skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook is pretty rapidly ramping up their data center builds:

Prineville, Oregon	1/2010	780,000

Luela, Sweden	11/2010	290,000

Forrest City, North Carolina	11/2010	800,000

Altoona, Iowa	11/2013	2,600,000

Fort Worth, Texas	7/2015	2,500,000

Clonee, Ireland	1/2016	550,000

Los Lunas, New Mexico	9/2016	980,000

Odense, Denmark	1/2017	1,900,000

Papillion, Nebraska	4/2017	2,600,000

New Albany, Ohio	8/2017	970,000

Henrico, Virginia	10/2017	970,000

Prineville, Oregon	12/2017	900,000

Newton, Geogria	3/2018	970,000

Eagle Mountain, Utah	5/2018	970,000

Luela, Sweden	5/2018	970,000

Huntsville, Alabama	6/2018	970,000

Clonee, Ireland	7/2018	620,000

Prineville, Oregon	9/2018	970,000

Henrico, Virginia	9/2018	1,500,000

Singapore	9/2018	1,800,000

Esbjerg, Denmark	9/2018	2,600,000

For a grand total of:
27,210,000 sq ft and I'd guess about 2500-2700MW of power. All but singapore should be in operation by EoY 2020.
Interest is determined by the risk inherent in the debt. Think of it in terms of consumer credit. Whether a bank or credit card company lends you money at 5% or 15% has more to do with how creditworthy you are, then with how good a use you will make of the money. (Think TVs on installment plans)
here's a much better article on the subject of corporate debt [1]

basically the total amount of corporate debt has jumped, but corporate debt defaults have also decreased sharply

aka corporate debt has become safer, and investors are buying it up because it has been relatively safe and provided attractive returns

if interest rates begin to rise, corporate debt defaults could start increasing, potentially severely. mass defaults could trigger another crisis

"New McKinsey Global Institute research finds that one-quarter of corporate bonds in Brazil, China, and India are from companies that are already at higher risk of default even at today’s low interest rates.

If interest rates were to rise by 200 basis points [2%], that share could rise to as much as 40 per cent. In advanced economies, most corporate borrowers are in good financial shape, but there are pockets of acute vulnerability, for instance, among speculative-grade borrowers, and in certain sectors like energy and retail...

Is the next global financial crisis at hand? We do not think so. Unlike the subprime mortgages that sparked the previous financial crisis, defaults in the corporate bond market are unlikely to have significant ripple effects across the system.

While mortgages were packaged into securitised assets and multiple layers of synthetic securities were built upon them, the same is not true of corporate bonds. Losses will therefore be sustained by the direct bond owners, but the systemic risks seen in the previous crisis are minimal."

i agree, and a 2% increase in interest rates doesn't seem anywhere near possible with today's current combination of low productivity growth, low global capital demand, and easy liquidity (granted QE is starting to wrap up in the EU at least and the US is toying with the idea of raising rates against Trump's will)

of course this is a McKinsey economist/investment manager somewhat talking their book, so draw your own conclusions, but the FT article on the state of the corporate debt is much more well-researched and written

PS subscribe to and read the FT, you won't regret it. this CNBC coverage is complete garbage

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/bc1d327a-91c1-11e8-bb8f-a6a2f7bca...
Value is created out of thin air through work. Sometimes you need to invest before you can do that work. If your money supply doesn't reflect the increase in value that the economy provides through work, then you get deflation.
I don't use Chrome, and can honestly say I don't remember the last time I saw one of these messages.

Granted, the browser i use is Blink-based. Probably has something to do with it, but it is still _not Chrome_.
Build a healthy coral reef to get the job
There is this sense when you are young that your accomplishments need to...
People were saying Berkshire needed public succession plans for several decades before Buffett eventually created/disclosed them. The stock did really well during those decades, and virtually every other public company turned their CEO over many times.
I do not believe share repurchase programs are done "on margin".
Why not to use Nginx for this task?
STEM toys promise to turn kids into tech geniuses. Grown-up coders are skeptical
Loved this book. Didn't realize the codes had been cracked. Thanks for sharing!
We have an in-house schema migration utility. Due to the nature of our stack (mostly for historical/legacy reasons), we have multiple languages that can reach in and read different tables. We don't have code-generation ala RoR and a single service that we can update at the same time. We have many, many read slaves and a master DB that we update first in a backwards compatible manner, then update software to work with the new hotness. Disjointed by design. The migration tooling and its stack is orthogonal to our languages we use to write software.
> Let's just replace 'browser' with OS (ironically the similarities are becoming more with each passing day) above... would we still say the same?

