skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's that hard to reach a scale where DIY makes sense. As was stated up above, the AWS kafka offering isn't complete. One could do something similar with a cloud formation template.

The ElasticSearch offering on the other hand is fairly complete. At my scale, it would cost me ~$15-20k/mo for ES in AWS. However, I DIY my own ES cluster (in k8s) which costs me something like $5k/mo. The delta is roughly $120-180k/yr.

An engineer costs me roughly ~$200k year with salary and benefits, so let's say the delta is .75 of an engineer. There are also risks to DIY that are hard to put an number on.

ES is definitely a PITA to run, but it's core enough to our infrastructure offering that dedicating .25-.5 of an engineer to it seems like a worthy trade-off to me. It is also a unique enough type of workload that it yields an interesting learning opportunity for my team.
I'm sorry I used the wrong word. I meant RSU's. Actual stock. Not worthless at all.
wasn't being sarcastic
Adapt or die or be constantly followed and listened to by the surveillance multinational corporations. I hope you enjoy being spied on 24x7, including in your bedroom.
I assume it's because they want to avoid paying fees to Apple no?
You realize the debate is whether all counterparties to a contract are considered "internal" to Google, right? You're still missing that.

Vendors, Contractors, etc. are all counterparties to Google in their agreements. Vendors are not considered internal to any company unless explicitly stated.

And the distinction between vendors v. independent contractors etc. can be found on any number of legal blogs, such as https://legalforgood.com/grantswhatsthedifferencebetweenaven...

It's so fascinating watching the machinations in your mind trying to justify that all of these folks are somehow internal to Google.

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Anyway, it's settled. Google agrees with the notion that the app should not have been operated under Apple's program, which itself is a tacit agreement with the premise that this app is not an internal app by any stretch of the imagination.

> "The Screenwise Meter iOS app should not have operated under Apple's developer enterprise program. This was a mistake, and we apologize."

https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-shuts-down-iphone-data-...

The debate's settled. Unless you disagree with Google.
LOL! It'll turn your world upside down!
The data is that currently, self-driving cars are more dangerous than human-driven cars. The data is that there have already been 6 fatalities despite self-driving cars being owned/used primarily by drivers in the lowest-risk populations, in some of the best road conditions for driving. The data is that self-driving cars are far from ready to taking over the roads.
It seems that chrome and chromium may also ignore the spec, as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19056637 says. Hopefully prefers-color-scheme[0] will take over soon.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...
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This is a myth, and it needs to die. AWS was not designed for amazon's infrastructure, nor was it spare capacity of said infrastructure at any point. It was built from the ground up to be an independent service selling to third parties, on independent servers in independent data centers.

It took many years for amazon.com retail stuff to migrate to it, and supposedly some parts still aren't migrated.
I think there's something about programming day to day that actually makes it harder to manage. I used to be a PM and a people manager, IC engineer now, and I've found that my ability to convey concepts clearly has degraded because I spend a lot of time in the weeds. I have to purposefully step back to think about framing because I don't automatically have to do it.

I am an introvert, and dealing with people (as a manager) was mostly neutral, not really draining or energizing. That part wasn't a big deal and I enjoyed it enough. The draining part is when you have to make tough calls, when you have to tell people things they don't want to hear, or when you have to handle HR issues. That part is draining, but I'm pretty sure extroverted managers find that draining too.

I don't doubt that extroversion helps, but I certainly don't think introversion is an actual stopper.
> Tautology is tautological.

I believe you had a point with this, but it eluded me. Can you explain (at the risk of destroying the joke?)

> The original Soviets (not the USSR) and Catalonian anarchists, had they survived, would have been examples of the many deciding for the many.

But they didn't, and the fact that they did not pushes the balance towards the possibility that this might not be such a practical idea.

I think that hierarchy is not necessarily a law of nature, but is so common one might be excused for thinking it so. If there is some alternative, I can not conceive it in my mind - not at least in a realistic form - and I would be very pleased to have it explained to me.

I think there is some sort of a circular reasoning regarding this, in my mind. I think that in order to have a more egalitarian and self-directed society you need self-directed individuals. And yet,(according to my mental model) these individuals are the result of the society that produces them.
Exactly, while DNA may identify an individual with high precision, we have to trust that that DNA was actually associated with the location or event.

Consider a public bathroom: how much DNA is at that location? How much is relevant to the event?

Consider a corrupt lab tech: The DNA at the event might be reported as DNA from their database. Does a defense attorney get to see the untainted sample?

Consider a corrupt/hacked DNA database: The database might report that the DNA belongs to one individual when it actually doesn't. Does a defense attorney even get to see the source code?

In these scenarios, the link to any individual is either of little consequence, or fraudulent.
> except maybe Office.

Not really. But an awful lot of shops rely on their Excel macros. Changing the office suit would mean to re-develop a huge amount of infrastructure.
We're referring to the same thing. By user, I don't mean a UV user, I mean a (for example) Vudu user.
FWIW, Google uses TestFlight externally for beta builds of apps like Google Maps for Local Guides Connect, their rough equivalent of Yelp Elite.
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Just found it!

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/rendering.html#phrasi...

