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An alternative argument is that the US has imported expensive technical education without having to pay for it.

This advantages the US and disadvantages the country where the technical education was delivered.

The question is whether the benefit to the US is distributed properly within the US.
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I'm sorry to say, but you sound like a product ad. You raise the data usage problem, but then just dismiss it and give a non-solution, knowing perfectly well the extensive Facebook tracking cannot be completely disabled since they even track people without accounts.

> Also, it is time to #undeleteFacebook. You know you are missing it!

No, it isn't and no, I'm really not. I don't need a "time filler". The mind needs some time off. It pays off to give it that time and perhaps be a bit more mindful instead of populating every moment with crap.
Are you implying his drug use had something to do with dying of a stroke at 53?
The same way that tens of billions of people have had kids for millennia with an almost clear guarantee that half of them would die before age 5.
>trying to blame ANY of the people of Wisconsin at this point are just attempts at deflection. Clearly the fault lies with Walker and his cronies.

...what about the voters?
On that note, in the early days www.stumbleupon.com was eppic! It got weird real fast..
Christ that seems so sad. I know I'm projecting from my life, and having kids, and all that, but holy shit.
> Consider moving away from a CMS like Wordpress. It's great at what it does but I think you've out grown it. Static content generators might help here.

This is ridiculous.
If he had 100 times the traffic he has, he still wouldn't be anywhere near "outgrowing" Wordpress.

> put cloudfront in front to speed things up.

He already has Cloudfront, and it is completely meaningless snake oil in his situation.
How come this is already gone from the front page?
Yeah in general Microsoft does a horrible job at actually conveying useful information, this is no different.
That was always one of the advantages of a mortgage that was commonly mentioned and promoted. That your monthly payment would be effectively pennies after 20 years. Sustained low inflation meant that never came to pass.

It was also one of the reasons for the Weimar Republic's hyperinflation. They started trying to inflate away some of the Versailles war reparations. Which got out of control, and then some.
A really low end VPS is ~$10-$20 a year. Setting up is a matter of connecting to it's ssh trough tor and enabling dynamic port forwards - basically a single command line (and configuring whatever application you have to use that port). It's not too costly or technically hard. The main problem is payment as it is with VPNs.

On the other hand a VPN may solve some of the traffic correlation problems depending on how they operate. How would you go about setting it up at the exit end tho? The only time I've used a VPN it was prepackaged to install as a network adapter, meaning traffic would go trough it before it enters Tor, I imagine?
I think the angle he's going for here is that if you have inline base64 blobs in your html/css code, and that's then served by a HTTP(S) server using gzip compression, are you wasting lots of space/bandwidth? and the answer is +5% to +2.5% overhead, which isn't much considering the larger advantage of a single round trip to the server as all the assets are embedded in the html document.

Of course there's also the overhead of decoding all those base64 blobs in the browser, but I'm sure that's a topic for another blog post in the future :)
#notAllNordikJails
Its not that they don't care about privacy, its that they don't care for tracking the pages and showing ads. And if you do want to stop it you go into private mode.
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No offense intended at all but I can't help but wonder how a technologist/computer scientist has ended up asking for help resolving 500 errors on his blog rather than hypothesizing what the problem could be and testing his theories.

A quick Google search on the error he's getting says it's an Apache error either from invalid file permissions or running out of memory. His provider refuses to transparently increase memory so the hypothesis seems stronger here. Now just test it by spinning up a simple load balancer, clone your website on a different server, split the traffic 50/50, and see if the errors continue. Repeat this process until you've isolated the issue. Trying to solve the problem by adding a cache layer isn't going to help before the problem is understood.
>Woah 37% is terrible

what do you think the right number should be?
> For some reason it's fashionable to bash philosophical implications of Gödel's Theorem(s).

Gödel's Theorem's have been around for decades, and have been incorporated into most modern philosophical thought. Maybe the "internet['s]" view is more skeptical, but that's largely a function of it being newer than most of the literature.

Gödel's Theorem's, as well as other post-modernist positions are currently receiving a backlash, overdue and well justified IMHO, the fact that they mostly appear on the internet is more a function of timing that form.
Which is probably a good thing, given that shitty plugins are exactly what cause problems like this.
>There is absolutely no justification for him to be running into these sort of issues at such an incredibly low load

Yet he is running into these issues. Is it a buggy plugin or a configuration issue?probably, yes.

But that's exactly the problem static sites solve. I don't mean to say he's out grown it as in you can't serve Wordpress at the volume he's currently getting. I mean you have to have everything setup correctly to do so.One option would be to learn the workings of Wordpress and maybe the web server hosting this. If that's what he wants to do with his time great. I suspect he may have other interests, if that's the case static hosting would be a good alternative. It might not be the best, but it's the best I know.
As an Australian, this is funny. Your Dept of Agriculture is one of the most socialist "redistributors of wealth" in the world.