From what I've seen, yes absolutely, as long as it is Linux.
I've been wondering why more companies don't do this. Simply re-locating the battery to the back would go a long ways towards this.
Loans fundamentally create virtual currency in the first place. Not to mention that if the economy has the same amount of value a year from now something has gone very wrong here - an entire nation of people working and yet they don't have more or better?

It brings to mind a reducto ad absurdum of fixed currency amounts with massive deflation where your grandfather's couch cushion change is worth more than a new couch as why absolute fixed currencies are unviable.
Smart ships using the wind and air bubbles to save fuel
Either you don't know what the word nutrient means, or you've been bamboozled--water does not/should not contain nutrients.
Bit harsh? This is about 20 lines of code. I'm pretty sure I can find time for more useful things alongside this
> Yes, there have been companies that called their thing open source even though it wasn't, by the OSI definition, and that's a shitty move. But my impression is that Confluent is not one of those companies.

When you take an open source project and re-license it under a proprietary license (without changing the name, the repository, etc), a lot of scrubbing will be required to erase all representations of the project as being open source.

For example here it took one page view and about 5 seconds to find an example: the ksql repo [0] still has the open-source tag.

[0] https://github.com/confluentinc/ksql
Obviously, Sherlock. The govt with the Fed are (or should be, if things don't spiral out of control) the economic governors. You can't talk about either one in isolation because they are symbiotic, not mythologically-utopian, hermetically-closed model boxes that can exist without the other.

The Fed will be pressured to reduce interest rates because corporations are playing Russian roulette too-big-to-fail brinksmanship and will expect a bailout as per usual.. an action the majority undertake will always be excused in a democracy because of political pressure.
No one I know of treats MSVS or Atlassian or whatever is under SCSL as open source.

Confluent was treated and used as open source and that changed.
If they borrow money to purchase the stock that's effectively what it is, a margin loan.
At a time where there's more software engineers, better communication and faster development than ever before... Why does it feel like less innovation is occurring?

Are people less creative when everyone's watching, learning and copying from everyone else? ...
>How likely do you suppose that this historian would be open to new information...

New "information", yeah, not very likely at all.

New "evidence", very likely indeed.

"Evidence", can be investigated for veracity. Information, is no better than you and I sitting around making up stuff.

I think that's a subtle but important distinction that I think a lot of people don't understand about the work of a historian. You have plenty of people who wrote down a story about Agincourt for instance. Plenty of people will still tell you some story about Agincourt today. But only a very, very, few of those stories are consistent with the evidence. For example:

----

Hmm, there are a shit ton of arrow heads at Agincourt.

Wow! They're all laying in EXACTLY the distribution that long dead historian X indicated given his account of the battle.

Hmm. None of them are where long dead historian Y indicated given her account of the battle.

----

You analyze historical site after historical site, and after a while, you figure out that the accounts of long dead historian X nearly always align closely with the physical historical evidence. So... yeah... naturally after a while, over the hundreds of years that pass, more and more historians start believing long dead historian X rather than long dead historian Y.
Motion sickness is a problem for _all_ VR headsets.

Even if the headset tracks in 6-DoF most games still need some form of artificial locomotion. Rarely is it acceptable for the entire game to take place in the same 5ft x 5ft space, and introducing artificial movement causes motion sickness for some people. Just letting users teleport doesn't always cut it.
The point is that the vast majority of the wealth was generated after the split.
I think that is the least charitable interpretation of him performing that gesture.

Another one interpretation is "Look how silly SJWs are to believe the 4Chan prank about this being a white power symbol. Let's continue to troll them."
Few mL/min is not enough cooling, that's the point. Way not enough to make a dent. Vapour phase is used in GPU interface already and is comparable to solid copper but lighter, why do you think merging a heatsink with the CPU will work when Intel has trouble even soldering the devices and leaves thick silicone layer on top?

We're talking about something to remove many watts. This means huge capillary volume to compensate for low flow. Which means a lot of heatpipe surface soldered somehow to IHS.

You'd have more success with solid copper layer which is sort of done where possible. (It's often not due to inductance.)
... or indeed publicfile.

* http://cr.yp.to/publicfile.html

* http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/djbwares/guide/httpd.html

* http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/guide/tcp-socket-accept.html

Some of the lessons not learned from publicfile by this include:

* It entirely lacks doco, having zero manual pages or even --help text. I strongly encourage remedying this as soon as possible. Start as you mean to go on, with decent user doco right from the beginning. Instil a culture of keeping the doco up to date as the program changes, and rejecting changes that do not keep the doco in synch.

* It uses a single logfile, with unbounded growth, potentially with superuser privileges, and yet another idiosyncratic logfile configuration mechanism. Just write to standard error and let the system's service/logging management take care of things. daemontools family systems will run it through multilog, cyclog, or similar. systemd will run it through systemd-journald. Both will do the proper rotation by the writer; and daemontools family loggers will even (conventionally) use unprivileged logging processes that cannot eat into the superuser-reserved emergency disc space.

