skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you'll humor the anecdote for what it is: I worked as a consultant business partner to real estate agencies and property management groups for a few years out of college (friend and I started a handyman company, grew it, sold it, became consultants), the phrase 'serious conflicts of interests' could unironically be adopted, publicly as an industry wide motto for the real estate profession and I don't think a soul would blink.
It's unanswerable -- what were the bluetooth headset sellers selling before the iPhone ditched the headphone jack? Maybe they were selling higher margin (but lower cost) wired headphones that had a lot fewer support headaches. Few people call support to ask how to pair their 3.5mm jack with the phone.

The Airbud designers could have designed the same product even if the iPhone still had a headphone jack, so it's hard to say definitively that their life is measurably better now.
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>>It's not obvious that throwing more money at the problem is going to change this.

>This is true, but we haven't funded it enough. The potential upside is insane. We aren't funding research accordingly.

How much money do you propose we throw at it then because even fission isn't profitable these days and that is something we know how to do. While I agree that it is worth something to pursue, wind/solar + batteries + smart grid are a way better investment these days since we cannot even produce a fusion reactor that is net positive in energy let alone economical.
The post housing crash housing boom was almost entirely the result of the federal government--which has made, guaranteed, or bought significantly more than half the residential mortgages since 2008--deciding there should be a housing boom. If it is indeed coming to an end it is because the federal government collectively has decided not to double down and keep the party going.

This isn't the weather or even the price of gold. This is policy choices by government officials and should reported that way.

I'm not saying (in this post) that it is a good thing or bad thing, but it's what is actually going on and that's what newspapers ought to report.
And then there was Reagan's "My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."[0] I was in Moscow when that went public. The Soviet government was not amused.

Edit: Also, Charles Stross' A Colder War.[1]

0) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_begin_bombing_in_five_minut...

1) http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm
Projects are the fundamental organization unit of GCP. Every resource you create in GCP lives in a project, and users are granted access to projects.

https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/creating-mana...

"Project-user" here means that access is counted per project. So if you (x@) use GCR for projects A and B, meaning you check in/out code as x@A and x@B, that's two "project-users".

Disclaimer: I work for GCP.
And so they don’t talk at all about the non-military metalwork that a blacksmith would have done, or the value of those things. Like nails, or hinges, or gates, or locks, or tools for other workers.

IMO, it is useful to look at what a modern blacksmith does and then ask what of those things had what utility back then.

Check out the Artist Blacksmith Association of North America and then come back to this article and see how empty it is.
I'll admit that I tried this once as a dumb teenager. I mixed a huge amount of nutmeg into some milk and chugged it. The experience was very slightly psychedelic and mild paranoia, but mostly just a disgustingly, overpoweringly horrible recurring flavor and scent of nutmeg for hours, which I could only describe as like being trapped in a prison of nutmeg. The mere thought of nutmeg made me nauseous for years after that.
Could easily use this for web scraping. But at amazon prices? Ha!

Amazon gives some examples though "With up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth, your simulations, in-memory caches, data lakes, and other communication-intensive applications will run better than ever"
> As mortgage rates rise, buyers increasingly look for less-expensive homes.

File that under “duh”. Home buyers want to get the best house they can afford based on a given monthly payment amount, and as interest rates rise, the home price that you can afford for the same monthly payment decreases. Which gives rise to high interest rates actually being a good thing for prospective home buyers: you end up with lower home prices across the board and eventually you’ll be able to refinance into a lower rate.
Shoah.
Large parallel computation jobs such as machine learning model training that require massive amounts of data would benefit from instances like this.
Housing prices go up: “it’s becoming unaffordable!” Housing prices go down: “it’s crashing!” Housing prices stay stable: “our leaders need to revitalise downtown!”
Being correct doesn’t make you right.
I've always been skeptical about this claim.

Apple's own 3.5mm -> lighting dongle is surprising resistant to water (I've spilled coffee on mine and it still works), but I can't find any information of whether the dongle itself is waterproof. I've looked.

Also, Samsung made a phone with a waterproof 3.5mm female port. They weren't the first.
Hello from the EC2 engineering team!

A vCPU on an A1 instance is a physical Arm core. There is no SMT (multi-threading) on A1 instances. In my experience on the platform, the performance is quite good for traditional cloud applications that are built on open source software, especially given the price. Since the Arm architecture is quite different than x86, we always recommend testing the performance with your own applications. There's really no substitute for that.
You seem like the ideal customer.
The buyer's agent is supposed to act in the best interest of the buyer. It's tough to say that's always the case when the buyer paying a bit more rather than walking away would actually help the buyer's agent earn more. Normally there are pre-negotiated commission rates the buyer's agent would receive.

