skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you check the other comments you'll see that Spotify, Snapchat, Discord etc. were all affected. We're not talking about "sites" but any application or site built on Google's infrastructure, even partly.
The bottom 3 billion probably has zero net worth: no property, no assets. So my point was a fair comparison.
Do they regularly sell for $40,000 or is that just the top price that's posted?
I'm confused - are these reprints of existing books?

Is Waldrop's book on Licklider the same as this one:

https://www.amazon.com/Dream-Machine-Licklider-Revolution-Co...
>You would have to show that people are not investing because they have no extra money and not that they are choosing to use their money now instead of investing.

We know they don't have enough money to invest. Average income + average cost of living < amount needed to safely invest.

We've quite literally known about if for years on a national scale. He doesn't have to show anything.
Does it hinder Linux gamers who are using Wine? A lot of such anti-cheats can't figure out when Wine is used and ban Linux users. Some also ban custom D3D implementations like DXVK even if they are really correctly implementing the API.
Most people who choose not to vote aren't being systematically repressed. They're just too indifferent and/or lazy to participate.
Just another case of their idiotic culture leaking into their products. An early "design" decision led to all their production kit being set to US/Pacific, triggering frequent DST bugs, and last I heard (many years ago) it was still the case.

Coordinating a tz change over a network of that size is probably infeasible, so may as well push the pain on to customers
Okay, this is a post about how wages haven't gone up, not about how bad americans are at budgeting. American's haven't suddenly gotten bad at budgeting, real wages have been stagnant as the cost of many things, like college for their kids, new homes, etc, have gone up significantly.

Where is your post about how million dollar CEOs need to cut their executive pay budgets, stop paying for new yachts, and pay their workers a higher share of profits instead of taking higher pay, in order to encourage the economy?

Why is it the people who have the least who have to tighten their belts?
AWS Bring Your Own IP
It matters because sometimes the answer is "others have tried this and it didn't work". What they want to know is that you've done your homework.
Increasing SaaS NPS with Personalization
Thanks for the information. I see now why I hadn't noticed. I don't Snapchat anymore, I switched to Google Music, and I haven't adopted Discord. I guess I'm not in with the cool crowd anymore!
I'm not sure if it is related but Google developer console (for Android apps) stopped displaying total number of installs today
I just made a similar swap from a 2013 MBP to the X1 and so far I love it. One great thing about the T480 over the X1 is you can push the CPU harder in the T480 due to better cooling. I like the size of the X1 so went with the smaller labtop, but so far its been great
> Patrick's love (at least Patrick – I'm sure others) of books that he's discussed at length gives me some hope.

Definitely feels like this is directly channeling Patrick. It looks like Stripe Press is going to republish The Dream Machine, which he's recommended on more than one occasion.

They're also all hard cover books, probably in his own preference too.
One question since I know some of the Backblaze folks respond to these threads:

In addition to calling (and possibly getting blocked/ignored), does your customer service staff send text messages? I suspect that a big percentage of the phone numbers you have are for cell phones these days, and I see a lot less SMS spam than I do telemarketing. SMS would also allow you to get a bit of info visible to recipients (e.g. "Backblaze CC Expired") with more detail once a message is opened.
Check it out for more https://www.sherekhudahazratali.com/2015/02/sohbat-sex-ka-is...
I really wonder how "durable" all these consumer product startups are. You're competing in a commodity market against companies like Procter Gamble/Johnson & Johnson whose scale is untouchable, where essentially your only value added is customer service. Once the marketing hype for your product dies off, and it's no longer a meme, how do you compete against the dozens of Chinese clones?
Digging is addressed by the article.
Don't compare Boost.Function with NULL
I agree. I remember those days. At 50, I've been in IT now for 3 decades. The pay in IT has decreased as well. My dad pulled a family of four along on his salary and we were comfortable, but not rich. I lacked nothing. However... when I turned 10, I came home one day from school and there was a brand new mower sitting in the driveway with a gas can and a rope. My dad said, "Son, canvas the neighborhood and charge $5-10 (size) a lawn. That money is yours. Save a dollar for every 10 for gasoline." I was making about $250 a month.

