skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right. The reservation ratio doesn't matter - we agree on this and have both stated it's irrelevant.

We're talking about average internet performance in a nation. This entire thread was kicked off by a comment about Akamai indicating the US as a whole has faster broadband than e.g. Germany.

The cost to wire up the US with an average speed of 2x that of Germany is absolutely an influencing factor in the cost of bandwidth to a consumer. We are talking about performance, not widgets. To double the performance of a nation's network from p to 2p, it is not unreasonable to expect that the cost is greater than double or greater than 3x the cost of performance p.

But, if you want to proceed from an analysis of marginal cost, we can do that as well. ISPs do not fit the model you are using.

Marginal cost for something like an ISP is not a single number. There may be 10,000 consumers with a marginal cost near 0. Then customer 10,001 may have a marginal cost that is "install a new backhaul to the network backbone and extra 10G or 100G routing equipment to serve your neighborhood". Obviously customer 10,001 doesn't get stuck with a bill of $100Ks to be added to the network.

You are attempting to pigeonhole an ISP into a model that assumes a single, flat fixed cost and (effectively) unlimited production of a good at a low marginal cost. That is not the industry we are in.

The fixed costs of an ISP are a stepwise function, not a constant. You cannot model an ISP effectively with an assumption of constant fixed costs.

All other things being equal, the marginal cost of a given customer is <cost of new network equipment or major network upgrade> / N, where N is the number of customers that can be served before the ISP has to install new routing hardware, or in the unhappy path lay new wire.

Now, it is obvious that I have simplified things above. ISPs do not build infra for N customers, then wait for customer N+1 to build out the infra for the next N customers. ISPs invest in their infra in long planning cycles. They cannot effectively build out in this manner in response to a single customer.

Thus, for years at a time, the supply of bandwidth is effectively fixed. With a fixed supply of bandwidth, they can only lease so much. We have agreed that the reservation amount per bandwidth leased is not relevant. The model you want to look at has a vertical supply curve.

Finally, the theory that says consumer price should be the producer's marginal cost is predicated on the assumption that barriers to entry are low. This is not at all the case in ISPs. There is lots of expensive hardware, and there is a significant amount of technical expertise required. Thus, we cannot apply the standard econ 101 model, because we have violated its assumptions.
> There is no employee shortage, ever. Just a shortage of businesses owners who are willing to pay market rate for labor.

Is the situation the same for housing? Is there never a housing shortage, just a shortage of people who are willing to pay market rate for housing?

If not, what are your thoughts on what the difference is?
Maybe not "required", but they are highly expected of you and you are only hurting your server if you don't. The expected percentage of your tip somehow keeps going up as well. It's a percentage so this makes little sense to me. The prices are already going up so the tip would also go up as it is a percentage of the base price. Regardless it has gone from an expected 10% 20 years ago to an expected 20% today.
You can absolutely run systemd in a container. Red Hat has put a lot of work into this arrangement.

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2016/09/13/running-system...
Hence ACH. Greed and stupid combined.
I'm preeeety sure each and every restaurant owner is keenly aware of how their business will fluctuate if they change prices. This is their livelihood after all.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18668536
>Also, It had extremely low home ownership rates so the lower class didn’t even own homes in these areas but made money for westside landlords.

How will increasing rents (and property values) across the city help solve this lack of ownership? Is it possible the problem gets worse by adding more "rich" workers?

>South congress was full of crackheads and prostitutes as early as the 90’s.

Isn't it likely that there were also working class people struggling to get by who appreciated low rents?

>any immigrant can get a construction job and make a great living for themselves.

And what will they do when construction slows due to recession or other factors?

You might want to re-asses this comment from the perspective of the people who actually lived in these "terrible places" that were a "no go at any time of the day". They might have a different view than you.
Sorry but this is still pretty hand-wavy :-) I’d be happy to discuss a specific “before” and “after” code example.

There’s neither methods nor properties in Hooks code. I think you might be doing the same thing you think we are doing — you’re projecting the API you see onto the metaphors that feel more familiar to you. But these metaphors don’t really match what the API is doing or what it represents.

But again, this discussion is fruitless without specific code examples to anchor it.
For a Republican that article is a praise.

Your article is not about how he's corrupt, it's how he can whip votes and control the senate.

He's majority whip, it's his jobs to get votes, most of the time you have to make deals.
"He talks about strong or weak "bones" and contends that this sort of stick-built construction doesn't have good strong "bones.""

I used to have this bias and, to some degree still do - at least aesthetically.

However, after building two homes I have come to really appreciate the strength and earthquake resiliency of stud walls clad with plywood sheathing. This kind of shear-wall structure is very strong and quite inexpensive.

