skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a lot of other cloud providers in Europe besides OVH and Hetzner:

- Upcloud (based in Finland)

- Cloudsigma (based in Switzerland)

- Deutsche Telekom TelekomCLOUD (based in Germany)

- Online.net / Scaleway (based in France)

- Aruba Cloud (based in Italy)

- Swisscom (based in Switzerland)

- etc.

Unfortunately none of them offer the breadth of services like Google Cloud, Amazon or Azure, but they most likely will be more than enough for many purposes.
Even if they sign an agreement, access to content of EU servers run by a company based in the EU will need a local warrant. The FBI won't get access without help of local law enforcement. And that can be hard even within the EU, as Spain just found out when they tried to arrest a politician.

I think many US citizens would be outraged if a Chinese court could issue warrants to access their data stored at any company. Not sure if EU citizens trust the US judicial system much more.
There used to be a much more polished implementation of this idea at http://www.mienfield.com/, but it appears to have gone defunct sometime in the last few months.
It's not particularly insightful criticism though.

Bay area housing is atrocious, SF has a homeless problem, and the tech industry has been hopelessly corrupted by money. (Not that there weren't con men before.)

Hopefully that's not news to anybody here.

Tech, like any other profession, has its own sociolect or variation from daily conversational English. Not everybody can appreciate that, especially those that grew up monolingual.

Short of giving unsolicited advice to the writer about leaving the confines of whatever monocultural bubble they grew up in, I'm not sure what there is of us to heed in that part of the critique. Shall we all stop using words they know in ways they don't like?

Realistically, the author's target market is not HN, and we're just experiencing marketing for their book. Judging by the article, it's a story book for adults that want to feel secure that they made the right choice by not moving to experience California (both its positives and negatives), even for few months. If the author would like to question all of the lingo; the "metrics", our "spaces", this is not that book. (I would be interested in reading that book!) If they want to take their shot at taking down the sharing economy, this is not that book.

You're right, we should heed criticism, but the article is light on that and instead pushes a familiar offensive narrative.
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The lean of the leaning tower of Pisa is nearly 13 feet. The millennium building is over three times taller than that.
I think they're close to a year old. Still more expensive than Hetzner though?
This I agree with and it's unfortunate. But I'd rather it was gotten rid of because the alternative is that it just sits there getting pulverized ever smaller and bioaccumulating.
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>> your post reads as a complaint

Thanks for letting me know. I'll change my tone in future posts.
I've been using tilaa as a mail host for about ten years now; its a vm/storage provider based out of Amsterdam. I at least tell myself that my data is relatively safe there.
Parking, even in “free” residential areas is time or permit restricted. So even if payment is not direct there are other indirect payments and constraints.
Hire an entire development team at $899/month
But I'm not, I was saying that due to my background, I can't help but think dynamic is a buzzword. Therefor I was asking someone who was clearly knowledgeable on the subject to set me straight.
People are people even when they’re on the Internet, and people are tribal. If anything the Internet makes tribalism easier.
Sorry, but this is just nonsense. And it's the kind of nonsense that we are being taught to believe for a reason. 100 years ago, almost every worker, down to the most menial of labourers, did care about "left vs right". These kind of talking points that tell hardworking people they don't have to care about politics is exactly why hardworking people aren't forming unions and have been getting the shit end of the stick in society for the last few decades.

The personal is political and politics has everything to do with living conditions. It's easy for people in cushy programming jobs to pretend that politics and work are separate. But when politicians can set your minimum wage, your benefits, and other workplace conditions, it becomes an important factor that isn't just "academic".
That's actually a great idea. Thanks!
Author here. That's my opinion based on experience. I have no axe to grind against Apple; I love their hardware and currently own a beautiful iPhone.

Their developer story needs work, especially around web apps.
Nice! Packr is pretty good too, what I currently use.

https://github.com/gobuffalo/packr
> I am predicting the same thing with regards to native mobile apps: they will largely disappear, and web apps will again win.

But, how do you reconcile this belief with the ample evidence you offer that Apple/iOS are dragging their feet and are resistant (for whatever internal reasons) to letting PWAs offer a first class experience?

In other words, what forces, in your view, will eventually bring Apple over to full support for PWAs?
On tax day here in US. To keep in mind for next year.
> thoroughly mediocre

I was just watching Ugly Delicious[0], and there is an episode about pizza. David Chang reveals that his FAVORITE pizza in the world is actually a thin crust dominos pizza with a strange array of toppings.

