skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They aren't interested in improving their rates because providing a competitive credit card in the US isn't cheap. You've got cards that provide 2% flat cash back (Citi Double Cash, for example), or cards that provide even higher benefits on rotating or fixed categories. Interchange fees aren't going to drop unless American cardholders are okay with dropping these benefits, and seeing as merchants aren't likely to share the savings I don't see that happening.

The time to lower interchange fees was before reward programs became standard, interest is where card issuers make their money.
Implementation language doesn't matter, at all.
Elderly people are included in the ~35% you are talking about and most are not "actually looking for work".
Welcome to the world of third-party Twitter clients. Not content with screwing over businesses relying on Twitter's API, it seems, they have now set out to screw over any company relying on any other third-party API as well.
How visible is that issue though? How likely to be digested by the masses?

"Tech company takes money and screws over customers" is a headline that writes itself.
$16M grant bolsters Yale’s quantum computing research
You should check BBEdit as well. Very Mac like, wicked fast, feature rich, US$ 50 and the free version is nothing no sneeze at.

You can also open FTP/sFTP files right from within it. No need for external app.
> Keeping around meaningless jobs isn't a method of "caring about people".

Actually it is. People need to be occupied/busy. It's such a big need that keeping meaningless jobs around is also a huge political tool used for thousands of years (there was an article that made the front page of HN a few days ago exactly about this topic, pretty fascinating). I would agree it might not be the best way of caring about people though.

In any case, my comment referred to the sentiment of the previous poster's comment, which seems to be similar to yours...

> With unemployment numbers so slow, finding another menial job shouldn't be that difficult.

These people are just a statistic to you and you think because "the numbers add up", they'll be fine.

> The "think of the employees" argument only works when there isn't an employee-friendly market.

It's hardly an employee-friendly market when thousands of people with a full time job can't afford housing because their jobs don't pay enough, but they also can't afford to loose their jobs. Seems more like slavery than a job market.
ixnay on the 40gig-ay

25/50/100 is cheaper/better on modern gear.
Advanced Database Systems-CMU 15-721 (SPRING 2018)
Malaysian CEO Died Recently After His Smartphone Exploded
5 minutes residence time in the machine per burger, not one burger per 5 minutes output.
In my lab most of the poster templates were already fairly standard and available on a shared drive. Also anecdotally, I stopped sending my professor LaTeX documents as soon as she said she didn't know how to open them/wouldn't be bothered. It was a point of pride for some professors to use LaTeX, but we generally used word for the edit tracking feature to publish efficiently.
"Sorry, we can't seem to find what the problem is."

Neither can my friend, neither can I.
It makes sense for youtube, but not content creators.
Patreon is third-party service generally insulated from content.
Patreon wouldn't ban you if Youtube bans you.
If youtube controls your finances, they can dictate their terms to you, and if you refuse both your financial revenue channel and content channel are gone.
This is just moving the goalpost. What you're saying is that modern humans are too good for their own good :).

Anyway, I don't understand the religion of distribution (especially in context of finite resources). Yes, distributed systems are more robust. But they pay for this by being massively less efficient than equivalent centralized ones. It's a fair tradeoff, but a tradeoff. It's like 5 people in a (single) car vs. 5 people on bicycles. Which setup is better depends on where those people want to go.
They are more likely to spend 6 months shovelling coal into a fire and sweeping the floor at a blacksmiths.