Annual subsidies to US farmers is of the order of $25B+ per year. This includes non-tariff barriers such as price supports for sugar, import barriers and quotas such as on lamb and beef, export supports, crop insurance and other benefits.

The DoA has been doing this for 75+ years and the majority of farms are now corporate-owned. The majority of these taxpayer subsidies are directed straight into the hands of corporate shareholders.
Waymo, Cruise, Zoox, Apple, a LOT of teams really, Tesla is only really good at marketing SDCs, what they have is really little more than an ADAS.
Well, lots of them are truly friends for sure, and I would certainly see them in person whenever there's a chance. But since we don't live in the same country, those chances don't come up that often. Sometimes it could be many years apart. I won't call/text someone that I haven't seen for years unless there're something particular to talk about. Facebook (and other social media as well) are certainly the best way to stay connected.
WordPress might be slow, but it's probably just the host or not enough PHP memory assigned to it. There is nowhere near enough traffic to bring down a WP site, unless you have a ton of bots pinging your site that never appear in your actual google analytics (because they are boths) .

* look at an actual server access log. cPanel offers one if your host is offering cPanel.
* try and increase your WordPress memory limit: https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/increasing-the-wordpre...
* check your server's PHP error log and see if there is an error
* set WP_DEBUG to true in wp_config.php
> e.g. if I click-through to a flat earth conspiracy video for a few curious laughs, it naively thinks I must have an appetite for more.

Every time I'm about to click on a youtube link / watch an embedded video I ask myself if it's worth influencing my future recommendations - which are not great, but not too far off either. If the content is outside my core interests or music tastes I opt to watch in incognito mode.

I once made the mistake to play Peppa the Pig for my daughter while signed in, and my recommendations became a mess for weeks.
Care to expand a bit for us not familiar with the situation there?
I did, but you discounted hope far to much, putting it in a parenthetical at the end. Hope is what keeps everyone going.
It’s getting more funny if you look at his GitHub account.

https://github.com/lemire
“His research is focused on software performance and indexing.”

I think it’s just a poor advertising. :)
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It doesn't really matter what Facebook says, Apples TOS is basically "we can ban you without consequences whenever we want"
When I announced (on Google+) that I was moving to MeWe and was, obviously, suggesting everyone to follow me there I got a couple of comments saying that MeWe was some sort of New-Right bastion.

To be honest, I have not encountered any of that, but then I have only joined (or created) a very small number of groups and they were all for specific hobbies/interests.

Another (possible) problem is mature content and sex bots. The former is easy to solve, you just block or leave users/groups that post mature stuff if this is not your cup of tea.
Bots are a bit more annoying but every group has at least a moderator so they are quickly disposed of.
The common usage is to indicate that while a person has a political preference, the party per se is not the important aspect of their politics.
the message is the medium - an employee had to go on an anonymous app to say that. If it were a common attitude, you'd see it in a NYT leak.
Use a special phrase to mark paywalled articles on HN
This is a suggestion. I believe we should use something like (paywall), (pw) or (pay) in article titles when they are paywalled. People do it for pdf. People do it for video. I believe it should be done for paywall too. This is an obvious way to inform readers that there's no point in clicking that link if they don't have a subscription.
The plight of Japan’s modern hermits
As long as we’re sharing our favorite odd websites, I’d like to recommend http://superbad.com/
> Every time I'm about to click on a youtube link / watch an embedded video I ask myself if it's worth influencing my future recommendations

I do this all the time. Often, I click on "smart" videos, which I have no intention of watching just in the hope I get better quality content in my "feed". But it's hard to find high quality content, yet it's easy to find mindless dribble.
To help in case of a surge of traffic you can enable some sort of microcaching on the web server.
For example with a cache TTL of as little of a second you are sure that Wordpress will never see more than 1 req/sec (per page, but usually surges are specific to one or a few pages), and at the same time you will never be serving stale information.

The downside is that your Wordpress installation will not see the requests served from cache, which means so if you rely on a Wordpress plugin for statistics and/or analytics the data will not be correct.
This seems so strange to me, do they not have cafes where strangers can socialize over a cheap cup of coffee or tea?
High infant mortality rates / Tuberculosis / Spanish flu / AIDS, Malaria, or any other fun epidemics / Large segments of the world completely uninhabitable. Extreme social unrest due to massive influxes of "climate refugees". Worldwide food shortages. Constant war between neighboring countries. Rampant societal collapse.

One of these things is not like the others. Can you spot it?

