skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great case study in niche sales. You see this pop up in small online businesses. The one risk right now that is pointedly raised here is that the niche is, unfortunately, young execs in the 80s - they are aging now!

Very cool business study about delivering perceived value.
Are Windows desktops still running vulnerability-riddled network services? (For what?) Otherwise, how does something like this affect an entire organization at once?
Note this is about Cloud Firestore, not Firebase RTDB. It's very different infra. We announced our beta limits increased to 1M concurrent connections at the Next 18 conference, and we'll continue to improve from there.
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ReplyAll has a whole episode dedicated to the subject https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/119-no-more-safe-harbo...
If the visual cortex were a machine model, people would be complaining about how we can't explain it and how it's a dangerous black box. They'd probably tout the many optical illusions as demonstrations of this danger.

Yet we don't demand that other humans explain how their visual cortex work. There is a double standard here.
> Smart Reply, WaveNet, Translate, Speech Recognition, RankBrain, Photo/Image Search, Retinal diagnosis, Waymo (soon), and numerous other components that are used in Android and the Assistant.

These aren't examples of just productionizing a PhD thesis - they're thoughtfully designed products that solve a real problem.

Unfortunately we've watched as many ML PhD graduates launch startups which are little more than an API wrapped around the key algorithm from their thesis. These startups nearly always fail, because they don't actually address a market need.

> The only way to know if someone will be successful is to try it and let it succeed or fail in the marketplace.

There are many ways to estimate potential market size, product-market fit, etc ahead of time. They're not perfect, but they're a lot better than nothing.
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Go does this for its native map (dictionary) type. https://codereview.appspot.com/7543043
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So what's a dollar to an average Indian whatsapp user. An hour's wage, a day, week?
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>but I can say that we have the same thing happening with 16.04

Yes, 16.04 (unity 7) is peak desktop for years to come. Nothing else works quite as well for me. Luckily, you can use unity 7 with 18.04 without too much friction.
or "TM3"? There could conceivably be other Tesla models with 3 in the name, like versions of the Roadster or X (though we'll be in real naming trouble if Tesla releases an "X3"!)
Todo such a thing in Africa with its family free loader culture without solving this problem first honestly seems like entrapment.
> cascade of architecture-specific functions is done as ifdefs within one
file, so that it's easy and obvious and clear what's happening...

Not in my opinion, having an arch ifdefs makes things much less clear as I effectively have to parse the ifdefs within the code while trying to understand what it's doing, compound that with n arch specific optimizations and it quickly grows out of hand. An arch over-ride file (e.g. $arch/foo.[cs] over-rides dir/foo.c) is much easier to read.
"isolate" here I meant prevent one process's IO from affecting another one
This sentiment I do not understand.

Scheme, especially the subset used in SICP, is about the simplest language you can have in programming. It was meant to be understood by freshmen with no prior exposure to programming (while incidentally being a more expressive language than mainstream ones, including Python). Is it so hard to spend the couple of minutes it takes for a person who's already a programmer on understanding the language used in this book? Is it so appalling to read a syntax more consistent than you're used to?

Way to miss the point of the book. But a surprisingly common one.
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I was an OS/2 guy at the time of Bob, so I never used it. But what I see reminds me of a modern upgrade of Commodore’s 1983 Magic Desk.

http://toastytech.com/guis/magdesk.html
I use twilio to send myself SMS notifications programmatically, such as when a multi-hour compilation completes, when DNS for a particular domain has propagated, or when my crawler detects that a new job had been posted to a local company's website. These notifications make my life easier, but my privacy isn't protected with SMS.

I would much prefer to have these messages delivered over signal than over SMS. I hope twilio will also consider signal messenger integration in the future.
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Thanks, will follow this (we package Matrix for B2B)
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I still picture Tim ripping a phone book in half over and over every time I think about binary search. I assumed that's how they taught it everywhere else
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> I felt like there was just too much of a mismatch with the rest of the FOSS GUI ecosystem.

Definitely. It probably has the largest mismatch outside of exotic options like, I don’t know, a Smalltalk image.

I think that’s why the Free *nix desktop struggles to this day. We never built the core infrastructure that allowed useful inter-application messaging. We never built the application frameworks to enable a really great, consistent UX. When we finally did, we built dconf and systemd.

