skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, that makes sense (and provides good context for the article). So for a cluster spanning multiple regions, one region can support low-latency reads for a given range, but reads in any other region will have to go cross-region to the leaseholder. Being able to move the leaseholder around to optimize read latency makes a lot of sense.

It would also be useful to me, in some cases, to be able to perform a read-only query in an "inconsistent" mode to avoid that cross-region latency, at the expense of potentially receiving stale data.
I believe that was actually the reason why they moved to a "round" configuration.

They realized that the "corner" engines were doing more work, and if one of them failed it caused larger issues than they were expecting.

However in the "round" layout, all of the engines are doing the same amount of work and have a similar amount of control over the rocket, so one failing can be more easily compensated for by the surrounding engines.
It seems to switch off between thinking I'm Mexican and thinking I'm Arab, neither of which are true. It also thinks I'm a Trump voter (I'm not), and that there is a roll of toilet paper in the photo I uploaded (there isn't)
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> Talking about "immigration must be limited strictly to below the point where it destroys the labour market" is likely to get you banned. Is your experience different ?

My experience is that leftists generally have no ideological problem with efforts to restrict the overall level of immigration (I've seen several arguments that the current system of hard quotas and tossing money at enforcement aren't a cost-effective means of doing that, but that's a different issue), and, speaking of the US, in particular often favor more sharply limiting (or even abolishing) employment-based immigration (including non-immigrant programs like the H-1B.) They tend to prefer loosening existing numerical restrictions on family reunification immigration.

I've not seen any significant support for genuinely open borders, and I myself am the only even left-leaning (I won't call myself a leftist) person I've encountered who proposed any (though limited—based on fees rather than quotas) legal immigration outside of existing preference categories.

The kind of oversimplifying statements you suggest which treat immigration as a whole and the sole concern in immigration policy being the market effects on wage labor are something that I can see being unwelcome on the left, whether old or new, but not because either favors open borders.
You can get rich on salary. I think a portion of us are making more than 200k, 300k, or even higher in income per year.
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The millionaires down-voting you would beg to differ. But the main conceit isn't that they're normal people, it's that success is most often a combination of luck and the resources (financial, social, etc.) to take advantage of advantageous situations. That's not to say that wealthy don't work hard, but we as people often discount the influence that our uncontrollable circumstances have on where we end up, and almost no-one wants to admit they are where they are because of dumb luck.
I encourage the people downvoting this to put their objections into words. If I'm wrong, I'd prefer to know it.
I would assume the USAF conducts regular training missions, which this easily could've been counted as one of.
For $2B you could probably buy a nice village by the sea with great weather all year round. Having worked in downtown NYC, I'd pick a beach any day of the week. But I can see the value of a large marketing, finance and sales presence for a Google type firm in the city. Engineering not so much.
ACTION: Here’s 70+ startups that see carbon dioxide as a profit opportunity:
http://airminers.org

Climate change will create the first trillionaire.
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I agree with you. This is the main reason we did not go down the malpractice route. It is far less common here in the UK than it seems to be in the US, but still fairly common. But as you said, everyone goes a bit insane. As it turned out, our doctor probably dodged a bullet because of the sheer chance that I got a second opinion and the fact that the hospital system worked flawlessly thereafter.

If, god forbid, our son had not recovered, it would have been a different story, there would have been anger to vent and likely a court case.
But the example in the post is just utterly stupid. What's the benefit of finding a cheap cellphone contract when it results in a crappy connections/coverage/dopped calls. Don't save money on things that make you unprofessional. Invest in quality for things that are important.
Yes exactly, bringing expertise in house was supposed to solve things like that, and AFAICT it helped.
Which is a shame, because the only reason that would be is "because Obama did it, so we must be against it." This kind of forward-thinking technology group is exactly what the government needs more of.
If you only study millionaires and not the rest of society you have no control. You can't say humility makes people millionaires without looking at all the people with humility who aren't millionaires. This guy hung out with millionaires and is pretending their virtuous traits are somehow unique or somehow the reason they're millionaires. That's the definition of survivorship bias.
Judging by this and the word 'customisable', I'd wager the author is outside the US where these spellings are a bit common.
I've been using MiniHack as my HN app, and while it has its issues (most frustratingly, the popup that notifies me that I've just upvoted/downvoted a comment), it's the most feature rich HN client I've seen yet, so it's a bit hard for me to switch to this just yet.

