skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are moving batch jobs to GCP. Because there probably the occasional burst loads and the often underutilized capacity makes using a flexible compute fabric (aka cloud provider) a better choice.

If they are moving everything, well, Netflix did that too. Maybe opportunity cost, maybe having your engineers work on your core product instead of running VMs is cheaper altogether.
It does indeed. But are lower resolution textures enough to explain the fps/resolution/noise/heat differences between the two devices?
It has been suggested that since we have exhausted the easily accessible ressources on this planet, human civilization would have a hard time restarting from scratch.

Either this society continues (and solves huge environmental challenges along the way), or we have a scifi scenario, where a group of humans on faraway planets forget about old Earth, or no one will be able to remember or rediscover us.
I even got my Hercules running in Linux! But could not get Linux to switch consoles from VGA to Hercules and back without blanking the inactive monitor. :-/

My solution was to write little C programs which addressed the Hercules screen directly. Fun times! :)

It was dog slow, even slower than in DOS.
Care to elaborate how you were affected
Go. REST or gRPC?
> they don't watch during a full moon because it's too bright

Have little knowledge of astronomy but from a photography perspective this is quite amusing, usually it's the opposite problem for many photos.
Reading most comments here I feel like nobody wants to give a tiny bit of credit to either Twitter or Google, which I find disenchanting.

It is true that any cloud provider would get good publicity by being able to say that Twitter runs on their cloud, but that is precisely the same reason why we shouldn't just shrug this off as a publicity/business decision, because just like Google might have tried to persuade Twitter other cloud providers will most certainly have tried their best too. If Twitter still went with GCP then I think it is only fair to assume that there must have been some real advantage in going with GCP. I don't think anyone who says this must have been a pure business decision is entirely honest with themselves, because a cloud which cannot handle Twitter's volume is no good even if it was entirely for free.

I have nothing to do with Twitter (actually don't even like Twitter because it is such a toxic social media platform) and I don't like many things which Google does, but as an engineer myself I can only say that after using Azure, AWS and GCP for many years in a commercial setting that GCP is indeed years ahead. The quality, speed and reliability of GCP is second to none from my experience and I honestly couldn't say the same about AWS and especially not at all about Azure.
I'd recommend giving Brave a try if you haven't already.

It's built on top of Chromium so has the same UI/UX as Chrome, including dev tools. And it does ad blocking out of the box, no need for an extension even.
Every post like this is just PR at the end of the day. Google’s goal is to prove to potential customers they can play with the big boys (AWS and Azure).
> Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/
Anyone know what Clay is up to at the moment? Seems to have gone very quiet in the last 5 years.
Did you really have to put a spoiler in the first sentence? Sheesh!
Hard disagree here as an app entrepreneur. My goal is to test product positioning, functionality, and pricing as quickly as possible. I want to get close to an 80% LTV/CAC on a very early version to be confident that I can eventually turn a profit on the product.

I’m not doing VC backed and don’t care about exponential growth. I’m just delivering apps that meet existing demand in the marketplace.
I am not worthy of the depths of TAOCP
If only we got to choose what to pay taxes for...
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I was super surprised my university pirated PuTTY. I knew it because I saw the "PuTTY keygen" app on the desktop. Only years later I realized it's an app for generating ssh keys...
Yes, that's why you should incorporate it in your morning routine right right after waking up, while still wearing the pajamas and then take a shower.
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Personally I'd find in-person sales and cold out-reach much more annoying than simple ads (as a potential user). Not sure if that's common.
I'd tell you to get to tea. I've been drinking around 1 - 2 liters of coffee a day for around 5 years, and when i switched to tea in order to stop the caffeine from f*cking up my sleep cycle, i had around a week of headaches and a slight loss of energy, but after two weeks it went back to normal. I kept on drinking tea for around 2 months after, and now caffeine gives me that tremendous rush again, so i guess i'm fixed ! Also, i'm rather young (22) so this might have speeded up my recovery, but i think you should give it a try !
How big would the list need to get before it starts affecting performance? There is obviously some kind of lookup for every HTTP request against the hosts file. I assume the hosts file is converted into some sort of hash list?
Chrome is still the best performing browser (even if it's a resource hog).

I tried using Firefox for Linux for about 6 months last year, but had to give up. I got frustrated with the random UI pauses/latency, random crashes, and broken web rendering (not its fault). On the other hand, Chrome just works, and provides a very smooth, low latency experience on Linux. I don't like that I have to give up my privacy for a decent browsing experience on Linux, but that's the state of things.
This seems to be straight from Haskell. `class` here doesn't mean what it means in oop languages.
His newest study finds that dashing up a staircase for just 20 seconds, repeated a few times a day, can measurably improve your fitness.

