where are the docs? etc.) when I use any system, particularly one I haven't seen in a while.

I just really love a good package manager, and Linux has several. Windows and macOS have none (because if the entire OS didn't come from a package manager, it's useless...you can't know what's going on by querying the package manager, if the package manager only installed a tiny percentage of the code on the system). So, even though there's choco on Windows and Homebrew (shudder...) on macOS, they are broken from the get-go because they are, by necessity, their own tiny little part of the system with little awareness or control over the OS itself.
> all programs had a relatively consistent UI wizard that stepped you through the installation process

No where near as consistent as installing from a package manager.

> The fact that Linux relied on people to install stuff with the command line was a massive oversight. UIs are just way more intuitive than shell commands.

Every user orientated distro has come with a GUI package manager for at least a decade, probably two.
Wait, where?!
There's a Project Manager extension I use (https://github.com/alefragnani/vscode-project-manager/blob/m...) that's pretty good for this - replaced Sublime projects for me.
I just founded my third startup Elastic Byte (https://elasticbyte.net), which is a DevOps and infrastructure consulting company operating as SaaS (public monthly pricing plans).

Indeed culture is a big part of the DevOps puzzle besides software. This mentality shift is also a part of what we offer (training and advice). Individual ownership, moving fast, are all parts of the greater strategy. I've found the talk "You shipped it, you fix it" [1] by Ron Cohen (CTO of Opbeat) a great source of solid ideas.

https://opbeat.com/community/posts/you-shipped-it-you-fix-it...

The old model where developers hand off their code to the ops department is fundamentally a bad strategy because it leads to:

"It worked fine in test... Ops problem now!"

There is no accountability. If your code causes problems when deployed to production, ops is the one getting a call/page in the middle of the night, and trying to fix the problem for which they have no domain experience or understanding. However, if you deploy your own code at your own pace, then there is accountability.
Yes, let's hope she has retained the evidence and she shows some of it.

> nothing which Fowler has said seems suspicious or in any way promoting a malicious agenda.

It is suspicious that considering the number of people involved in this alleged systematic abuse, no one has stepped forward to corroborate her claims. The leather jackets story also strikes me as very far-fetched and a little incredible to believe (a company like Uber wouldn't care about the cost of 6 extra jackets and wouldn't take the PR risk of pulling shit like that).

> "Pitchforks" is a bit melodramatic.

Hashtag #DeleteUber is exactly what the proverbial pitchforks look like in 2017.
The High Cost of Travel Time
>Windows 10 already sorted out the filename limitations.

No, it hasn't. Filenames are still case-insensitive (and in a terrible way, where it seems to remember how they were first typed but that can never be changed), backslashes are still used for path separators instead of escaping characters, and the worst of all is that drive letters are still in use, which is an utterly archaic concept from the days of systems with dual floppy drives. Also, try making a file with a double-quote character in it, or a question mark. I've run into trouble before copying files from a Linux system to a Windows system because of the reserved characters on Windows.

>Mono and Qt don't change the architecture of UNIX and their adoption across UNIX variants isn't a game changer.

Nothing you've mentioned has changed the architecture of Windows. The fundamental architecture of Windows hasn't changed at all since WinNT 4.0 (or maybe 3.5); it just has an ugly new UI slapped on top and some slightly different administration tools.
GPS includes the offset between GPS time and UTC so that receivers can convert to UTC if they want to.

This offset is limited to 255 seconds though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System#Leap...
At least in the US, right now, all the hi-tech death machines get maintained by contractors or civilian employees of the services.
Yeah, you might think that and then meet my friend who HATES both chocolate AND coffee (at the age of 45... plenty of time to adapt to coffee, but not liking chocolate is unfathomable to me), and go "WTF, seriously?" ;)

Tastes are one of those things that we just can't (no matter how hard we try, or want to) grasp rationally. These entirely subjective experiences are just... not rationally conveyable.