Blacksmiths don't make horseshoes either, that's a farrier's job (who still buy them off the shelf and finish them by hand). Being a farrier is also not an easy job, take a 3 or 4 apprenticeship to become one. There seems to be this viewpoint I see a lot on Hacker News that blue collar jobs are unskilled jobs. Most skilled trades require a 3 or 4 year apprenticeship, you can't just learn how to be a fitter and turner, or a carpenter, or a blacksmith/farrier in a couple of weekends. It's this kind of arrogant attitude that causes the tradies to have no respect for the book-learned engineers straight out of university that think because they have a degree they know how to build a road.
Ah. My 15" puts it all above
ICE Patrol
I have a feeling that one of these cloud companies is going to have a mass firing of employees that are protesting against government contracts. People underestimate just how much money the US government spends. Just DoD spending is more than 600 Billion per year. Microsoft and Google have annual revenue of 100 Billion. The $10 Billion Pentagon cloud contract immediately gives a huge boost to any cloud provider. As can be seen by most of these companies dealings with very repressive governments (China, Saudi Arabia, etc), they will talk a good game, but when serious money is on the line, they will do what they need to do to get the money.

I bet that in back rooms, high level cloud execs at Hear companies are hearing an earful about how they need to control their employees and part of getting the big contracts requires controlling your employees. Just look at how the NFL caved in when Trump accused them of not supporting soldiers. Will these companies stay the line when Trump starts saying that these companies are hurting American soldiers and police officers? I am not confident they will.
The ALCU has been cucked for ages, the EFF is where it's at.

Tldr of the article: SJWism is more important than defending free speech to the ACLU.
#Transparency update: Twitter shares more national security letters
The solution is to make checking headlines part of your work.
Intel's 7th Gen NUCs Are Now “Ubuntu Certified”
I can't say I've ever met a developer who thinks that a 100% error rate to valid requests isn't an outage. Not sure why you have such a strong view of your semantics.
Reminds me of this Neil deGrasse Tyson bit:

https://youtu.be/sLYorVnA44U
If this become policy, the ACLU will have become a shell of its former self. Part of our bill of rights is the right to say repugnant things. I have said it before - society should shun you for you beliefs and words, but government must defend your right to say them.
DanderSpritz Lab: Build a Lab for Equation Group's Post Exploitation Tools
Google AI can Predict when a patient is about to die
I'm not sure I follow the use case here. Perhaps it's just a function of my use cases for Terraform.

Terraform comes with `terraform plan`, which does a cursory validation of the infrastructure-as-code, diffs it against the current state of the world in various accounts, and reports back with what it expects to execute. While there are some cases where `terraform plan` succeeds and `terraform apply` errors, they tend to be cases that I don't think mocking would catch. For example:

- Certain AWS resource naming restrictions are not handled by `terraform plan`, but are caught by the AWS API, causing `terraform apply` to fail.

- The validity of AWS ACM certificates (issued vs pending) is not handled by `terraform plan` -- `plan` assumes that any certificate ARN provided is valid and issued, whereas the AWS API will error if the certificate is not valid, prompting `terraform apply` to fail.

There are plenty more examples (duplicate security group rules come to mind as a particularly egregious offender). I'm just not sure I see what value this provides -- if I'm missing something, please do let me know!
>I don't think so, platos point was that the shadows were poor representations of real objective things. By moving beyond the cave, you can see the real objective thing.

post modernsim says, nah, your objective things aren't objective, you just found some "shadows" that look prettier to you.

I agree, that is why I said it is a variation on Plato's cave, not a simple repetition. What they have in common is the belief that what seems real in experience is in fact not, and that to arrive at an understanding of the true state of affairs requires a complex intellectual process that is radically different from ordinary thinking. Contrast all this with, for instance, Aristotle.
http://archive.is/yJ1SW works. Also incognito tabs.
But you'll use Twitter? Kinda a weird dynamic there don't you think?
I know it wasn't profitable 3-4 years ago, but I believe it's fairly profitable now. But I'm not sure, I suppose the cost of running a video service can shift so drastically it's hard for it to be steady. I don't think Alphabet breaks out YouTube revenues/profit anymore.
Patreon works because there are different tiers, usually with lots of different rewards. Some people pledge over $100 a month for specific, custom or time consuming rewards.