A "good building" made of brick or stone - like you see in Europe and the East Coast (and that I find very aesthetically pleasing) are very, very fragile to earth shaking.

I don't think the "bones" are the problem - the problem is the dressing. Double thick insulation in the walls, noise isolated (or simply double-thick) sheetrock and a 1/4 layer of rubber between the subfloor and the flooring surface (and perhaps some other ingredients) are all you need to make a studwall/stickbuilt structure very, very "solid" and noise isolated, etc.
Anyone figure out how he got medium to redirect?

Is see he uses an intermediary redirect (not sure why):

https://medium.com/nomad-gate/estonian-e-residency-ultimate-...

->

https://tkrunning.com/estonian-e-residency-ultimate-guide-ba...

->

https://nomadgate.com/estonian-e-residency-guide/

I'm guessing here but maybe medium allows redirect to tkrunning.com for some reason, and it in turn allows redirects anywhere.
>So imagine the stock market drops and you go to your "checking account" and that has dropped too! To me, the concept of such a "checking account" violates my basic assumptions of how I think about my cash holdings vs. my security holdings.

FWIW, some Vanguard bond mutual funds (most of the investment-grade ones) allow you to write checks against them, and those funds can lose value.

I can't find an easy link that says which specific ones, but here's their policy:

https://personal.vanguard.com/us/whatweoffer/accountservices...

Note: this isn't a general checking account that permits debit card usage, and each check must be for at least $250. But right now, you can use their Prime money market fund, which aims to avoid loss of capital ("breaking the buck" is very rare) and write checks against it, and it yields ~2.3%

https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/profile/VMMXX
Why is a question like this being downvoted? It seemed honest and in good faith – what is it that leads to organizational ossification and stagnation. It might be different factors in different industries.
So under this system if I walk up to your door mistakenly before realizing I'm at the wrong place, the police will be alerted any time I walk past a house.
The shortage, at least in SF, is fundamentally housing. Raising waiter's wages until they can outbid nurses and programmers on apartment rent, and then those professions will flee the city. Housing isn't necessarily inflexible in supply, but policy in California has allowed tiny minorities of people to stop housing from being built, while commercial building continues with little restriction.
Windows 3.1 Memory Limits
Great idea. I doubt it will happen.

The most likely outcome of this is that prices go up to factor in a 20% “tip”, the owners/managers keep part of it and pay the workers only slightly more. The formerly tipped position will end up making less.

Another possible (non-cynical) outcome is that the 20% is spread out to both front and back of the house staff. Again, wait staff make less.

If the wait staff stand to make less, they will never stand for changing the system. That’s why I doubt that it will ever change in the US.

Is the system reasonable and/or fair? Good question. Whatever the answer, it’s the system we’ve got, and the inertia is real.
Batch of tiny NASA satellites are about to launch with Rocket Lab
To secretaries, who constituted 6 percent of the American work force then, Redactron word processors arrived in an office like a trunk of magic tricks, liberating users from the tyranny of having to retype pages marred by bad keystrokes and the monotony of copying pages for wider distribution.

The “tyranny” of retyping pages? But we find their liberation extended further just a few lines below...

Modern word processors...killed off the need for most of the old-fashioned secretarial skills Ms. Berezin was trying to enhance.

“I’m embarrassed to tell you that I never thought of it — it never entered my mind” that the word processor might endanger women’s jobs, Ms. Berezin said in an interview for this obituary in 2017.

Why does an article in the New York Times have to flex and bend to give a liberation angle to a word processor?
Epic will let other game developers use Fortnite’s cross-platform tools for free
> Whatever Curator does should really be part of ES itself.

It is becoming part of ES. Index Life Cycle management UI is coming up in Kibana.

> The Kibana + ELK combo won't give you things like log tailing (logtrail is hackish and hard on the servers)

Recently, in 6.5.0 log tailing was added. Now one can look at streaming logs live.

> The log forwarders are horrible to work with (be it logstash, filebeat – or worse: fluentd)

I'd like to know the problem you faced.
In answer to your metacomment. The financial crisis is a strong indication that, yes financial firms can be terrible at math. Luckily, they have friends who can bail them out with taxpayer money when they fail at math.
Romania is probably the only country in EU that is moving back instead of going forward. The corruption is killing this country and the vast majority of the people are to weak and greed, so they accept the salary and pension increases to stay quiet... Too bad, in a world with so much access to information and especially history, the populism and socialism still thrive in a country like Romania.

PS: I am from Romania.
But also, worth asking oneself "Are search engine companies likely to be bad at searching?" and "If geeks could make a search engine, is a $50 million revenue search engine company incapable of hiring their own geeks?"
That seems like a superfluous designation. A business model where you can’t afford the inputs doesn’t seem like much of a business.
“User Account Takeover-I just need your email id to login into your account”
> As far as I'm concerned, posting any content of value on any platform or service that you don't pay for and don't have a good control over is a bad idea. It doesn't matter if it's Medium or Facebook or Instagram or Quora or anything else.