To ensure you've got someone who is truly on your side as the buyer, maybe it'd make sense for your agent to be paid for services as consumed. E.g. $50 for doing a private showing, $200 for putting together the first offer and $70 for subsequent offers.
In theory perhaps, but in practice what actually happens is that your dependencies gradually fall so far out of date that after a couple of years it becomes impossible to upgrade anything at all. Then it becomes impossible to add features and before you know it the whole application is dead end legacy code.
What charges the case?

No need for a phone that requires an adapter. There are great phones that drive all audio gear nicely.

Those phones will win in the market too.

Cost / benefit ratio is more favorable. Has been, will continue to be, and that will be true because digital audio does nothing new.

Video does! We have great reasons for DV.

Those do not apply to audio. Ears are not like eyes.
There was a boom? All I've observed is a crazy growth of prices, making buying anything very prohibitive.
Funnily enough, Bloomberg BusinessWeek reported almost the same story - even the same example region! - last week:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-20/free-vaca...

I wonder if WSJ was chasing Bloomberg? Or if this phenomenon isn't really as strong nationwide as is being implied, but is mostly only in certain parts of Texas?
I would recommend contributing code to a well known FOSS project, or at least an existing project that you use or respect. I think hacking on meaningful projects will be clear milestones for yourself, which seems to be what you’re looking for.

To encourage you, here are a couple of contributions I have to Linux and Hadoop:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0bef71093d446165964...
https://github.com/apache/hadoop/pull/114

If you read through the commit messages and look at the patches, I think you’ll find that reaching these clear milestones doesn’t take an unattainable amount of skill; just a bit of patience and curiosity.
Very cool. As others point out, it does seem a bit expensive, but I do find it impressive that AWS has added AMD and ARM offerings in such a short period. Forgetting the idea of using ARM servers purely for the potential cost savings, I feel this could be a boon to those wanting to run ARM CI builds on actual hardware instead of Qemu.
Lets say I can buy music rather than adapters.
Because, for all our self righteous indignation, we still want free stuff like everyone else.
Nah it's less about the standard library and more about the fact that Javascript doesn't have dead code removal so keeping a package small is one way to ensure you aren't pulling in code you aren't going to use.

Of course the failure mode here is that you if you still choose a batteries included framework. (i.e. Angular, or a React powered framework) you end up pulling in a whole bunch of code you don't use and the list of dependencies is unmanageable. But because javascript was born in the browser and most javascript still has to be shipped to a browser it has constraints most other languages do not.
I don't have any critique or anything to add. I just want to say that this resonates with me very deeply.
I'm very happy to have this complex feeling articulated in such a beautiful way.

Thank you for sharing.
Their webhook documentation and setup is fantastic.
Thanks for the direct response!

Are A1 instances supported as hosts for ECS clusters?
The Federal Reserve (which orchestrates interest rates to manage inflation and achieve full employment [two of its mandates]) is not (edit: a branch) of the US government, and does not set government policy.

Edit: This is incorrect. The Board Of Governors who set interest rates is a part of the federal govrnment as an agency (accountable to Congress), the individual Federal Reserve Banks are not.
It isn't quite the same, because these publications do offer their content for free... to the Google indexer. So they're kind of trying to have it both ways.

That said, I agree with the broader point: if you value something that has a price on it then you really ought to pay for it at some point. You can object to anything you want ("there are still ads!", "why can't I pay per article?"), but it's all besides the point. There is a price attached and you can pay it or not pay it, but refusing to pay while still consuming it isn't really defensible, beyond "I can do it and you can't stop me".
> No need for a phone that requires an adapter. There are great phones that drive all audio gear nicely. Those phones will win in the market too.

Why do you say they'll win?
> The grid absorbs solar and wind interment nature just fine without much in the way of storage

Not so fine, judging by [0] (page 57): "Ontario has committed to install about 2,500 MW of solar capacity in both its 2010 and 2013 Long Term Energy Plan.70 However, Ontario also has committed to install 7,500 MW of wind generation. These two commitments combined create a serious energy management problem for Ontario’s power system engineers and operators."

And they have hydroelectric, nuclear, natural-gas power plants, and sell electricity to neighboring states to compensate intermittent power supply.

[0]: https://www.ospe.on.ca/downloads/March-2016-Research-Report
you just described a boom.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/housi...
I think this is a fair question. I think the reaction would be different if e.g. a link to a cracked copy was added to every post about a piece of software.
The a1.medium 12-month reserved cost is $151 which is about $12.60 a month.
maybe it'd make sense for your agent to be paid for services as consumed

I've actually heard/read of a few boutique style agencies taking this approach in LA. Will dig around the history and update this post if I find the blog post talking about it.
> Compounded with the fact that median wages haven't increased that much the last 30 years.