This taught me to get off my own butt and make it on my own, which I have. I paid my own way through college (impossible now), bought my own car, married a woman who did the same. We are largely debt free (mortgage), but will be free soon. Except for property tax, we owe no man anything, and this is the way it should be. Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps. Big daddy government is not the answer and technically owes you nothing. As Gerald Ford once said, "A government big enough to give you everything is big enough to take it all away."

Sadly, this young generation has embraced the notion of entitlement. No one is owed anything except human dignity. Americans have lost the sense of doing it on their own. Te military is a great choice for kids who cannot afford college. I'm not babying my kids. They will need to make it on their own. My dad did it, I did it, my wife did. None of us were rich, and by today's standards, we would have been considered poor.
3 cycles after a bad instruction?
Yea those damn Americans, always wanting to, you know, actually live a life and not sit at home apparently staring at a wall to save money.
Can someone tell me if I understand this correctly. So Bell famously proved that it is not the case that the correlation we see between 2 entangled particles A and B is because of some common cause C. Therefore we concluded that it must be that A => B or B => A and we called it a spooky action at a distance. But aren't we forgetting that there's a one more way to get a correlation between A and B without resorting to spooky action at a distance - conditioning on a common effect, aka collider:
http://www.the100.ci/2017/03/14/that-one-weird-third-variabl... Has anyone proven that this is not the case?
Oops, yes.

(Must have been thinking about intercontinental ballistic trains).
They would only be exactly the same at a precise moment in time, and given the source data is timely.

From there, they would diverge.

Three things happen:

One, the data capture representing the object gets dated, and would represent the original at some point in time, not as it is today.

Two, the copy objects would also diverge from both the data and the original.

Finally, the stories related to the objects differ.

The original remains the authority on that particular object. For many things, nobody would care, and I agree with you on all of that.

However, you very seriously under estimate the value history and culture have. And you also are ignoring how a story becomes intertwined with a given object.

As an extreme example, one could say there was some war, and one of the copies of a famous painting was damaged in the war, but owned by someone who won that war at great personal cost.

Now, we've got the original, with historical value, and one copy in particular with value, both above and beyond that value any other copy may have.

For those interested in, perhaps involved in, that war, the relevance of that specific copy, with the damage marks on it, where it's at, who owns it, all differentiate that copy from all other objects.

Things that are exactly the same do not remain the same.

And where that is true, originals will have value above and beyond copies.
Netflix is $10 per month. I am sympathetic to the view that people are squandering money they could invest, but in many cases it's just not a meaningful amount of money. Buying a video game every couple months is what, $50 or $100? Sorry, but this just isn't meaningful compared to things like rent and transportation. If someone is paying $1000 per month in rent, a single month of rent is an entire year of saving on little things, and that's a level of rent that's relatively low even far away from the Bay Area.
The question of how many data points to use is a subtle one, though. I can say that I picked one data point because I was lazy and doing back of the envelope math, which is reasonable because we can be somewhat assured that I didn't choose a number of data points that was convenient for the hypothesis.

But if you're choosing two data points, my question is... why two? If you are choosing whether or not to reply based on whether or not the second data point fits with the first, then you're introducing selection bias. The chance that the second data point disagrees with the first by at least as much as the 200 My interval disagrees with the 1/65 My rate is equal to 1-(exp(-65/200)-exp(200/65)) = 0.32, which is not especially high.
But he is going about it completely wrong.
Imposing tarriffs on things we need to produce when we cannot meet our own demand, and won't ever again only lets other countries impose tarriffs on things we NEED to sell.

Take steel for example:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/268683/us-steel-demand-s...