I can’t say these things are horrible, but neither can I say they offer anything more than macOS’s system services or Cocoa APIs. And the price of being different, is that macOS is far and away the best GUI platform today (I’m not a fan of the Mac these days for other reasons, but the UI consistency is first rate, owing to their frameworks and the NeXT legacy). We could have shared (maybe still could share) so much with the Mac. And importantly, we could have benefited from Apple’s singular vision while also providing an escape from the walled garden.

But yeah, the FOSS GUI ecosystem chased FVWM bling for a long time. Oh my goodness, I spent hours tweaking FVWM configs, later Window Maker, Enlightenment, and who knows what else. But it was all skin-deep looks. We spent so long chasing window themes, but ignoring the hard work of building infrastructure.

KDE and Gnome were ultimately late, divisive, and different from everything else. So much of Linux and the BSDs is great, it bums me to see us so far behind Apple, when we could have chased tail lights until we overtook them.
I think BETA comes close, but it never made it into mainstream.
The link posted is talking about the Firestore and not the Real Time. Firestore is in beta state that has a beta limit of 100k sim. connections, probably off beta it will be able to handle more connections. The Real Time has 100K limit and is a centralized db.
This changed 24 hours ago.
> Journalism is not a winner take all environment

So? I'm not sure how this means that news orgs won't suffer from losing business to competitors with superior tracking.

> Newspapers were surviving in online media well before this tracking was around

Markets change. Advertisers have different expectations. Readers have more news to choose from. This is a silly argument.

> The NYT already has sufficiently many inefficiencies that if they actually cared about user privacy, they could trim the fat elsewhere

Sure, but why? Why would they do that? Why wouldn't they trim the fat elsewhere AND keep the tracking to make more money?

The point you make doesn't really make sense. Yeah, it's theoretically possible for news orgs to stop tracking in the same way that it's theoretically possible for me to take out a knife right now and cut off my legs. News orgs can make up their losses elsewhere and survive in the same way that I can still get around with a wheelchair.

But why on earth would I or the NYT do that?

I respond to you with these questions because it seems to me that both you and the OP speak out against these practices because you feel they are unnecessary. My point is that they are necessary. You just don't acknowledge the forces that make them so.
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Thanks to both of you for your time doing that discussion!

@slap_shot and anyone else — I'm curious if you have thoughts on, or even have heard of the Ballerina language? It's a programming language for doing data integration work, built by the ESB/integration consultancy WSO2. It seems to have a lot of eng resources sunk into it but surprisingly little fanfare.

The CEO's interview with the Software Engineering Daily podcast was great: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2018/07/12/ballerina-la...

The language site tends toward buzzword-salad, but clearly has had a lot of love and thought put into it: https://ballerina.io/philosophy/
CDs? I had 7 floppies for Doom. And I bought a sound card!
See also the adendums at https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2450387?hl=en

These likely supercede Google's license.
But is it the best use for the engineer's time?
Does the engineer want to talk to a bunch of strangers every ..say.. week?
Sounds awesome, but they let you have peanut butter in schools? In Australia nuts are banned in primary schools due to nut allergies.
I think "try-anything" would be a better characterization in this case. They had smoke pouring out of the engine and tried changing the tire.
When I was 12 it was C64.
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I increasingly feel that modern pay-as-you-go services are so opaque to consumers that it takes the individual employee's empathy (highly subjective) or the publicity like this (highly subjective and you have to be lucky as well) to fix any significant problem. Every time a post like this with a "happy" ending crawls into the HN front page, there would be hundreds or maybe thousands of "unhappy" endings out there.
Is there some resemblance with Floydhub http://floydhub.com/ ?
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Isn't this the one which starts every single product description with some version of "the world's best (object which does this thing)"?
Uber and Lyft offered to bail out struggling taxi drivers, New York City said no
"NYC policy is what allowed the medallions to be so artificially inflated in the first place."

You seem to be missing a bit of history.

It sounds like you are unaware that the original call for regulation of the taxi industry was by the taxi drivers themselves. Yes, the passage of the Haas act in 1937. During the Depression there were far more drivers than there was demand for taxis. This resulted an abundance of "wildcat" cab drivers who were threatening the livelihood of legitimate taxi drivers.[1][2]

>"Now that the market collapsed it's the moral thing to do not only to liberalize the medallion restrictions but repay those who were hurt the most."

