skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would very much like to have something like Google authenticator, but for billing. With the ability so set it as alarms on my phone (and coworkers), preferably with some smarts to detect short usage spikes.

In essence, settings and updating amount, rate and velocity ( speed of rate change ) caps on the fly.

Then I can set whatever tight limit I want to, and not worry about burning through too much cash because of some simple coding, or config error.

A bug almost cost us several tens of thousands of BigQuery costs when a dev accidentally repeated a big query every 5 seconds in an automated script, and while we still had budget warnings, it still cost us a fair bit of money. Even after this, I found it tricky to set/catch budgets for single services. I think I had to use stackdriver to be able to get any kind of warning.

It was in the ’blinking lights and sirens’- territory fast!
Parents are now hiring Fortnite coaches for their children
> It is up there in the rules.

It wasn't always, and it's quite an exceptional standard, compared to the rest of the site.

> Maybe the right forum would be GlassDoor?

Unfortunately, Glassdoor has no facility for discussion.

Moreover, HN mods haven't come out and stated outright that this category of conversation isn't welcome anywhere on HN, though the implicit global censoriship is hard to ignore.
I must admit these days i'm really preferring Qt over GTK. It's come a long way since I started using Linux. I remember looking at LXQt back when it was first released and found it fairly interesting but nowhere near developed enough for daily use. I always liked XFCE but found it lacking in customization and kind of buggy at the time I used it. Though it did keep my laptop going after a hardrivr failure running partitioned across 4 USB drives until I got a new one.

It's cool to see LXQt in a state where lubuntu is adopting it as it's primary environment.
Landlords make a profit so they are apparently throwing less money out the window than the renters.
So what is their product? Can't read spanish, and don't use chrome for translate.
I'm not a huge gamer anymore but...isn't the main bottleneck for running AAA gaming at high settings the GPU?
Your FastAI criticism isn't really accurate, as FastAI is free online courseware. I suppose you could claim that jhoward makes his living from his personal brand, and FastAI helps that... but that's a bit of a stretch.

It would be much more valid if they were a business, rather than an open source software and free course solution. Even as a competitor, it's probably useful criticism to get a negative perspective from a competitor.
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Please don't be rude.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you did something dumb enough to get such negative feedback, at least you can learn something. No feedback or generic too-nice feedback is worse - no one cares!
Landlords are only making a profit because of the exceptional last couple of years in California.
I will bet you that if you take a mortgage today, you will most probably not make a profit vs renting.
I've been using a tablet with active stylus for a while now and wanted to improve my handwriting, specifically to make it less tiring. I learned some great pointers on this site, "Tips for improving your handwriting":
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No, it shows "$600,043,603". Where do you see "mil"?

But OK, I didn't get that "COP" is Colombian Peso :(

And there's another image that shows total collected as "USD $244,875". The ratio is 2450, which is close enough to the exchange rate.
The median home price in SF is $1.6M. At median SWE salary in SF, the mortgage is >70% of your take-home pay assuming an improbably large 25% downpayment ($400k). More realistic assumptions put it at ~85% of take-home.

Perpetuating myths about lattes, (or avocado toast[1]) does nobody any good; they are not the reason homes are unaffordable. Homes are unaffordable due to insane zoning policy and Prop 13.

[1]: https://money.cnn.com/2017/05/15/news/millennials-home-buyin...
Medical science in Science-Fiction has progressed so much that requiring a wheelchair is as likely as rubbing two sticks together for producing energy. And stairs are always much more pleasant than ramps, so will be around long after ramps have been relegated to the realm of buggy-whips.
Well, since Firebase has lowered the barrier of entry with their easy setups, I think it is justified to expect at least some developers to make mistakes.

I don't blame Firebase at all though -- great product.
This looks really promising. Amazing work! I hope this will catch on, so it can be improved even more.
It was at What The Fungus - you can check them out on youtube
The Y axis of the graph which actually has relevant information. You are looking at a campaign page, and assuming those Colombian pesos are available to the author’s team.

When you said “the image” I thought you were looking at the right one, and I thought it odd you were off several orders of magnitude from what I assumed to be your misunderstanding. That explains that. I had to go back and find your figure.
> It won't be long until my primary gaming rig is ten years old, and it's more than capable of everything I throw at it. The upgrade cycle is essentially dead.

Not really for GPUs though. AMD progressed a lot and all the new features are landing in amdgpu, not in radeon. That's important especially for Vulkan support. Older GPUs are locked out of that completely.

