skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon manufacturer/distributor of home and kitchen goods here - the rule of thumb is that if it's <$20 (and especially if it's <$10), Amazon's pricing structure to its third party sellers basically compels low dollar items to be more expensive than retail.

Basically we pay Amazon $1 or 15% of sale (whichever is higher + ~$2.50 for shipping before anything else, so after margins and what not that's a minimum of $4 going to Amazon for marketing and logistics. That's why low dollar 1-pack items feel like price gouging -- there's been years of A/B testing on the marketplace that shows a $4.99+free ship item is way more attractive than $1.99+$3 shipping.

Amazon itself sells stuff direct from manufacturer at a loss or breakeven-ish cost for items under $3 because they can, but even those prices aren't hugely sustainable and they play around with algorithmic pricing themselves over time.

Retail logistics for low dollar items is a Hard problem. :|
Have moderately-sized releases - don't try to do everything at once. Have good unit tests, good automated acceptance tests, and a good QA team. This has worked pretty well for us. It broke down when we tried to do too many releases at about the same time.
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Millennial voting choices have been the right ones.
Unfortunately they continue to be drowned out by Boomers who routinely vote for the most conservative, reactionary candidates available.
Another Google product bites the dust
Right. Every generation blames the next (a tale as old as time), while not examining their role in it. Which would be much more productive.

See Jonathan Haidt's book "The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure" for an insightful examination.
The product is obviously amazing, and I know for a fact that it's creating credit opportunities for consumers with credit history that may not accurately reflect their current financial status, but there is an insidious aspect to the product: the 6 months of future access to transactions and banking information. Most consumers don't realize they're giving this up when they use your product and I believe they would be much less likely to use it if they were aware.
There's actually multiple branches of PUBGMobile, a Chinese version (called TIMI) and the rest of the world (Lightspeed/Quantum.) Both were begun and developed in parallel, are pretty close in gameplay and mechanics but each has their nuances. The TIMI version notably has most of the premium clothing and items for free since lootbox systems are considered gambling in China. Also, green blood.
It is conceivable that capitalism is not necessarily the best economic system for stability and sustainability. There is no reason wealth and income inequality should be so high. Why should most of humanity suffer so that we at the top can take and take?

Downvotes from the cowards, of course. Let's all continue to sit at the top and wait for the guillotines, pretending like we're not part of the problem.
My limited understanding of erlang/elixir is that it helps easily run actor model programs (fail-safe loosely defined as something with retries built-in) in a grid of long-running interconnected instances. With more and more focus on "serverless" development that I am being exposed to, I am curious to know if it is a good fit in this space. Say if you are constrained to use AWS serverless solutions - sqs, sns, dynamodb, lambda, cognito, api-gateway ... etc, with event-sourcing (for event-drivenness) with retries (automatic/configurable), (why) would using erlang/elixir vs say nodejs/typescript/go/haskell/java be a good choice (let's assume you equally love these languages for the sake of not getting in to 'but X is better than lang Y')?
having recently swapped 100tb of spinning media to ssd I am awaiting the first failures. now being a business environment it is all mirrored capacity. so I guess my question is from the article, are they running on a single device? No raid or mirror?

I am loathe to even keep my personal data at home on one drive and since I use an iMac that requires me to have time machine as mirroring/etc of the internal drive is not truly possible; at least I did not spend enough time researching it
Not disagreeing with your points, but internal traffic is free between the same AZ on AWS
It matters. The existence of backups don't change that. If you have a failure (be it hardware, software, or PEBKAC) that requires you to restore from a backup, that means that you're going to suffer system downtime and you'll have to be spending your own personal time restoring things. Those are not cheap, and we haven't even talked about the cost of new hardware.
Yes, this is why us 10%ers have a responsibility to the 90%.

At the same time, I'm not sure how you can reasonably say things like 'The cost of goods went up'.

If you want to blame government inflation, sure, but the cost of technology has plummeted in the last 10/20/30 years. Food is the cheapest its ever been, cost to move a mile cheapest, etc...

Its not genuine to speak that prices are going up.
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The problem is mostly a documentation problem and education problem.
As the son of boomers and parent of two millennials my observation is that it was my generation handing out those trophies (not that I agree with the practice, quite the contrary). I didn't get participation trophies when I was a kid and I was a perfect candidate because I was awkward and uncoordinated and never won a thing for coming in first place (in sports anyway).

But I saw my kids get them here and there...
Ha. In 2000, there were about 9 million Americans between 18 and 20 years old, and about 200 million people older than 20.

Even now, people 20-40 are a minority of the voting populace.

It is unfair to blame the outcome of all the elections, and hence the policies of the last 20 years, on a minority people eligible to vote.
It's much more than that.

