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We've had nodes die (more than what we've experienced with simple vms). We've had cluster go into failed state multiple times and require full rebuild. We've had nodes simply stop responding but aks claims they are fine. It's been relatively unstable and we've had to work with support multiple in the past year because of issues. It has improved but it was pretty awful when they announced GA. We were surprised when they did. We had been on AKS for a bit and it was no where close to ready for GA.
> We test for things that are really dangerous (e. coli, arsenic, heavy metals, etc.). If microplastics were dangerous like those things, it would be pretty obvious by now.

Microplastics aren't necessarily dangerous like those things, but they've been shown to be potentially dangerous in different ways. Really acute problems of the sort you're thinking of, like long-term cancer risk and short-term infection risk, can be considered alongside reduced fertility in men and developmental problems in infants and children.
How People Used to Download Video Games from the Radio (2014)
i remember this being widely interpreted as sarcasm or a straussian double meaning at the time
Yep!

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Not to get too far off track, but I always thought in a magical alternate universe in which I could make US policy, I'd modernize the nuclear Arsenal and ditch spending on everything else in the military. Couldn't play global policeman anymore, but nobody seems grateful to the US for that anyway. And let's face it, if it really came to a confrontation with another world power, it will end in nuclear war even if it doesn't start out like that. It seems to me that everyone is still fighting the last war. Why do you need conventional forces in a nuclear world?
I really like this quote!
well said.

“Knowledge is as wings to man's life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone. The knowledge of such sciences, however, should be acquired as can profit the peoples of the earth, and not those which begin with words and end with words.”

- The Baha'i Writings
> Amazon declined to comment on whether it had made any final decisions.

Speculation. Amazon is also talking heavily with Dallas according to CNN.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/05/tech/amazon-hq2-update/index....
In the newest Chrome I'm getting

NET::ERR_CERT_SYMANTEC_LEGACY
Subject: devblogs.nvidia.com
Issuer: RapidSSL SHA256 CA
what if they prefer ecmacs or vim or sublime or etc, they all have plugin ecosystems as well
15 years I ago I worked on the construction phase of a microchip manufacturing facility, well actually they were adding another separate plant to make gaming chips.

The computer giant that owned the land and had done so much ecological damage to the water table they had to supply the town with city water. Dead birds could be found all over the rooftops, no worms or insects were in any of the soil near the plant.

At the time I had no idea of the chemicals used to make chips but I do now, and it's TERRIFING. Here's a few off the top of my head: 100% ultra high purity Sulphuric acid, Hydrochloric Acid, Hydrofluoric Acid, Potassium Hydroxide, Arsine, Arsenic, Silane gas (my personal fav, it's deadly to breathe but that won't kill you because it typically explodes when it mixes with air), and also a patented chemical that the company named J1000... but we all called it 2 step because if you got even One drop on you--you'd take 2 steps and be dead.

I worked there for just a few months... I was involved with the testing of the gasses some inert most were deadly though and could fuck you up just by touching your skin; one night I had a dream that a valve cabinet failed, and I tasted pink bubble gum--I woke up before I died in that dream. The next day I quit.
I wonder how the visual density of Hanzi vs. Pinyin (or English) compares. On the one hand, each hanzi is approximately equivalent to about 4 letters of Pinyin, and Hanzi text uses no spacing (which would otherwise be needed approximately every 2 Hanzi). On the other hand, apparently Hanzi text should be approximately 1.3 times the vertical height of Roman text, according to the article, and Hanzi are square, so significantly wider than a Roman character. From my observations, it seems that Chinese text ends up slightly denser than the equivalent English text, but not overwhelmingly so, but surely there should be an actual comparison somewhere...
Whiskey is not made by mixing flavorings with pure ethanol from a rail car. It's (essentially) distilled beer. Most American whiskey is in fact distilled in Kentucky.

Brand differences in the whiskey market are complicated and incestuous, but they are not generally "more marketing than product".
That's not what I was going after. You can treat the memory location (where the structure resides) as a pointer, plan and simple, nothing more fancy than what I said.
I can’t teach them all.
I've read this narrative that only the programmer cares about the quality of the work many times. I find, however, that sometimes the programmer cares more about showing off how clever they are then building a quality and simple system that is delivered in a reasonable time frame.

