skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But whoever made that decision, it was on the hardware side, not anyone at Microsoft.

Bill Gates' famous comment isn't really a decision though. As it's usually cited it's just an opinion - '640Kb should be enough for anyone' means "I don't think any programs will need more than that!". If someone at IBM decided that there should be 640Kb of available RAM for programs it's believable that Bill might have simply been agreeing with them.

The main thing that's annoying about the quote is that it's trotted out as an example of how Bill was wrong, as if being wrong is something terrible that he should be ashamed of decades later. That's nonsense. Being wrong is fine so long as you change your mind when you understand that you are wrong.
You are correct. The date of allocation doesn't indicate the age of the device, just the age of the allocation to said company.
I claim no one gets to the top for being a hard working developer.

Also claim quality engineering is only loosely correlated with advancement, it is one of the less efficient ways to secure a promotion/raise. In fact, managers often have no idea who is doing a good job.
Their virtual servers are really very cheap. How do they compare with AWS/Vultr/Digital Ocean? Do they have an API for automation and is it reliable?
IIRC from the ZFS promo blurb, the energy required to flip 2^128 bits is enough to boil the oceans (assuming a maximally efficient process).
APL/J
But that is your job, is it not? What is wrong with the person in charge of the entire department being recognized for meeting the goal? Are they not working hard in their position? What did they do before their current position and what is stopping you from getting to theirs?

There's a tendency to minimize the work by others because we don't have the same perspective, but it's rarely ever accurate. Or helpful.
I mean, they get such bad press for the way they treat their workers it only seems fair to laud them for this. Good move. They have more to do though.

I've went through a few articles on this but I didn't see any of them mention what Amazon's minimum actual pay was before this, just the federal minimum wage. Anybody know?
People where I work have workstations with more than 1TB of ram.

I think the value of a larger pointer (immediately) would be tags, not memory density, just as it was with 64-bit systems -- my old Alpha only had 256mb of ram, and maxed out at 512mb IIRC.
Uuuh, seriously?

I always preferred ansibles to kubernetes yaml

I'm using both daily and can work with either though
I missed this story from earlier. Did they actually unionize? Or were they in the early stages of unionizing?
I think this regulation applies to citizens as well. The article said there could be a fine too. So citizens could get punished for not knowing a password. As far as I understood.
> When you switch between two projects writen in C++, it is almost as if they were using a different language.

I strongly disagree. This may have been the case 20 years ago, but most current projects use C++, not some weird -fno-rtti -no-stdinc -fno-whatever sub-language. Maybe they don't use all the features of the standard library, but which project in Java or Python would ?
Also, it's easy to intuit it as less massive than a "dwarf" planet.
Show HN: Bekli, where the graph comes to life
I'm really pleased with the way I display user results here. I'd love feedback on how you think I might be able to use this.

http://www.bekli.it

Wait - context. I've been working on a flash-card site for java developers on and off for a while, the latest iteration is above.

I'm unsure if companies actually want people who know the language anymore though. It seems they all want someone who can solve algorithms and then pay them a ludicrous amount of money to surf stackoverflow and read documents all day.

Any thoughts on my display of data, or if there are companies that want knowledge over algorithms?
early stages of it. This was one of their key demands.
Senator Bernie Sanders, for example, recently introduced legislation to end what he calls “corporate welfare” — and it’s pretty clear who he had in mind, since the bill was titled Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies (BEZOS).

Bernie out-marketing AMZN is pretty funny.
Octopart | New York City | Site Reliability Engineer | Full Time | Onsite

Octopart (YC W07) is a search engine for electronic parts. Think Kayak, but facilitating the growth of the Internet of Things (IoT). Every month, 900,000+ electrical engineers and part buyers use Octopart to find parts, research pricing and availability, find datasheets, and select components for new designs.

You'll be part of an entrepreneurial and supportive company whose employees genuinely enjoy working together to overcome interesting challenges.

We use: Linux, Python, Go, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Looker, Redshift, AWS.

Open Positions: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Contact: jobs @ octopart.com

Full position details and info to apply: https://octopart.com/jobs
A mere decade after French hosts.
The only argument he made that I agree with is that people resisting what they perceive as negative changes to their neighborhood is natural and not particularly blame worthy, but it’s not particularly convincing as an argument to heed their wishes. One of the things that government ought to do is force people to do what they don’t want to, when it benefits the people as a whole. That’s the thinking behind eminent domain, for example. This is particularly true when people’s fear of change isn’t particularly rational. My parents used to swear up and down the dc metro expanding would bring crime out to the suburbs (by which they meant black people, of course), but the reality is that it increased property values and improved quality of life in almost every case.

