skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> discounted S3 option for reduced redundancy

No such option exists anymore.

Sure, they have a Reduced Redundancy "feature". But you would be stupid to use it because RR costs more than the regular redundancy, not less. (One big hint is that it's not even listed on their regular pricing page anymore.)

That is how Amazon phases out features: Instead of raising the price, they just don't lower it. Over time, it becomes more expensive because all the other prices are going down.
To be fair though MS-DOS was an acquisition from one guy who wrote the whole thing. A single developer could still develop a complete OS or competitive major software package back then.
Scientists are building the world's largest camera for this reason
The way I see this is that it's like quitting tobacco but being required to have cigarettes and a lighter on your person at all times while doing so.

That's a much harder proposition than quitting tobacco normally.
Concrete is really useful. We lost it for 1,300 years. Calculus is really really useful. We figured out the basics, and then lost them for 2 millennia.[1] Flexible glass would be really useful. We apparently had it, then lost it, and never got it back.[2]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes_Palimpsest#The_Meth...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_glass
Look at Prop 13 and you'll understand the housing issues a lot better.

Also, many commenters are decrying the cost of living and housing. But the BA also has a vibrant job market and a comparatively 'liberal' culture against homophobia/racism/sexism. Places like Omaha do not (largely, though exceptions very much exist), and so finding a first/new job is difficult and 'fitting in' may also be hard for some 'less-traditional' people. It's not just the money, it's the value people are chasing.
I had a similar experience in Yakima county - According to this site the nearest local apples are in Chelan county which is funny because there are many many apple orchards here.
It's just the land. In SF we have "houses" that are partly burnt to the ground and unfit for living being sold for > $800k.
The issue is other solutions give you ~10X more page loads per unit of time at the same price.
They have a robot constantly hot-swapping disks between racks maybe?
Don't forget the role simple population size presents in terms of economic activity. Ancient Rome covered a huge territory, but a smaller population and GDP than Ethiopia does today.

Going from 1 billion to 7.5+ billion people world wide allowed for a huge increase in specialization and the sharing of knowledge. The benefit of building just one part of just one thing per day end up being huge.
The conclusions (about Gender roles) aren't sound.

All this is testing is sexual and social attractiveness - and it's never going to change that we're biologically wired to find certain traits attractive. Fitness, both physically and from a "provider" standpoint, is attractive.

That has nothing to do with gender roles.
They forgot to mention high hn karma.
As a straight man, frankly Jeff Bezos hits all my criteria too.
Yeah, after looking at a couple of agencies pages discussing it, it's like you can ask, but 400 things are exempted, we're not going to compile for you (already has to be a record of note, not a new data point), and basically reserve the right to tell you to fuck off.

sad, really.

A proper FOI approach would give the constituents a reasonable chance to be informed, but I guess that's the whole idea.
Wouldn't it behoove those who can't compete along the defined axes of desirabilty to try to change the rules of the game, or somehow confuse people into attaching social or moral value in pretending common sense and instinct is wrong?
Ok dude. I see you've put a lot of time into this.

If you want to continue this conversation my email is in my sig. I am your living counter-example. I've worked middling tech jobs for the past few years making roughly what we're talking about here, and I'm buying a house...right now. No huge earn-outs, no big equity payout, no AmaGooFaceSoftPle job.

I think it just takes a bit of saving and willingness to say no to things once in a while. Also, a lot of people don't put 20% down in the SFBA.

My arguments about the big picture still stand, though. Your cash comp numbers grossly understate dev income here because most of them don't include RSUs, options, or other non-cash (and sometimes even non-bonus) comp.

I'm not saying it's sane or rational. But I just don't see a case where there's going to be a dramatic crash. As long as people are using Google for search, as long as iPhones, and Teslas are selling, and people are wasting time on Netflix and facebook, there's just going to be a lot of money around here and prices will reflect that. We're inventing the future and just take a look at stock prices of these companies if you need proof. It's all happening right here so of course, things are going to be a bit expensive.