Lastly the overwhelming majority of medallions are leased out as part of "fleets." The people that have been "hurt" the most have been the drivers who are required to lease the cab for a 12 hour shift for $130 and are also responsible for paying the insurance and gas on top of it. This is basically a feudal system where medallion owners are lords and the actual taxi driver is a serf.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/11/nyregion/medallion-limits...

[2] http://www.nyc.gov/html/media/totweb/taxioftomorrow_history_...
Yup, they were doing the hard part of making application frameworks and consistent APIs, and were always deferring window dressing. By contrast, old school FVWM and later Enlightenment were pushing limits of themability without really building anything of substance beyond literal window dressing.

No reason GNUStep couldn’t be as beautiful as anything else. Oddly, I find the NeXT aesthetic oddly fresh looking today. I was struck by how good it looked when I took a trip to the Living Computer Museum and played on their NeXT cube. What’s old is new I guess.

Still, not supporting themes from the getgo was definitely a reason GNUStep didn’t get traction early on, I’d
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The banks do loan to the poor (especially if you do some cup-tricks hide the risk ) , there is even the Leeman bro Festival (found in 2008) to celebrate that.

Unless there is a stronger filter or behavioral incentive e a repetition during this generation, which should wish for a shrinking economy to save the planet, seems unlikely.
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Are you... in the JS ecosystem yourself?

I used to be in the Java ecosystem, the C# ecosystem, the PHP ecosystem... and I could have made the statement "the most professional cluelessness I’ve ever encountered was in the X ecosystem."

I think it's just an industry thing.
Oh come on. Tech does not need barriers to entry. It just needs debugging and improving one's code to also have a low barrier to entry.
I don’t see why this is being downvoted. The title of the post should be changed to “We were given a $30k credit by GCP after not monitoring our account charges”
SSDs aren't as easy to model as spinning drives, but either way, it depends on your use case. Definitely get as much data from others as possible, but very few people will be running the same use cases as you.

You can probably figure out the general class of storage you need / can afford, which is interface and bits per cell, but then you probably need to try several well regarded drives (or several dodgy drives, if that's what you can afford) to see how they work for you. Or just go with whatever your hosting provider can supply ;)
As one of those amateur developers who publishes to Hackernoon, it's because they change titles to fit their "How to" type articles + grab attention.
>That you cannot buy a license to MacOS is actually proof for my claims. Another fact is that you cannot run MacOS on non-Apple hardware.

Given that you were running Windows on your Mac, I gather that your argument is more one related to the licensing issues of running macOS on non-Apple hardware, rather than an argument that it isn't technically possible. In any case, there is this. Curious how the project will be impacted by these new changes. From the article, it seems that in No Security mode the bootloader may be modifiable in the ways that it needs to be for modifications like Clover to work.

Clover EFI bootloader
https://sourceforge.net/projects/cloverefiboot/

Features

Boot OS X, Windows, and Linux in UEFI or legacy mode on Mac or PC with UEFI or BIOS firmware

Boot using UEFI firmware directly or CloverEFI UEFI firmware emulation
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I would have gladly paid $1/month instead ($12/year) even just to avoid ads infecting the app which I use most on my phone. All of my family, relatives, and friends are on WhatsApp and every type (call, video or message) of communication happens through WhatsApp but this constant pressure of putting ads in the product from Facebook is something I don't like.
I guess there are people who have sunlight allergies. Wanna ban sunlight in australian schools?
>"Because we can be better human beings by helping each other."

There have been 3 restaurants on my block that have opened and failed inn the last 18 months. Shouldn't we help them too by your logic? Should the city council pass legislation?

>"But should the result of it be their lives ruined because "you lost the game, screw you"?

Yeah that's a false equivalence. Empathy and bailouts are not the same things at all. I can have empathy and be against a bailout and that doesn't amount to me saying "screw you" to anyone.
> How does anyone justify this risk?

I'm more concerned about the risk mitigation strategies (capping) I'm seeing advocated.

If your servers being pegged you've only got a few customers missing out while it's pegged, maybe even everyone getting service but sub-optimally. You can ride out the wave and everything goes back to normal.

Putting caps in place is like pulling the plug out of the server after the CPU has been at 100% for 5 minutes and not plugging it in until the next billing cycle.
Hey, even C contains a locale-dependent string comparison, namely `strcoll` (since 1990!).

