skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you go from 100 corporations. Each having infrastructure teams of 50+ people to one provider running the same thing with 20 people from that pool the wages go down. While there certainly are well paid individuals behind Azure or AWS, they are rare compared to “the people on the floor”, and those people used to be able to rise to senior specialist in companies before, now they just order services from the big players.

Now don’t get me wrong there will always be avenues for the most talented players, but the crisis will come when the 45 out of the 50 strong infrastructure team at every larger corporation are no longer needed, and the last 5 will end up doing work that’s completely unrelated to their prior expertise.
Apple Shows Facebook Who Has the Power in an App Dispute
> cultural stickups

*cultural hangups, but I understood you.
You might want to change that to “we haven’t yet banned coal mining”
Knowing Kubernetes will not help you at all with most cloud infrastructure. But they all allow you to set up a free account.
I guess it depends on the point of view because there are several versions of veganism out there and not every single of them is as rational as the other.

If veganism is concerned about not "eating any kind of animal product", then it's clearly fictitious once you consider the fact that animals such as insects/mites leave residues wherever they go, and in stuff like pure fruit juices there is always a chance of % of insect content because of the nature of production methods and infestation.

Now, if it is defined it veganism as "reducing animal suffering", it makes more sense but then it makes less sense for them to be so strict from a dietary standpoint - for example they could allow themselves to eat eggs from free roaming chickens feeding themselves from herbs and insects they find if what matters most is the reduction of industrial exploitation of chickens in cages.
Article for those unwilling to sit through a video: https://petapixel.com/2017/06/30/truth-shot-iphone-style-ads...
Do you have experience with it? Do you have link to any data? Why do you think it will improve reliability?
Well, people don't even really look around, if you're using a distro like raspbian then you have incredible support for many SoC boards.

For example, something like a kodi would run _great_ on an orangepi winplus, since that board has a dedicated gigabit ethernet controller (so the full CPU is left available for actual decoding) and hardware accelerators for x265[0] and it costs about $40 depending on where you buy it of course. That's not "ferrari prices"

For micro-NAS appliances there's things that have existed for _years_ like the cubietruck which has an open source design, gigabit ethernet (dedicated controller) and SATA headers. Even has on-board eMMC.[1] and can still be purchased for around $80

This is what I know of off the top of my head, I'm sure if you look around you can find a _lot_ of boards that have your own particular needs. Not every problem fits in raspberry shaped holes.

[0] http://www.orangepi.org/OrangePiWin_WinPlus/

[1] https://www.newit.co.uk/shop/Cubieboard_3
Unless it’s Azure as they make small company mistakes like forgetting to renew certs...

YMMV for anything you can’t see or touch regardless of the size or experience or reputation so far.
> This may appear controversial, but the fact is you can't fight superstition with openness because openness accepts superstition and lets it grow and conquer everything. The only way to combat superstition is to actively fight it.

You're assuming an awful lot of human cognition that doesn't seem justified. Firstly, that superstition "grows". In fact, empirically, the opposite seems to be the case: people have become naturally less superstitious over time. We have more atheists now than ever. This trend was well established long before the New Atheists, so don't try to attribute it to them.

Secondly, actively fighting any deeply held belief engenders feelings of oppression, causing in-group solidarity and out-group hostility to increase. When facts side with the out-group, then this lead to "alternative facts" and the erosion of social cohesion and compromise. Which is where we are now. "Fighting a culture war" with fellow citizens and leaving the population vulnerable to propaganda and destabilization efforts from foreign powers.

Now that's dangerous.
Technically true, but "twice the price" is still just $10.
Did you just forget Windows Phone ever existed? Also Palm and a few others.

And Chrome originally swept the world because it was just so much better (most faster) than everything else. That’s why the tech industry migrated initially, and then the growth tactics probably just kept things moving to grab the number one spot.
I am 95% sure we removed it long before ship, unfortunately.
You can’t say insurances will be there every second in case of life-threatening event, given how many times we’ve seen them ask for a paper you don’t have, and how often it is required to sue them to get the supposed benefits, years later.
The problem is that anecdotes are not data. On the internet Apple stores are ‘famous’ for giving people the newest model MacBook Pro or iPhone in trade for an old model because their old model has some obscure specific problem that can’t readily be fixed. Or someone has had their crackedscreen replaced free of charge.
However, 99% of these things happen only in US Apple stores. Geniuses in the Apple stores in Europe would laugh you out of the store if you asked for similar treatment, and would’ve told you to just wait for a few days until the replacement part / device has arrived. This leads to contentious discussions and flame wars about Apple having alternatively crap or amazing service.
The same is probably true for the majority of manufacturers: some people get amazing service whilst others get dicked around. Sometimes it depends on geography. Sometimes the customer service agent was grumpy (or happy!) that day. You simply cannot base your purchase on these stories.
"Targeted ads" is just a euphemism for "tracking". The not-so-threatening term allows the practice to exist in the first place. It may have been the initial plan, and the promise made some people a lot of money, but ads are no longer the primary goal or the only way the data is monetized. We should be using the term "trackers" when talking about targeted ads, it's more accurate and sounds scarier.
Truecrypt link to Paul le roux
There is a story in today's London Times that Paul le roux a drug trafficker awaiting sentencing in the US was the/a developer of truecrypt. He s arrested in 2014 the same year truecrypt was discontinued.
Oncolytic virus – Cancer killing virus
Thanks for reply !