He shares a pie with a brooklyn based pizza chef and another guy, and while everyone agreed it was delicious, they said it wasn't pizza.

I live in NYC and eat a lot of pizza, and while I obviously wouldn't consider Dominos in the class of a Robertas, Emily, Di Fara, etc, whatever it is they're making is pretty damn good. And their numbers seem to indicate that as well.

I live right next to a Joe's pizza, often touted as one of the best classic American pizza slice in NYC. I would take a dominos deep dish or thin crust over Joe's any time.

[0] https://www.netflix.com/title/80170368
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Can someone post a screenshot? This is the only thing I can see:

> failed to start application on minesweep.glitch.me

> This is most likely because your project has a code error.

> Check your project logs, fix the error and try again.
We talk about scaling a lot, but rarely look past "more traffic" or "ten years from now".

This is becoming an issue for the first time because the concept of "massively complex computer system at the core of a business" has only been around for half a century or so. Every year it gets more and more expensive (in terms of both people-hours and $$$) to rebuild, refactor, or even improve the system. People who make decisions see the gigantic pricetag on fixing something that already works and opt for patches instead, which is understandable - why fix something that isn't broken (yet), especially when it would cost that much?

But as the article describes, when it comes down to the wire and a ground-up refactor is necessary for a system which is 30-60 years old, there may not be enough people who understand the hardware/software, those people are too important to reallocate to the project, or there's simply not enough time/money left to make it happen. I would imagine this new dilemma will start to become much more common in the next 10 years as legacy systems age beyond feasible maintainability.
Thanks very much for sharing some of the detailed background here. Stuff like this is what keeps HN a big magical.
Yeah, though that one has particularly bad bad graphic design. Cf. "conjoined triangles of success".
>On the other side, having a full blown IDE for creating and locally running iOS applications would be a huge step forward.

Are you aware of iOS Dev environments such as Pythonista? It’s even possible to take a Pythonista app, copy it into an XCode template and release it on the App Store, though of course that has to go via a Mac.
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It comes into effect incomplete. Companies still don't know what to do. There are tons of questions unanswered and nobody knows how to be compliant.
I don't think linking it to a buzzword adds anything to the conversation. The question didn't need a justification.
Author here. That's correct - Apple waived my $99/year fee. I documented that in the post. But my post wasn't about me, it was about the hurdles involved in getting a PWA into the app store. For many people, $99/year + 30% in-app purchases + $1000+ Mac for build and testing + a few Mac Minis for CI servers ...that is a barrier.
The Doom 3: BFG sources have also been released, so technically no. Doom 3: BFG is essentially a hybrid of id Tech 4 and id Tech 5.
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I love seeing little niche MMO games like this! Anyone remember mienfield.com? This site reminds me of that, but that site kept going down and coming back up, and reddit.com/r/mienfield kind of narrates the life and eventual death of that site, which is neat to see unfold over time. But what's most interesting to me is that although so many people found this kind of simple MMO game extremely fun and kept going back to it (our family played mienfield on and off for weeks, maybe months!), the site couldn't find a way to support itself financially and eventually died. I'm not sure what would have been the best financial model for it either. But either way, it's super cool and inspired me to buy editfight.com and transform it into a new kind of MMO game every few months. To me the best part of these kind of games like minesweep.glitch.me here is that people have to find ways to interact and communicate with very little conventional ways (no comments, no live chat, etc) and instead have to use the game itself to communicate, to coordinate and plan, or just to say hi to each other! It's like getting back to the raw fundamentals of human interaction before there was formalized speech or writing!
I'm all for simplification of taxes, though there will always be some degree of people evading taxes. Having no deterrent factor allows people to cut corners and not get caught.

There's a good chance the waiter/waitress you tipped in cash is not reporting it, particularly if you went to a small non-chain restaurant. I believe there are people who work hard in construction, factories, and restaurants, and that people should pay taxes on what they earn whether it's paid in cash or not. It benefits the restaurants to not fully properly report it because they need to pay their portion of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

The ROI for the IRS conducting audits is very high, estimated to be 7x in 2012. [1]

[1] https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/national-taxpayer-advocate-deli...
The tax-prep industry is active in lobbying to keep the tax system from becoming too simple. Think H&R Block and Intuit, not Pricewaterhouse Coopers (however I'm sure they are just as involved, but have less on the line compared to the retail companies since companies will always need accountants).
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> (i.e: not much).