It's just not that complicated, really.
ICOs are a scam. In other news, that guy selling you the Brooklyn Bridge might not be legit.
My sister is a mental health professional and she has recommended meditation and headspace (an app) to me a year ago. I've found it to be a great help and to the exercises to have a measurable impact on my life.

It provides techniques (reflection, visualization, noting etc) that offer tools to deal with day to day stress related information.

There are a lot of studies about meditation's effectiveness:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29110263
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29126747

I'm always surprised that when people discuss it with me they're surprised I do it. Somehow it has a reputation for pseudoscience but there are easily a hundred articles supporting the benefits.
That period wasn’t totally mythical as it corresponded to a time when much of the rest of the world’s production capacity had been destroyed by war and many of the world’s great countries had been empoverished fighting said war, and 10’s of millions of people in other countries had been recently killed by war. As a result the USA enjoyed a one-time huge commercial advantage that may not have been obvious to everyone (and it seems still isn’t).
The criticism is that it leads to "bloody dictatorships", not necessarily that authoritarian systems are bad. Before the 20th century there were many authoritarian systems (empires and monarchies) that oversaw some of the best governed periods of human history.

I'm sure you believe if you controlled a country, you would do a much better job and not make the same mistakes that lead to a bloody dictatorship and worse outcomes for the poor. Excuse us if most of the rest here don't believe that.
Towards a world where frumpy androgynous sociologists are the pinnacle of attractiveness.

next up: why are women with penises considered unattractive to straight men? [1]

https://i.redd.it/mkhwlu2wrs5z.jpg
Peter Thiel Is No Longer Affiliated with Y Combinator
East Coast, actually; and people are pretty insular over there too, in the Northern parts.

There are assholes everywhere, but in the Midwest at least you could tell the difference fairly quickly; people sort of wore their hearts on their sleeves, I guess.
I live in MA. We are ranked 25th nationwide for tax burden.

Yes, you read that right.

Schools are good. The trains are showing their age, but we got new rolling stock in production and coming on line. The roads are okay, but the big deal with our roads is that we save shit tons of money by keeping them narrow.
Waste storage is much much less of a problem in many newer designs (not least because they produce less waste and often can reuse their waste) and power-plants are just plain expensive anyhow (renewables are still expensive per-watt and take a lot more land area).

Unless we spend all that money on solar panels for peoples homes (and so start talking about distributed power system) it's always expensive to start a power plant.
Absence of rain does not mean it's sunny ;)

Most Democrats in the US aren't remotely close to social-democrats in Canada or Europe. Politicians such as Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren are considered centrists in Canada.
It's bad enough Intel have created the ultimate trojan, but their detection tool can't even fix the problem!

The tool rightly points out that my desktop consumer system is vulnerable (from the list, no Intel CPU manufactured in the last 5 years isn't), then suggests I contact the manufacturer for an update. Here is what the tool says my system manufacturer is:

Manufacturer: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
Model: To Be Filled By O.E.M.

I will get right on that and bug "To Be Filled By O.E.M." for an update! It's an ASRock motherboard, by the way. But with this approach they are not going to patch even 5% of personal computers out there..
Okay, but making that assumption is maybe marginally better than driving drunk?
How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day.

https://goo.gl/K5xLSs
And communism wipes out all private companies completely replacing them with monolithic state monopolies.

But in the case at hand it was a bit more than ‘the game’. MS broke the law multiple times and were at minimum deeply unethical in several other cases, and were held to account for it. Not enough in my opinion, but it was there.