The country is Netherlands.
"Intransigent Minority"

https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
Most planes I’ve noticed start at like row 4
If you have experience in ops and don’t know the specifics of how to do operations in the cloud
and take that same mentality to
A cloud provider, you are going to end up spending more and not get any benefits from being with AWS/GCP/Azure.
There’s even a McDonald’s on the Champs-Élysées now.
The author seems to equate facebook, google, twitter, etc with "the internet". I agree, those are some major heavy hitting players on the network, but it seems the author wants the internet of yore, where it was the wild wild west. That internet still exists, you just can not get there from facebook, google, twitter. So why do we continue to use those services?
> Yes replacing 25k worth of contents isn't that big a deal (although it would suck),

This would be absolutely devastating to most people in America (and the world). Being able to tank a $25k loss without any insurance help is a very privileged position.

I don't have a point of contention with your comment. I just wanted to make that observation, because I think it can be easy for many of us to forget it.
But how comes that Western democracies with all their core goals and ideas and the moral high ground are the best friends with KSA and selling it weapons worth tens of billions of dollars? Enabling the war in the Yemen among other things.

What are these goals and ideas worth?
> There is almost too much ridiculousness in these two sentences to unpack. From the notion that American hegemony suddenly began post-9/11, rather than 70 years ago.

That's when online streaming started picking up steam. I think the OP is spot on that American culture influence would shift social mores, because mostly youth consume this content and then 10-20 years later, they're adults directing policy.

Edit: fixed typo.
If you are going to apply look at this to have an idea of how privacy invasive some advertiser here is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19062963
In Bangalore, India
I must have struck a nerve.

I use the Brave browser now. I think other people should too. Downvotes welcome.
In Bangalore, India

edit: added location to make it searchable
+1 If you're a bibliophile I do recommend stopping by their store in LV. I discovered it by accident but its quite a treat.
Yes, exactly: https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing/

SF is a city where zoning and homevoters: http://cityobservatory.org/homevoters-v-the-growth-machine/ have made the city impossible for any normal person to live a normal life there. Even tech workers making $150k/yr find it hard to live there. The solution is simple (remove any parking minimums, lot setbacks, and non-technical height limits) and the problems are entirely legal/regulatory.
As an outside it became apparent that moving to SF/SV would be a challenge around ten years ago. There are a number of post on HN from "back in the day" that discusses this topic e.g:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=170719
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=860913
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=236853
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1255718
Is the UI entirely custom-made or do you use any framework for that?
DeepFake Ransomware – What happens when harassment gets automated at scale?
Slick design on bluehost coupon site
The determination of whether or not it's a design flaw is subjective. It could be a manufacturing flaw; millions of touchbar retina MBPs have been sold, and it seems that the issues are affecting hundreds or perhaps single digit thousands. A design flaw would manifest in a much larger percentage of machines, would it not?
A basic breakdown is:

Ads

Subscriptions

Cover sales

Syndicationed content

Ads are probably the main source now, but subscriptions are still a main source as well.

In some cases investments in production tools or systems or even original creations can be a boon.

Actual percentages would vary amongst publishers
This reada more like a cult than a polity, to me anyway...
He actually meant that people are literally being robbed of their culture at gunpoint, due to hostile American influence. That's what government-enforced censorship is, after all.
Don't these kind of articles just show that it's the craft of the professional that makes the difference?

If a person can do something good with any old piece of kit, doesn't that say more about the person than the kit?
I think the OP's point was less what the companies have done in their lifetime than what they're doing now. Both Google and Facebook revolutionised the internet, but I'm really struggling to think of much that they've done recently. Google at least has the Android platform, and I suppose Google Home? Facebook just seems to have a trail of failed hardware projects and has bought success through billion dollar acquisitions
Ask HN: Best way to put a database on the web?
I have some data that is currently in an xlsx. I'd like to put this data on the web, as is, so that it is queryable by anyone via a UI. ie someone visits mydatabase.com and they can perform ad hoc queries (SQL, some slick UI, whatever works) on the data.

The data is not big, it's a single sheet with about 20 columns and less than a million rows (however the xlsx file is too large to import in to google drive sheets, and attempts to save as csv have failed). I don't care if it is SQL, cloud based, some other service. I'm not concerned about cost. I don't need authentication or authorization or anything. I'm optimizing for just getting the data out there and ease of querying. I would like to be able to see visitor analytics if possible.