They have destructed 100's of billions of dollars of capital.
Why not Linux, then? Why pay "the Apple tax"?
And then they left SVB to try again

https://treasuryprime.com
Drive onto ranch land with a hot exhaust system, pull off the road into tall grass, start a 200 acre grass fire, and try to use that line of reasoning with a with a straight face.
You know what really kills a relationship? Distrust.

Something our intelligence community has been fostering for... Well, what timeframe do I specify? But the past 15 - 20 years have brought something of a nadir.

And the corporate world isn't faring much if any better.

Reassurances don't seem very reassuring, these days...
I can. I used to work at GoDaddy and they have an "Executive Domain Team" that is basically just a fancy word for a group of people that assist domain kiters. If you search for a domain on GoDaddy's whois, they put a hold on it and publish the list to potential domain "investors" (read: kiters) who then have the option of purchasing it out from under you. These are people that literally invest thousands of dollars to buy up domains on the off chance that they can resell them at a profit. Anytime there's a sunrise period on a new domain TLD, these guys go in and buy all the popular and common names wholesale and they have a dedicated person that works at GoDaddy to help them do this.

Anytime you have a question about whether something is a scam or not, just ask yourself where the money is. In this case, it's in GoDaddy making money off of any time a domain name is sold, re-sold, auctioned, or if it changes hands. It's where the majority of their money made comes from, outside of services where people just don't know that better alternatives exist.
I think it works both ways. My Millennial daughter and her friends looks at their parents lifestyle and say "not interested". Not interested in a big house in the boonies filled with stuff you don't want and don't need. They seem to want experiences rather than stuff. That's having a positive effect on the service economy and a negative effect on the stuff economy.
That's the big difference for me. Drive's making tictictick sounds? Kernel log full of bigScaryErrorsLikeThis? It's time to ditch that disk before the disk ditches you. Make it happen. Panic-Backup if you need to. etc.

Every SSD failure I've had, the failure mode was "what SSD?"

Now, I realise most people should ponder their backup regime before the tictictick, not after. But as the phrase goes "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best is now." The SSD equivalent is "The be- nope, too late."

They're just terribly unforgiving, which doesn't fit with a culture that values cure over prevention.
Just thinking you have poor endurance genes changes your body
Same here. IME, DO is a great choice for many projects, because it's inexpensive, straightforward and reliable. I wouldn't trade any of those 3 attributes for "innovative".
All the more reason to use R, pandas, SQL and other open source, database projects.
Do I understand correctly that they provide the manager nodes for free?
What if there is some truth to such /similar allegations and Bloomberg knows that SunMicro would never sue, discovery and all. If during discovery it is shown that SunMicro dropped the ball 7 years or 5 months ago, it's no good news for their stockholders.
Says it right in the marketing

"Secure Host Names on Different Base Domains in One SSL Certificate: A Wildcard Certificate can protect all first-level subdomains on an entire domain, such as *.example.com. However, a Wildcard Certificate cannot protect both www.example.com and www.example.net."

That is in fact, a wildcard certificate, just not directly advertised as such.
Dell votes to buy back VMware tracking stock and go public again
It wasn't auto in my case because I was getting errors till I defined it in Windows 10.
Thanks for this youtube link. In the case of recovering deleted files from SSD's that have the trim command enabled (Forensics Writeblocker was used,) the following drives have a low probability of recoverability: Crucial, Intel, and Samsung (3core controller). Whereas Seagate, Supertalent (parallel ATA to SATA bridge chip,) OCZ, and Patriot; files could be recovered. If the drive is quick-formatted, and if trim is enabled, the data is completely gone on the following drives: Crucial, Intel and Samsung. The trim state impacts the most whether or not the data can be recovered. You can check if trim is enabled with the command: fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify - if your result is 0, it is enabled (default).
If you ever kill anyone with your car, your post will be used as evidence in court against you. I don't think it was too smart to post this, honestly.
First, we get articles blaming Millennials for things.

Then, as people start to push back (prior to this article), we have off-hand mentions that every generation blames the younger/older generation.

But is this really equivalent? My (limited) understanding is that the Boomers were themselves quite exceptional - we're in the longest era of global-level peace, the Boomers themselves WERE a "boom" of population, the extended middle class of the 50s was an anomaly, etc. Add to this that Millennials face new issues in ways that other generations haven't: climate change is literally a sea-level change, education is more costly, communication is more global, and of course, for the US and many other countries, the next generation that will support them is much smaller rather than larger. Certainly there are parallels to previous generational conflicts, but I don't see a reason to shrug this off as just normal.

I'm GenX, and the articles when I was hitting the workforce were dismissive and condescending, but in a "aw, they're young and naive" as opposed to "they are failures as human beings" that I read in a lot of the Millennial coverage.