Ultimately though they also made the right moves at the right times and their competitors didn’t.
That's not clear at all. Do you think the Twitter founder's goal was literally written down somewhere as "manipulate users to engage with it"? Or for Facebook? None of these companies will agree with that assessment, so it's entirely your own subjective opinion.
I assume they know this themselves, but they simply want to make what is natural and has long standing tradition to become socially unpopular, for some self interested purpose.
Has Doug Jones (the Democratic candidate) performed abortions?
What's the point of keeping it secret?
You could replicate what I wrote for pretty much all the big (D) states: New York, California, New Jersey, etc. California has the highest tax burden in the country but its average NEAP math scores are lower than in 36 other states.
I'm OK with people buying a skinner box - just as long as it's not possible to exploit their psychology with a coinslot to make money. Sell the whole box, and the user can do what they wish (including cheat their own way into more coins).
Sure. It would be intellectually dishonest for them to claim that the rules "should" be different, though (instead of just that they "want" the rules to be different).
https://politics.theonion.com/roy-moore-on-pedophilia-accuse...
It's not the bureaucracy. It's the politicos sitting on top of the bureaucracy. The bureaucrats would rather do their jobs and give honest reports about it to the legislature and the public.
Some ICOs are a scam. Others are not.

Some VCs are assholes and will, with bad intent, invest in a company. Others are not.
All roads lead to Japan (wrt androgeny at least)
Yeah...see, that's sort of the thing.

It's hard to tell if that's a big part of it, but I suspect that it is.

But there also isn't really anywhere that I've found which seems both implicitly tolerant and kind/friendly/open-armed, so...jeez, I don't know. Maybe it still wouldn't be so bad to go somewhere where I'm not the implicit enemy, bad guy, danger, what-have-you. I mean, it hurts; after some point, you just break down when it comes to thinking things that far through.
No, you’re not being paranoid. Sites really are watching your every move
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_gap_(networking)
It's probably going to take a lot more than 10 years of self-delusion to overcome thousands of years of evolution.
Related:

Node.js templating engine benchmarks:

https://github.com/marko-js/templating-benchmarks

Framework SSR benchmark (Vue, React, Preact, Rax, Marko):

https://hackernoon.com/server-side-rendering-shootout-with-m...
Time Well Spent, a movement to demand technology platforms serves our best interests, not advertisers.

https://goo.gl/fsW8Qq
Absolutely agree, but there are many situations where stress is not able to be reduced easily (relationship problems/breakups or other family problems, anxiety issues, athletic events, work issues which come up even in relatively healthy work environments). Having coping strategies ready when things doesn't go as expected is important, and something I'm still working toward myself.
Just because it's called AWS "Secret", it doesn't mean it has to be a secret :)
My company is working on this idea of Netflix for news, although we are not yet ready to test the payment part. If we succeed it may mean less news media but higher average quality.

ps: excellent article and grateful for people like James and Tristan sounding the alarm on the ill effects of the attention economy.

However, I disagree with his association of new media with populism and apparently suggesting a causal relationship. Populism has existed, and proliferated, well before mass media. It's more commonly associated with extreme wealth inequality.
Yeah, it's kind of hard to empathize with if you haven't seen ti happen.

Imagine random people coming up to you and asking you "where you're from" and "what's your homeland like" and so on, just on the basis of your appearance.

Especially if you're "from" Seattle and your "homeland" is just like here but with less weirdos treating you like a fucking zoo exhibit.

It's supposed to come across as a polite curiosity, but for many people, it comes across as a "midwestern nice" way of reminding you you're different and don't belong. Or, in the best case, simply annoying and vaguely insulting.

FWIW both intentions and perceptions matter in human communication, so neither side of this possibly miscommunicated hostility is necessarily "right" or "wrong". But swolchok's point stands none-the-less.
Choosing someone who is a cultural (wrt business) and ethnic outlier and outsider and making him representative of a greater theme is tenuous.
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How do you do that with dynamic content?
>but no, This Time It Will Be Different®.

Why do you think strawman thought-terminating cliches are an acceptable level of discourse? At best they serve to be distracting and needlessly hostile.

>but you keep insisting in trying again a system that again and again has proven itself to be horrible.

Not really; have you heard of Badiou's concept of the Communist Hypothesis? His argument is that Socialism, well, Communism has existed as an Idea for centuries, it is always the force to break down the "present state of things", it is the first element of society, the subversive one, to oppose the action of the State. To dismiss thirty years of research into Communism, creating branches such as anarchist Communism, communalism, feminist anarchism, Socialist technocracy and others with faux-empiricism is a little heavy handed in my view.

