skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, cold starts for Workers depends on your script size, but should be around 10ms, never 300ms. Are you seeing 300ms? Is that actually Workers cold start time, or cold start for a larger application (e.g. that might include things like HTTP cache warm-up)?

(I'm the tech lead for Workers.)
If the private market gives index-funds at no cost to the state, why state owned index funds :S.
Wrong. For the energy it takes to refine 1 gal of gas you can drive an EV around 27 miles.
Regrets: not using cool new frontend things while using cool new backend thing.
Most economists seem to agree that the EU could make a LOT more concessions with it still being a win compared to a hard Brexit.

So in effect consensus seems to be that the EU is risking a hard Brexit in the same way you do: threaten the British public with exactly what they voted they wanted, in hopes of achieving the opposite (no Brexit at all).

Furthermore: negotiations do not appear to be all that friendly. E.g. https://www.ft.com/content/9c59a204-fc6d-11e8-aebf-99e208d3e... as to how enthousiastic Irish citizens are about this particular problem, read this https://www.ft.com/content/ec894272-18db-11e9-9e64-d150b3105...

I think it's clear that I think this is dishonest, putting the interests of politicians ahead of those of the population, and to boot it's risky. The EU population does not want this at all, quite the reverse. They want trade with the UK to be as unaffected as possible, which of course means a trade deal that's as favorable to the UK as possible. Second the EU population certainly does not want to eat the economic hits that a hard Brexit would bring and expects their politicians to prevent this scenario.

I fear that if an election is called in the UK, which is the almost inevitable outcome of delaying or stopping Brexit, the end result will be a disorderly "fuck you" Brexit when conservatives gain another 10% of the vote with a promised firm hard Brexit negotiating stance. At that point Ireland, and perhaps France will suddenly find that the Euro is a serious impediment to their ability to react to limit the damage, and London will be able to adapt. This will further amplify the already anti-EU parties in France, Italy and Germany, and at this point it won't take much to force centrist parties in both countries to become anti-EU and propagate further.

An additional worry is that we're 10 years into the best economic situation we've seen in Europe in >50 years. This is the situation we're in, with essentially the best possible economic background. That at some point the economy will turn is inevitable, and it will further amplify anti-EU stances like it always does. If politicians find a way to combine both forces to hit at the same time, I don't even want to try to predict what could happen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Telecaster_players
Absolutely not.

> It doesn't matter how you got that information.

Yes it does, if I didn't do anything illegal to acquire it, and I have no obligation to the company, I can use it legally, I'm not an insider.
They go without health insurance
Is unplugging the power of the router in an AirBNB a good basic security step?

Presumably some cameras depend on flash storage rather than Internet connection but many cameras do use Internet connection to function?
Once again: you can get to Berwyn via the Blue or Pink lines, as well as Cicero, which is directly adjacent to Chicago. Both allow video gaming. Both are decidedly middle/lower-middle class areas. It's just not the case that video gaming isn't present in Chicagoland.
"Harassment" can refer to a variety of behaviors. I feel "harassed" by telemarketers insisting I apply for a loan or buy whatever they're selling. If someone were to repeatedly bother me at the mall trying to sell me something, I'd think of that as them "harassing" me to buy something etc. Harassing seems to me like repeatedly being a nuisance.

In the context of criminal behavior I'd expect harassment to be a campaign of intentionally bothering someone and invading their space. I'd assume someone like Lin might be guilty of criminal harassment if he waited outside this girl's house and lewdly propositioned her every day, bothered her at work, etc.

I think we should have a higher bar for what constitutes cyberharassment because it's so much less invasive and threatening than physical harassment and so much easier to ignore. It's also possible that it's easier to inadvertently participate in cyberharassment when you can't see how the other person is reacting to you or feel how inappropriate the behavior is.

