skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting question to ponder...

This is just my opinion, and I am open to hearing anyones and better understanding of the importance of Karma, especially given that I still feel that the internet is in its infancy)

Karma is a a valuable social lubricant within the context of the site, community, and topics discussed therein...

It serves as a queue as to the validity of either the information being shared, or the value fellow members of the community perceive the contribution to be.
> Before all these cloud providers websites were not noticeably less reliable than they are now.

Before all of these providers existed:

1) The volume of internet traffic that exists today didn't exist then. Mobile devices didn't exist. Mobile devices that aren't always connected to the internet and consume hours of our day didn't exist. Large downloads (1GB) didn't exist. They couldn't exist because the infrastructure that exists now can properly support it...at scale.

2) Websites that had large volumes of traffic had top tier expensive admins to maintain them (surprise surprise, Amazon did and turned it into a service)

> Most of my bare metal and colocated machines have uptime of many years. Most AWS VM's die after a year or two.

3) What's your definition of "most"? Sources for those numbers please?
This is a beautiful device. I think it will pair much more nicely with our iDevices than the Echo Dots do while sounding way better. Siri actually works quite well when it can hear you really clearly, so I'm assuming that these will work well two.

Assuming the reviews are good, I'll probably get two of these.
Leaded avgas is only used in piston-engine propeller planes. Jet fuel doesn't contain lead additives.

So still not great, but a bit of googling shows that leaded avgas is less than 2% of total civilian aviation fuel in the U.S.:
https://www.faa.gov/data_research/aviation/aerospace_forecas...
Scrolling is fine for me. Chrome on a Mac.
How many bedrooms/acres was that? I can see that running up against perfectly reasonable anti tennament ordinances depending on your answer.
> I mean, if you step back and look at this, and just give Trump the benefit of the doubt and allow that maybe he was ignorant about Russia's attacks on the US elections, is his response reasonable for a president?

We have to remember that Trump was elected on the basis of his being not a typical politician, and his lack of expertise or insight into the office. Without commenting on Russian collusion one way or another, I think it's a mistake to judge his intent based on what a reasonable president might do, since he is the antithesis of that.

I think a lot of his behavior can be explained as the result of a deep antipathy he feels for any challenge to his authority, intelligence or decisions, all of which have probably gone unchallenged his entire life, and by him being a sociopathic narcissist who prevaricates on a dime while lacking any of the nuance typical of politicians at that level of power.

In other words, he looks like he's hiding something because he's too incompetent to look like he isn't, regardless of whether or not he is.
I guess what I'd like to know is: at what point is it worth seriously evaluating alternatives to just using cloud services and paying the sticker price -- which means evaluating the labor cost as well as the cost of the service, where this submission and many others I've seen will quantify the cost of the services and say that bare metal is so much cheaper while ignoring the cost of managing it.
> Are all employees bias trained?

I hope not
A Plant 1k Times More Efficient at CO2 Removal Than Photosynthesis Is Now Active
"But that is not something we are allowed to discuss"

I suspect you'd have fewer down votes (and thus perhaps some discussion) without this. Congratulations on the self-fulfilling prophecy.
https://youtu.be/EMBb_tPPA8E?t=22
At the rates real estate prices are rising in bay area, you would be kicking people out of where they called home for years. Whether they sit on huge gains or not is irrelevant, they wouldnt be able to afford it.
very interesting argument. I wish there was an authority that somebody could just change this stupid zoning laws, we have to analyse this gaming theory strategies to incentive people while everybody know what the solution is.

after election I'm starting to doubt democracy!
If only we could scrap the whole ecmascript thing and force everyone to implement a language that wasn't fundamentally broken for anything more complicated than slapping event handlers on buttons.
I expect Google Assistant and Alexa are technically ahead of Siri, but I will only let Apple to have an always-listening device in my home.

Google seems to be intentionally trying to make users give up on privacy. If I enable any privacy settings in my Google account, it completely disables all features of Pixel Assistant, even the basic voice commands that work offline. Somehow without agreeing to logging of my "web history" I'm not even allowed to set a 5-minute timer with Google Assistant.
A bit ironic that the director of "Her" gave an invited talk at Google that I attended, but your interesting point was not addressed at all: what company would control "Her" data. The director gave a great narrative of how he films scenes (e.g., few crew on set during filming for a more intimate feeling).
Something here about babies and bathwater. Service workers are pretty limited in what they can do.

Is there UX work to be done? Sure. But the fundamental problem is that they fill a need that is not met at all by Apple, and not even in a silly "use metal instead of vulkan because reasons" kind of NIH but we'll support some other similar standard fashion, but in a "nope" way.