Does anyone know of studies into whether this IS just normal inter-generational gripes?
Google Fusion Tables to be shut down on December 3, 2019
Trump administration to condemn China over hacking and economic espionage
Their homepage even says "The simplest cloud platform for developers & teams". Their goal is simplicity, not bleeding edge.
Crucial is using low grade NAND on some of the products:
https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/a4uwag/spectek_fl...
It is true by all available quantifiable metrics.

EDIT: From your own source:

>academic year

That is the budget for one, 1, uno, academic year. There are typically 4 academic years required for the majority of degrees.
i've never seen or heard of an automated board rework system. thinking about the steps and things i've had to do to manually rework boards, your machine would need not only be able to apply force to pull parts off of boards without damaging the board, but also be prepared to restore pads / through holes to usable states after desoldering parts, before new ones could go back in.

there's a reason companies don't repair circuit boards in consumer electronics.
You're claiming they can be compelled to lie.
In 2000, the millenial voting bloc would have been like 1% of the total US voting population. Are you seriously laying the blame on 18 years old and not the 19 to 120 year old that make up almost all the votes? Also decisive in what way? Between Bush and Clinton? Or Obama and McCain? Trump or Clinton? Republican or Democrat? Why didn't previous generations make the "decisive" vote? Seems like whichever side you vote for, things don't get any better. Wars don't stop. And the rich get richer. But yes, lets blame those pesky 18 years old of 2000. Also, are millenials supposed to vote as a unit? I thought we were all individuals.
Godaddy is a scam and a massive domain squatter.
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Puzzles.

Building with legos.

Cooking simple recipes.

Washing their own hair.
Replacing an SSD in a modern Apple laptop is literally impossible. You need to replace the whole dang laptop (or motherboard, whatever they call it these days), which is not something a user can do.

Thank goodness for Backblaze, Time Machine, Carbon Copy Cloner, Drobo and Synology. Maybe I have gone overboard, but I have not lost any data in 12+ years.
The Mongolian Empire lasted for centuries as a series of successor states. It wasn't a collapse. It was just divided among the family. Those states stayed stable for quite awhile, with one of them taking over China.
Hopefully they offer easy upgrades and high availability. I always loved the simplicity of their services.
Would also love a way to deploy 1 app to multiple locations with ease
If someone has a habit of turning in a whole
bunch of scooters that didn't have GPS
available for X days before, ban them.

You've just banned your best guy, Wader Wayne, the only guy in the city who was retrieving scooters that vandals had chucked in the river.

Now he's complaining on your employees' subreddit everyone said he was doing a great job and his numbers were really good, that no-one else should invest in equipment to do the same work, and that you've ruined Christmas for his family by cutting off their only source of income. The Guardian is going to interview him for their article on job insecurity in the gig economy.
You assume that public transit is immune to traffic jams somehow? I've spent 45 minutes on the bus to travel the 12 blocks it takes to get out of downtown Minneapolis!
You are correct and I was unclear. My statement is that you and ONLY you now own them. You've essentially forked the project and lost your community.
I think a lot of people know the I as "Independent" these days since RAID is usually an enterprise feature with enterprise costs.
Why ? There is no such legal concept. Manslaughter is criminal law and criminal law only applies to people.

In other words, either that woman watching hulu behind the wheel is responsible, or perhaps some other employee, but a person is.

The corporation is a legal fiction that was not driving any car for the same reason the tooth fairy wasn't riding a pink unicorn next to it.
No they don't. At least not in the way that GoDaddy does it... NameCheap does this with domains that have expired and domains that are searched and reserved but fail for some reason. Since part of the service they provide is contingent on covering for people in the event of failures (missed renewals, misspellings, etc.), NameCheap auto-renews domains and reserves variations of others when they're registered. If the user doesn't end up actually renewing the domain, they mark it up and sell it as a premium domain since they now have paid for a domain without a buyer. NameCheap mostly does this as a service for existing customers. GoDaddy, on the other hand, does it explicitly for the revenue they can generate from desperate people who need domains they previously searched for.
Yes, this is the pricing model for everyone except EKS/AWS as I understand it. Manager nodes are bundled with whatever you spend on your worker nodes.

Google has gone so far with GKE as to offer HA masters distributed across availability zones at no extra cost. (On the day that Amazon announced EKS general availability, if I remember correctly, which is priced at $250/mo base cost, before you even get around to spend anything on worker nodes.)
I was happy with Namecheap until they redesigned their website and included a tonne of JS which slowed everything down. Doing something as simple as changing an A record became unbearably sluggish, and I tend to think I have a fairly high tolerance for that kind of thing.