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I don't think that posting tiny communities into a large one is a good idea. In my experience exposure to mainstream usually ends up with the community flooded with people who eventually somehow make the original members leave for one reason or another, leading to a slow (years) but painful death of said community.
> You will not know when and how much money you are loosing from your credit card

If you aren't reviewing your credit card bill each month before you pay it, you're doing it wrong. It takes less than 30 seconds a month and you'll avoid exactly this sort of problem ("hmm, I thought I cancelled that last year").
That's all well and good if you're the physical manifest of your country. Most people tend to think about whether it's good for themselves, though. Does an increased GDP "trickle down" to the worker?
What's wrong with hyperspectral imaging? Active IR systems work just fine at night. Passive night vision systems aren't exactly cheap but can probably allow optical navigation using ambient starlight. Throw thermal imaging in the mix and you have a ton of data to infer objects from.
It certainly is if I'm not suddenly destroyed by a minor shakeup at Microsoft.
It's more like a bonded job, rather than "servitude". For the visa holder, they get to work in the US, theoretically at US local wages (or more), in return the sponsoring company gets an employee that is tied to that job.

If the US Dept Of Labor and/or the local state department are incorrectly measuring a) the local wage for the position and/or b) whether or not the company has made a good faith effort to find a local employee and failed (both conditions of an H1B position), then that is a failure of regulation, not of the concept of the visa itself.
So can anyone shed any light on why they're jailing people for such low value items?
This is interesting when viewed in combination with the new pricing tiers for maps api.

I believe that they are opening the door to companies such as mapbox, carto and others, which is a good thing.

The question is, why are they doing it?

1) do they want to bring in other competitors to stave off some sort of anti-trust?

2) do they want the tiny bit of revenue (compared to their main revenue streams) to help cover the costs?

3) is there something with the structure of being an alphabet company which would require these things be paid for?
Go use OpenSSL, see the absolutely horrendous API and then come back and see if you recommend it.
Google Pay also (at least for some banks). You don't actually have to use Google Pay to pay - all transactions come through including swiped payments and online payments.
Only raw performance should matter, because anything else is discriminatory.

There go the disabled, English learners, and all others with an initial disadvantage. Go Team Darwin!
Elon Musk does not know what AIs are? Are you serious?
However penalizing/threatening a customer of Google Cloud for something totaly unrelated would open the road to an antitrust case as huge as Google leverage on current IT sector.

PS: On the otherside migrating all services out of Google Cloud would be a technical challenge (their needs are huge) but at the end of the day a minor annoyance for Apple.
Isn't that out of pure convenience? It's just convenient not to have kids and adapt your lifestyle, because entire economy is parasitic on people having kids. Families with kids have to spend a lot more than those without (cost to parent), kids become workers and tax payers (benefit to economy). I know that in some countries there are measures to counter this imbalance, but they are a rarity.
The problem I have with Mastodon is exactly the same I am encountering with MeWe: when I tell friends/aquaintances that I am moving to MeWe I get the chat/email equivalent of a groan.

Nobody (except a small minority even among techies/geeks/nerds) really want to go through the hassle of joining yet another platform.

Does not matter if it is free, has better quality, finer controls, is federated or not, moderated or not.

I managed, years ago, to convince a decent number of people to follow me on Google+, but the sad reality that now it's either Facebook (which I never created a profile for) or "don't call us, we'll call you...".
So now you work for Facebook like that's better?
50 CAD a month (33€) for such a small site and then it doesn't even work properly. It boggles the mind. I'm sure you can get a working setup for 5€/month without breaking a sweat.

Having a company that deals with your Wordpress installation is only beneficial if they get it right.
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Does it really matter what social network it is, FB, Reddit, HN, etc.? The effects are similar - people immerse in the digital while at the same time being absent from the physical.
Accidentally because they didn't have access to contraception? That's not the world we live in today.
WHY! What do they lose by keeping it up?
We generally serve several of the front page stories on HN every day (some we host, some we don't) - so very used to dealing with high traffic loads

@OP - If you're interested, drop me an email on john@ghost.org and I'll set you up with a 2 month free trial on our Pro service where you can deploy a new instance in a few seconds and kick the tires. No obligation.
Can you clarify how you automate and audit your bills? Are you automatically paying your bills each month and check them manually each quarter?
This hits the nail on its head. The reason why SV is so attractive to potential immigrants isn't because of its living standard of thousands of homeless people the healthcare, transportation or housing system.

It's because the scarcity of that particular labor makes it on one of the best paid tech sectors in the world. Most people go there for the money even if they may stay for other things. Well that, and the fact that other highly skilled people compete for those few spots available, which means you might be surrounded by interesting peers.

China for example has 10x as many communication network engineer graduates as the whole of Europe altogether. That's ignoring the fact that a significant number of graduates are migrants themselves. I believe China and India have the longest Green Card waiting lists.
> So the tesla system has WAY more information about the environment, granted distance has to be inferred, but it also had radar to help with that.