So, kudos for the speedy es6. I'm still not going to tell people to use safari on macos, and I'm still going to build crazy DIY caches for safari on iOS because I can't do stuff with service workers in a standardized way.
Which ones? Github employees are pretty much all remote workers, and they are doing pretty well...
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Intelligence Contractor Is Charged in First Leak Case Under Trump
Taking out an HELOC against the property might be one solution.
Tagentially related: why is it web apps in iphone safari are still less responsive when run in fullscreen mode? It's very noticeable.
Microsoft CNTK BrainScript – Basic Concepts
It doesn't matter whether they're violent criminals. Our country has a court system. The role of judge, jury and executioner does not belong to police officers.
How to teach kids about climate change where most parents are skeptics
You can easily turn an image into a video, or into HEVC, with ffmpeg.
Or the van has a minimum-wage person with no driving skills who just has to be able to find the right package and say, "Here you go! Thank you for using Zap Delivery!"
Yay. Now let me build a progressive web app for iOS and I will care about javascript perf on that platform.

Speed is great and all, really great for some people. I just wish they had different priorities.
Yeah, well my BBS runs just fine over 2400 baud and 640kb ram. Ill see your ass in the Pit.
I'd be fascinated to see another system that could work at scale. Nor has there been a historical system that was better AFAICT.

I do have a few friends who home-school, and that's great if a parent can dedicate a significant amount of time to that.

I do applaud your stance. The chance for me to even consider it is long gone. :)
+1TB 960 Pro SSD : $600
+8 core Xeon E5 could go anywhere from $500 to $2000+ depending on clock rate and generation.
+ Pricing on Vega hasn't been announced yet, but the Apple keynote mentioned 11 Teraflops, which is competitive with a GTX 1080Ti. Say AMD undercuts that, and it's $700.
+ A X99 motherboard will run you around $300.
+ A 10G network card is another $200 at least.
+ 32GB of DDR4 2666 ECC is about $400.

A 5k panel off newegg(only one I see) is $2000, but I know you can at a minimum buy the LG one off apples site which is $1300.

That brings you up to $4000 as a low estimate(lower end E5, 16GB of RAM, low estimate on GPU).

You'll still need to throw in a power supply($150 at least), a case(Say $100), most likely cooling for the CPU and case fans(Another $100), mouse and keyboard(Say $100 for nice but not great).

That gets you up to at least $4,450, and it's unlikely you'll have 4 Thunderbolt 3 ports, a card for that likely won't be cheap either. So $5k for this, depending on Vega pricing, and what CPU is actually in there, sounds fairly reasonable.

That all said I don't need server hardware, and you probably also don't. $2k on a i7 7700K or i5 7600K, a GTX 1070 - GTX 1080TI, a 512 850 Evo, a 1440p panel, 16GB of non-ECC ram, is what feels like the price/performance sweet spot right now, and Apple isn't in that market. That doesn't mean though this product is overpriced.
I think there are social issues too with 'passion'. At the risk of being blunt there are people without a social life or others interests who put everything into work and call it passion.

Limited to them its just an unhealthy lifestyle. But if used as some sort of a competitive advantage against those with families and interests beyond work this creates an unfair and awkward work environment.

There are people who look to fill a hole with work when the solution is to find a more balanced life. Workplaces should be alert to and proactively discourage this. Work is primarily about work, professionalism, not a place to socialize. And the 'bro culture', open offices show to an extent some workplaces encouraging it.
It's worthless.

It doesn't even really serve its intended purpose - encouraging civil behavior through reinforcement, or acting as a weight to sort by quality. And the fact that there are no guidelines for voting means that it carries very little context as well, besides being a general indicator of account age.
I agree that dank memes in particular are not worth fighting for. However, I think the same policies and attitudes that get dank memes banned are also suppressing serious political speech. And the suppression of political speech on college campuses is an issue that a lot of reasonable adults take very seriously. See e.g. https://www.thefire.org/ and https://www.aclu.org/other/speech-campus

I'm not quite sure which position you're arguing for. Are you just arguing that Harvard should ban contentless offense such as dank memes, or do you also think Harvard should ban offensive political speech?
If your format handles everything it isn't a format, it just is everything. (The one you want is TIFF though.)
The only way to afford what you say is taking a reverse mortgage.

It sounds problematic on so many levels: in some parts of bay area houses are worth 2.5m, but they werent that expensive years ago. Think mountain view before google.

That is around 30k in taxes right there, per year.
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One of the subjects of OP's article was a software engineer who could barely afford their apartment.
> He gets excited about something he sees in a game on youtube — Minecraft, Scrap Mechanic, Cities Skylines, Garry's Mod — then starts working on something similar himself

See, that seems good. My oldest is still a bit young for that, and usually ends up on the "people playing with toys" subset of YouTube, which is... a lot less stimulating.
Safari 11 will be available on Sierra as well.
Yes, thankfully, national sovereignty is still a thing.