CPU progress is less rapid, but something like Ryzen is quite a breakthrough.
I used to rent in Sunnyvale. After a few good years, the complex was sold and the new owners set about renovating the place. Contractors entered my home while I was at work, while I was asleep, while I was getting dressed, to install appliances I did not want or have space for. That's what drove me to buy.

Home ownership ought not to be a goal in itself, but it's much more than just a financial investment. It's about autonomy in your living space.
Writing this comment on a 4th gen Core-i5 laptop running Lubuntu booted into RAM. UX is just incredibly responsive. Up since Jun 1. And would probably run forever ;)

But into the future I am very interested in restoring older laptops with ChromeOS / Neverware. Especially if they meet the requirements for running the Android / Linux container and studio. By mid-2020's chromebooks could account for 5% of global pc market share.
TFA doesn't differentiate between types of emotion. What if it's anger, exasperation, or some other negative emotion?

I've worked with people who tended to display these emotions when making decisions, interacting with people, and carrying out their work. Far from persuading me, it was more likely to make me think that the quality of their decision-making (and other aspects of their work) was compromised.
I’m curious in your path. What made you decide to get an MBA being an engineer, and what are you doing now with that degree?
Recent Changelog podcast featuring Tim Bell and focused on CS Unplugged, https://changelog.com/podcast/302.
Nerdwallet has a rent vs buy calculator you can use. It still makes sense to buy in the Bay area if you can afford the payment. Break even is about 6 years on buy vs rent. 2 million dollar house with 20% down vs ~10-14k in rent for the equivalent.
One of my friends was saying how her old Mac Pro with dual X5670 CPUs was one of the fastest machines for video transcoding she ever saw. That's a little bit less than ten years old but still older than Sandy Bridge. Someone did the math and it turns out today a top consumer (not HEDT) CPU barely matches this pair of CPUs in multithread performance https://hardforum.com/threads/replacing-dual-x5670.1963388/#... Obviousy since we are talking of 8 new cores matching 12 old cores the single thread performance will be 50% faster.

Wait, what? 50% faster? Is that all? I mean, many tasks are still single threaded and from 2010 to 2018 we have grown 50% in single thread and 100% in multithread? If things were going the "old way" then in 8 years would've seen a 2^(8/1.5) -- well over thirty times speedup (Moore's law as stated by David House who predicted that chip performance would double every 18 months). You can see some of that http://3dfmaps.com/CPU/cpu.htm here.

No wonder there's no point focusing on old CPUs any more.
> Photo/Image Search

It’s nice but … I still have to scroll about 15 pages into “cat” to see a picture which isn’t my dog. I’m receptive to the argument that this is more an advertising/ positioning move than a major advance.
https://snips.gitbook.io/documentation/installing-snips/on-a...
This book gives you a coherent view of computation. It's not just a turing machine that keeps munching instructions. I think this book takes a more dataflow-centric approach. Some people would love it, and I agree this is a good introduction for early CS students. It is focused and compact. That said, I think the enthusiasm surrounding this book is a little bit cult-like. Reading this book doesn't necessarily make you a good programmer, because being a good programmer requires much, much more than having a good understanding of computation. And when you disregard the practical aspect of programming, people will probably find you a bit pedantic.
“But their Robin Hood plan went awry, creating mass devastation.“

The Left defined in a single sentence.
Most everything we do with computers in the modern world uses the network. If software is insecure -- is it really usable? Is it really reliable? I'd pretty strongly argue that the answer to both questions is no :).
I'm doing this with neverware now, they just landed crostini in the dev release, but they've natively supported flatpak and docker for a while now. It's good stuff!
Parents chipping in down payment is certainly more prevalent in Australia and Canada than in California.
I'm not suggesting that. For a lot of casual users I'm not sure that cloud services are necessarily the best approach for an externally-facing service. They may well be better with a VPS that has a hard resources/dollar limit.

Perhaps cloud providers should have some sort of hard circuit breaker option (though it won't help for some things like storage) but it's probably not a priority as not a lot of businesses--their primary customers--would be OK with effectively hitting the power button for their entire cloud account if they exceed some dollar amount that someone or other configured a couple of years ago.
You just need an umbrella policy for personal liability.
The fact that there is a lot of student debt does not mean that a meltdown is coming. The housing market crash was so significant because of the amount of leverage that was in the system (and how obfuscated it was).