I don't think this feature will really cut it.
Also the principal way they remove competition.
I find it silly to rely on some service, any external service

This is always trotted out and it's, by this point, a completely content-free thing to say. Short of removing yourself from the economy and society in general to live off potatoes grown in your own dung, you're going to rely on some external services and the fact that, for the most part, the parties you do business with will behave responsibly. When they behave very irresponsibly, unpleasant things happen and people quite reasonably complain.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17337606
Some state sales tax rates are destination-based and others are origin-based. Since sales tax was not designed to consider the internet, things get complicated fast.
Seeing JavaScript objects as functions changed the way I see mapping
genuine question: why not boot the machine with 'isolcpu' and place your tasks on said cpu's ? such tasks would be not subjected to vagaries of scheduler etc...
I feel like two different definitions of 'normal' are at odds here. 'Normal' in the context of a graph, and 'normal' to mean typical or usual
By the time we hit "peak earth land," any unexploited landfill will be worth a fortune, as they will be tremendously resource rich in comparison to 'regular' land.

It's far more likely that in a hundred years (or less!) we will be digging through landfills to recycle some material that we throw away today.
The Transistor, Part 2: Out Of The Crucible
Seems like they cherry picked one sentence, out of context, to base an entire article on. This is exactly what I would do if I were trying to chip away at support for the ACLU; fire off an article stating they are backing away from a core value, since most folks won't actually read the memo.
A long time ago, in a job (thankfully) far far away I had to have a fair bit of interaction with famous people.

Some of them are crazy - one of the artists (now dead) demanded "more goat heads" on his project. This was an actual client request.

I still do take pride in getting one of the most difficult clients in the roster to admit we did a "good job".

Famous people can be weird, and some do really exist in their own special bubble.
Let's not be starting witch hunts on HN, especially given the sparse info available so far. You should edit this stuff away.
Sure it is, if it affects all users at once, and makes your system unusable. If I dial a phone number and get a busy signal, that's an "error" of sorts. If every Verizon user gets that busy tone on every call, that's an outage.
Services like YouTube portray themselves as platforms, not record labels. Individualised, private requirements and restrictions for channels (with no notice!) goes against all of that.

This is like Apple emailing you, "hey, your free app is costing us too much money in bandwidth. Add IAP, or we're deleting your app in 24 hours."

If YouTube wants to require large channels to enable monetisation, it should standardise this policy, and give reasonable notice; not suddenly disabling a channel.

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Note that all of this is moot, because apparently Blender being disabled is an error: https://www.blender.org/media-exposure/youtube-blocks-blende...
I forgot to add to my last response: is your company hiring right now? You seem very keen with seeing potential in people. Right now I am looking for that company that will not allow me to let my potential go to waste, and not overlook me.
This is not the same thing as Face ID. First Face ID requires special cameras. Second it only on device. Third, classifying something that is novel is much different than identifying a previously registered person. (This difference is somewhat akin to transcription versus recognizing ‘Hey Siri’)
Hood surveillance
The actor that "died suddenly" sounds like it might have been Anton Yelchin.
I guess the point was that right now, they have the most consoles and games out there. That being said I think they have repeatedly pissed off enough people that they will not be seriously considered when the time to buy a new console comes.
If the ACLU loses it's commitment to its principles in favor of it's politics, it will eventually lose its credibility and mark the end of the ACLU as a defender of rights, rather than a promoter of policy. This could mark the end of the ACLU as we know it.
It's really interesting to think about this. Very different types of complexity.

The smallest possible correct program implementing a tax calculator is going to be a LOT bigger than the smallest possible correct program for controlling a 60's era manned flight to the moon. The latter is more complex in other ways, of course.

Complexity can be "deep" or "wide". software for rockets is "deep and thin complexity", but calculating hyper-local minimal tax bills is extreme "wide and shallow complexity".
Yeah, I feel that way too. Like, every company whose products / services I liked that got acquired never released another interesting product or service. Dropcam is one that I can think of, nest is another which is related. Microsoft buying Wunderlist also seems like it’s only leading to Wunderlist getting shut down. CoreOS sold to RedHat and while I have my doubts, this sounds good: https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/coreos-user/GR4YlF... (but don’t these kinds of messages always paint a rosy picture of the future?). We’ll see what happens to CoreOS.