* There is very poor error handling and recovery in some places. A particularly noteworthy example is that if the master cannot fork enough worker processes, which does happen in real life, it carries on regardless and erroneously falls into the child process code. M. Bernstein's approach was to error check everything, from out of memory conditions in string concatenations to the result of chdir().

* There's no protection at all against malicious client requests. Do not think that a server being read-only is enough. publicfile documents (q.v.) what it does to stop requests escaping the data directory root, to stop upwards directory traversals, and to avoid things like attempts to read from non-regular files.

* There's not even rudimentary virtual hosting.

There are a few other problems with this, such as the amount of static configuration information that is needlessly re-decoded on every read(), the laborious string handling and head-body parsing, and the faulty implementation of HTTP/1.1; but those aren't direct cases of not learning the fundamentals from existing static-content-servers as the aforementioned are.
If the buyback is funded with credit, it's done on margin. I'm not sure how prevalent that has been during the last bull run.
>You are not lending the entire economy and then demanding more than the economy be paid back.

You are right that you are not lending the entire economy, I was just making the example as simple as possible. But, the second interest is being charged then the demand of money back exceeds the actual money supply. What companies and investors do to increase revue for 1 particular organization has no effect on the money supply. All companies are doing are vying to try and redistribute the money that already exists in their favor, they aren't creating money (if they are that is called counterfeiting and is illegal).

> Even if that were the case, isn't that what QE does?

Yes, QE increases the money supply. I am not saying that the money supply doesn't get increased (by the Federal Reserve), merely pointing out the fact that once you get on this treadmill it just goes faster and faster and faster, and there is no way to get off without a disaster (bubble).
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Nor does "reward shareholders" necessarily mean stick buybacks. It could just as easily refer to paying out dividends.
I'll echo tokyodude. Not a valid comparison in the least. The biggest differentiator I can see is that Windows is not, and probably never will be, open sourced. Chromium is.

I would place myself squarely in the camp of those that don't see every browser using Chromium under the hood as a bad thing. It makes every company that has their own browser invested in improving together, for one thing. Also, compatibility across browsers will only get better if that is the case, which is also something that people tell horror stories about from the time when IE was king.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers#WebKit-ba...
I saw him in a parking lot at Stanford one time; I'd say 6' and change.
Thanks for the list, it is food for thought. Yesterday there was a discussion about pseudocode in HN with many interesting observations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18691446
This is why we got my mother in law a cell phone. Sharing photos is just a pleasant side effect :)
> So ironical. How's the taste of your own medicine? :)

How is this productive?
We're 21st century plumbers.
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Entertainment is a hit driven industry where the returns are highly nonlinear and the increase in return (whether measured in viewership, popularity, or dollars) goes up dramatically as you move up the success curve. Audiences have demonstrated without question that they prefer bigger movies (yes, I know, my big fat Greek wedding and Clerks, these are six sigma outliers that are fun to talk about precisely because they are outliers). The people who make films make them (gasp) to make money, because if their films don't make money they can't raise the money to make another one and they want to make more than one. They need to raise money because no one wants to see a film shot on a $6 budget, and no one wants to invest all that time and creative energy in a film no one will want to watch.
Size me judge do you?

;)
I don’t believe it’s fair to call the practice “unsustainable” without qualifications.

It’s just the opposite of issuing stock. Even when done with borrowed money, it is simply replacing one source of funding (investment) with another (debt). When interest rates are low, the latter becomes attractive. If/when they rise, trouble may ensue. But for a profitable company, the normal, entirely adequate, reaction would just be the reverse transaction, retiring the remaining debt with newly issued stock.
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It's a subsidy to grow their user base. Think selling gaming consoles at a loss to accrue a user base that buys more games.
In a few years many GNSS (Galileo, BeiDou, GLONASS) will update (or complete) their fleet and software, according to the respective schedules. So consumer electronics that can work with all of them will increase location precision and accuracy drastically.
I've never heard anybody complain that he didn't support Hillary, though I'm sure those complaints exist somewhere. In fact, I rarely hear anybody upset that somebody didn't support her - most people seem to either dislike her, politically, or, if they don't, to at least understand why others might. I think the issue is with his Trump support, and more specifically, the childish, antagonistic, damaging way he expressed it. Framing that simply as "non-Clinton-support" sounds a lot more harmless, and just seems like purposeful naivete for the purpose of shit-stirring.
Not OP but I would guess it refers to the differences in material learned and needed between school and work. School will teach you to implement sorts of varying complexity, when your day-to-day duties at work will be things you never covered in school like spin up an AWS instance, hook it up to a user experience metrics platform, basically anything to do with version control.
Heck, when government entities take on too much debt, the bond vigilantes get involved, interest rates spike upwards and bad economic things happen! Inflating your debt away will just save you from outright sovereign default - it won't save you from the bond vigilantes and from spiking nominal rates.
Firefox Focus isn't really designed to be a "long-term" browser, in my experience. My normal FF on Android has like 12 different tabs open at any given time, and I maintain logins on a few sites. Firefox Focus doesn't really intend for you to have more than one tab open at once (although it does support it), and its default functionality is to delete the browser history as soon as you close it.