Why exactly do you want to invade China?
I only see main content (1) and sidebar (2) that tries to retain current section details on screen. Opera. Where are 3 and 4?
But wealthy people DO have access to better internet (speed and quantity) and have more leisure time to enjoy media. Also you can do other neat things, like pay for your childrens' education. THAT is a list that goes on for a while.

And the statistically average American is barely treading water. I realize that the average European is better off, but that's not relevant to America right now.
This is true, but I think there's another point that's even more significant: not all network access is the same. In particular, putting some machines in a rack in a colo and connecting to the nearest Internet exchange is really not comparable to Google's networking, which is essentially a worldwide second Internet that is faster and more reliable than the normal Internet, and which carries your packets as far as possible towards their destination before dropping them off at a POP.

(Note: I worked for Google until 3 days ago.)
You mean the Walkman, right? Why yes, I heard of it, but thanks for double checking.

Anyway, If they're pro-privacy, it would also make sense for them to raise hell about the group they're part of for some other reason is arguing that browsing data shouldn't be considered private, of all things.
Not necessarily. Deaf, blind, dwarfs, old (e.g. 70), very young (e.g. 16), single fathers and amputees would all be minorities that could apply to white males.
WebP should not have been released. It was created by skal right before Google released VP8, and nobody had any time to work on the actual format or even see it before it was frozen. You could easily beat it in quality by now.
How is 3.0 era information relevant for 3.5, much less 3.6?
> VP9 and AV1 are simply inferior codecs to H.265 in almost every way.

This was your claim.

Let me sum up the entirety of my position so we're on the same page:

- In terms of compression, AV1 is competitive with or beats HEVC, despite not being finalized.

- AV1 has support from everyone but of import save Apple when it comes to the web.

- Apple's support is not necessary for a codec to be successful (see VP9).

- AV1 is not finalized. There's more work to do. Particularly, I don't expect the present encoder/decoder implementations to be competitive with the HEVC encoders when it comes to CPU efficiency.

- HEVC has solid adoption in some areas (the more "traditional" areas like video cameras, TVs, broadcast) but has zero adoption when it comes to the web and this is extremely unlikely to change due to the patent mess.

- As members of the AoM, it's near certain that Microsoft, Google and Mozilla will add AV1 support to their browsers, which, depending on the particular source you look at, cover roughly 70% of the total browser market.

- Due to AoM support and HEVC not being an option, AV1 will be the primary successor to H.264/VP9 on the web.

- Due to its likely widespread availability from streaming services on the web and support from hardware vendors, AV1 will be prolific in other kinds of hardware.

- Due to the support of Apple and the broadcast industry, HEVC will likely not go away anytime soon.

- I agree that HEVC is not currently a viable alternative to HEVC, it not being finalized yet and all, however despite that, there are already aspects in which it is already superior, namely compression and likelihood of being supported on the web.
That might get you one admin (we office workers have a mistaken belief that our salary is most of our cost. It's somewhere just north of half.).

What do you do when they're on vacation/sick/sleeping?

Thing is, I really want us to host our own stuff. For one thing if you don't host anything you lose all competence and then you really are beholden to your cloud provider.

But it seems to be that we are in this situation until someone figures out how to comodify servers - and server orchestration - to the point where this stuff gets cheaper to manage again.

This pendulum always swings. No sooner will we control our own hardware again than someone will come up with a new way to centralize it.
i live in LA and my take is that people in single family dwelling residential blocks often resist construction of higher density buildings because quality of life goes down (i.e. more cars on the streets, more smog, traffic, noise, unfamiliar people, potential crime, less access to government resources like schools and law enforcement, per capita, because those resources are not built out as fast as population growth in LA).

so, the proposal becomes: if these new zoning changes allow apartments on your block, you'll reap a 200% gain if you sell your house today, but you'll immediately lose backyard privacy, quiet streets, sunshine in parts of your yard, easy access to the freeway, and so your enjoyment of life will decrease and you'll have less free time outside of work, etc

my take is simply that a lot of people think the price increase isn't high enough. if they want to keep their existing job in LA, where are they going to move to with that 200%?

now, if the number were 2000% instead of 200% maybe zoning changes would be uncontroversial...
There are other factors. For one, Lightning is significantly thinner, so more suitable for thinner devices. For another, switching to USB-C would force iPhone users (who mostly already have Lightning cables) to buy new cables. I don't know how large a role those factors play, compared to what you said - the other phone makers don't seem to have a problem with the thickness, and Apple certainly isn't known for being hesitant to make its users buy new cables - but they do exist.
The reality is that the NIMBY's paying low property taxes were a contributor to the high prices in markets such as San Francisco. Why destroy your view when the only side effect is increasing housing costs for OTHER people?
If their house value goes up, won't that allow the little old ladies to take out a larger reverse mortgage to pay their taxes? At what point does this not become possible?
But Mozilla really only has one big thing they make, which is Firefox. Apple's software portfolio on just one of their multiple hardware platforms (let's not forget that they make that hardware, too, including designing their own processors) completely dwarfs Mozilla.