In 2017 the US needed 100M metric tons of steel as raw material. We only produced 23M tons. Where is that difference coming from? Purchasing it from other countries. We just don't have the production to make what we need, so why on earth would anyone force the price of that upwards?

So now the cost of everything goes UP 25% or more due to tarriffs, and we no longer can sell our exports of soybeans or whatever because they're now 25% more expensive overseas.

Explain how that makes "America Great Again."
> But at least they understand how their own machine works.

That may be true for the HDD, but Apple uses tons of third-party components elsewhere. Large parts of their OpenGL drivers, for example, are written by the manufacturers themselves, which is part of the reason why Apple has by far the worst OpenGL support in the industry, and why Metal on desktop is inferior to Direct3D and Vulkan.
Dirac independently rediscovered the purl stitch. https://books.google.com/books?id=Su-k9Kld5ooC&pg=PA232&lpg=...
Stay connected with ideas that interests you
Im not an expert so from my outside viewpoint

I think by taking the guitar far away you are implying possibility of faster than light communication, which is thought to be not possible, so his links address that? Hard for me to understand so I'm just saying my thoughts out loud to get clarified, thanks
You are paying for it by your service, which only 1% of the population serves. I have nothing but respect for the military and those who serve. People need to stand behind the troops or in front of them. People sleep well at night because of the military and their sacrifice.
The global load balancer is one of the best offerings from GCP but we are always concerned about the single point of failure it causes.

Unfortunately this isn't the first time it's broken and it's starting to look like a bad choice. We use a CDN in front so were able to switch traffic around but it seems it's better to do the load balancing ourselves too instead of using GLB.
That naive Mom's Basement idealism coincides with the Atlas Shrugged years. Voters should just buy their own voting machines, and let the market decide!
It always seemed to me that losing X hours of your life every day to perform the labor was tax enough.
Agreed. But while this outage was global, saying "GCP went down globally" overstates it.

AWS doesn't have a comparable service to the global version of GCP's load balancer service, which is what went down. Other GCP services were only affected to the extent that they use global load balancers for ingress, which varies by service.

For most GCP services, the ingress method is under the user's control and a switch to regional load balancers in one or more regions (whether split through GeoDNS or through round-robin) would have been a workaround.

Admittedly one point of global load balancers is to be able to mitigate a lot of other outages... I guess the secondary lesson here is to keep a short TTL on top-level DNS entries which point to the load balancers, and ideally have two DNS providers in the mix too.
ScienceTake: Secrets of Citrus Micro-Jets
There is another use: Understanding compiler behavior and reverse engineering. Those mostly need reading skills.
> This is what's really strange about the American healthcare system ...

It gets worse. Each entity in the system applies their own rules. eg a friend had an eye exam at the doctors and they took 11 months to bill[0]. The doctor group pointed out their small print says they have 12 months to bill. The insurance company had a shorter time frame and refused to pay. But it was a scam - the doctor had changed the diagnosis code to get more money, and the insurer would have refused to pay so they kept more money. My friend lost.

It is very easy to see which proposals will "fix" things. Look at which groups make less money due to the fixes (doctors, insurers, medical groups, equipment makers, drug companies etc). It is extremely rare for that to be shown, and all those groups will fight to keep what is "theirs".

> American healthcare is ridiculously inefficient because it appears wholly designed to be byzantine.

I like the word confusopoly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confusopoly

Confusopoly is an economic and marketing term referring to a purposeful
act by a seller or group of sellers to confuse the buyer in order to ease the sale

[0] those fortunate enough not to deal with USA healthcare are probably wondering how this could happen. The answer is that any visit now results in a blizzard of electronic and paper communication, including satisfaction surveys, "courtesy" statements with many dollar numbers all over them that don't add up, stuff telling you legal information, and more saying one party has done stuff (eg billed or paid) on your behalf but you are still liable if it doesn't all complete, co pays, deductibles, random others because of in and out network nonsense etc. And this is a superficial description - how would anyone know?
You'd probably need at least some so that you don't lag every time the fog changes.
$40k is probably a bit of an outlier, but there's still quite a bit of volume.