Hacker News has this narrative that programmers are always right and always smarter than "management" or any other non-programmer. That's not reality though. Programming isn't some special discipline where everyone is great. There are a lot of poor programmers out there like I describe above. Management often ends up not believing people because of this, just like in other professions.

Developers need to share the responsibility of the situation, it's not all just "bad managers". Developers need to start caring more about the people they build products for rather then simply their wallet and personal "fun".
To believe there is no such thing as the deep state to me is pretty unbelievable.

You would have to be seriously naive to believe that in such a divided country that everyone who works in the government is completely neutral in their politics and would never act upon them within their positions of power.
I'm using DDG Browser to weeks after recently giving up on Brave. The DDG browser is nice and all but not as well designed as FOSS Browser (available on F-Droid). Thanks for offering a popular alternative though.
The Silent Horror of the Missing Bugs
Well it's technically not part of the estate, but a policy held by the cryonics organization. But that's missing the point. You can pay for cryonics without writing people out of your will.
Meanwhile most academic authors don't make any effort to add metadata that would actually be useful. I can't count how many pdfs I have called things like '0378final.pdf' with none of the fields like Author or Title filled in.
There are a lot of places between "middle of nowhere" and NYC/NoVa...
You've described a train or buses.
Have you considered that maybe my concept of “few” is not “three”?

Can I make the bet you describe for, say, seven years? I’d say five is highly likely to suffice but I’d rather play it safe.
However, expanding the total resource of Be by a factor of 100 would likely mean a large increase in the price of the element.
This isn't an unreasonable generalization. But a) there's plenty of talent that wants to live somewhere other than an urban core, and b) if Amazon opens an HQ in a place, that place will become a somewhere, and c) Amazon is at the scale that they can afford to take raw talent and train it up.

Personally, I find Amazon's decision disappointing, and I regret getting caught up in the hype. I was hoping that they'd do something bold and interesting, not open a couple of satellite offices in obvious places.
So some russians conspired to go on a phishing expedition and ended up finding that hillary clinton broke the law and tried to cover it up?

Where does it show the votes that were changed?
If true, I wonder if they did this so that their ability to play one city off the other doesn't have to come to a close when they make the announcement. Or ever.

Every year or so, you can call them up and say:

"Hey NY, we're thinking of expanding in VA, but maybe you could convince us otherwise."

"Hey VA, we're thinking of expanding in NY, but maybe you could convince us otherwise."
Doesn't bother me. I think it's generally safe to assume comments here are made in good faith.
It will be far more interesting to see the impacts on Queens versus Crystal City, IMHO.

Crystal City already has a strong tech presence - it's government, not industry, but still - no shortage of technology around. 25K new workers is about a second Pentagon in the area, but nothing more than that. Office rental rate pressure will slightly go up, but Amazon's a drop in the bucket compared to federal government buying power for office space.

Queens, though, is a dramatic change to the general landscape of that area. I can't even imagine an Amazon-style campus in the middle of Jamaica.
So what about the europeans and Australians who peddled lies on their social media accounts? Has the FBI managed to track down any of those yet?
I have gone down this rabbithole. Trust me, software is not the bottleneck.

Long story short: make as much money as you can in the private sector and donate to "open-source" research, i.e. research that is released to the public domain instead of hoarded by private orgs.
Who would have thought that proprietary firmware encryption implemented by hardware vendors would be crappy?
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You are missing a point. every 1 regular job creates 3 non-regular jobs in the market. New businesses like restaurants, coffee shops etc will created which will boost local economy.
Great point. Ideally it would also be possible to track which certificate was used last time and if the certificate has changed, verify somehow whether the change was intentional.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai calls for an end 'illegal robocalls'
Unless I misunderstand you, that’s an absurd overstatement at best.

My wife is a somm as are many of our friends. I joined in on many of their study sessions as each of them went through various phases of their certifications.

Granted I’m lucky to tell a Pinot from a Chardonnay, but watching trained Simms do blinds is impressive. It’s a mix of a very specific process - they work from “the grid”, picking apart specific properties of a taste one bit st a time - as well as incredible amount of practical knowledge that comes from tasting an absurd amount.