I agree with jonas21 - for $400m a year you ought to be able to build an amazing browser.
I think it's odd to base your policy for most people for what a tiny minority might illegally do. As for people keeping their homes for thirty years - I think that is a tremendous good in our society that we want to encourage in terms of stability of people and their relationships to their neighbors and cities, and suspect we're going to hit a fundamental disagreement beyond there.
>The budget for Hanford alone is about $2.3 billion in...

Hanford was started in the Manhattan project to produce plutonium and during the cold war produced plutonium for tens of thousands of nuclear warheads. All of these government weapons plants were quickly started with inadequate policies for handling the material.

>...Ultimately, however, the core problem may be that such new reactors don't eliminate the nuclear waste that has piled up so much as transmute it.

A 4th gen design like the IFR would allow you to end with a much smaller volume of waste that would only be dangerous for a few centuries.

In terms of natural gas, the numbers given are probably out of date - CO2 emissions from a natural gas plant are lower than a coal plant, but that doesn't account for the methane emissions that come with fracking and distributing the methane.

>...Back in August, a NOAA-led study measured a stunning 6% to 12% methane leakage over one of the country’s largest gas fields — which would gut the climate benefits of switching from coal to gas. We’ve known for a long time that methane is a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide (CO2), which is released when any hydrocarbon, like natural gas, is burned. But the IPCC’s latest report, released Monday (big PDF here), reports that methane is 34 times stronger a heat-trapping gas than CO2 over a 100-year time scale, so its global-warming potential (GWP) is 34. That is a nearly 40% increase from the IPCC’s previous estimate of 25. ...The IPCC reports that, over a 20-year time frame, methane has a global warming potential of 86 compared to CO2, up from its previous estimate of 72. Given that we are approaching real, irreversible tipping points in the climate system, climate studies should, at the very least, include analyses that use this 20-year time horizon. Finally, it bears repeating that natural gas from even the best fracked wells is still a climate-destroying fossil fuel. If we are to avoid catastrophic warming, our natural gas consumption has to peak sometime in the next 10 to 15 years, according to studies by both the Center for American Progress and the Union of Concerned Scientists.

https://thinkprogress.org/more-bad-news-for-fracking-ipcc-wa...

As we use more and more natural gas, we can expect more and more methane disasters like the leak from Aliso Canyon in CA which was the largest methane leak in US history. This released over 100,000 tons of methane into the atmosphere and required 11,000 residents to be evacuated.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35659947
>The only people using Python 2 are now people stuck with legacy code base.

So, just largest and more important part of Python's non-hobbyist users?
Maybe if they can't invest in proper native apps, they shouldn't exist. Electron is a scourge - clock speeds are not getting any faster, and tying a user application to a single-threaded execution model would have been recognized as suicidal a decade ago.
Is 600x600 enough resolution?

Thanks for that though - I'm hoping it's available in Australia. I was previously looking at the Fuji Xerox DM4440 series which are much more expensive.
Microsoft themselves put ads in their OS... I think that's pretty telling of the kind of company they are.
Just curious, but since when do HN mods get to change a post title without saying so? This was not the title I posted.
Remember that 4x slower means (at least) 4x worse battery drain on a phone. In the modern internet there basically is never any excuse to waste resources.
The part you might find interesting is how it treats pages as modules you can import (from other pages), and integrates that with built-in version control (though I never got to the UI for the version control).

Yeah, running it all client-side makes more sense. See my profile info if you ever feel like chatting about it.
Why does everyone that already has a certain kind of lease deserve cheap rent for life but not people that don't already have a certain kind of lease?
Table tennis is a legitimate sport. Like at the Olympics. I had a woman who worked for me (I'm a guy) who was ranked and she would slaughter me. I didn't find this to be a toxic work environment at all.

But I'd be put off at seeing beer, free or otherwise at work. The brogrammer culture doesn't work for me.
Personal Blocklist by Google https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...

Note that it doesn't block some spam domains that sneakily use certain special characters i their domain names. Unfortunately Google hasn't fixed this issue for forever.