Median income has gone up by about 150% (to 2.5x) in nominal terms between 1986 and 2016.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA646N
Easy, get a phone that does not force this stuff.
Depending on the project I'm working on, I do need a server class machine for running benchmarks, but that might not be the case for most projects (I work with heavy cryptographic things, so tests sometimes take a while to run).

However, for compilation errors, feedback is instant, because cargo check (which runs everything except codegen) is almost instantaneous. I've also set up neovim to give run it on every save (via a plugin), so I don't have to leave my editor for this. I know that VS Code and IntelliJ also do this.
Unsolicited tip: cultivate some misanthropy so that you can relish downvotes.
Molecular dynamics simulations
They acquired Annapurna Labs back in 2015 - I'm sure this is based on their work, they (Annapurna) were already building chips for Synology prior to the acquisition.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annapurna_Labs
Any idea what ARM cores these are based on? A5x? A7x?

A76 would be pretty interesting...
Fed lowers interest rates with QE and home buying goes up. Fed raises interest rates and home buying goes down. Imagine that.

Almost as if this could have all been predicted[0].

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_business_cycle_theory
Certainly scripted languages run fine on ARM Linux, however there are some caveats worth mentioning. ARM JIT compilers for some platforms and languages may be not as mature or performant as their x86 counterparts since they haven't been battletested as much in the server landscape. Also, if you are using C extensions that don't compile to ARM, obviously that is going to affect you. And finally, if any part of your CI is building images containing native code (even if all of your code is say, Python,) you are going to need to duplicate that process for ARM, possibly requiring some retooling of your build system.

I am very curious to see how it plays out. I've been waiting for a cloud ARM offering from a major provider for a while now (there have been some smaller but notable players like Scaleway, but demand seemed to always outrun supply, and I couldn't get VMs running near me in America.)
They landed in a few routers as well: https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Annapurna_Labs
Thank you - this explanation is much more clear and I understand now. I’m generally familiar with AWS but haven’t used GCP, so I didn’t have the “Cloud Project” concept.
Ripe bananas have a lot of tyramine.....I guess???
YES! I could have written this exact article. It rings true daily. Such a massive PITA, the number of dongles I've bought / lost, etc. is unreal.
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This is mitigated if enough notice can be given in advance.
I really feel like this is it. Debt was introduced to parents of millennials. But it took some time to become institutionalized. Now millennials are in debt right as they get out of college. No matter what college you leave, you can have debt if your parents didn’t pay for your tuition. On top of that, wages have been stagnant. Then there is the credit card debt that is very easy to accumulate is you aren’t careful with the money that you do have. This younger generation is too busy paying off their debt. Then they are expected to save 5 years worth of salary to pay for house down payment so they can get a mortgage for 30 years. It’s possible to make it happen but it requires a lot more effort than it did for our parents or grandparents.
While it is technically true that the Fed is privately owned, it's not how it runs in actuality. The Fed chairman meets with presidents regularly, and many other politicians. The president also nominates the Chair of the Fed. So hardly independent [1].

[1] https://mises.org/library/myth-fed-independence
Maybe it's just because I'm more confident that I won't get fired, but I've not had any trouble telling the higher ups to stop asking about story points.

Story points are a way for your teams to improve themselves. If they don't understand that, then teach them. And never report the points (directly) to anyone above the project lead or perhaps one level above that. Any higher and they are too disconnected from both the team and the work to understand what they're seeing.

The only thing that higher ups should care about are trends up and down. Your team, after say 6 months, should be pretty steady in their performance if they're using story points correctly. Downward trends should be identified by them and their project lead early and addressed, and if it's an issue that may impact other teams they should communicate that up and out. Upward trends should be celebrated but also examined to see if some change could be duplicated elsewhere (an improvement to your build configuration resulting in faster feedback, adoption of a new development tool or technique, etc.).
> The Federal Reserve (which orchestrates interest rates to manage inflation and achieve full employment [two of its mandates]) is not part of the US government

Yes, it is. It's established by US statute, its board of governors is appointed by the President, and its personnel are paid by the US government. It is not considered part of any of the usual three branches of the US government (legislative, executive, judicial), but that doesn't mean it's not part of the US government.
Thank god at-least he realized it. Otherwise he was flying to the mars!
You are simply wrong.

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is a policy making arm of the United States Federal Government. It was created by and can be abolished by or have any of its functions changed or decisions overruled by statute, it's members are officers of the United States within the meaning of Article II, section 2, clause 2 of the US Constitution appointed by the President of the United States by and with the consent of the Senate.