Playing devils advocate for a moment: what about HN?

I get this place generally behaves differently but the points you discuss doesn't explicitly exclude HN.
I think this is a really neat idea, but I'm a little concerned about how they store data.

>My health data is secure and private. Health Wizz does not share my data with anyone. Period.

I get the feeling that I would interpret that claim differently than how they mean it. I would expect that to mean that they either don't store my info on their servers, or they e2e encrypt it such that only I (or anyone to whom I give some access permissions) can access it. I.e., I would expect that Health Wizz employees cannot access my health data, unless I specifically allow them to.

But I'm sure that's not the case. At the very least it's not provably the case that they can't access it - their word is really the only assurance.

Bottom line, if they're storing my data in an unencrypted form, or in an encrypted form where they have the means to decrypt it, I'm a hack away from having very personal details exposed.
^ Underrated post.
I have a hard time understanding how deepfake change the game : we could already use doubles/actors and trick footage if we wanted to forge a video.

We might become more critical of videos but footage from an untrusted source has never been reliable.
Titanic made headlines because it was rich upper class people on board.

Coupled with the absurdity of a situation where the ship sinks slowly and people drown due to lack of lifeboats (among other things).
> It is definitely possible but there’s so many more places you could make a mistake if each custom Hook has to do bookkeeping like this. I don't know if I could write or extend the code you wrote without making quite a few mistakes in the process. By comparison, I find following a rule like "calls should be static" much simpler.

The book keeping could be moved into a couple of utility functions - it’d be largely the same for most custom hooks.

I’m also not sure relying on a linter is necessarily going to make static call Hooks simpler. Poorly written hooks are going to be buggy whether they’re Symbol keyed or not. I think that one of the big disadvantages of static call Hooks would seem to be that incorrect conditional usage could still accidentally work.

> My post does mention that we care about copy paste experience

I think I misunderstood that section when I first read it - it makes sense now. I’m not convinced it’s a huge win though.

> I later go into why allowing conditional declarations of state or effects isn’t even particularly useful or desirable because the semantics are too confusing.

We’ll have to agree to disagree - while I’m not eagerly wanting to use Hooks in conditionals, I dont think the semantics are that confusing.
How does public transportation in Germany compare to the US?
I think it gets more problematic when the data is shared and human judgement is eliminated. What happens if someone is lost in a neighborhood and accidentally displays "suspicious" behavior in multiple locations? They are then logged in a database as a suspicious person and potentially pointed out to law enforcement as a suspect without any chance to explain themselves. I don't think this technology would be quite as bad if the data was kept local to a house, but as is there could be so many terrible consequences.
+1 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance :)
You are just wrong. Being unable to overcome bureaucracy or organizational tech debt is not a matter of stupidity, and various actors up and down the hierarchy can have misaligned incentives that ensure it remains contentious and political.

Furthermore, many boutique investment business exist for purposes of client services and plausible deniability on part of the client’s board.

I’ll give you a concrete example from when I worked in an asset management company. One client was a large pension fund for a state’s retired firefighters.

We showed them time and again a variety of enhancements to the basic portfolio construction product they bought from us, particularly in line with their overall goal of balancing investment in certain sectors across different asset managers to reduce risk.

They were not interested, not even on the basis of paying reduced fees for a simpler process. We also talked to them at length about why using a concentrated benchmark for that product (SP500) was a bad idea. Again, not interested.

After some months where our performance was pretty flat in that portfolio against SP500, pretty much as we told them we predicted it would be, they fired us.

In the client exit interview with two members of their board, they basically told us that each year they have to fire a certain number of the asset managers they do business with, in order to appear proactive and justify getting bonuses for taking action.

They obviously didn’t say this directly, but it was clear enough. They ended the call by saying they would be super excited to review re-investing with us later the next year, presumably at which time they have to do musical chairs with which asset managers they hired & fired to look proactive again.

Internally, some of my older mentors on the portfolio management team badically said this was the business. Nobody cares what math you use for investing at all. Everybody just uses super stupid linear regression based on outdated factor models from 40 years ago, all using the same data from the same big data vendors.

As long as you have hilariously over-credentialed PhDs selling linear regressions based on momentum or price-to-earnings, the clients are happy because you are cover-their-ass hire & fire insurance to them, nothing more.