This spills over into sexual preferences as well, btw (not to derail the topic, but thinking of sexual preferences as mere "taste variation" is useful IMHO).
Na I aint no lightweight.
My information was out of date. The startup was Second Wind. They have since been bought by Vaisala, and their product currently ships under the Triton name.
cool project, really unfortunate name, reminiscent of 2012
If there's not enough voluntary participants they'll opt for forced labor. That's conscription. What do I miss here?
Just an opinion having spent a few months on a few in rural NC: Hippies are well meaning, but generally bad at the logistical/business angles to running these within a broader state environment, i.e. county/city zoning, fundraising, banking concerns, ownership legalities, etc.
> Proceeds from this campaign will indeed go to the individual in question after identity verification.

I think they might just prefer to stay anonymous.
> There's a modern conceit that we're somehow smarter or better than previous generations, and that's very misguided.

But: We do have better tools.

And better tools combined with the same level of smartness can give you better or at least different outcomes.
You specify the run region for each of those services and all the other components get restricted to those regions too.

We're in ap-southeast-2 (Sydney) and none of our services were impacted yesterday.
Out of curiosity, why aren't CPUs with asymmetrical core designs a thing? For example: a single, large primary core with a high clock speed supported by many lower-clocked smaller cores. Theoretically that would allow for the best of both worlds.

I imagine if such a design existed, it would disincentivize proper multi-core utilization in software to some degree. It would likely further complicate parallel programming as well.

At the same time, multi-core computing has been a thing for well over a decade now, and the reality is that a CPU's single-core performance still matters.

Are the efficiency advantages inherent in symmetrical core designs simply too great? Would asymmetrical designs not be suited for use with existing OS schedulers? Is operating a chip at multiple frequencies simultaneously somehow insane from a design perspective?
Yes, some is still coming from coal but the energy mix is changing.

Coal is now more expensive than natural gas, which is why the coal mines are now shutting down.

In addition, even natural gas is going to have to fight the renewable energy sources as the costs will continue to go down for them.

So I'd rather have the system's efficiencies improve in a few places instead of the tens of millions of cars that would have to be changed in the long run.
Why are thousands of people watching this man’s grass grow?
Does that happen to you a lot with your mac?

Not being snarky, but in years of using mid-tier windows laptops with Linux on them, I've never needed or wanted to get someone else to fix anything. There have been little things (a key fell off, wanted to replace the hdd with something bigger), but those were always pretty trivial to fix on your own. If anything really bad happened, like a random catastrophic hardware failure, I don't think hourly employees at a store would be able to fix it anyhow.
Here is another review link which is a good complement to the Anandtech's hardware:

http://techreport.com/review/31366/amd-ryzen-7-1800x-ryzen-7...
Lab IC Validation and Test Automation Engineer
Brand new 2.65M condo units next door to me in Santa Monica. One immediately sold and I expect the rest to go as soon as all these paper millionaires in the neighborhood turn real.

Venice has already turned into the most expensive rental market in LA [0] and it is dragging Santa Monica's prices up with it. I'm in a rent controlled apartment and I don't think I will move out of it at this rate unless I leave California entirely.

0 - http://www.laweekly.com/news/how-venice-became-the-most-expe...
In my country, we have a professional military.

It's more expensive than turning teenagers into combat slaves (The Hunger Games?), but the people in the forces choose to be there.

It seems intuitive to me that highly trained individuals with combat experience and a mind for controlled violence would be better than amateur teenagers at defending a country. The military professionals I've meet are fearless under combat (so I've heard), don't panic when they've been shot, and can endure physical discomfort that would crush the average person.

Not that I'm particularly stuck on the above idea. It's the first off the top of my head.
Some things are necessarily constrained. The electromagnetic spectrum, the atmosphere (in terms of pollution), land, and social capital are always going to be contested and you can't just make more.
I'm the founder of Sonder, an E Ink smart keyboard startup; I've written here previously about E Ink when we were published in WSJ regarding Apple.

E Ink is a brilliant display, but the process of manufacturing, cutting the TFT mask etc is expensive; only on mass volumes can displays costs become incredibly cheap (6" E Ink in a kindle is <$10 USD). It's the same for most displays OLED etc in small volumes are expensive; which is why the touchbar solution COGS is over $200 USD.