As for your support of the wonders of capitalism, neither I, nor Marx, Engels or any contemporary Communist denies its push to reduce poverty.

>shifting value from developed countries to developing countries.

"Shifting value" is a very strange way of saying that developing countries are being systematically exploited due to the low cost of labour because they have almost no training.

>but the current system has worked miracles

So did the feudal system, and in fact so did the Soviet system (which I do not by any means support).

>It can be improved

So can Socialism.

>but proposing a dramatic change to a system that ALWAYS results in bloody dictatorships makes no sense.

Capitalism itself was extremely dramatic, it came "soaked from head to toe in blood" as Marx put it. In fact, he dedicates two chapters of his magnum opus to detailing the bloody history of capitalism and the laws passed in Western Europe that allowed it to flourish.
Sounds like a good use case for SELinux [0], too, which has already been merged -- roughly 15 years or so ago.
AT&T initially had a monopoly, but when their patents expired in early 1890's, they quickly began to lose their dominance to competitors. Between 1890's and 1913, AT&T lost telephone market share by about 40%, from 95% to 55%. After the Kingsbury Commitment and, more importantly, the nationalization of the entire telecommunication industry during WW1, however, their competitors were effectively eliminated.

[1] UNNATURAL MONOPOLY: CRITICAL MOMENTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BELL SYSTEM MONOPOLY
https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/c...
Justice Department Files Lawsuit Challenging AT&T-Time Warner Deal
The only difference I’ve seen is a function that converts Keras models into TensorFlow estimators.
Mary is talking about the transition from cost accounting to throughput accounting, which happened several decades ago. And yes, cost accounting really did resist attempts to decrease machine utilization, which resulted in increased inventory.

Look in the mirror before throwing stones at others' knowledge.
> I now think they did amazing work in the 1980s and 1990s which got later overshadowed by the ugly "browser wars" and antitrust lawsuit.

When Windows 95 first came out, it crashed daily on my computer and friends of mine had the same experience. Sometimes it crashed multiple times a day.

I was young then and thought nothing of it. I just rebooted and played whatever game had been interrupted. But now I wonder how they got away with it.

Microsoft was excellent at marketing and when they achieved their monopoly position, they did an excellent job of shutting out competitors. By the late nineties the phrase "No one has ever been fired for buying Microsoft products" was a very popular phrase. But I wouldn't say I was wowed by their work. Windows 95, COM, MFC, etc... I don't see (or read) anyone thinking back on those days fondly.
DevOps and Drinks at AWS Re:Invent
More info on this please, I am intrigued.
Actually are there any good super cheap 3g only plans in the US? I went to Poland and they were a few bucks a month for unlimited 3G data which would be amazing.
Which obviously can't be true or it would be inaccessible and thus utterly useless.
How sad life would be if we only learned what was necessary!

Oftentimes abstract thinking isn't about learning to create programmatic mental models of things, but about learning to see a problem from various perspectives. Doing so gives one's understanding more depth. These recommendations, the arts as a whole, are extremely valuable at teaching different perspectives for understanding things.
If you have anything substantive to add, it would be better to not link to the onion.
They make about twice as much money from mobile ads iOS as they do from Android, hence they pay Billions to Apple to be the default search provider on iOS. That can’t be a comfortable position to be in, and hardly looks like a position of dominance no matter how much you squint.
I'm sure the tech companies would be happy to hire 10x the buses they do today, if it wasn't for local residents clamoring for the SFMTA to regulate the number of buses in the city and where they can stop.
It spends more than Canada IIRC.