What Lin did in this case is far beyond any of what I described above. I think of his behavior as transcending what I'd describe as cyberharassment - in my earlier comment I called it psychological torture and I think that's far more apt than cyberharassment which seems too milquetoast a phrase for what happened here.
My 2013 Volt has 85K EV miles (100K total).. Zero battery degradation.
When you're hooked and can't a prescription filled, who cares what Oxy costs via legal prescription? That's the problem, you can't be prescribed Oxy forever.
yeah, "we're going to make the F-series all electric" and "we're going to make an all-electric F-series truck" are very different headlines.
... Although now I'm reminded of the bit I read recently that noted in thirty minutes a two-stroke leaf blower emits as much CO & NOx pollution as driving an F-150 3,800 miles.

https://www.citylab.com/life/2016/11/the-case-against-neighb...
There will be costs either for action or inaction on climate change, economists attempt to put numbers on both of those. Here's an editorial from Nature that introduces a recent study, as well as a skeptical rebuttal.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05219-5

In this thread I've had a hard time figuring out what you mean by "dealing with" the effects of climate change, by mentioning "price" you give some hint that economic analysis. Do you consider this a worthy way of deciding whether to take action or not? It sounds like you've made up your mind on costs, but again, I can't tell.
Whats your weekly protocol?
(Depending on what type of gig you are looking for...) a lot of engineers focus too much on the coding side and not enough on the soft skill (usually called behavioral) side of the equation. Leet, cracking the code interview, personal projects... are all useful. Just don't forget about soft skills too.
It is unclear how index funds would function without someone doing price discovery (i.e., active investors).
There are three branches. There are only two that are involved in passing budgets.
AWS Backup
Why not just open another connection?
I still don't understand this mechanism... the buying agent takes his fee as a percentage of the total house price? Doesn't this mean that both the selling and buying agents are incentivized to drive up the price?
This to me is hands-down the worst part of the rebrand. Harder to distinguish (why is everyone in my company's default avatar just different colors of the same shapes?) and in many cases probably took away something that people had become attached to.
The aluminum chassis, too. Lot of tough truck guys were sure that was a terrible idea.
You can have a local library in Spotify, but it isn't synced. Google Music allows you to upload your own songs and play them on all devices.
It's more that they are collectively overpaid. As house prices rise the %-based commission causes new agents to flood the market, lowering the number of houses sold per agent. Agents then spend a lot of time acquiring clients in competition with each other.

If you think about what an efficient use of realtor labor would look like it would be ~2 houses a month or more with agents spending all their time on showings and contracts. In a market with $1M houses this would yield roughly 24M * 0.025 = $600K/yr and up.

Hence the market becomes flooded with people that would like to make $600K/yr on a educational investment period of 6 months or less (plus an apprenticeship-like paying job for a few years).

The industry is weird because the price of agent service is resistant to supply&demand forces for various reasons but the main reason is that it's impossible to know what the selling agent's contribution to the house price is, since you can't sell the same house twice under the same conditions.

In principle, a good agent can easily recoup their commission by adding a few percent to the house price, but in practice agents have a counter-incentive to this because the homeowner will never know what the added amount was and raising the house price a small amount adds less to the agent's bottom line than moving on to the next house more quickly. In most cases the agent is simply setting the price that will sell the house quickly for the local market. As a seller, you'd probably prefer to make an extra 20K on that 1M house by showing for a month instead of a week, but this makes the agent do 4x the showings to make 2% more commission.

Ironically, the buyers' mortgage lender will have an impartial professional estimate done after they've already agreed on a price with you. In a perfect world, the seller would get this estimate done up front and then the seller's agent would be be paid on a structure that incentivizes beating that estimate. But wait - if the mortgaged portion of the price is greater than the estimate then the buyer's lender will back out ($collateral < $loan). So if your market is mostly buyers doing 20% down then the price is soft-capped at no more than 125% of the estimate even for the best agents.