There leverage in the student loan market is much lower for the time being.
At least we got an educated thief.
yes, there are a couple intangibles that cannot be calculated. The downside of that is that your investment is illiquid and that it becomes way more difficult to move.
looking forward to it!
Agreed on Neverware. It's an absolute dream to hand over an old machine with Neverware installed to a relative with modest tech needs. It's very fast, and I don't get tech support calls any more. Win-win.
It seems you didn't read the comment I was responding to?

In it, Nokinside claimed that Warren is an expert in Economics due to her academic career. That's what I'm arguing against.

I of course agree that people from any background, including Warren's, can make claims about Economics that should be discussed on their merits, not dismissed (or accepted...) because of the speaker's academic background.
> most people just want to drop a dataset and pick the type of model (say, multiclass image classification) and leave the rest for machines to optimize.

I think the disconnect here is that you can reuse existing architectures and get state-of-the-art performance without running something like AutoML. It's not clear that creating a bespoke architecture for your specific problem is always better, let alone always a good use of your resources.
The Wikipedia page about General Magic draws this comparison between GM and Fairchild:

> Magic's engineering team is viewed as one of the most talented in the Valley's history, and Magic is generally seen as the Fairchild of mobile, social and ecommerce—the fountain from which much of today's smartphone and online communication and commerce technology sprang, just as Fairchild Semiconductor spawned Intel, National Semiconductor, AMD and the rest of the Valley's semiconductor industry.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Magic#Legacy
Wow! Marie Antoinette's writing is a work of art. Beautiful.
Firefox has extensions available by default on Android. I use Ublock Origin & HTTPS everywhere. I wouldn't call it the "default browser", but it's...Firefox. I wouldn't exactly call it hard either since you just browse to the normal Firefox extension page and click the install button.

Google does do everything in its power to prevent me from using Firefox though.
What a great interview. @slap_shot, you had great questions and you are so well spoken. Really appreciate the feedback. We're all taking notes here. Hope you will keep an eye on our issue tracker for Meltano and give us your feedback as things come up.
Everything in the consumer electronics industry is relatively weak compared to the success of the iPhone...
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you insured yourself against the risk of being priced out, but you now face another huge risk: If there is a big tech crash in the coming years, you might lose your job and still be liable on a Mortgage for a home that lost half of its value.
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When you have an unexplained performance problem, your response shouldn't be to "upgrade every single framework and plugin" that you use. The 36 hours that they spent doing this cost them $21,600 dollars on GCP and didn't solve their users' problem.

Understand the services you depend on. Track the number of requests you're making to them, how long they're taking, and how many are failing. Reason through your system and look at the data when you have issues, rather than grasping at straws.
I, for one, welcome our new Robotic Overlords
>"I totally agree that taxi companies were colluding with government to create regulatory capture that was deservedly busted by innovation, but lots of families have been hurt by the drop in medallion prices."

Why should investing upwards of a million dollars or more in a taxi medallion be treated differently than any other large investment with real risks involved? So when were profits from these medallions those were private but now that there's risk it should be socialized?
> Foreign intervention with the clear aim of causing political rift doesn’t care about party lines other than the fact that they can be used to manufacture outrage and division.

Putin said in Helsinki that he favoured Trump and directed his officials to help Trump. This was not a non-partisan issue. They wanted Trump, and causing chaos was one of the features which likely attracted them to Trump.
Could you expand on that analogy? I'm not sure if a one-model fits-all is comparable to a one-optimizer-fits-all. Wouldn't that be an argument against transfer learning, since we don't have a universal programming language and thus there does exist multiple compilers?
No. She felt it was weird and invasive.
Fast checksum computation
Timoreilly: Big money can only win against other big money
I miss AdAway. I really need to root my Pixel, but the new filesystem setup they're using scares me away from rooting.
Who are the founders? Investors? I'm not able to find a single person who works there on LinkedIn either. On the surface it looks like you're harvesting leads for talent/recruiting.
I always loved Qt as a developer and hated it as a user. Every app/desktop environment written in it seem buggy and expensive on RAM.

On the other side, I always loved GTK apps and their feel/design, but never got to make anything big myself in GTK.

There are other points to this debate than RAM/Resources: Looks and feel, philosophy, feature bloatedness, etc.
This is great benchmark of the fundamental problems with say Java - the code itself is fairly simple and the JITs probably generate optimal code given their constraints, but the performance problems clearly show that the GC and pointer chasing really hinder your performance.