Well, but doing this “a few” times, let’s say 3x, results in... 1 min. Where’s the news?
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I recently went to link a friend to the Landmark Forum Wikipedia page, and found that instead of a "Criticism" section it had a "Criticism and public option" section, which contained no allegations of cult-like behaviour until the last two paragraphs, but did contain a surprising number of denials. The talk and history page showed that any piece of actual criticism levelled at the totally-not-a-cult was removed more or less instantly by a handful of Landmark Forum members on the grounds of bias.

I have no idea where I would even start if I wanted to fix that article. It's pretty ridiculous.
We have strongly enforced limited time (the device itself lock when allowed time is over) and softly enforced ("unlimited" until some deadline).

For us it helped a lot to have reminders firing off 10 or 15 minutes before any hard deadlines (e.g going to school) and warning them 5 or 10 mins before dinner or going somewhere.

They're still not happy, but they take it way better and learn to do whatever they really want to do in that remaining time.
How much chloroform and benzene is there in the air? The article doesn't say (or did I miss it?). It seems to imply that the concentrations are high enough to be a problem but avoids saying so outright; so is there any point to having these plants?
I guess the common trend that not everyone wants to pay for their tools.
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I've been through this a few times. I restarted again a year ago after gifts of different coffee presses. These are some approaches that I've tried and have worked for me.

1. Cold turkey - usually after I get sick, then coffee is super acid for me anyway. Headache is only for a day or two, so I just suffer through it.

2. Slowly cutting back to one cup/espresso a day (try reduce by 10%-20% every 2 days). After one cup/espresso a day you can go down to half a cup/espresso a day, when you are at half a cup a day you can take it or leave it.

3. I've also had success using ceylon (black) tea as a caffeine substitute. You can also use green tea. Tea has water based caffeine which is not as intense as coffee's oil based caffeine, but it helps with the headache and energy levels. Tea is really helpful if you are cutting back on coffee.

Good luck, maceurt.
From a monolith architecture to microservices and event-based communication
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A guide to Google's web tools
8-bit techno music playing the background
Also DEC database (Datatrieve) engineers:

https://www.ibphoenix.com/resources/documents/history/doc_29...

"Epergne: Who knows? ...clearly someplace wombats sleep."
You still have to pay the legal fees up front, then hopefully get reimbursed later.
Taper off the caffeine, cut out the carbs mid-day so you don’t get the post-lunch slump.

I like Alpha-GPC for keeping clear headed. I also need vitamin D supplementation to feel 100%.
The transcript mentions a couple of times interference in the process by Peter Dutton and Scott Morrison, the PM, does anyone know what this is referring to?
Indeed. Paying 10% of the sale price in fees is quite unpleasant, especially when there are equivalent services that will let you post an ad for free (e.g. Craigslist, Kijiji, eBay Kleinanzeigen, PAP)

Also, eBay doesn't really offer you much in this era. You can't include videos, and you're limited to a small number of photos.

Arguably the worst non-feature of eBay, is that they make it incredibly difficult to calculate the average price of an item. I end up lurking for months on items to build a history of the average price of a product before I decide whether to buy it. Their aggressive policy of deleting closed auctions makes historical comparisons extremely difficult.
Leggos. I mean who can go past pasta sauce advertised by bad Muppets?
I can code frontends and I rather be productive with any help I can get, than writing everything by hand.

Loved Delphi, Forms, Blend, Netbeans Matisse and JSF designer, Blend, Outsystems, ...

As mentioned in another thread, these kind of tools with good workflows and developer experience don't get written for free.
A similar vintage, but slightly younger than everything1 was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H2g2 / https://www.h2g2.com/
> There are other features (which I understand are appreciated by many users) which can't be implemented with the declarativeNetRequest API, for examples, ... the disabling of JavaScript execution through the injection of CSP directives, the removal of outgoing Cookie headers, etc.

This is also incredibly important.

It's my HTML, don't restrict me. Let me mangle the web pages I request.
And C++ used to compile to C at first, I don't see your point.
The reason they're doing that now is AMD forcing them to. nVidia's goal was to lock everyone in, which kind of worked, but everybody hates it. And AMD has been successful enough with their open alternatives that it created the significant risk people could switch to that instead.

It's forcing nVidia's hand. If they try to keep everything proprietary and the market starts to shift to the open alternatives because everybody hates that, everyone who used their solutions to begin with and has to throw them out and start over would be displeased. So their only hope is to try to be just open enough that people continue to use their stuff. But they still suck -- look at the state of the open source drivers for their hardware.