Quite the free market, eh?
The part I quoted was about Twitter, not Slack. Slack's relation to IRC was already mentioned. Essentially, my comment was "Not just Slack, Twitter too was inspired by IRC."
What about services like redfin? They advertise their fee at only 2%.
It all depends on thermal management. Tesla uses liquid cooled active thermal management, and they have less than 10% degradation over 10 years/200k+ miles. Nissan went with passive air cooling for the Leaf, and they are seeing up to 50% degradation in just a few years and less than 50k miles.
The buyer always pays the cost of both the seller's and buyer's agent in the same way that people who rent apartments do pay property tax. That cost happens to be hidden in the sense that there is no specific charge that the buyer sees but the buyer is the one who ultimately pays it.
The logo is whatever, what I don't like about it is that the desktop app is now the blueish color vs the old black.
Wildfires Spark Population Booms in Fungi and Bacteria
Don't say this too loud. US policy has been to[1] undermine[2] socialism[3] abroad[4], what's to say it won't do the same with my retirement savings :D

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Allende#Presidency

2. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/lia.asp

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Petroleum_Company

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDVSA
Because it gives them something to do.
That's exactly the point - no, it wouldn't matter. So, why spend so much for something that wouldn't matter? For the asymmetric conflicts that are actually being fought, you don't need so many carriers.
Let the owner know via AirBnB that they need to disclose it. Then just put a piece of tape over it. Why make it more complicated than need be...
Oh god it's so purple
Here's one way to think about it, for example- is your laptop battery thermally managed, with its own heating & cooling system to keep it at ideal temperature? Chevy Bolt's is.
You should check out the short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury
How do people communicate before death?
Toxicity. As your opioid dose increases so does your risk of side effects such as respiratory depression and arrest.
Wikipedia goes into this in some detail, but it really is pretty much the canonical example of a protocol designed by committee.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_Messaging_Service

Here's the technical spec, which manages to combine the single bit level detail of old school telco with the enterprisey goodness of SOAP.

http://www.qtc.jp/3GPP/Specs/23140-6g0.pdf

For example, this is how you say "OK" in MM7:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
Content-Length: nnnn
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<env:Envelope xmlns:env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<env:Header>
<mm7:TransactionID xmlns:mm7="http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/archive/23_series/23.140/schema/REL-5-MM7-1-3" env:mustUnderstand="1"> vas00001-sub</mm7:TransactionID>
</env:Header>
<env:Body>
<SubmitRsp xmlns="http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/archive/23_series/23.140/schema/REL-5-MM7-1-3">
<MM7Version>5.6.0</MM7Version><Status>
<StatusCode>1000</StatusCode>
<StatusText>Success</StatusText></Status>
<MessageID>041502073667</MessageID>
</SubmitRsp>
</env:Body></env:Envelope>
I also tend toward the thought that most truck drivers don't need trucks. But people don't buy vehicles based on their median driving behavior, they buy them based on their ability to handle common but not daily needs. I'd venture to guess that most texans with pickups use their truck bed far more often than californians use their back seats.
The flaw here is in thinking just because you find an inspector on your own that makes a difference in incentives. Who do you think the inspector has the most incentive to impress? The buyer whom they most likely will never see again or the agent who can potentially provide more and more clients?
I don't have hard data, but I'm pretty sure that the answer is no. The majority are crossing in an unauthorized manner, rather than crossing in an authorized manner and then overstaying the terms of their entry.
To get one aircraft carrier you need a lot of science. To get the next ones, not so much.
No, they all address illegal insider trading. If all forms of legitimate trading on material nonpublic information were illegal, then information asymmetry in the market would be outlawed. That would make it impossible to legally profit using any kind of financial research.
Aren't those called Sovereign Wealth Funds?
I think you're not understanding how to use this. I've played with one, and it works just fine, subject to the theoretical aspects, which also exist with compass and straight-edge constructions.