I gave them a few months to see if it was teething problems with the new design but it persisted. Eventually I moved everything to gandi, which has been better in every way as far as I can tell - cheaper (for me), better website, better features out of the box.
How the Equifax breach happened
Indeed. (Except that "WSL" should be read as "Windows Substitute for Linux.")
Google moves up Google+ consumer shutdown to April 2019
My father had the same concept in getting into a car crash early in my driving life. "Now that you have gotten that out of your system (and I'm glad you're fine), don't ever do it again."
I just wanted to drop in and point out this author has published a couple excellent books analyzing the engines behind the popular first-person-shooter games Wolfenstein 3D[0] and DOOM[1]. Excellent reads if you're interested in the inner workings of these games (and by extension, others like them)! (Yes, he links the DOOM one in the article, but wanted to call them out specifically as being awesome ;))

[0] http://fabiensanglard.net/gebbwolf3d/
[1] http://fabiensanglard.net/gebbdoom/
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What is the time scale for increasing the bounty vs how long it takes to charge a scooter?

If we give the 'hoarders' the benefit of the doubt, could it be the bounty is increasing while they have a bunch of scooters queued up to charge? They grabbed 20 in their truck, and it takes 5 hours to charge 1, but they only have 2 outlets, but the bounty goes up every 12 hours, so they have a backlog?
Who is the person wearing a hat-mustache-eyeglass setup behind and right of Sundar Pichai?
What's the disadvantage or advantage of headless chrome over chrome with head intact?

Is headless chrome faster? Can we control popup windows in headless one? Does it support proxies? Is it possible to control tabs? Close and open in new tab etc...
Pure fear mongering is "there's a migrant caravan of MS-13 rapist drug dealers and ISIS coming from South America with polio and smallpox".

The 10% number according to the twitter feed you linked is characterized as "unlikely and many things would have to go wrong to get there"

I'm sorry, but in a world that elected Donald Trump, "unlikely and many things would have to go wrong" is a cold comfort.
So now that's managed K8S, managed databases, load balancers, a cloud firewall that's partially VPC like, object storage and block storage.

Curious what's next. Lambdas maybe?
> I might have faulty memory, but this is not some minor detail. It is world changing.

I never had Firefox crash on me, so I never saw it as a selling point.

I however saw tabs crash all the fucking time in Chrome, so to me it just seemed like a workaround for bad engineering.

If anything was world changing to me, it was that now we were being told that tabs crashing all the time was normal.
> "socializing losses, privatizing gains"

I also have never head it put quite this way, and realize how true it is. One example is American Football stadiums. Get the people to pay for it and charge them to go there.
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We are heavily invested in AWS. AWS is not cheaper, but it doesn't mean it's prohibitively expensive when you consider everything it offers. What people tend to ignore are the other things it offers. For example, the parent talks about data transfer costs, but that's just one aspect of cost.

The real big cost in any organization is head count. And while a load balancer is not difficult to setup and maintain the first time, managing it becomes time consuming in a large enough organization. Couple that with everything else...

If someone can replicate what AWS is doing at a lower cost, people would move to them. But there are few companies out there that come close. Bandwidth cost is generally not your biggest expense.
Unless you're talking about some board game like "Risk", I believe the causes of international war and peace are a little more complicated and nuanced than the "more or less equality" of their militaries, if that could be even objectively measured or absolutely known. Do you really think "military inequality" was the root cause of WWI and the Civil War?
My accounting professor use to always say, "You get what you measure."

It didn't seem as so insightful then, but as I navigate this world, I get it.
One thing we ran into while debugging a few weeks ago is lack of support in firefox for debugging open streams. That is a feature I would like to see implemented, because it works beautifully in chrome.

For me I am using firefox-esr with noscript, privacy badger, https-everywhere and vimium. I'm extremely happy with my web workflow.

Another thing for me is that firefox seems to be easier to lock up. Twice this week I had issues where firefox locked up. The first was trying to render a dropdown select with several thousand items (blame the prom explorer for that) and the second was rendering some graphs, which while not fast in chromium, certianly did not cause problems.

I shared this link earlier internally on slack because I think it makes a fair point that applies to many David-and-Goliath marketplaces, namely that "not" being Goliath isn't a compelling argument. Having a brand based around F.U.D. is an easy thing to slip into, but really Firefox and other small competitors should focus on beating the competition with features, not fud.
Sundar Pichai explains why Trump comes up when you image search for 'idiot'
I think the difference is familiarity. We've been using hard drives for decades so kinda know what to expect. SSDs have only been widely used 5-10y, so we're all just getting used to know how they work and how they die.
Let me cough up this chestnut from the '90's:

"Race to the bottom."

Fortunately, that bottom is rising, on average. But "first world" systems have taken a lot of abuse, along the way.

In my opinion, abuse that was unnecessary. But we let the shysters in to arbitrage against the disparities, instead of helping other countries to grow for themselves into more well-rounded and autonomous entities. Maybe I'm a fool, but that's how I see it.
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Like many others, I'm not sure DO's USP is being at the cutting edge. I like them because I get a decent amount of control, I have found their support to be quite responsive, and their products have always been very stable for me.