It’s another thing to say that tastes don’t necessarily correlate with price - any honest somm will tell you that. But anyone with a reasonable amount of experience can tell a $5 bottle of Cupcake or a two buck Chuck and something less industrial.

I know there’s a lot of excitement for lab made - it’ll rightly be seen as just another technique eventually.
Not to confuse with ROLLUP grouping operation: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/queries-table-expres...
People don't want to be moved without their consent, period. It doesn't matter where the new office is.

There are plenty of people who do want to live in the middle of nowhere. I know a number of techies who have taken advantage of remote opportunities to finally live where they want, and at a much better price. And one could reasonably describe the whole trend of suburbanization as people moving to the middle of nowhere, so I suspect Amazon could find plenty of people who'd like a reasonably priced, new-built home in an up-and-coming area.
Given that at any time there are only a few hundred or so good houses available in any big city suburb, 10K new highly paid employees looking to get in can overwhelm real estate.
Most of that is conjecture. What they choose to block is not a browser responsibility but one of the search engine results page. When they block new tech threatening their business model it'll be months if not years before anyone "gets it".
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It may be a smaller bucket than you think. There's not more than a couple hundred (probably less) listings that are in a semi-affordable price range (400-600k; high, but affordable on low six figures) within a 30 minute commute to LIC. 10k FANG-level salaried employees will snap that up in a heartbeat.
Learning Japanese at the age of 30 definitely bent my brain in new and interesting ways. Certainly when communicating, it made me realize how much of speaking is actually stringing together groups of words to convey meaning and way less about using some perfect syntax or grammar. The whole backwards grammar relative to English also was pretty new and challenging.
My point being that they don't make other cars vanish and they certainly don't make human-driven cars vanish in any sensible timeframe.

On a person-kilometre-minute basis, cars are absurdly inefficient. Stupendously so.

A typical subway train typically runs to about 157 metres. A 2018 Camry runs to about 5 metres. That gives about 31 car lengths for the subway car.

Assume that every Camry is fully loaded with 5 passengers. That's 155 people. In the ideal condition, driving bumper-to-bumper with no other cars, 155 people in 157 metres -- about a person per linear metre.

Here's the fun bit: the passenger capacity of an R142A carriage is 176.

Not the whole train.

One subway car.

One subway car, approximately 16 metres long, holds more people than an entire train's length of self-driving Camrys driving with zero tolerance.

Now add the fact that the trains have dedicated rights of way and note that even with the profound multi-decadal mess made of the MTA you simply cannot replace the subway with any other mode of transportation, not now, not ever. Self-driving cars don't repeal the laws of physics and they don't override Little's Law either.
Dave Arnold (trust me, an expert) has a story, from when he helped run the technical program at the French Culinary Institute, about procuring and diluting potable lab alcohol to 40% ABV and then (IIRC) triangle-testing it with other vodkas. The upshot: while 'animats isn't right about whiskey, he's pretty much dead-on about vodka. It's best thought of as an industrial product.
Agreed. There are a lot of crappy, manipulative, less than ideal partners who lose their effectiveness and raison d'etre with technology and other forms of satisfaction (sex bots, conversation bots, etc.). It's easy to see why some complain about their substitutability for something/someone better as they don't want to do the work.
What transportation desert? Within a few blocks of each other are court square, queensboro plaza, and queens plaza which together have seven subway lines. (E,M,N,W,R,G&7) Go a little further out and you also have an F stop and the LIRR at Hunters Point Avenue. There’s also a ferry terminal.

I can only think of four spots in the city that are better served by transit: Times Square, Grand Central, Fulton Street, and Atlantic Avenue.
I would like to see the math on that. The proportion seems impossible to me.
Doesn't the website set a header or something like that for the preferred way of consuming it?: in-site viewing or downñoading to hdd?
IMO, it should be common sense at this point
I suspect that all written languages have more or less the same impact on our brains. It doesn't matter how ideas are expressed, just that they are expressed. Being able to represent abstract ideas as symbols makes reasoning about them possible in a way that you can never do with spoken language.
> Not only were no votes changed by anything Russia did, it is highly dubious that any opinions were changed by what Russia did.