For example, this gun https://opskins.com/?loc=shop_view_item&item=498470571 sold 7 times yesterday for $200/pop. That's one item on one site.
More businesses = more Stripe users.
Homage for the sake of homage? Is there any use for it on the web? If not then what's the point of putting it up there?
Hey Brian! For the record I love that you are transparent about your assumptions, it is really helpful. I have been in very very similar debates, both at NetApp and at Google of all places. Peter Corbett, the guy who invented the dual parity scheme that NetApp uses, wrote a similar analysis as well for Fast '04 [1].

As someone who likes to geek out on failure proof systems and perfectly secure systems, neither of which are attainable but can be asymptotically approached, I think you are seeing the "there is always one level deeper" kinds of discussions. Personally I think of them as endorsements because if the exceptions get too extreme (say 'what if an asteroid hits?') then you know you've got all the bases covered.

Its only a problem if the person analyzing the analysis finds something that you really did not even consider. Then it opens up an opportunity to look at the problem a whole new way.

[1] https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedin...
Our goal is N+2, that way when one Earth is down for planned maintenance, you can endure unplanned loss of a second Earth.

N, of course, is always 1.
Recovery isn't quick at all unless you have developed the Ansible tech tree.
What’s the source of this? Is sounds intruiging, I wonder what led them to that decision.
Amazon S3 Announces Increased Request Rate Performance
The audio is generated by Amazon Polly; see https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/give-your-wordpress-blog-a-... for more info!

I now use the audio version as a second form of proofreading, and find that it helps me to find places where my written transitions could be better.

I agree that there's room to make the contents of the table sound better, but I am not sure what direction this should go in. Suggestions are welcome!
Why was my comment flagged?

Edit: Love the downvotes. The hypocrisy of the Left continues to be exposed day by day. Even though my comment was a bit tangential to the main thrust of the article, it addressed a direct quote from the article and a relevant aspect of the issue.

I'm sure that if the content of my post was enthusiastically sympathetic with the Left, it would not have been flagged. But it addressed the hypocrisy of the Left, and so it was flagged.

Double standards like this weaken the position you've staked out on the moral high ground. People are noticing.
I think that is proving my lack of faith in government efficiency
In a given firm, yes. The article is about whether they reduce employment in aggregate.
> if we assume that an asteroid hits the earth every 65 million years and wipes out the dominant life forms, then this fact alone puts your yearly durability at a maximum of ~8 nines

I don't think this is a useful definition of your yearly durability. If your data center is down for maintenance during a period in which it is guaranteed that nobody wants to access it, that doesn't reduce your availability at all -- if your only failure is an asteroid that kills all of your customers, it would be more accurate to say you have 100.000000% availability than 99.999999%.
"Idiotic culture" is a bit harsh.
Psychedelics Promote Neural Plasticity
Blizzard is famous for a variation of this.

They will spend a few weeks/months detecting cheaters, but do nothing.

Then, they will ban many users of a given cheat at the same time. This creates press, which helps the message of "you will be banned if you cheat" spread further than if they had immediately banned each offender.
Sorry short for personal handy phone system or PHS, also known locally as keitai[1]

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_mobile_phone_cultur...
These numbers are completely meaningless for nutrition purposes, and should be generally ignored and replaced with much simpler metrics like CHO digestion half-life.

Glucose levels are increased by digestion/conversion of CHO, and decreased by the effect of insulin. Different types of CHO digest slower(fiber), get into the blood stream faster (glucose) or release more insulin (fructose). A low glycemic load could mean either that all the sugar was immediately deposited in fat cells and now you’re hungry again because it’s dropping and your ghrehlin is spiking, or that your food is still digesting slowly.