As designed you lay it flat on the paper with the hinge at the intersection. You open out the arms so the points on the outer arms lie on the lines. You mark where the two inner points lie, and there you are, angle trisected.

But all that seems fairly obvious to me, and I thought it would be fairly obvious to you. So if that's not what you're thinking then I don't know where our thinking diverges.

Not that it matters - it's a device to trisect and angle. It works when used properly, but it's of no real mathematical interest.
I'm not sure it's that critical. You can use connection pooling on client and/or you can outsource it to a proxy/bouncer that will do this for you.

We have tens of thousands of connections and no problems. We also forked pgbouncer to use multicore [0] which allows us properly utilize servers.

[0] https://github.com/Pexeso/pgbouncer-smp
Microsoft's big win: Pentagon signs massive $1.76bn contract
Kudos for this, sincerely!
Something that's missing from this (otherwise great!) guide, that has puzzled me for a while - what's the point? What does this configuration actually gain you/AWS? My best guess is that private subnets are for DDOS protection, but that seems like something that would be better handled by throttling. Given the amount of complaints I've heard about how difficult VPC/Subnet setup is, why bother with it at all? Staving off IP address exhaustion?

Or, to ask it another way - what would be the downside of all your resources being in 1 single-Subnet VPC, spread evenly across AZs?
New Satellite Network Makes It Impossible for a Commercial Airplane to Vanish
But where is the swoosh?.. and the globe. The globe is like the dot in dot com. Also that type needs to be leaning to the right.. like it's moving forward at speed.. leaning in...
> And how native do the controls on electron apps look?

Completely custom -- but at least they're not chopping off the bottom 2/3 of a line of text.

I hate Electron as much as anyone, but I really don't understand how being able to read all the text in a user interface could be considered an unreasonably high standard for a software program.
The Rolling Coal troglodytes are an example of this mentality.
High School Sucked but My 20th Reunion Was One of the Best Days of My Life
I've heard this is done sometimes to make you feel good about your purchase and the decision you made by showing you inferior options.
70% is extremely high, you can easily get rich with a 51% advantage and making enough small bets to invoke the law of large numbers.
My understanding is that, since we have no idea what's happening down there, whatever it is would be new and exciting.

(feel free to correct)
Rivian is the much needed kick in the nuts. When it turn out to be a viable truck and not just vaporware with lofty promises, people took note. I am by no means a truck or suv type guy but the idea of full electric one is very intriguing, if only I had the space. I can imagine the allure of great low end torque, improved storage capacity and the fuel savings for the more leisurely drivers, who don't need to tow 10 tons or haul 1-2 tons which is frankly not the case for the vast majority of the people in my experience.

People keep saying lithium batteries loose capacity and stuff but less energy dense chemistries than the one in your mobile phone fare better in an automotive setting.

Big automotive companies had all the time in the world to come up with the tech of the future but they squandered the opportunity. Upstarts seem to be poised to eat their cake.
Am I the only one who is kind of irrationally annoyed that they push an update of the app for a mere logo? They even mention in their update notes that nothing else about the app has changed. I know it's a raindrop in the ocean compared to all the HD movies being streamed, but 7 MiB times the total number of installations for what is probably less than 50KiB if properly optimized feels wasteful (7 MiB being the Android version, I don't know if this is the same on all mobile phones. Also, I'm probably being overly optimistic about that graphic being optimized)
It's really amazing work he did considering that after the move to 401k and away from pensions in the private sector, there really are now few alternative paths to secure retirement.

The move away from pensions could have been a veritable smorgasbord of fees for actively managed funds, but Vanguard provided broad access to something just as good (and more often than not, better[1]).

1. https://www.fool.com/investing/mutual-funds/mutual-fund-basi...
Any transition on this scale is going to have casualties, it's pretty much moot.