That said, I tried it out and here's my feedback for HNbuddy:

- This looks really nice, and loads comments super fast for me!

- An iPad version of HNBuddy would be nice. I'd be willing to pay for that, maybe as an IAP?

- Support for commenting, new posts, currently it's more of a "reader", which may be the intention, not sure.

- No ability to downvote? I can downvote in MiniHack and the regular website but not in HNBuddy

- A lighter Darker theme
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One size fits all rules don't apply here. If you're pulling six figures in the bay area you could easily be spending 50% of your take home on rent. Another 20% on other necessities.

Toss in an individual with college debt, or medical issues, or financial family obligations, and you might not even have the option of accruing any wealth at all.
We just set up a Kubernetes cluster for building C++ and Java software. Thing is - you want to be absolutely sure that the software you software is built correctly and don't have any bit-flips ending up in your final builds, so ECC is an absolute must. Threadripper supporting this allowed us to create that cluster with cheap commodity hardware and made self-hosting the build-farm the clear financial winner, especially since we have tons of free rack-space (came with the building that was bought), already host servers locally - which means a lot support infrastructure is already in place, and have a solar surplus throughout the year in this building.
We have a bunch of apps that run based on some type of external event - a time interval (Nomad supports cron like scheduling across an app pool), a file coming in, an external event, etc.

We submit a job via the api and it runs the job on whatever server has available resources. We specify the mininimum amount of RAM and CPU needed to run a job. If too many jobs are queued on a regular basis, we can either add more RAM or CPU to an existing instance or add another instance and install a Nomad agent.

Yes I know k8s can do the same thing but we don't have to use Docker, we can though.
Location, location, location (as others have mentioned they occupy parts of Chelsea Market and it’s across the steeet from the New York office).
The parent comment was not about Twitter Reddit Facebook coexisting or not peacefully, but about the logic of all of them competing against our public health.

IMHO we should regulate the hell out of them each time a significant harm on society can be proved, like we did for any other things that humans ever invented. But tech evangelists will say that time is different because 0 and 1 are being exchanged
Why Fastly's SSL is expensive
> Amazon has encouraged city officials to keep the details of their offers secret.

I'm amazed that this is even legal. City officials represent people, but withhold secrets from them when negotiating?

Imagine if your lawyer withheld secrets on how he's negotiating on your behalf.
My Depth Year 2018: The Constraints of Deep Focus
No, I don't want to flag posts that I probably just didn't understand. That's why I am trying to participate in the discussion.
Leap seconds would have a word with you. The only time that's fixed is GPS time, or so I heard.
The wording in the RFC could stand to be a little better but what do you expect from engineers that are miles deep in DNS? You're looking for .test -- 'related' is far more broad than is initially implied and means 'code that uses DNS'.
The median household income also includes many people doing unskilled labor. Attempting to compare skilled labor to unskilled labor like that only serves to drive down wages.
Random and specific issue, does anyone know the current status of tree-shaking in three.js? There was some issue with not being able to shake through Object.defineProperty: https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/issues/10711
If that's really how you feel, then why don't you be that person?

And by "you," I'm not calling out cromwellian, I mean anyone who reads this comment.
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Does this download/preload all comments? This is one feature I can't find anywhere except for HN Zero[0].

When HN Zero loads the list of stories, it pulls all comment threads down too. That way I can read the comments when I'm in the subway.

HN Zero is great but it's a bit dated at this point and lacks some other features that I've learned to live without (no copy/paste from comments, no sharing of links, no iPhone X support).

In any case, I'll try this out. Congrats on shipping!

[0]: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news-zero/id764890985...
So Google is buying the real estate for office use. I guess it is not something like Amazon buying Whole Foods, right?
Has someone there considered to install a MULTI? That would be cool.

https://multi.thyssenkrupp-elevator.com/en/
Just an addendum, while Musk in fact compares the rockets to computers, I have found that what the management takes away from conversations with engineers is often not the most important part.