If you add in cases where simd, software prefetching, or memory access batching help, the difference will only grow.
Take a look at OpenBSD as well. I've had nothing but stability and fantastic documentation since switching over.
Ah, I didn't look closely at the charges graph. So yes, it maxed at ~5000 USD per day.

I gotta say that using "$" for both USD and COP is confusing. So you must say "USD $x" and "COP $x". Then why bother with the "$"?
Alternatively you could find a rent-controlled apartment/condo/whatever, and use its benefits while you invest in real estate elsewhere.
Wow one of my favorite FLOSS developers replied to me! Hopefully they (lineageos) adopt it, it would be a HUGE improvement over the native android VPN options and openvpn.
I hadn't heard of Neverware before, so thanks for that. It looks like it's the Chromebook OS, does it force you to use the Google apps? Basically, is it usable without a Google account?
a (cost) cap is a feature designed to prevent you from going bankrupt but at the expense of not recovering from the surge after you deplete the cap until the end of the cap granularity.

So, if the cost cap is defined as $n per day, once you deplete it you'll be down for the rest of the day (or if you take some manual action to increase the cap, if the cloud provider supports it).

This problem is a function of the granularity. Imagine a system that let you say:

"I want to spend max $n per second with a extra burst of $m per day/week"

You adjust your "$n" to match the throughput you'd have if you had a fixed size "pay what you provision" system and reserve $m for lucky events as landing on HN.

The amount of planning you have to do is similar to the traditional resource allocation, but with the benefit of paying less than provisioned if you're not getting all that traffic.
Actually, I think my concerns aren't the utilitarian ones, even if I want to acknowledge the validity of those concerns.

I'm more interested in the deontic more something along the lines of the deontic idea that we should understand folks in the way that they understand themselves.

I'm with you on the idea that we shouldn't assume folks are evil and that we should always try and understand them in te way they understand themselves.

But I'm often finding myself working with and communicating with narcissistic people wholly lack that ability to see other people as having thoughts and motivations which are different from their own.

In these cases, I suppose evil is just too strong a word... there are levels of understanding people that I try to filter out, specifically the dialectic between how they understand themselves and what I should take away from that understanding.

So, at some point, I feel like we have to go beyond simply being agnostic about how people see themselves... of course we all see ourselves as driving as best we can. And we need to develop the empathy you're describing and understand the real differences between how we see things.

But beyond that, I'm having a hard time with the idea that we're all just morally neutral actors who all see ourselves as doing the best we can, and I feel like if I can better understand why we might have a real ethical obligation to respect others' epistemic situations I'll have a better understanding of my own ethics... and I guess that was what I was hoping for:

what's the underlying argument that we should attempt this ethical stance of respecting others beyond the pragmatic, utilitarian reasons that seem far more obvious.
> Reason through your system

modern stacks have a huge opacity problem, everyone wants to be magic, and everyone fails. abstractions make reasoning harder, what tools and techniques would you suggest for doing this?

I'd probably run the application in some sort of sandbox and measure the outbound request load vs inbound request load, something a containerized deployment should be giving the end user (developer) as an affordance for application maintenance and visibility. Differential analysis and graphing built directly into the execution substrate.

Judge away!
I do pay Google exactly $120/year: I have my own GSuite Business account.

Think I can get them to stop datamining/tracking me?
Off Topic.

If one is interested in Romanian TV shows...

"Comrade Detective" was a pretty good show.

There's a dubbed version available on Amazon IIRC.
Can you share a picture of your dog?

Disclosure: I do work for Google Cloud, but all I'm here for is to see if that dog does look like a cat.
I don't see how Magic Leap and General Magic have anything in common besides the name and the eventual failure. Magic Leap hasn't innovated anything new compared to the HoloLens or other AR devices (see Leap Motion's AR device), while General Magic seemed to have pioneered portable touch screen communication devices.
> The upgrade cycle is essentially dead.

It's terrible that we can't count on computers getting twice as fast every year any more. I guess it couldn't last for ever...
>Well, in this case the investments were originally sold by the city, based on the promise that the city would use its authority to maintain their scarcity .."

Where was that promise codified?
But did you see the slow down in the request to firebase before going to upgrade frameworks?
I wish they rewrote this using Python code.

Maybe someone can take up the mantle on that.
Microsoft came out with a competing technology in that timeframe called 'Microsoft Pen Computing' as a direct response to the hype around General Magic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_for_Pen_Computing