Before I go writing a webapp to do this, there must be something off the shelf?
> several well-educated and seemingly intelligent Americans who hold strong racist opinions

At the risk of opening that particular can of worms; I'm curious to know if you can provide more details on this? As an American I suspect I am perhaps too close to the problem and unable to see it but most of the well-educated, intelligent people I know harbor little to no racial opinions.
So when Zuckerberg says users want targeted ads, he actually meant users like being tracked.
James Gosling: Amazon Corretto 8 GA
“Charging more than they pay out on average”...
Perhaps they make a profit, but the point of insurance is that some people, on exception, receive more than they pay in.
This seems a little alarmist. We still have growth, it's just not high enough for some people, it seems. But then, it never is :-)

It important to note, that, averaged over multiple decades, it only takes a growth rate of about 1% to lift a country out of poverty.

We would probably do better to focus on fixing the political logjams, corruption, small-scale conflicts, etc, that act as a brake on growth, rather than financial market tweaking.
I know, it feels spoiled to say that, it's just that the wifi/bt chip doubles the price.
I’ve long known all about the Pinkertons (came from a union working-class family).

But even partway into your first paragraph is a spoiler of the plot for me. It’s not the stuff about Pinkertons Its the storylines they’re giving away.

But I guess I digress.
It’s great, if the insurance company actually pays when your circumstances merit compensation.
"the distinction between UAE and the U.S. in terms of governmental morality has blurred"

But imagine UAE or KSA by the will of Allah get the military and economic power of the US?

What would they be doing?

Bombing and sanctioning countries until they convert to their particular brand of Islam and accept sharia law?

I'd bet the distinction will get unblurred pretty quickly.
First of all, they want to make money. By selling ads, primarily.

They cloned iOS not because they think they can make it better but because they saw how big mobile would get, and didn't like that apple was in control.

They want to cut costs by trying to automate everything with "deep learning and AI."

> They want people to really trust the first answer they get from Google.

Yeah they already messed up this one by going for their ai crap here. I still remember the article about the journalist who google claimed was dead when you googled her name. Not just that but it was nearly impossible for her to contact anyone at google to correct that. Which is not surprising if you consider the arrogance of google. Nobody there even considers that their automation could make mistakes, so why have any way of contacting a real person there that could do anything?
Seriously I mean it. That's the only explanation I can come up with after having read countless articles about how google locked down people's gmail for "suspicious activity" and made it impossible to reactivate, or contact anyone who could even provide any information about what exactly is wrong. All the stories about YouTube's inconsistent flagging of videos, false copyright strikes and no way of getting help. Even big channels that have a dedicated representative get a "sorry can't do anything" in many of those cases. If you ever get fucked over by google your only hope is that you can make a post on some big website that will blow up to the point where google sees it might damage their reputation.
Problem solved, I can't edit the last post. Everything OK.
For 2019, it is no longer legal to ask for salary history in California. Applicants may volunteer it and prospective employers may ask for the salary the applicant is looking for, but not past salary, either of the applicant or reference checks.
I think there's a distinction between "poor quality" and "bad idea".
> Sex work just makes the dynamic more obvious.

I don't see how it's any more obvious. Our culture is replete with examples of people complaining about their jobs, their bosses, their stress, TGIF, hump Wednesday, hate Mondays, etc. There are far more of these than examples of exploitation in prostitution.

If all work is exploitation and pressure, then sex work is still just like any other job.
It’s funny that all of these academic, government types seem to be signaling the end of the world. This, at least of late, has been reinforcing for me personally much of Nicholas Nassim Taleb has been saying about these guys; that in effect they don’t know shit. That many of these academic types have not actually worked in the real world and instead are directing policy from an ivory tower.

The world is doing better than it ever has, innovation has been steadily picking up, especially in the United States and in China. Just look at the amount of disruption in so many industries e.g. Taxis, Hotels, Office space, on and on. Even if Chinas economy isn’t doing great right now these things move in cycles. Poverty is significantly dropping across the whole globe and ultimately I think the future is much brighter than it is being painted by these pessimistic academic types that have suddenly lost their clout as people start to value real experience more.
India probably sucks if you have no money

This is true in most of the world, not just India :P
Oh wow. Those are some bad ones!

I'm normally pretty certification averse (I don't even really value my undergraduate degree much), but I'm thinking of getting the AWS Solution Architect cert, because it seems like the material out there for learning that stuff is genuinely useful (and once you've learnt the material, you may as well get the certificate).
Glass was interesting product that died on the hands of outrage journalists.