And they should hardly be rewarded for doing the wrong thing for as long as the market would bear. Forgive them after they fall below 40% market share.
My wish list is short:

- A look and feel similar to Pagedraw would be perfect

- The output should be just: js, html and css. No frameworks.

- The tool should not offer its own components, only the possibility of integrating off-the-shelf webcomponents (w3c)
Ask HN: What would you do when your employer failed to pay your pension?
Lol. Do you know geography. Haha.
buy an exercise mat (£5), search "low impact HIIT workout" on YouTube, follow the video just before your normal daily shower time (presumably you shower at least 3 times a week?)... it's just a matter of priorities, really.
> Those aren't good translations of each other

That's because they're not translations. The table in the article makes it pretty clear that they're arbitrary sentences that were classified as "related" based on their embedding vectors.
I've been looking into telegram alternatives for a while. The best one I've found is the Matrix protocol (https://matrix.org), which is sort of like a cross between telegram and slack but it's open-source and you can self-host it. There are several app/webapp clients that you can use with your server, like https://riot.im.

It's got end-to-end encryption by default (although you need to manually enable it in some clients like Riot), Riot's mobile app works well, and supports audio and video calling through your server.
Bowel cancer trial aims to reset gut bacteria
Ivan Čukić wrote a book about this last year.

https://www.manning.com/books/functional-programming-in-c-pl...

The book is well written and it has useful techniques for if you want to do mostly functional programming and want to stick to C++.
My mid-range apartment has a gym, it's 30 seconds away from the front door and I shower at home without fear of foot fungus.

I still don't exercise anywhere near as much as I should.
Perhaps the tyranny of distance is the myth?
Totally forgot about that! Thanks for the reminder.
Indeed, this also seems to be a (poor) summary of a more detailed article and gives very little in the way of answers as to why it would survive
I actually don't switch to Firefox because I'm on i3. I fell in love with surf-like browsing, and am able to somewhat get the same result with chrome in --app mode. There is however no way (to my knowledge) to get tab-less full-window browsing in Firefox.
Not British archeologists, although I’m not sure why that’s relevant. We don’t need time machines when we have radio-carbon dating of fires and refuse at work sites, scattered graffiti (e.g. “Khufu’s ____” as the name of a work gang stamped into the surface of an inner stone), and the later written chronologies.
They're only a pest due to human intervention with their habitat in order to produce beef. Humans clear land for cattle grazing and act surprised when the kangaroo (extremely similar biological niche) population also booms. I'm not sure what to make of your last sentence and fail to see how it's relevant.
I want to love eBay but I can see why the board is so unhappy and the rot has been infiltrating the company for a long time.

Back in the 00's I was a PowerSeller, shifting over $20k a month. At first it was an incredible experience and I was selling high value items to people all over the world with high margins and almost always a great experience. I was long on eBay and became a shareholder, passing up on Amazon whose business seemed much less appealing to me at the time.

Then came along PayPal with their 3.5% uncapped fee, which on expensive items was significant. Buyers started expecting to be able to pay via PayPal and eBay stopped allowing trusted sellers to offer a small discount for paying by wire or cash. PayPal eventually became mandatory.

Later, eBay's fees went up significantly. Those along with PayPal's fees ate in to my margins and I eventually lost interest, packed up shop and sold my stock at about break-even.

While I continued to be an occasional buyer, I recently started selling a few items again. I was met with frequent time waster winning bidders and the same high fees that I remembered. My last sale was an iPhone X that went to Thailand, "covered" under PayPal's seller protection and sent with a shipping label printed directly from eBay's site. A few days after I had sent it, the buyer filed a dispute with PayPal saying he hadn't received it. PayPal almost immediately sided with the buyer with a boiler plate reply, removing the money from my account (including all fees) before the phone even had time to arrive. I sent an email to appeal which was met with a curt denial. I was almost $1500 out of pocket.

Don't even get me started on their site and mobile app - so much could be improved and way too many clicks to do anything meaningful. One of my last battles was spending 3 hours on the phone to try and resolve an account bug as I had transitioned from UK->US which seems to be an edge case they didn't finish working on.

It makes me sad because the idea behind eBay is fundamentally a fantastic one, you can still find great stuff on there and the prices are often much lower than Amazon (even more so with the recent coupons they must be burning through cash on). They still have the audience to make a global market place, although perhaps not for much longer.
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Even when he works out, he is probably working indirectly, like perhaps he has aides with him, doing, scheduling or what have you.

It's unfair to compare the average Joe to the POTUS. The POTUS has an army of aides to help him in his duties and he is expected to maintain good health.

A better way to approach the problem is to help people identify where there is a waste of time happening and guiding them to reduce that.