EDIT: just remembered WhatsApp. This happened recently: https://www.cnet.com/news/whatsapp-founders-may-have-left-1-... and it doesn’t seem like them selling did anything positive for their product or customers, only their bank accounts. Seems like they couldn’t even wait for FB to open up the golden handcuffs.

Anyone have examples where the acquired company goes on to be really amazing, on a trajectory that they wouldn’t have had access to without the big injection of funding from the acquiring company? I can’t name any, but that doesn’t mean they’re not out there.
Oh, I've long since learned not to depend on Twitter for anything critical or business related. The thing is about Smyte is that it was a b2b SaaS with paying customers, not a consumer social media company.

People justifiably have certain expectations when they pay for a serious b2b SaaS that they don't have for a free social media service.
I really wanted to give Credo a try, but:

> Fight Trump and get unlimited data on the nation’s largest and most dependable 4G LTE network[0]

I hate donald and everything he 'stands' for, but don't lower yourself to his level just to sell your service.

One other bit, it's really not clear anywhere on their site if you can bring your own device to use with their service... They really want you to buy one of their devices. That's too bad.

0. http://www.credomobile.com/Plans/Info
The sparse info is exactly why people are looking for answers. This was a pretty unethical business move, regardless of whether these people had themselves covered in contract language.
I really like Super Duper.

But where are the "dozens" of places?
This article does not contain the text of the memo, and seems to mostly build on a WSJ opinion piece.

The blogger takes small parts and implies some substantial change or greater meaning. It ends with talk about the “anti-speech left” so this can hardly be considered a balanced source.
Ask HN: How do companies working in immoral industries find employees?
There are industries like adult videos which some people might say are immoral.

I am simply curious. I see startups having major problem in hiring where they often fail to attract potential hires.

Some startups are understaffed and their weakness shows when their product go down. Don't get me wrong, i understand every product can go down.

But the adult websites/gambling, their app and website keeps working and I've not heard of major data breaches, downtimes or payment failures compared to the startups in other industries.

That may imply that they've good tech people working for them.

How do they find employees? And why would someome work for them when they could be working for world changing startups and big companies?
All fare and reasonable points JBerlinsky! All you said make sense to me.

IMHO the main use cases for me is:
- Speed up development time by doing tests locally - don't need to commit and wait a build kick it and see whats wrong.
- Able to be part of the bigger scheme where you can test your whole "infrastructure" or part of it at least we still limited by localstack.
This is not looking for any kind of meaningful answers. It's basically a call for organized harassment, facts unknown. You are surely aware how that sort of thing has worked out on other forums.
How hard is it to look it up if you find yourself willing to learn the language? I have a hard time seeing this as anything other than an insignificant nit-pick.
> Sometime I think about taking a 6 months leave to go flip burgers a the local gourmet burger place

If working 12 hours a day, 6 days a week sounds like fun to you, then I'd totally recommend it.

You'd probably spend most of your day cutting potatoes and washing dishes though, rather than actually cooking burgers. And even if you did get to cooking, you'd be making the same half a dozen menu items day in, day out. You won't have any creative control, you're a production line worker.
The screwed over themselves as soon as the decided to rely on third party SaaS solutions for core infrastructure.

How many more examples do we need for this to sink in?
That's really amazing - I am having great difficulty imagining a situation in which doing this would make sense. Just for starters, even if you completely discount goodwill, ethics or even PR, I'm guessing Twitter just bought a bunch of lawsuits. This just seems nuts.
I think you’re right actually. One expects subscription services to still function.
Yes, the tone is well done. Sort of a “let me give this to you straight” message. Sort of subtweety in referencing real clients.
Seems like this comment struck a cord.