Not sure if I'm 100% right here, but knowing all my contacts and when I communicate with whom is an awful much.
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The app already has a feature for that. It will keep a list of all the times it was activated and a recording you can play back of what phrase activated it. You can also tap a button to send feedback if it activated with the wrong phrase.
Yeah, but how many are just US-based without an office in the EU or a real presence in the EU? ICANN is an international organization with a regional office in the EU and an engagement center, with EU customers representing a big chunk of sales/revenue. There's really no excuse for ICANN, whereas if you're a SASS company based in the US, which may have 10% of revenue coming from the EU, it's more understandable.
That looked really weird to me too. Iverson is finessing the whole issue of order of operations by assuming there is no order of operations. To see what the issue is, see http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201..., where the author says that the CORRECT order of operations is PEMDAS and then uses "PEDMAS" in the same article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_operations lists a variety of mnemonics that are inconsistent with standard current software.
I'm amused that if you put 1-3^2 into the Google calculator, it will helpfully rewrite your equation as "1-(3^2)".
I gather that the PEDMAS order of operations was an invention related to the development of an early software language and would have been very recent in 1971 when Iverson was writing.
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If the peace is signed he merits it more than the former US president that got it for other things than his actions. But I don't think this prize is given on merit only, so it's unlikely to happen in my opinion.
I really like Quake 3's code. My favorite parts are:

- The client/server network protocol and syncing state

- The VM architecture (e.g. most of the game can be compiled by LCC into a custom byte code and interpreted. This was for safely (although I wouldn't be as sure these days) distributing mods iirc. I think the main game was shipped compiled to x86 though. The interface between the VM and the core stuff is via "syscalls" and its fun to see how that's wired up.)

- The player physics/controls (i.e. walk/jump/collisions/etc.) (it's neat how fake first-person player physics always is. This isn't unique to quake 3 but quake 3 had notably good controls.)

It's a bit fun to trace what happens on 'w' keydown/keyup (when bound to walk forward.) When I first saw how that actually worked I was surprised (hint: it types commands invisibly into the command console ;) lots of string copies to do that.)
Exactly. Freedom is not just a set of laws, it's an attitude and a culture that can step back from popular convenient choices and avoid ones that concentrate power.

Crucially, individuals need to be willing to sacrifice something -- usually a moderate amount of money or safety -- or it's not ever going to work.
Is a world government necessarily a bad thing?

A union of federated states globally could be a significant force for good.

Impossible for the forseeable future of course but why immediately dismissed as a scary outcome?
maybe that's the future .. globalization reduced borders and culture meaningfulness. Lots of global social structures are results of large companies and not nations.

If Musk martian fantasy succeed it may even be earth vs planets in a way.
"Multiplayer" - checked.
"Massively" - not so much ;)
You're right. I wish Hetzner didn't require an ID because they're cheap and (allegedly) performant.

I wonder if serverpilot etc will work equally well with these guys.
Aruba Cloud have a 1 eur/month VMware-based VM with one core and a gig of ram in Italy an CZ.

It’s quite nice for tiny projects you don’t want to spend on.
Could we ban/flag it on HN?
Additionally, gas fittings that are designed to (safely) breakaway are more common.
Sounds straight from a dystopian cyberpunk novel. Corporations rule the world!
The major version 3 was just recently released: https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/maint/NEWS
> You have to really provide valuable, quality content for organic SEO

This is the key. Google wants to make sure your readers are getting their questions answered. SEO is constantly changing, but high quality and valuable content will always be king.
Here is a very interesting comment on this topic from a year ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14236146
Telemetry is not spying.
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But that requires a local judge to confirm the view. I guess most of us naturally trust their local judiciary system more than that of other countries so that this will go a long way for many.
It's actually slow when you think about it another way. GDPR has been looming for years, and it's now only a month and a week prior to enforcement date that things have started changing.
I agree with a lot of what you are saying, but I think GP's frustration is with the pain of the process and not the pain of paying. Think about, there are two pains occurring here:

1) the pain of parting w/ money
2) the pain of preparing taxes and fearing you made a mistake

The pain of preparation is caused in large part by the complexity of the code. Nothing in the American system is deterring politicians from adding new rules and more complexity. In fact, creating loopholes in the tax code is one of their biggest sources of lobbying dollars.
That doesn't jibe with my memory - the first codes running on GPUs at the supercomputer centers that had privileged early access were running MD, without any GPU-accelerated LA libraries.
I can only encourage everyone to read some of these documents. They really dispel the myth that judges are clueless. And they are also often more entertaining than one might think.
Wasting no time with the whatabboutism I see.
People tie their income to Youtube because they think Youtube is fair. They certainly give the impression that it is (we only demonitize terrorist videos, etc.). But because Youtube is completely controlled by a messy algorithm, they don't live up to that impression at all. People find out when it's too late.
CO2 is 44g/mol vs 29g/mol for air so perhaps it’s higher density causes more concentration close to your ankles.
The IRS already nearly developed a system to automatically translate their mainframe assembler logic into Java and check its correctness, but the main developer was hired on some special kind of program (to bypass the government salary structure) which could not be renewed before the project was completed.