It would not be hard at all for skilled amateurs to outperform these shops.
That's true, it is more expected than not. I feel bad if I leave too low of a tip. Unless the waiter actually did a really bad job, which happens - fortunately not often.
Good point. There's a role for both.
Logitech: “Options” Craft WebSocket server has no authentication
I could quip that "Here's what Trump tweeted today" is the evergreen content, because you always know what Trump tweets are going to be like. But that wouldn't be a HN-worthy comment, so I won't.
The problem is the cost of rent for individuals and businesses. Asides from housing costs, SF's cost of living is pretty standard for a city (a little higher than most, but depends on the area). There just are not enough housing units in the Bay Area. Worse, the new units entering the market tend to be mostly market rate, with a few "affordable" units thrown in.

Raising wages will never fix the problem. SF needs to build up or change laws to deincentivize people from living there (e.g. higher taxes on high-income tech workers). The latter has other issues associated with it, but would at least encourage the decentralization of tech talent to other parts of the country.
> Did construction industry have anything like GDPR happen to it in the last 20 years?

You mean like regulations and building codes so that we don't have incidents where apartment buildings collapse like in China?

Some tests to get certain architecture certification require them to literally memorize different rules from everything to how close an AC unit can be to certain things. There are a LOT of rules to follow.
This was discussed here extensively a few months ago.
You seem to be living behind a pretty good bullshit filter. Be grateful!
My comment covers that. If you’re hauling large trailers daily, a pickup truck is for you. I would not haul a horse trailer with my S, but a flatbed trailer with various reasonable loads is fine (generators, a golf cart, lawn equipment, etc).
Knowing a few people in the restaurant biz, no, many of them are very bad on the business side and big on the passion side.
Preventing “Revenge of the Ancillaries” in DevOps
This is not about "Big Corps" but more about the voter mentality. For some unknown reason people across the political spectrum totally buy into the claims of "creating jobs" and "protecting jobs".

None of the average voter bothers to actually do the math to see the cost of the job. Trump's tariffs for example might have protected 500 jobs at the cost of $500M to American consumers. But this math is beyond most people.

Corps will surely love low tax regions and I think that is a good thing. Big Taxes only lead to bigger government than invariably leads to disasters for small people like us.
Because it makes it easier for us to abuse, exploit and murder them.
Also, RISC-V doesn't have a flags register. Instead fused cmp+jmp branching instructions.
Not an expert in this domain but I'll cover the basics: ecurities are a euphemism for stocks and similar. Banks have been loaning out the money you deposit since the beginning of time; it's how they make money. They don't keep all the cash that people have deposited on hand, which is why a "run on the bank" was problematic in the past. They basically keep enough cash around ("reserves") so that the average withdrawals don't get them into trouble. And yes, you are certainly not choosing the investments that the bank makes with your money. And they're not "your" investments: the bank pays you a small fee (3% in this case) and then takes risks with your money to make a higher return and keep the difference.

I'd recommend reading up on the Federal Reserve (The Creature from Jekyll Island), the modern financial system (any of Michael Lewis's books, especially Boomerang and The Big Short), and maybe the first global banking families (The Medicis: Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance). We're talking about the power structure of the world here and it's good to be informed on the main points.
What specifically about the 2016/679 directive allows the government to fine a company or individual for not revealing their source?
The author's primary complaint seems to be that Medium does not update the pubdate when articles are updated, consequently Google and other search engines give the article diminishing relevance over time. This strikes me as more of a problem with search engines than with Medium.

In my experience, modern search engines give far too much relevance to date, especially for evergreen content. I am purveyor of evergreen articles, and it is sincerely quite obnoxious to put a lot of research and effort into an original article, only to have some flip shop do a lazy rewrite a few months later, citing my article as its primary source, yet ranking higher in search because it is newer. It's a perverse incentive that encourages low-effort regurgitators, and discourages original work. Grumble, grumble.
No, they're not. The judge blocked the effort to raise minimum wages, IIRC.

The OP is basically correct that restaurant owners don't want to raise pay rates to a level that meets a "living wage" standard. They don't want to raise what they charge customers to the point where they could pay those rates, of course--but I'm not sure there's particularly good data to support the assumption that their customers would balk at doing so. These are restaurants with wait staff in high-cost cities, and raising the average ticket price per diner by $2 or $3 may not be enough to dissuade very many diners from choosing that restaurant. (I mean, I'm sure there's somebody out there who'd look at a menu and say, "I'd pay $28 for that flat iron steak, but $30? No deal!", but it seems like it'd be uncommon.)
The bandwidth is asymmetrical with limited upstream and up to 1 Mbit/s downstream.
So...what? If this is a problem, restaurants will pay their waiters more until they can live in the city. If it's not a problem, they will not.
Rent has less elasticity than food.
What FPGA do you need to use for this cpu otherwise? I would think that it would be a lot cheaper to have one locally if you were still developing or testing out your application or code.