skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given what is currently known today (there may be more bombshells yet to come) about x86 system- and chip-level vulnerabilities, both unintentional and intentional, I'm not sure that any sane CxO would allow their data to come anywhere near the platform if they were starting all over today again from scratch. Not that I would necessarily trust any other vendor either (especially not Microsoft), but still ...

Always remember (and don't ever forget) that the only reason most of us have even heard of Intel and Microsoft is because of their relationship to IBM back in the day. They weren't chosen, nor did they ascend to great heights, based the quality of their products. Rather IBM chose them mostly for the sake of its own convenience, and then they leveraged that relationship to the hilt.
I wonder if Apple and others that can generate "soft" credit cards could make this (essentially 1 card per merchant) work pretty easily and seamlessly for consumers. I don't know what underlying infrastructure they have though, are they still heavily dependent on Visa/Mastercard/Amex networks under the hood to do the dirty work or do they have a parallel system?
So then, you agree with the last paragraph of the article?
These are some very closely held numbers, they're not going to send them to marketing to make pretty before they are released.
How do big companies stay afloat hiring whoever's left?
It's helpful feedback, and something we'd love to work towards some day. The short of it is because of Citus architecture it does require multiple underlying nodes and there is some overhead that until you get to a larger scale Citus doesn't necessarily make sense. If you've only got 10 GB of data a single node instance on RDS should suit you just fine.

We understand some of the costs of switching and have actively been working to build tools for you to plan to use something like Citus, but then migrate when the time comes. Libraries like activerecord-multi-tenant or django-multi-tenant ensure you're ready for Citus and work perfectly well on a single node Postgres database.

Then when the time comes, which could be at $100 of RDS or $500 of RDS or larger, we have Citus warp [1] that allows you in a fully online way to replicate from RDS directly into a Citus cluster. Using it we've had customers with > 4 TB of data cutover with less than a minute of impact to their database.

I know that's not as simple as starting on Citus and continuing to scale, so hopefully we can address this better in the future, but for now it's the best answer we have at the moment.

[1]. https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2017/12/08/citus-warp-pain-fr...
Wow I remember this from a few years back. I think Berkeley teaches the course in Python now.
> The flawed output here, and the comments, help us point out what some of the missing variables are: egress, airflow, construction cost, etc.

...or maybe illustrate that some of the existing external constraints are stifling architecture as a useful art form?

Modern structures have to be fully designed before they are built, whereas most traditional structures were designed and built at the same time, and the design could evolve as needed to fit the environment. Now, we do everything with straight lines because it's easier to make plans and estimate materials and communicate with builders and file for permits and verify code compliance and so on, but you can do much more interesting and complicated designs if you don't have to communicate the design with a human at every step.

I think sometime in the not-too-distant future we'll have practical machines that can construct buildings designed by software to conform to the features and limitations of the building site and the desires of the future owners. If there's no need to communicate the design to a human other than "does this rendering look good?" then we don't need right angles everywhere just to make life easy for the draftsmen and carpenters.

This seems kind of related to something Christopher Alexander said about twenty years ago (which was linked from HN recently [1]), that current design and construction methods and business models have basically made good architecture well-nigh impossible to achieve on a wide scale. I don't know what he would think of using his architectural pattern language as a set of algorithm heuristics, but it's one possible way forward.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17480178
So which is it? Do we have to carefully consider "subsidy" of some activities, or are we throwing up our hands and saying "we don't have a system in place to account for environmental impacts"? I would say economic impacts (instead of environmental) made by political decisions?

> The cost of homes is not necessarily rising but being more fairly distributed to those who choose to live in high-insurance areas.

I would dispute that claim. If a 200 year old plantation house in the south now has to be rebuilt to handle more extreme weather due to expanded areas of storm incursions are we to blame the "choice" of the current owners? This is to some degree a pretend level of market "choice" by people living in regions of the nation. What if a family has handed down that house for generations. Did they make a choice of any sort? But they'll have to bear the cost of the upgraded durability of the building beyond that of regular maintenance. Public city infrastructure is the same way - incurring completely unneccessary upgrade costs due to non-choice climate change.
I live in Mazama, Washington right on the edge of the Pasayten Wilderness (we can run from the house and be in the wilderness in a few trail miles). It is a massive, remote, beautiful place that even most people in Seattle have never heard of. There are downsides to living so remotely but the upsides far outweigh them.
Clearly, the controversy is about whether reality needs a cause in order to manifest.
To take the resistance out of change, leaders need to move beyond mass messaging
> Both the people at the Fed and mainstream economists outside have always pointed out that monetary stimulus is an extremely limited tool.