If you add private spending in it's more than twice that of total Canadian healthcare spending.
forget the paradox of answering to that here, last month my dsl line broke down. For a week it would stabilize, then drop after a minute, repeating this forever. One day it stopped entirely and my brain expanded. Suddenly I would have to find enjoyment around me, and as most people know, suddenly time stops. Usually one might feel a dreadful bore (I used to) but this time it was relief plain and simple. At that point I know very well that a connected computer has a weird spot in ones mind, it's the source of satisfaction that is too shallow to really do so and keeps leaving you asking for more.
Stop carrying your smartphone. Leave it at home. If you must because your family/work depends on you, then delete every app. Use your laptop as your main driver. If you need to, get a laptop with better battery life.

Start developing a personal philosophy of internet usage. Here is mine:

Category 3 [Abstain from completely] Reddit (Yes, all of reddit), Facebook ... Category 2 [Check once every couple days ~15 min total] Serious news sites (NYT, WashPo, WSJ)
... Category 3 [Check daily ~30 min total] Twitter (Follow helpful people only), HN, Medium

This article makes some really good points. Our media is becoming adversarial. Developing a time management plan is essential. I can't let my time fall victim to the system. I don't have enough to throw away.
You can fire apointeees who run the place.

Nobody working in CPS wants to be in a place where child abuse is covered up and ignored. That’s a leadership problem.
A Radioactive Cloud Wafts Over Europe, with Russia as Chief Suspect
Even though the concept is great It is primarily done to appeal to masses below or just above the poverty line. This is a political agenda by present ruling government (Congress) in the state(Karnataka). It is named after late Ms Indira Gandhi who was president of Congress. Sorry to say India runs behind these votebank politics. Idea is that People will remember this as Congress providing food, even though it is being paid by tax payers money, So those corrupt power hungry monsters can continue to stay in power. The chief Minister who initiated Indira Canteen Karnataka spent 100K $ on his and his family for Tea and Snacks alone in the last 4 years. (https://www.newskarnataka.com/index.php/bangalore/snack-bill...)
Now you cant help but question the motive. And It is not the first time, These initiatives have been done in the past in India Eg: in another state called Tamil Nadu. It was called Amma canteen.
Are you trying to imply that Wordpress can't be used for dynamic content? Because that's what it's literally for.
How long until I'm able to have my Ubuntu environment on a phone and plug it directly into my monitor, keyboard, and mouse? We already have the OS and peripherals, what's missing? It's not storage on the phone; Apple is selling 256GB iPhones. Is it the processing power?
I thought large diesel generators generally did operate at a fixed speed in order to output 60Hz. I know inverter/generators are common these days for small gas gensets, but have the big diesel ones switched over as well?
Oh gosh the equational logic rabbit hole.

To add to the fire:
http://mathmeth.com/
> Maybe I'll hold off on patching for a bit.

I think you're suggesting extremely interesting but I'm not totally clear on it. So someone[1] has come up with some code to either disable (kill switch) or remove the Intel ME. (Setting the HAP bit is the kill switch.)

Now Intel and its vendors are going to issue a patch for the Intel ME. Are you saying that as a result of applying this patch we might not be able disable or remove the Intel ME? In other words, we'll end up with a slightly more secure Intel ME, but be worse off since we can't exploit any bugs to get rid of it?

If I'm understanding you correctly, this sounds like the iPhone situation: upgrade to a newer iOS and lose the ability to jailbreak.

[1] https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner/wiki/HAP-AltMeDisable-bi...
If impeachment counts as getting away with it
Not at all. A big issue with government transparency is that agencies control data and have little incentive to release.

Having professional data oversight and built in transparency would build institutional protections against Governors of Mr. Brownback’s ilk.
having a smart watch eliminated even that for me. they’re pretty fantastic triage devices (deciding what to ignore rather than making sure you’re instantly aware). i barely ever check my notifications any more. i see friends at cafes pull out their phones every few minutes and get distracted by facebook, but i’m quite content to have it just sitting on the table because i know it’s not doing anything
The last two generations of Apple chips are big.LITTLE.
This was the main reason I switched back to 1x. I want to listen, not just be blasted with data.
Just somebody to do it, and convince the hardware manufacturers it's a good idea. See the now defunct Ubuntu Phone project: https://docs.ubuntu.com/phone/en/devices/