If you have a less harmful solution than EVs to transitioning to fossil-fuel-free transportation I hear it's quite a lucrative opportunity.
Tim Cook (and all other Apple employees) are legally disallowed from buying or selling Apple stock outside of specific, well-defined trading windows. In particular, they cannot legally benefit from unpublished earnings information.
Bill Gates: The Best Investment I’ve Ever Made
But are solos happier?
By that logic you also shouldn't vote in elections, because the remaining voters are already voting in the country's best interest.
OMG THIS IS THE REALEST
> And let's not even talk about that sweet negative space swastika.

Oh god, cannot unsee.

Edit: It's not even negative space. I just see it as a swastika.
I disliked pickup trucks for their size and fuel consumption until I owned a house and got heavily into gardening. Home maintenance and significant garden activity are made waaaaay easier by having a truck [or big van, I guess] available.

That said, I still don't personally own a truck, borrowing them as needed. An all-electric model of good quality would be pretty tempting to me.
Opioids relieve pain. They also suppress your breathing.

The pain system in your body gets used to the opioids faster than the breathing system. Over time, the difference between the amount of opioids you need to help the pain and the amount of opioids that make you stop breathing gets smaller and smaller. This has a very predictable bad end result.
They are. Think of Vanguard as a US sovereign wealth fund that hasn’t reached full participation yet (and without the natural resource extraction bootstrapping).

If that’s a strange thought, consider that the Bank Of Japan is a significant owner of equities on the Nikkei.

Disclaimer: Vanguard customer
s/cars/climate change/g and that's basically what you are doing.
I'm not convinced by the index-funds-socialism thing, but I did once have a fun realisation about index funds owning the market.

Because of short-selling, index funds could own all the market or more and active funds could still exist. For example we could imagine that index funds grow until they're 105% of the market, and active funds own 5% of the market long and 10% of it short. That adds up: 105% + 5% - 10% = 100%. And the active funds would still be doing all the price discovery. Of course the index funds wouldn't have all the assets-under-management, those would be split in the ratio 105:15 (with 10 of that 15 being collateral for the shorts).

In other words: it doesn't matter if index funds own all the shares, active funds can just make side bets with each other.
You're the only one here proposing making fossil fuel illegal, and IMO anybody proposing poor countries bear the brunt of fixing this, doesn't take it seriously- one, yes, it's obviously an impossible ask for people living in huts, and two, they are only a tiny, tiny part of the problem.

Personally I figure we need a lot of things- heavy investment in sequestration technology, clean energy, and carbon free transport in the first world, but also clever spot fixes like the $1 grate for cookfires (https://www.engineeringforchange.org/news/a-1-insert-for-coo...) that could cook the same meal with less fuel in millions of households. Maybe someone will come up with a cheap clever way to slow down the melting of drinking water glaciers to buy a few decades. The floating shade-ball experiments in reservoirs to reduce evaporation also come to mind.

P.S. The barely-surviving communities you mention concern for are the least able to cope with the consequences of climate change. Desalination plants and robot bees are simply not on their list of options.
This is an excellent follow-up to the AirBNB story posted here earlier.

Tl;dr AirBNB ruled that a host's photo with an easily-glanced-over single camera tucked in a corner was sufficient evidence and documentation of the fact that they had multiple cameras inside - i.e. that the guest should've been aware that there was no expectation of privacy.
The article mentioned unplugging said equipment, other comments mentioned guests having found cameras in alarm clocks in AirBnBs, etc.
I think it's reasonable.

React-Native uses native widgets and doesn't bring too much Web tech.

You can still replace screens with native modules later if they don't perform well.

If you start, you need to get something usable out of the door quickly before you run out of money.
I don’t think I explained it very well, sorry. I meant 300ms from an external load testing tool called wrk with 4 threads hitting it with 1,000 concurrent connections, including network round trip. This was only visible for the first run, after that I was seeing 99th percentile at ~90ms for the round trip. The worker I tested with is server rendering a react app. I’m away from the computer but I think the average speeds were ~20ms round trip. It’s crazy fast. I’m thrilled with it!