I'd argue the contrary. Intelligence is primarily not about the amount of data, but the amount _and_ quality of data you receive. If I would have a magic sensor giving me obstacles in a segmented form, that would be couple of KB, and it would beat any other sensor on the market.

Inferring the distance from stereo images has its own failure-modes and are not easy to account for as in LiDAR.
LiDAR also gives you reflectivity, so you will be able to differentiate between a UPS truck and an ambulance.

> Is that a reflection of a police car with its light on or just a window reflection?

Fun thing, to my knowledge reflections are a major unsolved problem for vision. It is easier for LiDAR, as you can rely on the distance measurement and will have an object somewhere outside of any reasonable position (e.g underground, behind a wall).
Depending on the lidar, the glass might even register as a second (actually primary) return.

Yes, you need cameras (likely color) to be able recognise any light based signalling (traffic lights, ambulance/police lights...), so LiDAR is not the panacea.
But having the lidar telling you that there is a window and that police is behind it is likely vastly more robust with lidar.

Also, the difficulty is that you have to see arbitrary objects, on the road and possibly stop for them. As long it is larger than maybe a couple of centimeters (or an inch), it will show on the LiDAR, with stereo vision, you need a couple of pixel texture to infer it.
This assumes that conformity is the best way to increase value for society which I would argue is wrong.
"master’s or higher degree from a U.S. institution"

This puts at a competitive disadvantage international universities over US ones, regardless of education performance.

It sounds like protectionism, which will translate into more foreign students applying for US universities, driving education costs even higher.

You will now definitely buy a degree/name, not so much an education.

Sad.
I'm confused by your statement, there's plenty of not computable functions for which we know whether S(1)=0 is true or not
But that won't justify their newfound tech hate (this time on Google) ...
The cruise liner probably loses money if every customer is like that!
The internet has literally everything on it now. Thus, what you think about the content is more a reflection of yourself.
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We have ubiquitous contraception now. The default stance is to not have kids until you actively decide to have one.
Facebook robbed us of our sense of self
Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14897209
Well yes. That is one of the pillars of capitalism. You can sell whatever you want as long as the description on the packages is "honest".
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You’ve missed my point.

Those are technical trivialities specific to music, which were being slowly solved through services like Musicbrainz.

My point was more general: in the future, everyone will eventually be free to share any data with anyone. It’s just too easy not to happen, and too hard to police indefinitely. Exactly like printing books - even easier, in fact!
Because stealing a car and stealing a pen - is the same thing. A pen given to me by my father 20 years ago can be of a bigger value for me than a fucking Porsche.
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Not really, there's cities all over the world with conditions that lead to crazy high real estate/housing costs. Most every metropolis ends up with a similar situation. Slightly different settings that all sum up to "high demand low supplies". NYC, London, Vancouver, Hong Kong, Tokyo, ...
Isn't Facebook requiring real names too?
I once watched a video on how to replace a specific part on my car.

Now Youtube thinks my biggest interest is how to replace and repair every other thing on that same model of car, other models by the same make, etc.
She seems self-sufficient enough to not need a nursing home in the first place. Nursing homes aren't hotels. Does the cruise ship crew help her to shower? Get dressed? Brush her teeth? Are they able to deal with Alzheimer patients? I doubt they do.
We don’t know that the author didn’t google and try a few things. And it’s perfectly possible to be a computer scientist and not know how to tune a web server. There are lots of specialisms and paths. Personally I admire someone who, despite being an expert, isn’t afraid to ask questions and admit when they don’t know something.
“Why Do All Websites Look the Same?”
Backing up elasticsearch indices with curator and minio
That douchebag diver did succeed though. There were like a dozen people involved that were the best in the world at what they do and that's the plan they came up with and it worked. US and Thai navy seals couldn't do any better. Maybe if Harry was an engineer / cave diver instead of an anaesthesiologist / cave diver they would have come up with the submarine idea.

> that just means the cave diver who was in communication with Musk gave him incorrect data in the first place

Citation needed?
I agree. Our generation must begin to question how a world has been created where increasingly the cost benefit analysis favours not having children. I acknowledge there’s more to it than the financial case, but the whole set of reasons needs to be factored in.
My takeaway is that its a good time to launch a pet business in Hong Kong.
Yes, this is one of many reasons I won't be having children. Couldn't live with myself knowing that they're going to have a worse life than I've had. Reproducing is also the worst possible thing you could do given our current situation anyway so I won't be part of it. I feel better knowing that even if I am living an unsustainable life (which I certainly am despite being very frugal) at least it ends with me.
In some time zones, your wish will come true :)
Friendship strengthen through casual contact. A social network websites gives us that. You can casually take part and share every day life.