I do think that moving tech companies out of San Francisco is the only feasible solution to housing prices. I don’t understand why people keep starting them there, or why they stay there. There’s no way the premium they pay to have an office there can be worth it.
Project X Open Source to Release the First NO Fee Cryptocurrency Wallet/Exchange
This makes perfect sense given the multiplier affects built into the Capitalist system. The more money you have, the more easily you can grow that money. The moment an imbalance forms it would naturally continue to grow.

The fact that Capitalism will amplify and exacerbate any imbalance that forms, does not preclude the possibility that there are structural factors that help form those initial imbalances in Capitalism. Factors like differences in family wealth, access to education, access to connections with loan or startup capital, access to political connections, and so forth.
This seems like a good place to ask: What does it mean for a startup to go into a Series A, B ,C? Is it like some kind of IPO? I have never understood how all the finances around startups work
Actually, before the trade gone bad, many local governments in China already installed some limits on the housing bubble. For example, in some place, you can only buy house, but unable to sell it. This will limit how many money can flood back to the economy.

So far, that policy is effective. After all, nobody want to play the Japanese character during what's after the "Japanese economic miracle"[0]. And the housing bubble thing is like textbook example of "How not do your economy".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_economic_miracle
> this powerful escape artist of a drug lord

The claim that a a billionaire drug dealer in Mexico has to "escape" by crawling out of a tunnel from a rural Mexican jail is pretty funny.

He probably just walked out and the tunnel was built to make the administration of the jail look less guilty despite the fact they were probably fully aware of what was happening.

The problem with coming in contact with people like Guzman is you can chose between cooperating or misery & death. I'm sure the head of that jail decided he'd cooperate the moment he heard Guzman would be housed there and who can blame him.
I hope that the original title of the story was intended sarcasm: "Unbabel migrated to Kubernetes and you won’t believe what happened next!"

But so they managed to consolidate their infrastructure around Kubernetes
and Google Cloud which made the management of their servers easier and faster? I wonder how much actual money they saved but I guess it will pay off for them in the long run.

I've been dabbling with Kubernetes for some time now but God forbid it can be a bit complicated. Time required to become well-versed with Kubernetes is a hefty investment which is not for all organizations. Lots of small things that can drive up your blood-pressure when figuring them out. Were it simpler I would be much more inclined to be using it but now it's only in the "learning for funsies" -category. I feel people who've developed k8s have been more of the theoretical sort and not the regular-joe-dummy-kind like me.
Can they do the same in India?
partially funded by the removal of RSU stock grants
He missed one of the obvious ones that YIMBYs paper over - if you just build more housing rapidly without building out other infrastructure at approximately the same time, you just make everyone's life hell.

The typical response is that infrastructure will eventually address congestion concerns...meanwhile BART still has not fulfilled the vision that was laid out in 60s. How long are people supposed to wait?
I have not worked with Kubernetes yet, but I do have experience with ansible and I was under the impression that Kubernetes is working on a higher abstraction level than ansible.

Do kubernetes files really concern themselves with little details such as how a database or application is configured ?

I assumed that kubernetes is more about having 'images' of pre-installed machines (e.g via ansible) and having kubernetes just 'clone' them into production and interconnect them.
HBO Go works fine in Poland
I don't get it - his boss took credit for his work, likely without his consent or even knowledge (I'd guess he came to know after his boss took credit). And yet, you want him to cover for his boss? He also mentioned his boss was incompetent. How can you trust such a person to watch out for you, even if you let it go?
"There is no question that China will have a difficult adjustment, but it is likely to take the form of a long process rather than a sudden crisis."
-- Michael Pettis, professor of finance at Peking University
https://carnegieendowment.org/chinafinancialmarkets/77178
"The hardware" did not support more than 1 MB. The 8086/8088 had a 20-bit address space (reflected both in the segmentation model and the address bus), so that limits it to 1 MB.
How Face ID could be a game-changer for border agents
Ask HN: Price matching alternatives to online.net?
I've been a happy customer with online.net since 2016, where I use the Dedibox XC SSD 2016, which has the following specs:

CPU - 1x Intel® C2750 (Avoton)
RAM - 16 GB DDR3 ECC
Storage - 1x 250 GB SSD
Bandwidth - Basic Unmetered 1 Gbit/sec

However, I recently got an email from them saying they're upping the price from €15.99 to €24.99. Not upgrades or anything.

That's whopping 56.28% price increase!

Any recommendations for similar specs at a lower price?
There are a lot of things that can go wrong with K8s but there is always a way to fix them. For example a common mistake it to forget to allocate limits on pods, which then brings the worker node to capacity. I think the failure scenario is soft, it's just going to cost more engineering time to figure out how to upgrade the cluster to the new version, find out why this network overlay isn't performing as expected or debug this external resource that isn't being allocated properly, configure RBAC properly, play with various resource deployment strategies, tune how pods are being moved during a node auto-scaling event... The nice thing is that at the end it gives a unified API for all of the things, it forces some consistency in the infrastructure.