Do not be deceived by the low GI/GL. Fructose goes right into your fat cells and makes you hungry by spiking insulin.

Seriously. Ignore GI/GL.
https://www.pcgamer.com/csgo-skins-most-expensive/

It seems the $40,000 one was an outlier, but still $4000+ is common. Total market volume is in the billions.
I'd wait for further details from the status page, but as a GCP employee (for whatever that claim's worth on the internet), I'm not seeing evidence of an issue earlier than 12:15 PDT.
Another suggestion would be to just let 2 peers come in with a unique passphrase and establish the connection off of that. If it's not unique, then you made some like-minded friends.
Because they all do the same so there is no need to share that. Riot is a recent studio, other studios have been doing that for years. As for transparent approach I'm not sure what you're referring to, players don't need to know that kind of things, there is no benefit sharing that to the public.
Thought my TV was playing up (Youtube)
Either you've never used a surfacebook, or you've got faulty hardware, because that is 100% false. I spend exactly 0 seconds of my day in UWP apps.

There is absolutely 0 issues with jittery scrolling, and out of the 10 or so people I know with SBPs, not a single one has ever mentioned that as an issue. And given that everyone in my group that is on an SBP was previously on an MBP, those cries would be loud and frequent.
Interesting article, though the title should perhaps be `How not to design a Bad DSL` since the vast majority of the advice is apparently what NOT to do.
Still having issues as of 20:20 UTC - Firebase Database messages not beeing delivered to client. It's been a full hour so far. The delivery rate also had a minor drop earlier around 03:00AM to 05:00AM but no incident had been listed.
You clearly haven't spent much time with App Engine
Use blockchain.

It is a very simplified comment, but behind that you can expand the topic to include many advantage a blockchain can provide during multiplayer games.

EDIT: yes it is a very unpopular topic, but deep down many of you who are developers, know that blockchain can solve many of these issues with cheater.dll
3 seconds after the LT makes a bad decision
I actually think that's a pretty hot topic right now. Tons of people are working on commercializing it. Heck, a couple years ago I even did a contract with a major government where I helped them fix their recommender and it was built with explainability in mind because explainability allows politicians to understand the risk and into install human-review safeguards.
Those are the kinds of people that are astonished at what those running the show are doing these days.

Conservative pundits from the 1990s are rabid leftists by the standards of the current regime. Richard Nixon would be branded a communist!
The article only briefly mentions port >= 1024 for non-root, but it's probably important to note that it is desirable to have the default port be < 1024. That way, you can be sure you are connecting to an sshd operated by the remote system's root user (and not, say, a random student's unix user account running a spoof sshd).

Obviously this matters more for multi-user systems, but even today it's nice to know that the sshd listen port on the remote end can't be hijacked by a random wordpress exploit kit (unless that kit also privesc's to root)
The allocation of profits in startups, at least, feels... problematic.

I was the #2 engineer hire when I was hired five years ago. Since then, we haven't become super successful -- yet -- but we're at least at breakeven. We have three engineers and we're working on a huge new project that hopefully will really grow the company.

I have 1.8% equity.

Sometimes when I'm working late or working on the weekend, which is often, I wonder: Is this really worth it?

I'm totally fine with taking a pay cut to build something new, in order to have the chance at making life changing money. But at the equity I have, we'd need to be quite successful in order to get that.

The VCs who funded our seed and series A (the only funds we've raised) will see the lion's share of the profits. Emotionally, that feels odd. We've thrown a significant percentage of our lives, and they've only thrown in money -- and a pretty small amount of it, really. I know it's supposed to make sense from a financial perspective or whatever, but emotionally it doesn't feel fair.

But hey I guess it worked, I have what feels like a small percentage and yet I'm throwing everything I have at this company. I'm likely an outlier, though. I suspect that if VCs and founders gave employees a bigger piece of the pie, they'd have a much more motivated workforce.