But typically everyone on the team has opinions about success or failure of the project and we all discount something important. Managers doubly so. They rarely credit the spotters who keep them from falling when their process has huge holes in it.
It's not just DST. Timezones change, like leap seconds, in a way that's not computer friendly.
not much at all, as there would be a cost to moving everything elsewhere, which gives incentive to pay more & the seller knew this
The real answer: save $20,000 a year at 3% growth for 30 years. If you want to do it in 20 years you need 8% growth, which is probably not sustainable; or you can save $35,000 per year at 3%.
No tax credits for businesses (See: Amazon). You pay a tax per head of employee you intend to employee onsite that covers infrastructure and subsidizing affordable housing.

If you're a going concern, affordability should not be an issue. Otherwise, you're straining infrastructure and housing with marginal benefits to the host city. Hire remote instead.
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That doesn’t work either, though.

Western Spain and eastern Germany are in the same time zone, but the position of the sun will be offset by 3 hours.

In the current world, timezones only cause confusion, and do not provide any of the benefits you think they do.

Timezones work okay-ish for the US and UK, but that’s because their timezones generally map to local time quite well, and they have a shared culture. Everywhere else, they’re purely rage-inducing madness, and useless.

China has abandoned timezones eons ago for that very reason.
They have the most downloaded page, all the categories, maintain copies of "Best Books" lists with links to available books, and a page with the top bestsellers for most years available. Hardly zero help, no education required.

People read in those situations, but that is a different argument altogether.
Swimming is great because it doesn't reward effort as much as it rewards form. I came to swimming from a running / cycling background, and I quickly realized that extreme exertion was not the key to getting better speeds. It's only when I started to consciously focus on form and accepted being slower during training, that I saw much improvement.

Also, congrats on the 1:07! I'm not even close to that speed yet.
Are Arbitrary Deportations Designed to Instill Fear in Good People?
I'd rather take 2 months off once every 2 years and go on an offroad motorcycle journey through Mongolia, than do small things a week at a time.
1) I am aware of inflation, but my calculations shown don't consider them. A dollar today has slightly more then half the value it will have in 2055 if you assume yearly 2% inflation. I suspect we will have a few years with much more than 2% inflation between now and 2055 and we might be finished with years with very low inflation for awhile.

2) 8% returns at 2055 is a bit optimistic, but not unrealistic. I won't mind if I have to adjust the date +- 10 years to time the market. I feel comfortable putting the majority of my assets in the US stock market, but I do have some assets independent of it. The last the stock market crashed substance farming was popular.
> Naval shipbuilding needs a SpaceX.

Not just Naval shipbuilding. I can think of a few contractors that could stand to get shaken up. Problem is you probably need an obscene amount of money and connections to get into that space.
There are almost 24k people in the k8s.slack.io #kubernetes-users channel and it's only a small portion of the actual community. For instance I rarely see people from other huge K8s consumers, like Lyft, Zalando, Walmart, etc in the channel (high probability they just don't mention where they are or I never noticed).

I won't deny actual k8s experts are low in abundance right now. It's a complex platform in its near infancy. There are people brand new to k8s embarking on the journey to learn it every day in slack. Give them 6mo+ or another year and you'll have a few near experts and a ton of just generally experienced admins.

I don't feel as though it's any different from when I was working on my CCIE. When I was working on that there were only 18k other people out there who had CCIEs. I very rarely met one or even someone with just that level of skill (I'm not in the Bay Area/NYC). I had to ask questions through newsgroups and IRC and in IRC there were maybe 4-10 people at that level out of thousands. You could say there are thousands of networks out there that need a CCIE to run them but that isn't ever what happened; you'd have a CCIE basically lead from the top and their skill/experience would trickle down to lesser experienced netengs or they'd be brought in as consultants when necessary. I've worked with very few CCIEs. I see k8s going the same way. Every State will likely have a handful of experts on the subject while there will remain a ton of CCNA/CCNP level k8s admins and you just need to determine how complex your k8s infrastructure is and what level you'll need to hire to effectively manage it.

Brendan Burns goal is to democratize ephemeral infrastructure so that anyone who can code can manage it. That's another topic entirely but the community is starting to output enough general guidance in the form of blogs, books, slack, et al. that hopping into the ecosystem now is basically a breeze compared to what it was when I got involved in the 1.x days.

Could just be that I'm a masochist and like learning painful things.

My biggest complaint about k8s right now is the lack of real-world production knowledge being distributed. A lot of people set up a cluster and leave it and never optimize it or make it actually production-ready. My goal is to significantly accelerate that through training, blogs, etc.
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1. What kind of gesture would allow that?