My personal rule of thumb is that unless the client specifically need auto-scaling or have more than 100 services to run, have a 5 people devops team, just use Terraform.

For a small number of servers a better strategy is to have a base image with Docker and monitoring, and use Terraform to deploy the infrastructure. CI can then use docker-compose to deploy the containers onto the hosts directly. This approach is much more stable and doesn't require to learn as many things as K8s. This can be run by a 1 man DevOps team without a sweat.
They must have automated enough, or shifted enough work to contractors that this is now materially not a big deal.
I'm having the same experience, more or less.

The one pain point, for me, is still the development workflow, which is still lacking compared with told like docker-compose.

However, skaffold seems to be quickly closing that gap and I'm pretty excited about it.
It usually means that they raised a new significant round of investment from a new group of investors at a new valuation.
Absolutely! It's based on Xeon Gold and NVMe disks. Works pretty well. I'm running there CI and a couple of stuff since cloud was announced -- had a bit on downtime on a single VM, some network issues, otherwise: all good.

They have an API.
Are there any resources that speak about Apple's supply chain? I'd love to learn more.
There were unionization efforts nationwide, including a somewhat wide dissemination of boycotting on the "Prime Day" sale and appropriate lists of demands including proper access to restrooms and raising of the wages.
And if it takes decades, well, their career is made.
Yeah I don't want to sit down with the digital form of someone's lawyers each time I visit a site, and if I have to I imagine I and others all just click away to get the dang content already.

The way GDPR works out it sort of expects us to care to follow this annoying process, and I don't think people do / want to and thus ultimately won't make good choices.

GDPR demands users engage in the process on the web in a very particular way. As far as that goes I suspect it will fail on that aspect.
There was a big drama in 2012. http://Archive.is was proactively archiving Wikipedia links. An unauthorized bot (RotlinkBot) was linking to Archive.is. The bot was banned.

I liked how Archive.is was so fast at archiving, its UI more clean. And since it proactively archived links, it still happens today that a dead reference link will be archive in Archive.is, but not in the Wayback Machine.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:RotlinkBot
For what it's worth, someone on reddit says $12

https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/9kpeal/amazon_raises_...
A relative of mine, currently in their 50's, was forced to write right handed while growing up in New York. They still do to this day, though they do everything else left handed.
This is rather simplistic way to summarize the article. From the link you provided:

> In this study, the percentage of girls who did excel in science or math was still larger than the number of women who were graduating with STEM degrees. That means there’s something in even the most liberal societies that’s nudging women away from math and science, even when those are their best subjects. The women-in-STEM advocates could, for starters, focus their efforts on those would-be STEM stars.

There are two takeaways for me:

- If people do not feel economic pressure (the need to find a high paying job) they might follow a non-STEM passion (the article exemplifies this in the case of women, who usually are not expected to be the breadwinner)

- Even in liberal societies (and I find it amusing that the US is taken as a beacon in this example) there is difference between "what percentage perform well in STEM" and "what percentage pursue STEM". It would be instructive to study why, not just assume why.
First thing in my mind when reading "sednoid" was "mathematics!".

As for the rest of the terms, they are new to me due to my non-familiarity with cosmology in general.
If you try to make your stories too future-proof you end up making it look like just magic. It may also become harder to relate to.

See Numenera [0] though, set a billion years in the future, while still keeping a sense of familiarity.

[0] https://numenera.com
#6 Have a crystal ball that can predict the future. Since the success of a startup is often based on unpredictable changes in markets, technology, or world events, even if you follow all of the other steps here to avoid a zombie startup, you may end up in one. And you may avoid a startup that was really onto something.

Okay, so I am being a little satirical. But honestly, if it was so easy to pick winners, VCs would invest in far fewer companies. As an individual trying to pick the winner, you have close to zero probability of being right.
You don't know that, why make things up just to dump on them?
Yep... https://standards.ieee.org/products-services/regauth/index.h...
This is exactly the problem. You think in terms of "balancing a seesaw", but there is no reason to believe that in the complete absence of discrimination, the gender ratio will be 50:50.
One of the few things that scares those type of criminals is being jailed by los Yankees.

In their home country they probably assume they can always use relentless bribing for more favourable conditions and a possible release. In the US, forget it.
That's great for sharing libraries written in C. It doesn't generally solve the problem of reusing libraries across languages though.
While this is a very welcome development it would be more impressive to see them reform their slave like fulfilment center work practises. Employees are forced to walk massive distances, have their every move tracked and are penalised for taking bathroom breaks. I doubt many people in Silicon Valley would consider $15 an hour a fair compensation for the oppressive work conditions.
Did Amazon actually pay any worse or have worse working conditions than any other unskilled warehouse job?

If so, why didn’t the employees change jobs?