It's possible they Google release another version when technology will be ready (better battery, camera, sound packed into much smaller form & size)
Not sure there's even a conspiracy required, just the CEO being a fraudster.
It means the Pinkertons make absolutely no apology for being hired thugs who use violence to suppress workers' rights, and are trying to reframe the issue to some frame in which workers don't have those rights in the first place.
Well, while not a sin, it also isn't a panacea.

We get it, you like sex, you think it's great. Lots of people who agree with that also think that having quite so much of it everywhere cheapens it and gives it outsize control of people's desires.
The general gist of what I was trying to say, is that at the extremes, identity politics can easily come into conflict with itself, and somehow the humanity ends up caught in the cross fire. I also agree that there are much broader trends driving the issues.
Not reconsidering anymore, Foxconn will be building Gen 6 LCD plant.

Feb 1st, 2019
---
"
Foxconn Technology Group said Friday it will indeed build a liquid crystal display manufacturing plant in Wisconsin, following talks between President Donald Trump and company CEO and Chairman Terry Gou.

The Taiwan-based electronics manufacturer said it will move forward with construction of a so-called Generation 6 factory, or "fab," which typically produces screens for cellphones, tablets and small televisions.
"

---

https://eu.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2019/02/01/foxc...
If they combined a pi zero with an arduino - it would be the cost of a model 3... same price.
I couldn't find a good implementation of a generic circular buffer for
Domain Events vs. Event Sourcing
Know what annoys me about Brew? This just happened last night. I had some package that required readline 7.x; Brew uses readline 8 now. It's not possible to simply command `brew install readline@7`. It took me 30 minutes to figure out that I had to cd into the homebrew-core directory, search through github commit history to find an old commit that used readline 7, checkout that specific commit, brew install readline, checkout master again, and then pin readline.

A package manager should not make it that difficult to downgrade a package.

Otherwise -- homebrew's great.
Machine Learning Open Source (v.2019)
pid provider's gone:

sudo dtrace -ln 'pid50922:::entry {}'
dtrace: invalid probe specifier pid50922:::entry {}: pid provider is not installed on this system

mysql provider's gone:

sudo dtrace -x strsize=1024 -q -n 'mysql:::query-start{printf("%s;\n\n", copyinstr(arg0))}'
dtrace: invalid probe specifier mysql:::query-start{printf("%s;\n\n", copyinstr(arg0))}: probe description mysql*:::query-start does not match any probes

those were really crucial for me. I'm preparing to do a presentation on dynamic tracing next week, and I think I'll have to use a BSD VM instead of using my Mac natively.
[1901.06955v1] Deep Neural Network Approximation for Custom Hardware: Where
Sure, but not in the right direction. They wouldn't have an argument for negligence because of a short circuit if you followed the official rules for inspections.
Imgp – multi-core batch image resizer and rotator in Python
Issues with Superpermutation Length Calculator C++
The businesses demanding the 'free' from freelancers
Feynman was a brilliant man and quite the character. If you haven't read "Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman" I highly recommend you give it a read.

"The title derives from a woman's response at Princeton University when, after she asked the newly arrived Feynman if he wanted cream or lemon in his tea, he absentmindedly requested both."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surely_You%27re_Joking,_Mr._Fe...!
> CD "parental advisory" and moral panics of the right

not so germaine, esp. given that your overall sentence was balanced, but 'parental advisory' can most clearly be traced
to tipper gore, al gore's wife, and so, if one believes the 'left right' dichotomy valid for US politics, 'from the left'..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipper_Gore#Parents_Music_Reso...
>Also several well-educated and seemingly intelligent Americans who hold strong racist opinions. But that's another subject.

Bring up Muslims or Roma people to a European and you'll find this isn't a uniquely American problem.
Please refrain from unconstructive comments! How would you make the design better?
I am also confused
Can Norway win the global race to build a 'floating tunnel'?
Back-off and retry using JavaScript arrays and promises
Or you need insurance against your insure going bankcrupt which I would want for life insures, at a minimum.
Wow, Linux support. I guess that's useful for those times when the OS package manager is out of date? Or is it in order to not run as root?
The right sort of engineering manager for a company very much depends on the size of the organization. Large companies can afford to have professional managers with minimal technical skills because they can also afford to have lead developers and architects. In a smaller organization, that’s not possible and you need to understand the team you have and then mitigate the inevitable weaknesses of the managers.
That's really not what it looks like from the inside of conservative religious communities in the United States, which are probably the single biggest driving force behind prudishness.

Yes, they'll agree that it's "a gift shared with your true love" and want to avoid its devaluation, but even more than that there's a very strong culture of shame around sexual desure.
I've had an idea for an adult oriented app, that many many people have told me they'd pay for and support, but it'd need push notifications to work (preventing it from working in a browser), and Apple is such a walled garden that you can't even sideload an app the way you can in Android (or any desktop OS). It's quite frustrating to see the way they get to shape culture.