That's true, but it's also true that Bernanke and other Fed leaders were predicting that the economy was going to improve over the next few years even in 2008, when the crash was already starting. Even a limited tool can't be used properly if you don't have predictive ability.
If we did large infrastructure projects in the U.S. anymore, we could fit existing roads and highways with technology meant to communicate better with self-driving vehicles.

Our existing road signage and markings were made for humans. Instead of training software to use them, why not add ones it can better understand?
This is fantastic! I wonder what the difference is if you're just using ArbFloats.jl for a quick and easy BigFloat replacement.
Man I love these things. Back before Twitter upped their character limits, I remember a trick to cram more data in a tweet was to abuse how Twitter counts characters (it attempts to count visually rather than by byte), so by using a ton of multipart emojis or larger Unicode characters to over double the information that could fit in a tweet.
> On the other extreme, notice we don't have to post bail for a traffic ticket.

At least in CA, the money you pay before or instead of trial on a traffic ticket is a default bail, and you have the option of pleading no contest and forfeiting the bail as your fine, or you can contest the ticket. If you contest the ticket, at your arraignment you will be assessed for the need for and amount, if any, bail much as for any other offense.

http://www.courts.ca.gov/8452.htm
The weird part about it is that all of the costs that are not per-copy, like editing, don't go down as the number of copies goes up.

The author gets 10-15% of the first copy as well as the billionth copy. (Modulo the "advance", which is actually what most authors are payed for their book.)

In other words, JK Rowling's editor made bank.
Movie theaters are all scrambling to host event screenings and upgrade their seating and projectors since they're discovering people are having a better time at home for less money. The wait between theater and home availability is getting smaller and smaller, and streaming services are building a significant body of original content.

Moviepass could have a functional formula at 4 movies a month, IMO. Moviepass is the first widespread means of collecting viewer analytics across multiple theaters.

Unlimited viewing doesn't seem to fit the current landscape, even excluding the people that go and see the same movie multiple times. The studios expect to make too much money, and will only accept being boiled slowly.
When you take things out of context they often don't make sense.

The "they" in the first quote was "retailers." It was not qualified at all, so that should be all retailers around the world combined, from Alibaba to Mom's Bait Shop.

They don't provide any source for that figure, so trust it at your own risk.
Our local version of Kroger does issue its own card, but it is a Visa card. I don't know how settlement would work in their own stores, but if you were to use the card at other merchants, Visa would be getting their network fee, which can be like 3% of the transaction.
Can he vertically center a div though?
> Pretty soon we'll need some namespaces to help distinguish these things, or maybe just context

Quite the /faustian/ bargain you propose...
It's a tax efficient way to deliver value to shareholders. If you want to be an Apple shareholder, you'll definitely be happy owning a slightly larger piece of Apple. You may or may not want to own Netflix, but if you do you can already go and do that without Apple deciding for you.

The only M&A deals that I would want to see would be ones that help in their core business of selling technology to consumers. That would probably be companies no one has heard of that make and design components for future devices, semiconductor companies, etc.
I suspect Sierra Pacific [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Pacific_Industries
The author seems to be be ignoring the fact that talent is immeasurable. There's no metric by which we can truly define it. There's no way to know who "has a book in them" except by looking at who has already written books. It's ridiculous to pay attention to the self-defeating naysayers. If you have a strong enough desire to produce a book, then you've got a book "in you", and there's little sense in letting anyone tell you otherwise.

I've experienced similar conditions learning to code and write software. Some elitists have beliefs along the lines of, "if you don't already know how / if you didn't learn at a young age, then you're not a true talent, and programming is not really for you." Those kinds of people can get fucked.
That’s not what I am getting at. Apple has never produced a mainstream compelling laptop - a laptop with decent specs with a decent screen at a competitive price.

When I was in the market for a laptop in 2016, all I wanted was a Core I7, with 8GB RAM, an SSD and a 1080p display. The closest Apple had was $1600. The Dell was around $800.

Even today, if I wanted a MacBook with those specs there is nothing. The MacBook Air has anemic specs and the MacBook Pros cost a lot more - and I would still want a 5K monitor.

Luckily, I don’t have a need for a personal laptop. I’m good with getting a 5K iMac. The cost of a good 5K monitor is $1300. The 5K iMac doesn’t seem excessive.
I hope they come out with a Mac Mini with similar CPU/memory options to the 13" MBP, like they used to (generation before the one they're currently selling). Using that with either duet display or the new Luna Display and one of the new iPad Pros would be great. And it would be almost as portable as the 15" MBP.
In Australia cost is a real problem. Wages have stagnated over the last 15 years, the AU$ has fallen, but Macs have gone up in price.

A new entry level 13" MBP 16/512 is A$2,819

Factor in increased discretional spending priorities for smart phones, smart home devices and gaming PCs or Consoles and you have a market problem.