Therefore E Ink has a high MOQ of a few hundred thousand units, anything below that and you're priced at basically prototype costs which is why a 32" E Ink display is $2k.
Dude, Where's My Code?
> And as more people grow up expecting to have everything for free

I’m convinced this is more of a service problem than an inherent generational problem. At the moment many of the best-in-breed applications are ad supported because their whole raison d’être revolves around network effects and making people pay in or subscribe cuts against that.

As time goes on, though, places where a subscription based business model can fit will start to catch on as the underlying technologies mature to the point where you can get any old dude out of college to run them rather than needing top-quartile development talent. This is especially true as you become able to position applications or services as ‘premium’ products.

It’s easy to make people uptake new things with freeware business models. But as the products and services get more buy-in you’ll find more scope for other business models to thrive. For example, there is a cottage industry of subscription based matchmaking services that offer a more personal touch than typical online dating.
But I think the point is that people aren't computers.
It's interesting - Johnny Cash was a SIGINT operative in Europe in the 1950s. I mean headsets and notepads.

That's probably where he got a taste for amphetamines, at least one biographer thinks. "Here, take this, son. It'll keep you awake."
If the computer knows exactly what actions would be a mistake - how? The difference between correct and incorrect (not to mention legal and illegal) is usually inferred from a much wider context than what is accessible to a script. Mind you, in this specific case, Amazon even implies that such a command could have been correct under other circumstances.

So, this means a) strong superhuman AI (good luck), b) deciding from an ambiguous input to one of possibly mistaken actions (good luck mapping all possible correct states), or c) drool-proof interface ("It looks you're trying to shut down S3, would you like some help with that?").

TL;DR: yes, but it's a cure worse than the disease.
While the article is specific to Calcutta and the Bengal region, the concept of adda is prevalent in almost the whole of India. Every city, town and even village has a corner (or many such corners in cities) which usually attracts people who come to have a casual and relaxed discussion about anything under the sun and eat some local delicacy.

Check out the movie Brahman Naman (it's on Netflix in the US). This is a coming of age, sex comedy set in 1980s Bangalore and shows the concept of "adda" many times where teenage/college boys hangout, ogle at girls and discuss esoteric quizzing topics.
A return to independent city-states is probably the future of society. Unfortunately we're currently going in a direction of a one world wide government
> More than you would think. Young people, old people, poor people, mentally handicapped people, people who have been away from power outlets for a while. Foreigners who don't have domestic SIM cards yet.

Ride-sharing apps are much simpler and standardized compared to the incredibly complexity of public transit options and schedules when traveling. I've seen first-hand all those people (except those without working phones) have an easier time with uber/lyft.

Poor/affordability is a different issue.
Yes, we also can say in English stuff like "Uncle Joe is slave to alcohol".

Here we are discussing slavery as a concept, which is different.
This is where Wikipedia really fails. It makes a statement with huge implications, like:

A century of research by archaeologists and Egyptologists has found no evidence which can be directly related to the Exodus captivity and the escape and travels through the wilderness

Which dismisses a "century of research" based on a single little citation:

Meyers 2005, p. 5.

Which upon visiting the book, provides the same blanket statement at the bottom of the page, and is itself a citation to yet another external resource.

Did you even bother to investigate the "lack of evidence" claims yourself, or did you just assume the entire black hole of citations was correct?
Dear Music Fans… – The Story of Grooveshark
Well, that video sucked. I got it the first time. I didn't need the popcorn, thanks.
What an honor to receive this present. I am really touched. Thank you from my heart.
Probably because American sandwich food chains insist on using the lowest quality, absolutely bland pink tomatoes, which are slimy and disgusting after having been in contact with a patty on one side and presumably some condiment/bun on the other.

Compare that to a fresh, sweet, homegrown tomato off the vine, still warm from the summer heat.
For anyone looking at a new AM4 build with high speed memory, be warned that Linus' review stated he could not POST with memory clocked past 2666MHz[0]

[0]https://youtu.be/9wJQEHNYE7M?t=4m43s
Our E Ink keyboard startup has developed timing controllers to avoid this. This is 4hz, you can get up to 20 Hz; and play videos or games on E Ink.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1tmjDDK7jY
Dead pixel 'on' or dead pixel 'off'?
Reminds me Type 2A at Packet.net, a similar 96 core processor, 128GB RAM and 340 SSD for $0.50 USD /hr https://www.packet.net/bare-metal/servers/type-2a/
What one person thinks is "fun" and is their "hobby", is subjective and therefore personal.