I admit two words "string" and "text" are now interchangable. But that doesn't make strings have less requirements, people are just expecting more out of strings.
Not in every context. There are quite a few city-county conglomerates.
I've thought about this a lot over the years, as someone coming from a poor background but grew up around very wealthy kids, I never understood why people who cannot afford to give their child a good life have children. That may sound cold, and it might be, but I wondered it myself growing up in a poor household.

There's a great scene from a Michael Winterbottom movie called Jude where --spoiler-- a child asks his parents why they had him if they could not afford him and his siblings. The child doesn't like the answer and ends up hanging himself and his siblings.

I don't know if there is a solution. People want to have kids, even if they can't - in my opinion - afford them. Some religions encourage having lots of children - it's a big thing in the catholic community, at least where I grew up.

Anecdote: My cousin is married to a catholic latina, he's already struggling to make ends meet taking care of the one kid they have. He lives with her grandparents and cousins in a tiny apartment in a low income neighborhood. There is no way I could talk him out of having another child, even though I know it's fiscally irresponsible in my opinion.

I think it's a conversation worth having but I just don't know how it can go anywhere, and I have struggled to come up with an answer that isn't just me being upset with the parents.
Let museums figure out that stuff. If none want what you have, it's not valuable and will be thrown out when you die anyway.
There are no truly global ones yet (though alipay has 500m accounts). Rather a hodgepodge of companies in developing countries have been rolling out their own, with a lot of success in recent years.

The first wave was telcos, which largely failed with the exception of a tiny few (eg m-pesa in kenya, globecash in philipenes). Banks entered the frey but struggled. Then the new wave came around, led by Alipay and Wechat. They kick started their wallets by leveraging existing products (ecommerce, chat) before expanding it to point of sale. This model is growing strong (see go-pay, grab-pay, paytm).

But the whatsapp problem could have been solved by a far more traditional route. You dont need people to pay on whatsapp, but rather just need the $$ to get to whatsapp. For that type of thing electronic voucher distribution could have been leveraged, in the same way that play, games vouchers, itunes vouchers work.

So Whatsapp sell codes at a 5-10% discount to 3 large companies (paid in advance), who then onsell through a network of parties until someone wanders up to a street stall, gives a dollar-equivilent in cash to the owner of the stall and receives their code. The code when entered extends the subscriptions. Everyone in the chain takes a portion of the fee.

If your feeling particularly fancy you can replace the entire voucher with a realtime call that activates that persons subscription. But needs to be on a per-country basis.
Here are a couple Android games that I consider to have reasonable permissions considering the included features:

Rusted Warfare: (Red Alert style RTS)
- Internet (it is multiplayer capable), Access Wifi State, Write/Read External storage, and Check License

Space RPG 3:
- Check License

Other games on my wish list that appear to have decent permissions:
Age of Civilizations:
- Appears to ask for full network permissions

1941: World War Strategy
- Asks for Identity, USB storage, and License check
- Privacy policy indicates that the developer does not obtain any information through its app, however it does use Google Play Services for online play (google's privacy policy applies).

Atlantic Fleet: (Developers of Cold Waters)
- Could not find a privacy policy
- Appears to ask for full network access and network connections.

All of the games I have listed are paid games. Cheers!
In a similar boat with my old 4770k and a new RX580. I'm kicking myself for the k model though, as I would like to pass my old GPU through to a Windows VM, but the unlocked k model CPUs don't have VT-d, necessary for IOMMU.
Super useful. Pacific Gas & Electric (which powers much of CA) recently announced that they may pre-emptively shut off power to certain parts of Silicon Valley out of concern for potential fires. In the article I read, they mentioned that even home solar wouldn't work, which seemed crazy. I can now see why this is the case, and what folks should do (get a transfer switch and generator) to be able to power their home with their solar panels.
Data is usually far more precious than compute resources.
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I think lifting is great for gamification, every time you try to increase a little bit (Greyskull advocates for "partial plates" which are sets of plates of 0.5-2 lb that let you increase very slightly). Looking at charts over time feels great, and when you plateau or have to deload because of sickness or skips, you know what you did wrong, and you get back to it.

For cardio mostly every day I bike to/from work, about 50 min or so each way at moderate speed.