It's not an argument that Macs are expensive as such, or dont represent good value. It's just that Macs are now very expensive for Australian consumers.

Anecodtally many workplaces will now provide employees with a laptop by default, so the need for a home computer is significantly reduced for some people. If you have a family, then a gaming PC or a console is what the Kids want, not a Mac.
This is par for the course with the Wall Street Journal. The past couple articles have been flagged here for being purposely misleading like this.
A passive receiver with absolutely zero emission would allow to listen to pilots communications from the seat and would be easy to build. Listening to the tower once in air unfortunately would not be possible (as with any radio operated in seat) - an external antenna would be necessary for that.
The problem with any custom built receiver is however its appearance: a strange electronic device which would probably raise alerts at any inspection, so the diy solution would hardly be doable for use in flight.

But if one can get an old analog FM radio, something can be done eaasily. The air radio band (118 to 136 MHz) is just above the FM broadcast band (76 or 88 to 108 MHz), and airliners use AM modulation rather than FM, but old consumer radio FM demodulators demodulate AM as well, so all one needs to do is retuning the radio on airband frequencies. This can be done by altering some values in the frontend and local oscillator LC stages, but sometimes is enough just to widen the oscillator coil to tune the radio a few MHz up. Nobody should object if you listen to an old FM pocket radio with headphones from your seat.

https://hooktube.com/watch?v=5kvxjNeWMxs
Except that iOS blows away ChromeOS and Google’s half assed approach refusing to have a competent approach to tablets...so maybe it’s a bit more than whatever that unnecessarily disclaimer is saying.
Maybe. If the model were changed so that people scheduled rides ~15 mins in advance and met for pickup/dropoff at a semi-centralized location.
Yeah, but drop the 4TB hard drive for a 1TB hard drive, and you're down to $3,899.00, which is just about what you asked for - $2,800 less. That $3000 is just for the insanely large hard drive and, from what I've read, that price increase just about matches up with the rest of the market.
> On the other hand posting a dodgy opinion on facebook et al largely removes you from the social and physical consequences of saying things that are way outside of societal norms.

I get what you're saying here, but the sheer number of idiots "fired for saying X on facebook" makes me think it's not true. It lowers the barrier for saying something and increases your audience reach... but also lowers the mental barrier for saying the wrong thing or someone hypersensitive hearing it.

Have you ever investigated how speech is regulated in other countries? I'm Australian and we have a number of restrictions that make speech 'unfree' in the American sense. But I think they're appropriate and on the whole balanced well.
Well it's pretty obvious that Wikileaks is compromised. Question is who will step into the breach. Because whilst the dry still might release valuable information it will now be tainted with "but what did they leave out". I guess that's a universal journalistic issue (I'm not here to debate if leaking raw documents is journalism). Who do you trust?
...though the original headline is itself incorrect. The analysis excludes Alaska.

"Most Remote Spots in USA Wilderness Complexes" should read "Most Remote spots in the Wilderness Complexes of the US Lower 48"

From the article's fine print:

> Alaska is excluded from this analysis, since the scale and character of wilderness there is simply very different than in the “Lower 48”. If Alaska wilderness areas were part of this project, the most remote spot would be in the middle of the Mollie Beattie Wilderness of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the eastern Brooks Range, with an inscribed circle radius of 42.75 miles. Ironically, however, rules for wilderness in Alaska are different, and airplane landings are permitted in most areas. So in some ways you are more remote in the Thorfare area of Wyoming.
I've noticed this as well. The trick is to _remove your credit card_ from your Amazon account. It significantly reduces the "traps" and prevents them from automatically subscribing you to Prime. I now purchase Amazon Gift cards instead (also, free shipping when using a gift card).
Bitcoin moves up on big news(not one loan blogger but I think your kidding here) like the SEC reviewing ETF stuff and Coinbase pondering about adding more coins. That was two weeks ago and I feel those two things pushed Bitcoin from $6500 to $8500.

Then I read the Winklevoss twins ETF was rejected by the SEC and knew that $8500 was going to slide back down which it’s down to $7500 now.
At this point Amazon is a monopoly. And this is exactly why monopolies don't work. Self-regulation does not work.

"With great power comes great responsibility" --> We humans only like the power part.

Every monopoly that ever existed abuses its monopolistic power for its own benefit.
I may have mentioned this before, but that's not what publishers said in the '90s, when book prices were increasing rather quickly. Then, it was "paper is costing more and more!"

And, of course, editing and typesetting are done once and should be a flat fee, not a percentage of profits.