Many people define their "hobby" as the thing that they do when they are not getting paid. That may be just watching TV, but that may also be volunteer work in one of the aforementioned areas.

From personal experience, I can say that my "hobby" is something deeply meaningful to myself, but may disclose a protected status if probed during an interview. In that vein, I would rather not face the question as a condition to my employment.

Quite frankly, it's none of their business.
If you enjoy public apologies, there's actually a really great blog that tracks and analyzes public apologies - http://www.sorrywatch.com
I think, paying attention to the comments here, you should consider that your communication is an issue. The whole license in general, the need for it, the "it feels OSS, but its not" ... the artificial license limit... lots of red flags, and a lack of clarity.
If it's like it was in Germany they are probably drinking and messing things up.

Which is reasonable, given someone disrupts your life and gives you a force hourly pay that borders satire.
The only main difference I can see besides the better UI/UX, is that you can create (and edit) containers, which you can't do in the Nightly version (or at least there is no UI for doing so). For instance you can create a 'Facebook' container, and then leave FB running in that, and not let FB track you across your life, cause that's just wrong. Before I kept FB in it's own Browser, which was annoying.
Software Metrics: Trends Trump Goals
first, i thought why another MIPS emulator thing but they offer a RISCV port. That seems much more interesting. But naming is questionable.
Real professional soldiers come from the Service Academies and while they're different from Gates & Zuckerberg, they are among our nations finest people, at least when hubris doesn't get 'em.
Sorry you find it so disturbing. Especially since you said in another comment that being able to pay for a piece of software makes it appealing to you. I think that's cool because I'm not a big fan of freeloaders.

I didn't think fman would be so successful here. I believed that if I had told people "buy this whenever you feel like it", then they simply wouldn't have bought. At least that would be what I would do.

Another reason is that I want to provide paying users with great support, want to ask "so what would you like implemented" etc., and I don't have the resources to do that for too many people.

I hope it makes more sense now... :/
Ask HN: How are people coping with all this doom and gloom?
Whether it's Trump, Brexit, no privacy, our wages stagnating, the insane cost of living, the seeming-impossibility of home ownership or (the one that just about finished me yesterday) the loss of the permafrost and climate change, how are people coping with all this?

After reading HN yesterday it really hit me how futile things feel right now. Honestly I just want to lock myself in a room and forget the world and never have kids because why bring them into a world as messed up as this?

How are people coping? I feel like I've become trapped in a shitty news bubble. How do I get out?
cough cough Busybox cough
Actually pricing at both aws and gcp is linear.
Oh brother, I know your pain. I too have a 6 character gmail address because I signed up in 2004 when it was in beta and I too get email for all sorts of people (both accidentally and because people just give out my email address as a fake when they sign up for something stupid).

It can be fun too though, like when someone signs up for a dating site with your email and you can login to what is effectively your account.

I had the same problem as you with a large bank... kept getting emails with someone else's balance in them. I kept responding and trying to get the bank's attention, but nothing. Eventually I tweeted at them publicly with a description of the problem and that got them to clear it up pretty quickly. ;)
Dead pixel on, bright green.

HOORAY.
Startup Planet Labs Controls the Most Private Satellites
> A trivial example is you want to find "can't" when someone searches for "cant".

In that case, I think you want to just store "can't" and treat "cant" the way you would any other potential near-miss spelling of a more common word.
Let's not mistake necessity for willingness. Most people live where they can afford.
Not every society that practiced slavery regarded your slave status as an immutable part of your being nor does slavery require trade if you are born a slave in a family and live in bondage you are a slave without having changed hands.

To be a slave is to have your personal freedoms subordinated to another while people always enjoy a finite degree of autonomy which varies substantially from society to society
and even between different socioeconomic groups if your owner can tell you where to go and whom to kill, and in fact to surrender ones life if asked then I cannot discern the difference between that state and slavery.
> I want one of these for software developers.

It's not exactly the same, but there is the Recurse Center (formerly Hacker School).

https://www.recurse.com/
It's 2017, we need that just to read a website these days.