2. That doesn't seem complicated to add! Seeing the feedbacks here really gets me motivated to improve the app, so I'll try to add this in an upcoming version.

Thank you!
But during the Obama administration, they were backfilling. It sounds like a lot of people are electing not to do that second term, and they're not backfilling open positions.
Or at least an honest procurement process that doesn't include congressional influence. Look at the the M1A1 thing with Ohio.
There's the stealth aspect, of course (which is a big difference from conventional ships like the Arleigh Burkes all by itself), and beyond that the Zumwalt class was supposed to incorporate a bunch of other next-generation features too: cutting-edge guns and missile-launch systems, an advanced permanent-magnet powerplant that could generate ten times the electrical power of conventional ones (which in turn would allow mounting things like beam weapons, when they became practical), new automated systems that allowed a crew half the size of a Burke's to operate the ship, and so forth. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zumwalt-class_destroyer#Design for a good overview.)

Trying to roll so many technical leaps forward into a single ship proved to be a big mistake, though, as many of those advances were never able to be practically realized and some of those that were ended up costing much more to develop than originally anticipated. So the Zumwalts have become kind of a white elephant; the cost overruns caused the Navy to eventually cut its order for the ships from 32 to just three, and those that will be delivered are unlikely to ever be as capable as they were originally planned to be.
Here's a picture of the floor of the Square Root Restaurant in Brevard NC: https://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g48979-d...

Each block is 6"x6" (15cm x 15cm) of pine. Apparently it lasts a long time, but took a long time to install.
> What's the benefit of finding a cheap cellphone contract when it results in a crappy connections/coverage/dopped calls. Don't save money on things that make you unprofessional. Invest in quality for things that are important.

Adding to this point: Don't make your life suck today so 2050 you can live. What happens if you die tomorrow?

Strike a balance between making it rain and being a miser.
I don't really get this point about Twitter, as often as it's said. On my account I don't follow anyone I personally know. I only follow some infosec/tech people who consistently have stuff to say about infosec/tech that I find at least a little interesting. Maybe occasionally they'll make a slight political tangent, but a great majority of what I see is on topic because I only follow people who stay on topic (John Carmack for instance usually geeks out on there about stuff related in some way to VR).
I agree. I think the convenience of locating in Manhattan makes sense. For CA, since everyone travels, it doesn't matter (though they do have an office in SF!) I wouldn't mind traveling to NJ if Google picks me up like Google does in CA :-) Bell Lab would have been the perfect campus location for Google :/ (see [1])

[1]: https://www.investors.com/news/once-empty-bell-labs-building...
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> The only clocks that stay consistent and dependable are the ones in UTC land.

UTC is closer to “consistent and dependable” than local time, but still has leap second issues. TAI is where you go for consistent and dependable.
Sometimes spurious usage of machine learning is "cute" and can be massaged by its implementer to come across as a valid instance of more art than science. Other times, it manages to let people who want to play with off-the-shelf libraries muddy the waters of what really comprises a quite difficult specialization. Other times still, it helps to reinforce some of the more atrocious biases of its source material and hold up another needless mirror to the uglier sides of humanity that no one is ignorant of.

Your project has managed to both. Well done. Have you heard about this really cool game called Cards Against Humanity?
FYI you can (almost) always get around the "slow reply" limitation by clicking on the age of the comment which brings you to a new page where you can normally comment.

Although I believe the moderation is more strict for comments that do that, as the whole point of the reply throttling is to prevent low-effort angry replies.
I think it's like translating a movie or a book. You must have the authorization of the copyright holders (or hope that nobody cares or try to fly under the radar).

The "new and unexpected" part will fade away in a month.
They certainly could use more smaller engines for the BFR, but just because one dimension of the design benefits from smaller engines doesn't mean the optimal design uses a nano-scale rocket array.
Most BMD scenarios centre around protecting other assets, not the launch platform.
Great idea. Will apply.
This is common in the Fortune 500 as well. Plenty of IT and line of business development shops that build Kotlin apps and use React also have z-series cabinets in their data centers running code that has been nurtured for decades. If you think the business case for doing that hasn't been considered carefully, you're wrong.

This isn't a fedgov pathology. It's a business process reality. Unit tests, version control and package management are nice to have, but 3 decades of reliably executed business process are more important.
Wait, are you saying the core wasn't intending to land on the barge? Why have the barge out there to begin with then?