To make it a bit clearer...

Currently, humanity as a whole has the resources (materials, technology, etc), to provide good housing, education, food and healthcare for everyone on this planet. However, everyday we choose not to do that and do whatever else it is we do instead.

This is just an observation, not a moral judgement on anyone in particular. By the way, I'm personally not doing anything to change the current state of affairs, so I can't really point any fingers.

Hopefully the situation will change at some point.
YouTube restores Blender channel, block due to 'mix of coincidences'
Ask HN: How do you record your personal finances?
I am trying to start recording the day-to-day flow of my money as part of a larger goal of implementing some in my life.

I have done some research and some self-hosted software solutions that interest me include [Firefly III], [Transity], [Ledger]. Maybe I'll write my own personal finance record keeping software.

Since this will be the first time keeping track of my own finances, I'd like to hear what has worked for others members of the Hacker News community.

[Firefly III]: https://firefly-iii.org/
[Transity]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17242136
[Ledger]: https://www.ledger-cli.org/
What did I say that you consider "judgemental"?

I've had cold sores since I was a little kid...doesn't everyone get cold sores, you know, when they have a cold and such? Hardly what I would call a disease... Or, let me guess, I caught Herpes from when my gramma or aunt used to kiss me at age 1?

Here's judgemental for you: You are being sold a bill of goods. Cold sores are something everyone gets and there is no need for spending money and risking over 100 possible side effects because of them.

Oh, and it is between you and your doctor, why even bother talking about it in public and trying to promote this drug as something that is a "requirement" for people who are sexually active??? You sound like a big pharma shill, is the truth of the mattter.... oh, and even "incredibly safe drug" too???? Gee, how much they paying you for saying this stuff?
> "oh good, now maybe we'll see even more content being spread around so there's more competition."

I'd like to agree with you, but video streaming platforms like YouTube are expensive - there's a reason we lack competition in this space outside a few niche players. Google is still probably losing money on YouTube, they're trying REALLY hard to monetize the platform as of late hence the introduction of YouTube Red/Premium/WhateverTheyRenameItNextYear and the "advertiser friendly" policies they've adopted for AdSense-monetized videos.

There's also a network effect that's developed on YouTube, and as much as I hate to admit it when I want to search for video content (reviews, how-to's, and a hell of a lot more) the first (and often only) place I search is in fact YouTube. Hell, I even pay for YouTube Premium so I can run uBlock without feeling guilty.

I'd love for there to be a proper competitor for YouTube, but truth be told I think it's easier to compete with Facebook.
Let me guess... 1% of the time, it works 99.5% of the time?
It all depends on how much control you have on the system you target. The strategy you refer to may well work for a dedicated deployment, but if you are developing a general-purpose memory allocator targeting a wide range of applications, you might not want to impose those constraints on your users.
Bringing in people's names in order to attack them
is a breach of this site's civility rule. You needn't stoop to that in order to discuss issues of substance in this story, so please don't.

All: please keep the internet rage reflex off HN. Same for the online shaming culture.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(Edit: I didn't mean that you were feeling rage, but that by posting this way you were stirring it up. In any case, thanks for removing the names.)
I reserve judgment as to whether it was Twitter's fault or Smyte's fault, but at the very least, it was Smyte's fault for selling to Twitter without getting any guarantees for their existing customers. At the worst, they shut down the service like this themselves.

Again, if it turns out that Twitter lied to them about how the service would be wound down, I'm sure that will come out in due time. If I were one of the founders (and I know at least one of them has been often on HN), then I'd be on this thread making some explanations right now.

Finally, the name of the founders isn't some kind of secret. This is public information. The founders have been featured in many media pieces. They sold their company to a public company.
Patreon's fee is about 5% plus 2-3% for payment processing (7-8% total). This is a fraction of YouTube's 30% cut.

Plenty of people spend $20 or even $50 a month on Patreon channels. Some also have $200 tiers for custom videos, etc.