Please stop spreading this nonsense. You may as well be telling people that they don't have to pay taxes because of the yellow fringes on flags in court houses.
Because information wants to be free.

This is "hacker" news, after all.
it's not political, it's just got a board entirely appointed by the president with consent of the senate and has a congressional mandate to do stuff...
For me at least it wasn't possible to consume enough straight up to feel the effects, but one time I put ground nutmeg into gel capsules and swallowed a ton of them. The first night I felt a mild sensation, but upon waking up the next day I was surprisingly high -- it's a bit like marijuana plus a pleasant warm feeling. Even in the capsules though I still felt a complete revulsion toward nutmeg for years afterward.
Is Agile solving this problem now? or has Agile gotten out of fashion?

* release often, release early, each release should function though with less features.
* break large goal to small steps, one step at a time.
* sprint every 2 weeks or 4 weeks.
* 15-min stand-up every other day
* etc,etc

I read some agile books in the past, and now I'm experiencing real Agile in sw development for the first time, so far I found it is quite effective comparing to my past projects, assuming you have some great scrum master and project-owner that are really good at the balance of arts.
That doesn't make any sense. Setting up the CI pipeline should be the first step, before writing any product code. It doesn't cost you any time, it saves time and allows for building more features faster.
Wouldn't this require hardware support in the underlying chip or (inevitably) slow emulation of tagged pointers?
>I just keep mine hooked up to my wired headphones.

This works great, until...

You leave the pair of headphones with the dongle behind by mistake and spend the rest of the day frustrated because you have access to a perfectly good pair of headphones but no the dongle.

Or you stick to one primary pair of headphones and are frequently taking the dongle on and off making it even easier to misplace or leave behind.
I'd take it one step further:

At Facebook scale, performance gains have huge returns (adding typing can improve pefromance), so they try to improve all parts of their infrastructure, not just PHP.

For example, Facebook's bolt for native code: https://code.fb.com/data-infrastructure/accelerate-large-sca...

PHP probably did have more low hanging fruit than say C, I'll give them that.
Just a normal amount of nutmeg in baked goods makes a noticeable difference and increase in my dreams.
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If my math is right, full utilizing this instance's network bandwidth makes one capable of streaming video at an AWS billing rate of over $11/second!
SUVs existed 30 years ago?

My family has one vehicle, an SUV. I'm a newish dad and I don't understand how you do parent stuff without an SUV. I would have to have multiple vehicles if I had a sedan.
Intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to issue value sometimes. Recent US political discourse seems to violate Sayre's law.
I'm not sure, but some paid software is provided for free to some reviews or other people... By the same line of thought... Is fine to pirate them?
It increased a thousand fold in Venezuela and Zimbabwe - I'm guessing here but it should get the point across
Looks like A72. Here's the cpuinfo:

processor	: 0
BogoMIPS	: 166.66
Features	: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer	: 0x41
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant	: 0x0
CPU part	: 0xd08
CPU revision	: 3
Well, my guess is that PHP offers a lot more to the beginner.

When you've been doing this a while, you can appreciate what e.g. Python gives you in structure, maintainability, and lack of foot-guns.

But when you're still in the "how does this work? Why won't this work? It worked!" phase, having less boilerplate, and fewer non-problem domain concerns (types? modules? tuples? Say what you mean, Old Man!) might be really valuable.

I think the best thing I remember about PHP is probably its online manual. Each library function had a few full use cases underneath.
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Can anybody tell the real reason behind this as the official reason doesn't seem to be the good one.
> Easy for people who have zero packages and no pressure to say.

If you have this "no warranty, no responsibility" attitude then how can you have pressure to maintain anything? How does that translate into pressure to hand off the project to strangers? Nobody asked for that.

> Don't contribute to OSS and you have no problems.

Yes, please don't contribute if you have this kind of attitude. It's harmful. If you can't maintain the package, deprecate it. Don't hand it over to an unvetted entity. If we can just agree on that M.O. we'll have a much better situation.

> If these huge companies profiting off OSS work actually contributed financially and with time, maybe maintainers would happily remain maintaining.

Ifs and buts and sugar and nuts. They don't contribute, they never have and they probably never will, you are responsible for your packages even if you are doing it voluntarily.
However you frame it, a very widely used package management system based essentially on trust and a community that doesn't expect any amount of responsibility with regards to those packages seems like a bad combination.
Why look at nominal though? Inflation adjusted makes a lot more sense to me, especially when we're talking about household income.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N

The story here is quite different - only a 19% increase, and much more unstable over the years. Most of the increase happened before 2000. Almost no change since then.
I'm curious if you think that Amazon might have actually improved your business, because now you can offer anyone who buys from Amazon better service & price? If you can find them.
It could be, but it isn't.