It's clear that concrete actions were manipulated by the Russian campaign, and that false ideas spread by it gained currency. It is pretty clear that it affected opinion, belief, and action, even if not in a way which changed partisan preferences.

> Trolls on the Internet are not, in fact, the most persuasive advertising force by orders of magnitude that the world has ever seen.

Probably not; lots of low budget groups leveraging current events are quite efficient compared to major campaigns, and that's without carefully crafting propaganda without concern for truth and with freedom to misrepresent origin; Russia’s operation may be much more cost effective than major campaigns especially if you consider just the known as spend and not other supporting costs, but that's not unusual.
Two of the three comments that this new account has made includes a shortened Amazon URL that expands into a URL with the referral ID of "amazonbook10-20".

Let's keep spam off HN.

Btw, reusing Amazon referral IDs across the internet links all of your accounts.
Just because the campus is located in Queens doesn't necessarily mean all workers will want to live in that area...unlike the Bay Area NYC metro area is fairly well connected by public transportation. It would be just as fast to live in Manhattan and get to Long Island City by subway as it would to get there from other parts of Queens (perhaps even faster).

For those unfamiliar, Long Island City is across the East River directly east of Upper East Side in Manhattan.
Who would have thought water is dry?
I don't think I own many clothes with synthetic fabric but if it doesn't say dry clean only then of course I'm going to launder it. Why is it on consumers to become experts in every product to save the environment but there are few calls to stop manufacturers from putting products on the market that they know perfectly well are going to create more pollution?
If you look at the subway map, the area around Maspeth that's south of the 7, north of the L, east of the G, and west of the M. LIC itself has tons of transportation as you mentioned, I'm just saying that that area is only an 8 minute commute from LIC but is itself a transportation desert.

http://web.mta.info/maps/submap.html
Thank you all for your interesting and erudite answers!
Exactly. And if you subscribe to the recommendations of more than one expert, a useful option would be to decline to trust any CAs that are mistrusted by any of the chosen experts.
More tangential q. I always wonder - why Epic is not disrupted yet? In same vein similar Q can be asked, why Bloomberg is not disrupted yet?

I guess software is inherently monopolistic (or oligopolistic) market especially in highly regulated markets (healthcare, finance etc.).

So going back to earlier question -- why can't someone start an open source alternative? And may be sell it something along the lines of Redhat business model. It looks like support (training, maintenance) costs are way more in healthcare. Why can't be Epic disrupted?

P.S. One of my physicians uses Epic, and he is pretty old guy. And once he showed me the interface, my first reaction, "oh god, that software is designed by committee". I really sympathize with doctors who have to work several hours everyday to work on Epic.
I live in LIC. It’s not at all a transportation desert. It’s one of the most well-connected hubs in NYC.

There are general issues with transportation efficacy in NYC right now (subway reliability etc.) but none of them are LIC specific.
Years ago I read in a translation journal that when localising video games the textboxes need to be able to support 16% more text for German translations vs English. So I'm sure you're right that it's been studied but I don't know of any actual stats.
That has not been my experience, but I know many people who agree with you. IME, the difference has been that I came into CS with a more mathematical (formal) approach to programming, and they tended to come at it with a more mechanistic approach (especially when I hear it from non-CS developers, often EEs).
Per Google Maps, the locations are a 4- to 5-hour drive apart. That's about the distance from Amsterdam to Frankfurt.
Which is kind of a ridiculous concept when you can work when you want.
How does this differ from VS Code Live Share?
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/live-share/
What? LIC is already, even before Amazon considered an HQ2, a very expensive and congested area. It is one of the prime examples of tech and finance gentrification.
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Self driving cars are still going to be sitting in standstill on the LIE or BQE. And in 10 years when all those new LIC high-rise leasing offices open up it will be 22 year old fresh college grads bunking up two to an apartment like SF and senior employees will be riding an hour on the LIRR from their park and rides, wishing every day there was a line that ran from Westchester County to LIC.
Where is the capital to pay the people you hire?
As of 2017, we're generating more data each year than we previously generated in the entirety of human history. Although comparing refrigerator's IP addresses to the Iliad may not be a fair comparison.
This really hit me in a way I haven't been hit by something in a long time. Thanks for sharing.