Personally I feel that smartphones have robbed us of our free time. They have seriously reduced our attention spans, have been feeding us endless information, most of which is useless and have made us borderline addicts. To maintain a healthier lifestyle and find more time per day, I would seriously consider ditching the smartphone and make do with a feature phone.
As opposed to ?
Yes, the NVidia Wayland situation is bizzare, with them forcing EGLStreams down on people when nobody wants to use them etc.

I can confirm that besides Intel, AMD plays nicely with Wayland too, am typing this from a Wayland GNOME session using the open-source AMDGPU drivers.
Ah, so TS types are basically only available at compile time? Does that make the "standard" way to do things to have both TypeScript types AND some alternative form of type information in object prototypes/classes for runtime use? That seems a bit redundant to my ignorant eyes, complicating what was already a complicated dance.
> Clojure, for one, would not be very attractive without having adopted Bagwell’s data structure concepts.

i don't think Clojure ever "adopted" Bagwell's data structures, it was designed around them and few other concepts.
In this case subsidies are reduced sales tax - which is charged at the standard rate for petrol fuel alone would pay the entire salary fee of every doctor and nurse in the NHS
If this were truly the determining factor in the American obesity crisis, we'd see similar outcomes in all developed economies (which, obviously, we don't).

Let's not throw our hands in the air and blame the quirks of evolutionary biology when there are clearly better examples to follow.
GCP is not done "right the first time". Most of the interesting things you see in GCP are 3rd-5th generations of internal products.
We use OneNote. I like it because of the powerful search and desktop native with caching of content
That article is not remotely the whole story.

Apple uses OSM data in many parts of the world where their own mapping efforts will likely never reach.

Mr O’Beirne’s articles are very US-centric.
That makes you question if they actually had 300 millions "active" users.
215,169 network filters ＋ 77,133 cosmetic filters

"30000 rules is enough for everybody"
I am also a Ruby dev. Haven't used TypeScript in a big project yet, just played with it, but I'd say it's gonna be a standard for frontend dev soon.

Why?
Writing types isn't that time-consuming...
Types will tell you very easily what is expected to be passed to function. Why does it matter so much? Imo in Ruby it's not that common that service calls are deeply nested. In frontend it's opposite. Components are very nested and with all that prop passing sometimes you have search lots of files to understand what's being passed. There are proptypes yup, but if you write proptypes, why not types?

Also data on frontend mostly comes from backend, so many times there is no really good docs for data that is brought from backend. In backend you mostly access 3rd party APIs with docs or your DB, which you can easily access to see what it delivers: )

And I am not even going to mention editor plugins that show you docs with expected types. Much fewer mistakes and easier coding with external packages.
And yet, most people do not care.

The elephant in the room is, did the gene editing work? If yes, are those babies protected from HIV?

If yes...the world is not the same anymore.
> Just as we break up monopolies to give competition a chance, we should be working hard to break feedback loops that enforce hierarchy of classes so we can give everyone a chance to be successful or fail on their own.

Mmm...with respect to enforced/entrenched class hierarchies you argue that we should break them up. That looks good on paper but when it comes down to it many parents/families who are smart do their utmost to give their children a leg up. Is this not legitimate? Isn't this, generally speaking, how families that have retained status/prosperity across generations?
Yeah, I totally agree. I mean, 20-30 kyr of ~stability is amazing. And here we are, after maybe 10 kyr of technology, pushing atmospheric CO2 to arguably dire levels. And the anthropgenic extinction event. Not to mention those hypersonic gliders. Although they are damn cool, you gotta admit.

And so is the Internet :)

"Live fast, die young.", as they say.
Is Privoxy still a good go to for this stuff? Used to use it on everything back in the day, but haven’t really used it as much in recent years.

https://www.privoxy.org
This plant needs to be propagated as much as possible.
Supporting privacy would allow browsers to block requests, full stop. There's no way to spin this specific action as pro-privacy.
What about the relative levels of appetite suppressants (e.g. smoking) between the two cultures?
Yeah, totally. Set myself a Pi-hole + PiVPN up on a small Vultr instance. Routing all Smartphone traffic through it. Costs me 3.50 € a month and blocks half of all DNS requests. Haven't seen a single external ad since then.
That's some dedication from Ran Canetti. The abstract gives the two bits of information, but it never connects them explicitly (writing is very formal): he was the author of the original paper that presented the problem in '96, and now he finally managed to find a valid solution for it, 22 years later. Well, I only understand the basics of crypto, but props to the man.
Depends on the house, and what molds are living within it.
It depends. If you want to provide a transparent history of communications, slack can be an option. If you want no limitations, gitter or mattermost can work. And if you want full control, now and in the future, you host your own gitter or mattermost instance.