Finally, "marketing" is something that doesn't seem to happen to most authors.
You mean the A to A cables that warn that you may damage your computer if you connect two computers? Or the A to A “cables” that are actually a tiny device that relays data between two computers?
I know it's all more complicated than this, but why can't we start with mandating by law maximum prices for things like medication and operations? We all know that these things can be wayyy overpriced compared to other countries, why can't we have a neutral body in charge of setting and keeping prices up to date? If a company decides to not provide medications or operations at that set price, could you not just have companies bid for a price?
I've done a lot of expedition-style driving (can't stand the words "expedition" and "overlanding" as they are used today) and that straight line distance is very deceiving. I've been to many places that are many more that 115 road-miles from a McDonald's. A few places come to mind: deep in the southern part of the Owyhee Desert along the NV/ID border (one of the least-populated places in the Lower 48), and out in the Wah Wah Mountains [0] of southern Utah.

There are some photos of these places on my IG: https://instagram.com/desertdefender

[0] https://instagram.com/p/BjRFEeZDxBI/
One situation I found where AWS saves money is in over-capacity situations. If the a company builds a data center that is too large, they are incurring costs for under-utilization. Paying a 50% premium on 100% of resources might still be better than paying 0% premium on 200% of resources. The cloud versus on-premise discussion has many variables, so it all depends on the situation.
Heh, I can imagine him in front of some whiteboard, while some interviewer dude is like...
"uh... the candidate does not even understand the basic WebPack.keepCompatWithWebPack0.1.11='comp,3t,all'.
And I am not even joking. What's next, the candidate cannot count?
If you don't know the basics, what good can you do? No hire.
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Indeed. I recently picked up a used 2012 rMPBP i7 and I dont really find myself waiting for anything.

Photoshop and iMovie for instance all work fine. As ever XCode compilling could be faster, as could rendering iMovie videos.

But really, it's fine.

GPU sucks though. And I wish I had TB3.
At Citus we tend to focus on two use cases:

1. Analytical, but less data warehousing and more of a HTAP (hybrid transactional/analytical processing). In this case you're often ingesting a lot of data, often times sensor or log data from many endpoints, and then providing analytics across that data. The analytics needs to be up to date within minutes, and responsiveness of reports within seconds. You can see how Algolia (which powers the search for HN) uses Citus for this in their blog post - https://blog.algolia.com/building-real-time-analytics-apis/

2. Transactional. For a couple of years now Citus has had full transactional support when targeting a single node. Single node transactions can actually cover a breadth of use cases because it can span across tables as long as tables are co-located within the same node. We often see this is the case for multi-tenant/SaaS applications. In recent releases we also added support for distributed transactions. These transactions do have a higher overhead, but can often be hard to detangle from an existing application, thus us building support for distributed deadlock detection then adding distributed transactions.

Generally we're continuing to improve and support both of those use cases and have our usage base actually pretty evenly split between the two.
The male to male cable to transfer between machines probably has a device with two slave ports in it. There's EE reasons, as well as protocol reasons why just plugging two hosts into each other is a bad idea (and fixing that was most of the work behind USB OTG).

Female to female is fine, because there shouldn't be a host with a male end that isn't OTG.

And beyond that, there totally exist the banned adapters (C female to A male) but that has more to do with the fact that you can get anything from China, regardless of trademark infringement.
Elections come and go, the interests of the state remain the same regardless of whom is sat on the throne.

However there are differences of opinion on the interests of the state, do you mean citizens or those that are controlling and manipulating the elected representatives? These latter folk are known as the 'deep state' although on HN the correct terminology is the 'military industrial complex'. Under normal circumstances the deep pockets of the 'deep state' back both sides of the house with contributions to both the liberal and conservative sides. No matter who gets in they have people in their pocket to further their interests and project their interests as the national interest.

The rest of the world determines who the outside enemy is supposed to be. A resurgent Russia is the current enemy, although first among many with China, axis of evil states Iran and North Korea also at the top of this very long list. In reality nobody wants to be an enemy, the enemy has to be imagined and incited into being the enemy.

With the last election no matter who won the interests of the deep state had put in the groundwork to be able to blame Russia for meddling in the result. The candidate and political party were immaterial, whatever the outcome there would be proof of Russian interference. Had the world situation been different then there would have been proof in this post truth age that China, Iran, North Korea, you name it had been meddling.

Domestically this works well as much squabbling goes on at a belief rather than a fact-based level as to whether or not the Russians did interfere. It all depends whom you get your news from. It is like a wedge strategy all over again.

The wedge strategy was used to get people talking about whether 'Creationism' should be taught in schools, meanwhile vast cuts to science funding were made and nobody talked about that because they had such strong opinions of freedom as applied to schools and 'Creationism'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedge_strategy
No idea on the cost of this but I always thought it would be neat if we had heated roads (you can get your driveway heated). That would solve the ground visibility problem, the need for snowplows/salt and save tons of money that is normally spent on cleaning up/repairing accidents. It also might get rid of potholes caused by freezing ice saving on maintenance.