If not, why is so much criticism directed at Amazon specifically, rather than at capitalism itself?
Correct, sorry. I updated my comment.
I agree with their assertion that hourly employees "prefer the predictability and immediacy of cash to RSUs."

$15/hr still isn't much. $30K year. Sure, it would be nice to get a fat payday down the road. People living on low wages have much more immediate needs.

Why wait for a (maybe) payout, if you can't feed your kids today?
>In addition, the company also pledges its public policy team will lobby for an increase to the federal minimum wage from $7.25 — it doesn’t identify a specific wage that it’s targeting, but instead says, “We believe $7.25 is too low. We would look to Congress to decide the parameters of a new, higher federal minimum wage.”

I'm going to take a wild guess and assume it will be $15/hour. That way they'll get to look progressive for adopting this wage early, while mitigating their competitive disadvantage by forcing every other company to raise their wages too eventually.
My beloved, low-tech stack
> I believe the author is referring to high inflation as measured by things that reserve banks look at (in Australia this would be the consumer price index etc); while house prices either stay stagnant or rise slower than said rate of inflation. Thus, the nominal price of housing is maintained, while the real value tanks.

Yes, this makes perfect sense in theory - housing inflation has dramatically outpaced everything else, so if the government causes a whole bunch of monetary inflation by printing money and that money doesn't go into housing but goes into other things (maybe even wages!), then it will let those prices catch up, while also devaluing the cost of the housing debt.

But I think printing money is what got us into this situation in the first place, it just mostly all went into housing, to stop that from continuing you'd need to change the collective beliefs of nearly the entire population. This is one thing that could genuinely be "different this time": the belief that real estate always goes up. And you can hardly blame people, because it's more or less true, and is virtually guaranteed by more than one government policy.
Ditto. The Canadians were pretty easy to deal with.

The US is always a PITA, esp. after long international flights. One time they flagged me for "smuggling halogen headlights" or something and searched ALL of my stuff. Missed my LA-DC flight because of it. And I'm a white, clean-cut US citizen.
Read the article... Yes, obviously those CPUs didn't support it. But the later CPUs and PCs did, and yet the software (MS-DOS), didn't really support it. They had to use some gross hacks to access more memory.

That excuse is valid for 8086, but it's no longer valid for the 386.
WorkerDOM has a DOM representation, but I wouldn't call it a "virtual DOM". It's just propagating mutations back and forth. It wouldn't, for instance, have the ability to reorder nodes in a list in linear time (like React does with the key={} prop). When a change takes place, it's not diffing anything, it's just mapping one representation of the DOM onto another. If you set innerHTML in the worker, it would set innerHTML in the main thread also.
This has always been true though. The government basically controls the real estate companies, and they won’t list/show your house beneath a certain price. When prices weaken, volume simply plummets as no one can sell because the real estate companies won’t allow for discounting. That isn’t a really a new thing, it has been going on for at least a decade.

In many cases, what we have in China is much worse than japan since artificial intervention is much deeper and prolonged.
Given how short your comment is, I am not quite certain what you are trying to say. However, in my experience, whenever somebody complains about "equality of opportunity vs equality of outcome", they willfully overlook a lot of factors that would be playing into the "opportunity" part of the equation.
Sounds like a nightmare to be a DTAG customer.. But why would all of us pay to subsidize DTAG when we want servers in Europe peered with our reasonable ISPs and there are plenty of French ones?
What Is Functional Testing? Process, Challenges and Best Practices
iZotope Inc | Software Engineer | Cambridge, MA | Onsite

iZotope is seeking a Software Engineer for a position on our Spire product development team, creating the next generation recording studio. You’ll be joining a cross functional software team, responsible for the software running on the Spire Studio hardware device and our iOS/Android Spire applications. Your focus will be the Spire Studio application, but expect to learn and help on other platforms to reach our product goals.

Technology focus will be C++ application running on a Linux embedded devices. Experience with performance tuning and real time audio systems would be a plus.

Full description: https://www.izotope.com/en/company/careers/jobs/engineering/...
Kubernetes: The Surprisingly Affordable Platform for Personal Projects
The question is what training they get. I bet at least in some areas it's a lot about cool weapons and how to run into a building, not about deescalation.

I remember years ago there was an incident in Northern Virginia where they went after a few guys who were betting on football http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01.... So the cops went in with a swat team and ended up shooting one guy. No weapons were on site and nobody there had a criminal history. The cops just went in with full force and when somebody made a wrong move they shot him. Same for for the mayor of Berwyn Heights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwyn_Heights,_Maryland_mayor.... Excessive force from start without even trying to solve it peacefully.

Stuff like this simply shouldn't happen. It seems a lot of swat teams only focus on using force.
Daily Fasting Improves Health and Survival in Mice Independent of Diet and Cals