I use Focus for quick, one-time things: open a quick article from my news feed, login to pay my credit card bill, etc., and then trash it.
precisely. I wholeheartedly agree with this statement as well. The differentiator? Linux, like Chromium, is open-source. I would welcome an OS monoculture with every OS being based upon a linux kernel.
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Lava should make water turn to gas and blow up!
That picture with Knuth and TeX is really beautiful to me.
Ok, so this journalist gets to spend WHOLE day with Knuth and all we get is some bits of history and quotes from couple of Google guys. Massively lost opportunity to provide window in this legends daily life, thoughts and habits...
- IT: Sanitation engineers

- Developers: Hazmat engineers

- CS: Civil engineers
But can we be kinder to each-other in these discussions?
> I’m not asking who owns the copyright (that part is clear, as it is for open source) — I’m asking who owns the copy of the work that I have modified?

Not a copyright lawyer, but honest question: what would it mean to “own” a digital copy? How would you define that ownership? Is it attached to specific devices? Should it make exception for multiple temporary copies? What tangible rights or advantages would that give the owner above and beyond the rights that copyrights currently provide to someone who acquires a legal copy?

I’m asking because it makes some sense to me that digital assets are handled differently than physical copies, because digital copies don’t transfer the same way. With digital assets, you don’t automatically relinquish a copy when you give yours to someone else. It can be incredibly hard to know exactly where your digital copies are physically located. It can be easy to have two or three or four copies sitting around and not know it. Perhaps one consumer advantage that licensing has over some notion of ownership is that you can legally have multiple copies, even make multiple copies, without violating copyright law.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v5eBf2KwF8

Something like this?
>Value is created out of thin air through work.

Value != money supply
3R is too on some levels.
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These are, however, changes to Chrome and not Chromium, right? Even with a move to Chromium, anyone/everyone is still going to be playing catch up to Google. Having an open source engine means next to nothing if Google plays these kinds of games, abusing its dominant position. Having Edge updates tied to OS updates seems to be more of a problem than EdgeHTML itself, unless there are other issues (and there probably are) in play.
(Or not, since “interesting” translates to “lynch mob” in this scenario on the open Internet.)
Just so we're clear, I definitely do not agree with this sentiment.
"defaults in the corporate bond market are unlikely to have significant ripple effects across the system"

Is there any reason to believe that we have got any better at understanding these kind of effects than before 2008? A lot of people were thinking they were safe in 2008 only to find out that they were just as doomed as everyone else.
The article mentions he is 6'4
MMT still has plenty to say about the private sector, as well as non-monetarily sovereign monetary systems, etc. It’s the common fiscal policy recommendations informed by MMT that mostly have to do with Government debt. It’s important to separate the theory from the policy - MMT is way more than just overt-money financing.

But yeah, the parent comment is confused, corporate debt (and private debt in general) is the real looming threat to worry about in a currency-issuing country that only issues bonds denominated in their own currency (such as the US) - not the Government deficit or debt.
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The market cap from US companies has grown from 19 to 32 trillion in the same period. [0]

It’s not accurate to look at single variables in isolation. Problems happen when the aggregate debt in an economy exceed the assets behind them, or the capacity to pay them down. [1] If we are there it’s because of govt and consumer (mortgage) debt. On the corporate side I think it’s just balance sheet efficiency. (Can write off debt payments)

[0] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/CM.MKT.LCAP.CD?start=20...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsky_moment
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Fascinating. I wonder what the counter-argument would be; that a website isn't software, perhaps? That argument could be sufficiently argued apart by equating manually downloaded/installed software with code that's manually downloaded (GET / host: youtube.com) and run in a browser context.

I'd be curious to see how likely Microsoft would be to follow this approach rather than to just stick to using Blink... as they've already decided to do.
> are unlikely to have significant ripple effects across the system.

Was said about the mortgages too.
Why is (was) this entirely truthful objection (see other posts) flagged? Is it now offensive to call anti-semitic myths, well, that? Even the original poster was (eventually, sort of) convinced.