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16377329 (The IRS’s Effort to Convert Its Assembly Codebase to Java)

https://federalnewsradio.com/tom-temin-commentary/2018/01/ir...:

> Now, IRS is on the verge of solving this problem. The solution was engineered by a group of about eight people. And not under a multi-hundred-million-dollar systems integration contract. A leader of the group was Jian Wang, a Chinese emigre who is now a naturalized citizen. Wang told me his solution isn’t a silver bullet but rather a carefully worked-out methodology. It has three components so potentially powerful the IRS has filed patent applications for them.

> I say “was” because he’s left the agency, and the status of the project is dark.

> Wang was working under streamlined critical pay authority the agency has had since its landmark 1998 restructuring. It gave the IRS 40 slots under which it could pay temporary, full-time employees higher than GS rates. Former Commissioner John Koskinen pointed out Congress did not re-up this authority in 2013, despite his entreaties to former Congressman Jason Chaffetz’s Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

> “The last one ran out this past summer,” Koskinen said. The departures included Wang. He says he applied to become a GS-15 or Senior Executive Service member so he could see through the assembler-to-Java project. But his approval didn’t come through until a week before his employment authority expired. By then he’d accepted another job. Wang says he had a house to pay for, kids to educate. Koskinen confirms the agency wanted to convert Wang. But the process of approval from Treasury headquarters and the Office of Personnel Management simply took too long.
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The opposite of that is a far cry from the uneducated running the country.

You don't think that people in charge of policy should have a minimum amount of learning beyond high school, for example, to deal with something that has such complicated externalities as public policy?

Voting is one thing, because we are all in this together, but I really, really prefer a captain to steer a ship rather than someone who just has bold opinions on ships.
Why should I care about looking respectable to a bunch of bible-thumpers who've spent the last decades loudly screaming about how much they hate me and everyone like me?
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Author here. I'm with you for random websites. But what about apps that are media players, ala Pandora? My app is a music playlist/radio station hybrid. It's expected to play music; it's the whole point of the app.

iOS Safari doesn't let me play audio until user interaction. OK, that's fair.

But it also blocks me from playing the next song when the current one ends. That's not cool. It breaks my app. It forced me to bundle my PWA as an app in the store, just to get around this restriction.

FYI, I reported this problem to Apple's iOS Safari team. They acknowledged the issue and said they can probably fix it in the future. (That was 2 years ago.)
I've thought of setting up a pool for deep learning. I think there could be an interest in using GPUs for other than coin mining.
I've been using GnuCash for a couple years now. It works well once you set it up and get a feel for its interface. It has the features I need for my small side business. I would recommend it.
Looks like this is paywalled.

Edit: Since this is being downvoted, here is the proof: https://screenshots.firefox.com/bgD6FxWvQS4e0sB2/www.theinfo...

I have no issue with paywalled-content, it should just be noted that this is, at least for some readers.
A lot of this article isn't that surprising -- especially the part where they're keeping "Business Critical" data on GCP. Of course they are! Every company needs a disaster recovery plan and in general shouldn't put their eggs in one basket.

I'd be interested to see where the AI/ML frameworks differ though, and what additional value one can extract using GCP versus AWS and at what cost/presumptions.
Speaking from experience, small companies can fall for this too. Companies that completely isolate the existing employees from candidates are just asking for trouble. A single-digit percentage of recruiters will now make a point of photographing the interviewee as part of the process.
Why not? AWS builds airgapped datacenters for spooky government agencies. The Pentagon wanted to migrate before Oracle stepped in with lobbying. Those private DCs are rock solid.

As a side note, I think that's just amazing. The ultimate IaaS: your own private AWS.
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GDPR requires "freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous" consent. It also says that "Silence, pre-ticked boxes or inactivity, however, is presumed inadequate to confer consent."

This kind of explicit consent was not given in the case of most domain registrations, and anyway, GDPR allows for withdrawal of consent, so even if you did grant it in the past, you can withdraw it now.