"The initial value for the 'color' property is expected to be black. The initial value for the 'background-color' property is expected to be 'transparent'. The canvas's background is expected to be white."
I am confused. TechCrunch seems to be trying too hard to change the course of this story. I don't know the fact. But something's amiss
Availability: in practice 5 hours outage in us-east in 2017: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/01/aws_s3_outage/
Maybe it should be illegal to do ad tracking on sites about medical information. The fact that someone is browsing that site may be private medical information.
And in case this sounds implausible, a corrupt lab tech handled 60,000 cases in MA:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/annie-dookhan-chemist-at-mass-c...
desole :D
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There are lots of conspiracy theorists all over the world who suffers from schizophrenia and other mental disorders, many constantly claim to be the victims of a secret human experiment project by the governments in the past 30 years. They believe the governments have developed a psychological weapon which can directly control one's brain and the neural system though electromagnetic waves, including the ability of sending a "directed voice" straight to someone's head, and they are subjected to such torture everyday,

Apparently, now their science fiction is finally partially realized...

Of course, the possibility of having a practical weapon is low, while the chance of these conspiracy theorists being the actual victims of a human experiment is practically zero. But I personally do believe the R&D of such psychological weapons do exist, and this is how the non-fictional part of the conspiracy fiction originated. Related published researches is what they used as a foundation to justify it, now they just get more materials... And well, this "mental control" meme has been around since a long time ago, since the age of radio.
SpaceX hasn't succeeded yet. It's close, but it's like a wedding ceremony in progress: you can't call it a success until it's actually a success.
That’s not really a new MO for them - remember, this is a site that uses unpaid content creators to attract other unpaid content creators and then sells access to us and knowledge about us to businesses and political interests among others.

Figuring out how to pay very little and suck out a lot of value is what their business is built on.
Does anyone else feel like there's a growing assumption of benevolent governments and states? It might just be my own anecdotal experience, but I'm constantly surprised at how often people overlook the entire point of the 4th and 5th Amendment because Western states have been "mostly better" (these are both relative qualifiers, I am NOT saying they're perfect) in the last 10-30 years.

This entire post read as if there's not dirty cops all over the US doing asset forfeiture, planting evidence, shooting innocents, raiding the wrong houses...why does anyone believe that giving those agents ANOTHER tool, and one that's seen in the general public as even more legitimate? (It's not the accuracy of the DNA match that's the problem, it's how easy it is to create false circumstances using someone's DNA, which is pretty easy to get.)

And all of this in a time when most of those same people (myself included) are decrying how horrible the federal government has recently become under Trump. Again, you want to give Trump and the people in his administration another tool for muddying the waters around his opponents?

Going even further, any of these genealogy companies could pull a full-on Cambridge Analytics like Facebook and just leak all our DNA to some private company operating on behalf of a foreign government.
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And yet, the "mob" had drivers and men leading it, even when small groups was all there was. Take 5 people and put them in a room and hierarchies will emerge. Not even a singular one, necessarily, but perhaps several hierarchies concerning different facets. But they will emerge.
It can, google data studio more or less is this
we just have to create the public perception that it has already been done
To get started I would rather recommend to focus on a skill that is in demand. May be Java, JS or Python.
In the Netherlands tulips once were 'wealth', until they were no longer. In other words, iPhones are not wealth, they're utensils which compete on a fairly open market against a multitude of competitors. For some there is no competition as they religiously hold to specific devices or manufacturers but most users are not like that.
It is interesting how the crowd - as in relatives - are helping solve violent crime cases, from DNA at the scene.

I think a lot of people have been taking advantage of this system for a long time. Like they know they get a free pass on assaulting people because they haven't been arrested yet.
That thousands of families are going without income is a real point that I made. This will be devastating for people and pointing that out is entirely appropriate. Expressing that passionately is appropriate.
Seems like a lot of offerings were smashed together in order to try to form a coherent product.

Seems like that would apply to many, many web services and products in the last decade.
I think I must have miscommunicated my position. I'm not reflecting on cloud as whole, but how AWS is particularly vulnerable to a tech sector downturn. In the event of economic downturn, existing cloud customers will optimized costs (pre-cloud they would have avoided infrastructure upgrades, now they will focus on different cost structures). My belief is that generic services, such as storage, compute, ect. will priced like commodities because the market is more efficient since multiple cloud provider have the same service. Tools like terraform allow easy enough cloud configuration porting that cloud providers have little pricing power for these products. One area of cost optimization is to utilize generic cloud resources instead of AWS specific services (where I see many of my costs). Many of the services that generate positive cashflow for AWS seem to be built on top of open source which means that converting existing costly services can be converted to use generic resources with out too much implementation difficulty.

I'm only a developer so I'm sure I'm missing Operations and Business perspectives. Would love to learn more.
I really don't get why front end devs/UI people are so crazy about fonts. It doesn't add to the experience.

Personally I set up an override in my browser. it's a mono, a sans and a serif, sizes 8-14 or so. All black.

The internet is readable again.
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Additionally, the “prefers-color-scheme” media query exists, which is the standard way to bring dark mode to the web and solves all the issues listed in the article by being opt-in. Firefox hasn’t implemented it, but neither has anybody but Safari yet.
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Cheese is often consumed as "otsumami" (a snack meant to be paired with alchohol) in Japan. It is eaten standalone [1], mixed with fish [2], or as a flavor in junk food [3].

These products are incredibly common in Japan and can be found at any super market or convenience store in the country. Japan loves cheese too... just not as much as Europe or the US.

[1] https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0084X5UBE/

[2] https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00LBWPLVE/

[3] https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B079SBWPL3/